Richmond / Rosenberg

Cast Theatrical’s Melodrama Tradition Returns with MALES ORDER BRIDES

Rosenberg, TX – Cast Theatrical Company is proud to continue its annual melodrama tradition, where audience members are a vital part in each production, from cheering on the heroes to booing and even throwing popcorn at the villains. In Males Order Brides by Billy St. John, the unscrupulous lawyer Big Harry Deal has promised mail order brides for four of the town’s love starved townsmen. He has hired actress Starr Billings to impersonate four fiancés, […]

Master Gardeners to offer growing tips for vegetables, herbs

Learn about “Cool Season Vegetables & Herbs” in a free class offered next month by Fort Bend County Master Gardeners. The 90-minute session is the sixth and last class in the Grow Your Own Series and will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at 1330 Band Road in Rosenberg. Registration is required. Register at https://fortbend.agrilife.org/grow-your-own/grow-your-own-a/ All registered attendees will receive a link to the class recording. The class will be presented by Steve Hicks and Lauren […]

Fort Bend County Master Gardeners add new members

By Fort Bend County Master Gardeners After weeks of classroom instruction and volunteer service, 24 men and women from throughout Fort Bend County gathered this month in Rosenberg to celebrate their achievement: Certification as Texas Master Gardeners. Their journey began last August with orientation and included classroom training from September through November plus 50 hours of approved volunteer service through May. “This is not the end of the journey,” said Ben Welch, president of the […]

Control Leaffooted Bugs on Tomato Plants

By Peggy d’Hemecourt Advanced Master Gardener – Earth-Kind ® Few crops are more cherished during the warm growing season than tomatoes. Whether vine ripened or picked when the skin is beginning to turn from green to red and ripened indoors, the  flavor and juiciness beat store-bought tomatoes, hands-down. That home-grown goodness can be spoiled, though, by the arrival of leaffooted bugs, Leptoglossus sp.  Leaffooted bugs are large, brownish to gray, with flat backs that are shield shaped. […]

Cast Theatrical Presents Steel Magnolias

  Rosenberg, TX – Cast Theatrical is proud to present Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling. Steel Magnolias is the story of six vibrant Southern ladies who share their lives and loves in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon. Alternately hilarious and touching, Steel Magnolias reveals the strength of character and friendship through life’s highest highs and lowest lows. “The audience will laugh, love and cry with these women as they live their lives in a small […]

Be Neighborly – Share the Road

As we approach summer harvesting for farmers, please stay alert for slow-moving farm equipment. Equipment needs to be moved to and from fields as they work to grow food and fiber for us. It takes only 5 seconds for a car traveling 55 mph to close a distance the size of a football field on a tractor that may be traveling at 25 mph. Please slow when you see farm equipment on the road to […]

Fort Bend County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Now Carrying Whole Blood on Ambulances

Rosenberg, TX– Fort Bend County Health and Human Services is proud to announce a significant advancement in emergency medical care within the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department. For the first time, Fort Bend County EMS will carry whole blood on ambulances, marking a monumental step forward in life-saving capabilities for trauma and critically bleeding patients. Since the inception of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in the early 1970s, the standard practice for treating patients who have […]

2024 RICHMOND STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS WITH MAYOR BECKY HAAS

(RICHMOND, TEXAS) Richmond business owners and residents are invited to join Mayor Becky Haas at the Central Fort Bend Chamber’s annual State of the City Richmond on June 20, 2024.  The luncheon will be held at Briscoe Manor located at 5801 FM 723 Richmond, TX 77406 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.  Mayor Haas will discuss the city’s major initiatives and how they positively impact Richmond businesses, residents, and city programs. This year’s State of […]

Landscape CEU Workshop

Landscape CEU Workshop March 20, 2024 Manual Registration Form (ATTENTION: 1 REGISTRATION FORM PER PARTICIPANT: COPY IF NECESSARY)   Name:                                                                                             Phone #                                                        Email:                                                                                                                                                                  Address:                                                           City:                                           State:           Zip:                    Payment method:  Check#                            Exact Cash (brought into the office): Total Enclosed $                              Make check payable to: AHAC (Ag-Hort Advisory Committee) Bring this form and payment to: Fort Bend County Extension Office; Attention: Lorraine Niemeyer 1402 Band Road, Suite 100 (Annex Building), Rosenberg, TX […]

Plan for a Sober Driver This St. Patrick’s Day

Remember: Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving Rosenberg, TX — St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the United States extend as far back as the American colonial period. Today, it is one of our nation’s most popular holidays, celebrated with festivals, parades, and parties. These celebrations frequently feature themed cocktails and green pints, and the amount of alcohol consumed on this holiday is higher than average. People are more likely to make poor decisions as a result, […]