Kemah News

Special to the Daily Herald The annual Miss Mary Hardin-Baylor Pageant is Nov. 6 and 7, at 7 p.m. in the W.W. Walton Chapel on campus.

The Baytown Hartman Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the state of Texas.

Jim Blackburn, of Rice University, and William King, former mayor of Kemah, are beginning a series of presentations to encourage advanced flood protection for Galveston County and the surrounding area.

INDUSTRIAL: Clay Allied Technology, with Timothy Clay serving as trustee, has purchased a 25,979-square-foot building at 2200 Texas 225 in Pasadena from Crevco.

Each Kemah dinner cruise this month will be taken over by pirates in search of a treasure map, but the only the person who knows where the gold is has been murdered! Attendees must help solve the mystery before the pirates force everyone to walk the plank! Your evening production is performed by Murder by Chocolate .

Case managers charged with finding and helping Hurricane Ike victims are stepping up their outreach efforts.

Bruce Blackwell , a retiree now living in Friendswood , misses his old neighborhood in suburban Chicago, not least because of the Prairie Path.

Many readers were moved by a story in Sunday's paper about some families in Kemah and Clear Lake Shores who face eviction.

Maybe one of the best things about living in a big city is the variety of opportunities for family fun that are available.

Manuel Chavez Jr. sleeps on a mattress on the floor of a house Hurricane Ike flooded a year ago.

How can it be that, a year after Hurricane Ike, people living in Kemah and Clear Lake Shores face being thrown off their property because they've been unable to make repairs? The cities are not at fault.

Transplants from the Northeast will be glad to know that even though you won't see festivities on the order of what you'd see in Manhattan on Columbus Day, Houston is a great place to be on Columbus Day.

Despite all the jazz, it was hard to be cool Sunday on the Kemah Boardwalk. The hep cats and kittens wailed on their axes on stage during three consecutive days of the 12th Kemah Boardwalk Jazz Festival.

The 23rd Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Fall Cleanup is set to begin today.

Michelle Smith, a 2008 Graduate of Lake Highlands High school and a counselor at Pine Cove Camp met a young girl named Faith Beach this summer.

A man wanted in Harris County bolted from the Clear Lakes Shores police station today and escaped after assaulting the police chief.

A teen accused of scuffling with the police chief and bolting from police headquarters through city hall was charged Thursday with assault and escape, authorities said.

The Kemah Boardwalk has been rated on of the top 10 in the nation, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

Exactly a year ago Ike's massive storm surge devastated the communities around Galveston Bay and today the hurricane is still fresh on residents' minds.

Patsy Thomson's Shore Acres home was one of many destroyed by Hurricane Ike. "I raised seven adopted children, so at one point all the rooms were all bedrooms," Thomson said as she guided 11 News through what was left of her house.