This Week's Headlines

Annual South Belt cleanup a success

Whitmire announces proposed 2026 budget

HPD raids after-hours clubs

HPD releases footage of April shooting

Houston police target after-hours bars

Police arrest 2 in armored-car robbery

BHI assists cleanup

Man’s death investigated following crash

JFD athletes assist cleanup

Houston PD finds body in Edgebrook residence

Annual cleanup a huge success!

Disaster readiness, resilience clinic expo set

Genoa takes home first place in chess

Frazier wins Dickinson ISD chess championship

Stuchbery Elementary attends district Get Fit Jog

TxDOT launches motorcycle safety campaign, safety tips

Frazier earns medals at annual PISD robotics competition

Beverly Hills Intermediate announces fifth six-weeks honor roll

Meador participates in Name That Book competition

Stuchbery celebrates April students of the month

Ravens’ players earn honors

Eagles oust Longhorns in tight area baseball series

Clear Creek ISD Hall of Honor soon to reveal 2025, class

Flores makes move to Clear Falls High School baseball

JFD tennis competes at RIIIs

Lutheran South girls win third straight 5A state golf crown

Brook’s Glover chooses college

JFD grad Baldwin joins GB

Lewis picks Western Gulf BB

Pleasants to play with Vibe

JFD swim honors top performers


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.