Richards, Texas (ZIP 77873) was founded in 1907 in eastern Grimes County, when people from Fairview and Longstreet moved to a new Trinity and Brazos Valley stop. Some hauled houses intact on log rollers. The railroad named the town for banker W. E. Richards, not for Governor Ann Richards.
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Richards, Texas (ZIP 77873) was founded in 1907 in eastern Grimes County, when people from Fairview and Longstreet moved to a new Trinity and Brazos Valley stop. Some hauled houses intact on log rollers. The railroad named the town for banker W. E. Richards, not for Governor Ann Richards.
A morning of proclamations, Dolly Parton included. Then a back-and-forth in open court over merit raises for Precinct 3 employees. And a quick look at toll road revenues to wrap up the morning.
Commissioners adopted $0.3860 per $100, up from $0.3770. The calculator shows the county line only — not school, city, or MUD taxes.
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Lake Conroe, Conroe and The Woodlands are not watching one housing market collapse. They are watching three different markets learn how to behave after years when almost nothing about housing was normal.
Paying off a loan once meant the biggest household payment was finished. Today, taxes, insurance, medical coverage and maintenance keep creating new monthly obligations for working families, retirees and nearly everyone between them.
The old junkyard was part store, classroom and mechanical treasure hunt. Today it may scan barcodes, ship parts nationwide and train workers to handle electric-vehicle batteries—but it still gives useful machines one more chance.
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America's religious map records buildings and attendance. It cannot fully record what happens around kitchen tables—or what people carry into the world afterward.
Fewer young Americans belong to churches, but that does not automatically mean they stopped believing. Faith now moves through phones, arenas, campuses and kitchen tables — and the church of tomorrow may look surprisingly like the church at the beginning.
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Rescued from the illegal wildlife trade as an 18-month-old orphan, Lulingu the Grauer's gorilla returned to the wild in late 2024 and gave birth to a healthy infant on May 21, 2026—the first birth from a GRACE-released gorilla.
Dobbin, Texas (ZIP 77333) began as a post office called Bobbin in 1880, on the Central and Montgomery Railway in western Montgomery County. In 1909 the name changed because the office had moved to a new railroad crossing about a mile away. A 1962 map still prints both Dobbin and Bobville.
Commissioners adopted $0.3860 per $100, up from $0.3770. The calculator shows the county line only — not school, city, or MUD taxes.
The county, flood control, hospital district, and port together moved from $0.6241 to $0.6715 per $100. See the difference on your home.
Cleveland, Texas (ZIP 77327) got its name in 1878, when Charles Lander Cleveland deeded 63.6 acres to the Houston, East and West Texas Railway and asked that the station bear his name. The town did not incorporate until 1935.
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On September 17th 2026, The Woodlands Township Board of Directors met to discuss various topics within the community. The Township solidified their decision to end the thirty-year mounted patrol by the privately-held Alpha & Omega Security Patrol. The board approved a new deal with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office that will bring a mounted unit to the area. Also in the meeting, the board heard from a cell-tower contractor on planned construction of cell towers within The Woodlands parks.
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