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2011
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At the last Alvin-Manvel Chamber meeting it was announced that a PetsMart will be constructing a 1,100 square-foot building in the Highland Shopping Center on FM 1462. For those of you who don't know where Highland Shopping Center is, that is where Krogers is currently located in Alvin. This new ...
10/31/2011
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My aunt for the first time in all of her entire life had a room for herself. She was excited to have a “ladies” room in her family of all men. She had told me that she was happy that she had made half of the enclosed sun room into a sewing room for herself. Today she was busy sewing a new dress t...
10/29/2011
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It was almost a family reunion when we gathered for the wedding of one of our clan. Some of you here may know that I have 52 first cousins. Half who at the time were married and had started a family with children of their own. My aunt’s old rambling home was the center of activity. Everyone was...
10/27/2011
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A True Halloween Story I had just finished seventh grade and I was a happy girl. My cousin Johnny had called and asked me to stay with him and his new wife for a couple of weeks. He said I would be good company for his new wife Delores while he was at work. They were house sitting his mom’s plac...
10/26/2011
If you are planning on building in Cities with no zoning, you really need to be careful about where you build. One day you could have a mom and pop tire fix-it shop next to your beautiful home or some other eye sore of a business. Another thing to watch for is if the property faces a road with a...
10/24/2011
The mosquitoes have been horrible in Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris County for weeks now. The cool gulf breeze brings in the salt water mosquitoes. They are really tiny insects with a forever stinging bite that will leave you itching like crazy. Then there are the fresh water mosquitoes which y...
10/24/2011
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Here is a new and funny dog video...This dog's owner is a lazy person so the dog had to make do. So this is you laugh for the day..
10/22/2011
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We have many critters at my day job...we just catch them and release outside or find a new home for them. The first critter I ever saw near my office door was a water moccasin snake. It was small, only a foot long, but long enough to kill someone. The animal control people came and took it out an...
10/17/2011
The City of Alvin’s Fire Marshal, Martin Vela, has turned in his resignation to accept a position as Brazoria County’s Fire Marshal. Martin has been on site to review plans on the Home Depot, Alvin Independent School District’s new schools, Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites, La Quinta Inn and...
10/12/2011
With the development of Kendall Lakes residential subdivision, located on North Business 35 in Alvin Texas, the need for an additional school became apparent. The developer, Clinton Wong, donated 15 acres towards the development of that new school. After several meetings with the school distri...
10/12/2011
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