High-Island News

Drivers traveling between High Island and Caplan on Bolivar Peninsula's Texas 87 are getting up close and personal with the Gulf of Mexico these days.

Hurricane season is here again, and expert predictions do not forecast a repeat of Hurricane Ike.

Flood waters from Hurricane Ike surround High Island Sept. 14, 2008. Six months later, Galveston officials say Spring Break could bring as much as $36 million to the region.

Nine months ago, the mantra here was "Bring Bolivar Back." Now, even as recovery continues from Hurricane Ike's ravages, residents of the county's peninsula are bragging, "Bolivar is Back." Some would argue that the peninsula never went away but has been conveniently forgotten or overlooked by government officials and the media.

With a plan for spending $169 million in Hurricane Ike recovery grants mapped out, county commissioners are now getting down to creating their own wish list for spending the county's cut of the money for infrastructure projects.

What should Bolivar Peninsula look like as it rebuilds after Hurricane Ike? Should the policy favor high-end development, with strict standards to ensure new houses are built to withstand the strongest storm? If the highest standards are required, will the little guys be forced out? What about the future of ambulance and fire services on the ...

Got this e-mail today from Midway ISD about something that happened last month, but this is definitely worth a shout-out. I'll let the Midway release below explain it.

Ruth Stanford remembers a time when a boat could squeeze through Rollover Pass at high tide - before the state cut through it to make a channel flowing between the Gulf of Mexico and East Galveston Bay.

Time for a change in Bolivar schools? There will never be a better time for the Galveston and High Island school districts to decide whether there isn't a more rational way to handle schools on the western part of the Bolivar Peninsula.

On Wednesday's front page, Houston Chronicle science writer Eric Berger reported on a proposal to build a gigantic complex of seawalls and gates to protect Galveston and the Bolivar peninsula from San Luis Pass to High Island.

In today's paper I have a story on a proposal by Texas A&M-Galveston's William Merrell .

Reporting from High Island, Texas -- As my airliner approached George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, the pilot declared the weather in southeastern Texas sunny, warm and mild.

A great egret nests in a tree at the Houston Audubon Society's Rookery at Smith Oaks on High Island on Sunday.

World travelers migrate to the Texas coast for the astounding variety of birds that congregate here.

Bring your flip-flops and sunscreen and let the relaxation begin. The Texas coast stretches more than 400 miles from the border of Louisiana to the beginnings of Mexico.

Bermuda Beach on Galveston was a beautiful site before Hurricane Ike came ashore.

Forty years ago, in the days before investors and wealthy professionals began lining the narrow roads of the Bolivar Peninsula with expensive homes, rustic cabins put a vacation at the beach within reach of ...

The Texas Transportation Commission last week approved spending about $12 million in federal stimulus money to make improvements to state Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula.

More than 750 property owners whose houses were ravaged by Hurricane Ike have applied to Galveston County to have their properties purchased with federal grant money, a consultant told county commissioners ...

It's been nearly 6 months since hurricane Ike's wind and surge caused destruction across the Gulf Coast.