Brazoria County Updates for June 9, 2007
From staff reports
The Facts
Published June 9, 2007
C-BISD CHANGES SCHOOL TIMES
Columbia-Brazoria ISD has announced new school times for the 2007-08 academic year.
Columbia High School and West Brazos Junior High will be in class from 7:15 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. daily. Class times for Barrow, Wild Peach and West Columbia elementary schools will be from 8:15 a.m. until 3:40 p.m.
Classes resume in the district Aug. 27.
For information, visit www.cbisd.com
LAKE JACKSON WATER TOWER NEAR COMPLETION
The new water tower on FM 2004 and Dunbar Park is just about ready and is awaiting a line to supply it water.
“The tower is essentially complete. All we’re waiting on is the line, which should be done in two to three weeks,” said Craig Nisbett, Lake Jackson’s public works director.
Residents might have seen the
12-inch pipeline stretched along FM 2004 and wondered what it was. It will feed the 750,000-gallon tank its water.
“The schedule next week is they will do directional drilling under Oyster Creek to have the pipeline go under the creek,” Nisbett said.
The drilling will be a one day operation, and then the laying of the pipeline will start. Construction began on the $1.6 million tower last July.
ALCOHOL PETITION WRAPPED UP
A petition drive that would allow all Brazoria County restaurants to sell mixed drinks without a club membership and grocery stores to sell beer and wine no longer is taking any John Hancocks.
“They feel pretty confident they have more than enough qualified signatures,” said Richard Wood, owner of the Wurst Haus in Lake Jackson and a supporter of the effort.
Brazoria Residents to Advance Community Economics, or BRACE, needed 22,000 signatures within 60 days from April 16 and has gathered 33,000.
The petitions now will have to be certified to make sure there are no duplicate signatures and the signer is a registered voter, Wood said.
The county clerk’s office will have 30 days from the day it receives the petitions to certify the signatures, which would place the option on the November general election ballot.
TURTLE NESTS DISCOVERIES ON RISE
The location of 15 Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nesting sites on the Texas coast Thursday shows a resurgence of the breed, which still is the most-endangered sea turtle in the world.
So far this year, a record 114 sites have been found in Texas.
“It’s barely the peak of the season and we’re already at 114,” said Keith Ramos with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “This is very exciting. Conservation efforts are paying off.
“This is a great day for the Kemp’s in Texas.”
Watchers found 102 nests in 2006 and 51 in 2005.
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