When more than 300 enthusiastic East Aldine residents recently celebrated Constitution Day with a parade, concerts, poetry readings and speeches, there was also time for moving thoughts expressed by the next generation of American voters. With the focus on the U.S. Constitution, MacArthur High School junior Norelva Banda provided her perspective at the red, white and [...]
Readers checked out 58,512 books from East Aldine’s High Meadows Branch Library last year. Unfortunately, a cookbook featuring the best recipes for the best food in the neighborhood was not among them. Staff at the library have been trying to convince patrons to submit their favorite family food recipes for a local cookbook as part of the [...]
The new federal program aimed at relieving some college tuition education debts for an estimated 43 million students could help thousands of Harris County students, including many enrolled at Lone Star College’s East Aldine campus. President Joe Biden recently announced details of a student debt relief plan designed to reduce the debt obligations of students [...]
The East Aldine Management District and many partners will soon celebrate the anniversary of Constitution Day and National Citizenship Day in a new way. A patriotic parade on Saturday, Sept. 17 — the 70th anniversary of the “days” — will move from MacArthur High School to the East Aldine Town Center’s amphitheater, where about 300 [...]
Registration is underway for fall classes for children and adults at the BakerRipley East Aldine Center, with options ranging from party-decorating and jewelry-making to family Zumba and other physical recreation activities. Spirited dancers from Ballet Folklorico classes for children and adults, and kids from Tae Kwon Do classes, demonstrated their new-found skills at a recent [...]
Students starting the new school year will soon begin receiving grades on their various assignments. At the same time, parents and other community members are able to see if their local schools and campuses are making the grade in a fresh update to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) rating system of all public school districts. [...]
Garcia, Gonzalez At a recent meeting with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia, an East Aldine woman spoke up. “I am afraid to go out of my house at night” because of gunfire in her neighborhood, she told the lawmen. Gonzalez and Garcia, a former sheriff, had convened [...]
Encampment When a dangerous gang from the infamous Aryan Brotherhood set up camp on a remote and abandoned lot in East Aldine, Sheriff’s Office deputies from the East Aldine Management District’s Response Team targeted the location. The deputies’ efforts were aided, in no small part, by the gang’s dangerously stupid attempt to pirate [...]
Few public school teachers are celebrated under the bright lights of Broadway for their efforts to direct, train and inspire a new generation of talent. But Aldine ISD teacher Roshunda Jones-Koumba recently received a teaching excellence award during the national television broadcast of the Tony Awards from New York City. Jones-Koumba is the drama teacher at G.W. [...]
Scott Froschauer Whimsical versions of traffic signs cause many East Aldine Town Center visitors to slow down to read slogans such as “One Love” and “Para Que Haya Paz” (If There Is To Be Peace).” One warning you’ll never see on the signs, though, is “Stop there.” Because the nationally known artist who created [...]
