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Yes, the City of Magnolia is in Montgomery County. City of Magnolia

great article. thanks for the link.

there's also a mr. gatti's in tomball. i remember magic pan and farrell's. it was a huge deal to drive in from conroe for birthday's and holiday shopping. good memories. wow, i'd forgotten all of these places. i was disappointed when dalt's closed. i liked the retro interior and burgers. anyone remember "bobby mcgee's" near aldine-bender? the waitstaff dressed like different characters.

you can go back and edit an existing thread. you do not have to start a new one if you've made a mistake. also, you can use picture hosting sites like snapfish or livedigital to link pictures to your houston architecture post. good luck and welcome to the forum.

Aug. 7, 2006, 4:16PM Montgomery County moves to preserve wetlands location Mussel pond site west of Conroe area adds to conservation efforts around region By BETH KUHLES Chronicle Correspondent A little mollusk is making big waves in a pond west of Conroe. The "spectacle case" mussel is a rare find in Texas, and it has made its home in the latest tract to be preserved in the area. Montgomery County obtained the land as part of a wetlands mitigation project and turned it over to Legacy Land Trust with a conservation easement that will preserve it in its natural state for future generations. "It's a good cooperative effort between the pubic and private sector to provide nature preserves for posterity," said Precinct 2 Commissioner Craig Doyal. "It will provide an area for different nature groups and school groups to go find these mussels that they might not normally get to see." full story Aug. 10, 2006, 8:55AM Shenandoah land grant marks six acres for wildlife preserve By BOB HOWIE Chronicle Correspondent Six acres of heavily timbered tracts which are part of the city of Shenandoah's original subdivision have been donated as a permanent wildlife preserve. The tract is worth about $1.5 million at today's typical lot prices within the city. "Two 3-acre tracts held in reserve by Shenandoah's original developer have been donated to the city by the late developer's family," said City Administrator Chip VanSteenberg. "The tracts are within the original Shenandoah Valley subdivision and it's the City Council's wish that these lots, which are uncleared and heavily forested, remain in their current pristine state forever." full story Aug. 9, 2006, 11:39AM Magnolia planning 20-acre park City to buy property from school district By KIMBERLY STAUFFER Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Magnolia City Council initiated plans to buy and convert 20 acres of land into the city's first park. The city plans to buy 20 acres from Magnolia Independent School District for $10,000 per acre, a total of $130,000. The park is planned off of Nichols-Sawmill Road near FM 1488. full story

imagine how horrible i-45, i-59 and i-10 would be without loop 610 and beltway 8. just a thought. i'm not sure that rail in houston, at this time, is about removing people from the freeways. i think it is more about encouraging centralized growth and reducing inner city automobile travel.

it isn't just the parents. schools are too large. teachers and principles cannot punish students for bad behavior. the kids rule the school in most situations. these large high schools are a practice in managed chaos. you pay to send a kid to private school, and in some cases, you're paying a premium so that you're kid can be in an easier to manage environment and be disciplined in ways that a public school cannot. federal funding (which i think is less than 8% of public school funding) should be eliminated so that public schools can be independant from federal regulations. each community should be able to run its district in a manner suitable to its own preferences. if a kid disrupts a classroom repeatedly, he/she should be expelled or face serious discipline, including corporal punishment. make it a privilege to be in the classroom. a privilege that has to be earned and maintained, not a right. if schools would come down hard on disruptions and students who don't want to learn, the ball would be put back in the parents court. you would then see parents get more involved. send the troublemakers home. fail them when they fail and don't push them through. school districts should take the rudy giuliani approach. enforce the small things/minor offenses rigorously, then the bigger offenses will decrease. as mayor of nyc, giuliani started cracking down on misdemeanors in nyc. the public perception was one of heightened police presence and better law enforcement all round. the result was a decrease in more serious crimes. i believe this would work in public school. funding for schools should not be tied to school attendance. in my experience, the schools help the kids get around attendance requirements which ultimately harms the kid. for instance, we were late to school one day because i overslept. z, my kid, was still having trouble getting up on his own. i went in to the attendance office to take responsibility for his tardiness. the attendance office smiled at me and said, "he wasn't feeling well this morning?" i reiterated that i overslept. she repeated, "he isn't excused unless he was ill." she looked at z and said, " guess you weren't feeling well this morning were you?" of course, z agreed with her and she admitted him to school. the attendance office and the student, without my input, gave themselves a full day, dishonestly. now, don't get me wrong, he didn't need a tardy slip or the absence. it was the ease at which the school skirted the truth and encouraged dishonesty that gives me alarm. these are the types of things that cause students to disrespect their school's requirements, their teachers and their school administrations. to place the blame solely on parents is oversimplification.

now, whould that be "hife! hife! hife!" or "hafe! hafe! hafe!"? if you're calling out "hafe" i might not know who you're with. looks like i can't make it to this one either. have fun. maybe next time.

