CISD targeting potential dropouts with myriad programs
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Conroe Independent School District is casting a wide net to catch any students at risk of dropping out.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Conroe Independent School District is casting a wide net to catch any students at risk of dropping out.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Students at Mitchell Intermediate School in Alden Bridge are busy decorating festive food boxes in preparation for their Travis/Mitchell Thanksgiving Project.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Montgomery County has recorded its first death with the H1N1 virus, a 54-year-old man who had multiple pre-existing conditions.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
For years, James "Pete" Mullinax was reluctant to share his experiences as a World War II pilot and prisoner of war. But after the urging of his daughter, Julee MacDonald, the Panorama Village resident wrote his story.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It's a matter of personal preference as to whether folks would rather hold the real thing in their hands or read by the glow of a technical device, but there's no denying the convenience of electronic books.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Residents of central Montgomery County approved the sale of alcoholic beverages for the last dry area in the county.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A new organization hopes to help residents find specific thrift merchandise around Conroe and Montgomery County.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Matthew Elston, a 15-year-old River Plantation resident in Conroe, is a magician.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Lone Star College-Montgomery has offered up classroom space to 30 high school juniors from across the county as Leadership High School once again gets under way.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Conroe's water wells lost about 18 percent of their capacity in the last five years, and it will take an estimated $4 million to get the water back by digging deeper wells and increasing pump and motor sizes.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Handmade cigars seems to be big business around Montgomery County with one store owner in business for several years now, a new one boasting the county's largest humidor on Texas 242, and yet another new one along the Waterway where folks can put up their feet, have a smoke and a drink before calling it a day.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Nine out of every ten people in Montgomery County are unaware that the county's water supply comes solely from underground aquifers, but the same percentage agree that an adequate supply is "very important" to the future quality of life here, according to a survey commissioned by the San Jacinto River Authority.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Toys for Tots officially launches at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 2 at Central Library, 1054 I-45 N in Conroe.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Montgomery County awarded a design-build contract for a new forensic mental health facility after the state accepted a proposal to provide $15 million in funding to operate the facility.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Clad in a white lab coat, Randall Trego makes afternoon rounds at St. Luke's Hospital The Woodlands, visiting with patients and offering solace, but not in the form of medication or an explanation of symptoms ailing them. Because along with the white lab coat, Trego wears a collar. He's an Episcopalian priest, and Chaplain at the hospital.