Need a ride but low on cash? The Fort Bend Transit system will pick up Richmond and Rosenberg residents at their homes, businesses, hospitals and other locations in the future. And it will only cost $1 — $2 for round trips.
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The Victoria County Czech Heritage Society and The Czech Ex-Students Association of Texas announced numerous options now available to learn the Czech language.
Load the sheep, slip on the chaps, and get ready to ride! Mutton Bustin’ returns to the 2019 Fort Bend County Fair and sign up begins on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 8 a.m. in Building B at the fairgrounds.
Time is slipping by fast and the kiddos are down to their last weeks before the hit the halls of our schools. Last year, I saw the cutest video on Facebook that a couple who had music that had them relaxing in the tub, vegging on the couch catching up on tv programs and just chilling in gene…
A stockbroker who saved Jewish children from the Nazis at the outbreak of WWII will be the topic of discussion at the quarterly meeting of the Czech Heritage Society of Fort Bend County on Saturday.
Hundreds of people packed into the Rosenberg Civic Center on Monday for the second annual Taste of Rosenberg.
Richmond Rotary served a barbecue sandwich lunch to over 250 at-risk children at the Richmond-Rosenberg Boys & Girls Club. Maternal and child health is one of Rotary International’s six areas of focus.
Every time a fan goes to a Sugar Land Skeeters home game, they have a chance to win the 50/50 raffle.
Every time you go to a Sugar Land Skeeters home game you have a chance to win the 50/50 raffle. The Skeeters Baseball Foundation allows you a chance “to get rich or donate trying.” The Foundation’s mission, “Promotes youth education and healthy activities for culturally, racially and economi…
Common Threads and Hope on the Brazos teamed up to hold their annual Back to School Fair.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent Leticia Hardy will hold a child safety seat check course from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the extension office, 1402 Band Road, Suite 100 in Rosenberg.
Arts & Entertainment
Texas Cowboy Church’s Bull Bash 2019 has opened the books for contestants. Only 20 mutton busters 6 years old and under and under 70 pounds will be allowed to compete.
The public is invited to join local restaurants for free food and live music at the second annual Taste of Rosenberg, slated for Monday.
Pecan Grove artist and illustrator Robyn Crowell will hold her first formal signing of a book she illustrated — “The Trickster: Poems for Very Clever Children & Silly Adults” — written by poet Daniel Klawitter, who was a fellow Terry High School graduate with Crowell.
Inspiration Stage will present MAMMA MIA!, with 12 shows over three weekends, July 26 through Aug. 11 at the historic Sugar Land Auditorium, 226 Lakeview Dr.
Pleak Speaks
The Pleak City Council begins at 7 p.m. August 21, 2019. The Pleak City Hall is located at 6621 FM 2218. Meetings are always open to the public.
FBC ESD #6 meeting will be on July 24, 2019 at 7:00 pm in Pleak City Hall. Pleak City Hall is located at 6621 FM 2218 and FM 2218 near the intersection of FM 2218 and Highway 36 South. Meetings are always open to the public.
Local Library Events
- INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR SOCIAL AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID AT LIBRARY PROGRAM
- GET TIPS ON COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID & THE FAFSA AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- UNIVERSITY BRANCH LIBRARY HOSTS FAMILY GAME NIGHT IN AUGUST
- A House Without WindowsRemember Ben Clayton
- LEARN ABOUT WILLS, TRUSTS, & GUARDIANSHIPS AT UNIVERSITY BRANCH LIBRARY
- “MAKING MONEY WITH YOUR HOBBIES” AT UNIVERSITY BRANCH LIBRARY
- “DUNGEONS & DRAGONS” EVENT AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- Free 3D printer demonstration
- Learn Thai fruit carving
- LEARN ABOUT USING FACEBOOK FOR BUSINESS AT UNIVERSITY BRANCH LIBRARY PROGRAM
- INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR SOCIAL AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR SOCIAL AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- LIBRARY’S FAMILY-HISTORY CLASS HELPS RESEARCHERS EXPLORE ANCESTRY.COM
- GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY PRESENTS INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER CLASSES
- LEARN KNITTING BASICS AT LIBRARY WORKSHOP
- LIFE COACH OFFERS SELF-REALIZATION WORKSHOP AT UNIVERSITY BRANCH LIBRARY
- ICE-CREAM WORKSHOP AT GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
- Library to host “Dungeons & Dragons” event
- GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ENCOURAGES ASPIRING WRITERS WITH STORY SPINNERS CLUB
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NEW YORK (AP) — The R-rated comedy, left for dead by some Hollywood studios, again reached No.1 at the box office over the weekend thanks to the raunchy coming-of-age tale "Good Boys," about a trio of 12-year-olds on a crude misadventure.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Burning Man is served with a side of playa dust that covers cars and clothing and finds its way into places where the sun doesn't shine.
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LONDON (AP) — Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Los Angeles Opera has declined to release any details of its promised investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against opera legend Placido Domingo, the company's longtime general director, including whether it has already started.
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VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Heather Locklear has pleaded no contest to charges that she fought with first responders during two visits to her Southern California home last year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the counter-culture classic "Easy Rider," died Friday at his home of complications from lung cancer. He was 79.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Charles Santore, an illustrator known for his richly detailed and whimsical interpretations of classic children's books has died, his daughter said Friday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Julianne Moore is accustomed to working with her husband, director Bart Freundlich, on set, but it was a real family affair when their daughter joined them for their latest collaboration.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as "Daughters" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones" drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother's kitchen conversations to narrate the divides between blacks and whites, men and women and moder…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Chef Mario Batali, whose career crumbled amid sexual misconduct allegations, no longer owns a stake in Eataly, the Italian marketplaces he once heavily promoted.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel has learned an expensive lesson: don't mess with the government's emergency alert system.
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NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Clarissa Ward says her story this week about Russian involvement in the Central African Republic came with a price: she was trailed during her reporting and made the subject of a 15-minute propaganda video denigrating her work.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public "letter of solidarity" to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A city-wide promotion in Los Angeles for a popular Amazon television series caused chaos when drivers lined up for hours to cash in on 1950s gas prices.
NEW YORK (AP) — World, meet Pauline.
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