Governance panel debates role of voters By: TIFFANY WILLIAMS, Villager staff 08/10/2006 As the Governance Steering Committee continues to move in the direction of self-governance, its members don't agree on the role that residents of the master-planned community will play in choosing between two proposed options. In the spring, the GSC whittled down the governance alternatives in The Woodlands, a community threatened by annexation from Houston, Conroe and Shenandoah, from four to two: incorporation into a city, an option that requires permission from the city of Houston to release the community from its extraterritorial jurisdiction, or forming a special purpose district to handle municipal responsibilities, which would require action by the Texas Legislature. full story i get the feeling we're going to incorporate.

Fate of Harper's Landing under negotiation By: HOWARD RODEN, HCN/Courier staff 08/10/2006 Representatives from The Woodlands offered the city of Conroe 20 years of fire service and a state-of-the-art training facility in exchange for Municipal Utility District No. 39 and its residential community of Harper's Landing. But that may not be enough to make the city go away. full story

i haven't read anything recently on sales or lack thereof at market street. i've noticed market street has been busier towards the end of the day. at the one year anniversary last year, i read that some retail chains in market street were recording top sales for their company. there were eight new leases signed at market street this past month. there is a rumor that a boutique hotel may be in the works for the unbuilt parcel west of the parking garage. there is a temporary putt putt golf course there now. i do not think that there would be this much activity if the stores weren't doing well. i agree with you on day shopping there. 10 AM and 3PM are good times to hit market street.

Market Street Signs Eight New Tenants Totaling 46,000 Square Feet Of Retail And Office Space Shopping Market Street - The Woodlands has leased more than 46,000 square feet of retail and office space to eight new tenants, transactions which bring the project`s current retail space to 95 percent leased. Its Class A office space now stands at 81 percent leased. full story

YES. A positive spin. Very refreshing. Thank you. Houston's perception of public transportation has definitely changed in the past decade, with certain exceptions of course (AO).

the woodlands resident's website is reporting that "221B Baker St. Pub & Grill has announced plans to open a 6,500-square-foot restaurant in November, 2006 in the building (25 waterway), and another 3,500 square feet of space is committed." this will the second late night establishment in town center.

aaaachoo! sorry, i'm allergic.

i've always pronounced it as hIfe (rhymes with wife). i was in haifa, israel for one day in '81. guess that influenced my pronunciation as well. it never occurred to me to call it hAyf. is saigon pronounce sAygon? hAyf sound like hayfever, hIfe sounds more like a place or a group. IMHO

uuuuuuugly! yuck.

the crown jewel is the grand central transit hub, not the red line.

they do not put a map link on the HAR page. i mapped the address on google. as homer simpson would say...............DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

muuahahahahaaaaaa! > that picture is kinda creepy. great to hear about the project though.

i prefer the term "informed".

it seems that teachers and school districts are focusing on TAKS preparation because they are not confident that their students are learning the basic principles necessary to pass the TAKS based on their current curriculum. the school curriculum should suffice for TAKS preparation. if a school really wants to know how well it's doing, they shouldn't prepare for the TAKS. my nephew's eighth grade math teacher had students writing about "who they were" in MATH class. when it came close to TAKS time, she went crazy cramming them with pre-algebra concepts that would specifically be on the TAKS test. his english teacher the same year, crammed them with vocab right before TAKS. a school's core curriculum should be sufficient for success with TAKS. spending a week or two prepping students for the oh-so-horrible TAKS defeats the purpose. on another note, the number of students in a classroom is less significant with individualized learning curricula. poor, overcrowded school districts would do better to adopt non-traditional classroom settings, at least as an option. IMO

that's hysterical.

isn't this architect related to henry cisneros, former secretary of housing and urban development under the clinton administration?

damn that realtor. you gotta watch those guys. the floor plans are open and similar in some ways to life forms. i had no reason to question her. fortunately, i bought the house for its location. i lucked out with a cool floorplan. great post by the way. welcome to the forum archdaniel. you're a welcome addition.