Elsik High School student Grace Akinyemi was recently named the KPRC2 & Mattress 1 One Senior Scholarship Winner. She received a $2,500 scholarship and a $500 certificate for use at a Mattress 1 One store. Click here to see KPRC2’s Ruben Galvan surprise Akinyemi during school. The Alief Jazz Ballet received Best in Contemporary, Best [...]
The 2016 Texas Lunar Festival will highlight and recognize the multi-cultural diversity of our community with many diverse ethnic food booths, a series of ethnic displays, entertainment, world-class Shaolin Temple Wushu martial arts demonstrations, acrobats, lion dancers and attendance by many local dignitaries including governmental officials and leaders in business and education. Activities are selected [...]
Celebrate the Year of the Red Monkey on February 13 & 14 from 11am to 7pm. Free Admission Viet Hoa Center @ Beltway Plaza
Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) will be holding an "information meeting" at the San Jacinto Monument on Thurs., February 11, at 6 pm, to tell stakeholders that the "Marsh Restoration, Phase II" is a fait accompli. Your immediate help is needed! Please see "How can you help?" at the bottom of this alert. The Situation [...]
Fifteen Alief ISD student athletes announced their commitments on National Signing Day. Congratulations to the following students: Elsik High School: Dontavious Jackson (Florida State University), Chris Brown (The University of Texas at Austin), Javante Hubbard (Rice University), Aaron Jackson (Texas A&M University-Kingsville), Amorama Noel (The University of Texas at El Paso), Ernest “EJ” Davis (Navarro [...]
RSVP Required. Please contact Barbara Quattro at 281.787.8827.
To mark the start of what will be an increased emphasis by my administration on achieving improved mobility for Houston, I recently traveled to Austin to speak to the Texas Transportation Commission, the agency that decides how state transportation dollars are spent. My message was very specific: the transportation strategies of the past are increasingly [...]
The Alief ISD Purchasing Department earned the Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO) Award of Merit with Recognized Status in Purchasing Operations for the fourth year in a row. Purchasing was recognized for its commitment to professional standards in the acquisition of goods and services. The application process is an in-depth review of staff [...]
As of January 1, 2016, individuals can carry a handgun openly or concealed subject to statutory restrictions as long as they possess a License to Carry (LTC) a handgun issued by Texas or a similar license issued by a state that Texas has accepted. By law, a handgun carried openly must be carried in a [...]
