This Week's Headlines

Evening of Cuisine celebrates 25 years

PISD achieves record 92 percent graduation rate

South Belt braces for Tropical Storm Edouard

Rate continues upward trend

Pct. 2 welcomes K9 Tyson

Officials promote suicide awareness

Luevanos promoted

Cars collide at Beltway 8, I-45

More than 200 pounds of meth seized during raid

Guest editorial: State recognizes PISD

CDA hosts back-to-school shoe and sock drive for local schools

South Belt resident Rule plants community garden

Traffic signal construction causes gas leak

Cowgirls of the week

HCSO arrests nearly 100 in Operation Heatwave

Melillo begins a new school year

Pct. 8 makes drug arrest

State of Pct. 2 meeting scheduled

Lariaette of the Week, Aug. 28

Dobie cheerleaders perform at opener

Hollin,Woods exchange vows

Longhorns win 3rd straight game on opening night, outlast Chargers 17-15

Dobie volleyball takes silver

JFD tennis prepares for Ike Invitational tourney

JFD boys victorious at Goehring invite

CCISD volleyball will host 32 teams

Brook girls’ runners compete at Springs

TD Club honors LSA’s Castillo

South Houston claims She’s Next trophy at Reliant

District 18-6A football programs experience tough week

Cowboys go against Hurricanes; visit Longhorns at Veterans

All five Pasadena ISD football squads win openers


Local Libraries

Bracewell City Library
Located at 9002 Kingspoint, Bracewell is inside the Beltway east of Blackhawk. Included in its collection are books-on-tape, compact discs, magazines, large-print books, children's books-on-tape and books in Spanish.

The library offers a variety of services including telephone and in-house reference information, a public access catalog and children's storytimes.

Bracewell provides an outside bookdrop as well as telephone renewal at 832-Bracewell Library sketch393-2580. Self-service facilities available include word processors and a copy machine. The library catalog is available through www.Houstonlibrary.org.

For hours and special events visit Bracewell on the web at www.calendar.houstonlibrary.
org/calendar/events

For information, call the library at 832-393-2580.

Harris County Parker Williams Library
The spacious 20,000-square-foot Harris County Parker Williams Branch Public Library at Scarsdale and Beamer opened in 1993. Regular seating for reading and study accommodates 125.There are three meetings rooms that may be reserved by the public. Two of the rooms seat 25 and one room seats 50.  These rooms are located by the County Clerk’s office, which is located across the parking lot.

The online catalog is user friendly and can be accessed, along with various databases, from home computers at www.hcpl.net.

Books may be transferred from other branches at no charge. The library features a large Vietnamese collection as well as some Spanish titles and a large selection of DVD’s and CD’s.

The library offers English as a second language classes as well as training for volunteer tutors interested in teaching adults basic literacy or ESL.

Free computer classes are offered monthly. Storytimes are every Wednesday for preschoolers and Thursday mornings for toddlers. Vietnamese story and learning times are presented Saturdays. During the summer, the library sponsors a summer reading program and presents special programs.

Harris County library cards are free to Texas residents who provide proof of their current address. Library hours are Monday from 1 to 9 p.m., Tuesdays from 10 a.m.to 6 p.m., Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library is closed on Tuesdays and Sundays. For information, call 281-484-2036.