A recent 60-day operation has netted the arrests of 10 men accused of sex crimes against minors, ranging from child pornography to online solicitation, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. The multi-agency Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children unit conducted a online chat operation and executed multiple search and arrest warrants, according to the District Attorney’s Office. One of the men is charged with sexual performance by a child and indecency with a child, six others are charged with online solicitation of a minor, three more are charged with promot ..read more

Co-founder of The Woodlands Wine & Food Week Constance McDerby guarantees no one will walk away from this year’s H-E-B Wine Walk at Market Street hungry or thirsty. A signature event of The Woodlands Wine & Food Week, the H-E-B Wine Walk on Oct. 21 will cover three blocks of Market Street The Woodlands which will be jammed packed with a cornucopia of culinary creations, wine displays with industry experts, craft beers, live music and unique wine experiences. It’s from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Woodlands shopping and entertainment destination. Tickets are $65 with a special Bayway Cadillac VIP ..read more

After 14 years as the head pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Father Tom Rafferty has been reassigned, and the church in The Woodlands will now be headed by Father Jesse Garcia. Rafferty was assigned by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, to be the new Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Garcia was chosen by DiNardo to become the new head pastor of St. Anthony and officially started on Sept. 1. Garcia is originally from San Antonio but has lived in Italy, Columbia, Canada and New York, before he decided to move back to Texas to be c ..read more

The Grand Oaks High School class of 2021 has a lot to be recognized for. After surviving a global pandemic and a historic winter freeze all in the same year, this year’s seniors are the very first graduating class of Grizzlies. Last year, all Conroe ISD graduations were held at Woodforest Bank Stadium to allow for social distancing. This year, the ceremonies returned to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands. Grand Oaks students may have missed a lot this year, but they didn’t miss the tradition of walking across the stage at the covered outdoor venue. This year, around 580 gradu ..read more

For the very first time, the Woodlands Area Youth Symphony (WAYS) will journey from their hometown of The Woodlands in fulfilling a special part of their mission: to encompass the region surrounding The Woodlands including Conroe, Montgomery, Willis, Spring, Klein, Oak Ridge and Tomball. On Thursday, March 25, the spacious 4 Corners Conference Center in Tomball will host the orchestra with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. General admission seating is $10 for this program of entertaining and educational music. Founding Director Darryl Bayer will lead the group in a concert that takes the audience aro ..read more

While researching Jupiter, a third grader at Discovery School of Innovation in The Woodlands discovered a NASA project she had never heard of before, the Europa Clipper. Soon after, her class was Zooming with a planetary scientist involved in the mission. Europa, one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, is covered in a salty global ocean that contains more liquid than all of the oceans on Earth combined. Right now, NASA is working on a mission to Europa with the intent of finding out if there is life on the fourth planet from the sun’s smallest moon. To learn more, the school decided to reach out to t ..read more

Nearly 100 people celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Our Lady of the Angels chapel in The Woodlands on Saturday. The community gathered for the ceremony outside St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church on Bay Branch Drive in The Woodlands during the coronavirus pandemic, following mass, to mark the beginning of the long-awaited construction project. The new chapel will include a reliquary for 27 saints, including St. Anthony of Padua himself, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Elizabeth. It is expected to be one of the largest reliquaries in Texas and this area. “This has been a long time coming,” F ..read more

A new market has popped up in Conroe near Magnolia. Event organizer Mary Middlebrook said the Oak Ridge Pop Up Market outgrew the Woodridge Plaza parking lot area, which led her to open the new Woodlands Square Market off FM 1488 on Saturday. “It was the perfect venue for it — the weather was great, there was a wide variety of vendors, and an eclectic atmosphere,” Magnolia resident Brian Lorio said. Now, Middlebrook said, the new outdoor market, which is pet friendly, will be held twice a month or every other Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the case of rain, the event will be rescheduled to ..read more

An allegedly intoxicated driver on early Saturday morning reportedly crashed into police vehicles responding to a wreck on Interstate 45 in south Montgomery County. After 1:30 a.m., a couple of Shenandoah Police units responded to a vehicular crash on I-45 near the Woodlands Parkway overpass in Oak Ridge North. The officers were there to provide traffic control, according to a City of Shenandoah press release. At approximately 2:05 a.m., a white Infiniti SUV struck three police cruisers after passing up numerous emergency vehicles with traffic-barricading equipment. The two Oak Ridge North pol ..read more

This is the second year Houston Furniture Bank has organized a bedding drive for the holiday season and it more than doubled what it collected last year. The bedding drive started last year to accompany the furniture bank’s No Kids on the Floor efforts, which aims to provide beds to kids in need. The organization was able to give away around 100 bedding sets last year. The bedding drive partners with local stores, such as Ashley HomeStore, where customers can buy bedding sets to be donated to the furniture bank. The Bed-In-A-Bag sets include all necessary bedding: sheets, a comforter, and a pi ..read more