The Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce is pleased to present the State of the City Sugar Land focusing on the City’s 2024 accomplishments. The program will be held Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at the Smart Financial Centre, located at 18111 Lexington Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77479 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM. Join local officials, business leaders, residents, and City employees for a special luncheon as Mayor Joe Zimmerman joins City Manager Mike Goodrum for […]
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Harmony School of Innovation – Sugar Land Advances in the Technology Student Association Competition
(SUGAR LAND) Harmony School of Innovation – Sugar Land achieved a sweeping success in the recent Technology Student Association Regionals. Last week, a total of 63 students advanced to State in 26 different competitions during its regional conference in Katy. Some of the categories include: CAD Engineering Video Game Design Architectural Design Biotechnology Design Digital Video Production The state conference will be held in April in Fort Worth, Texas. The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national, non-profit organization of […]
CenterPoint Energy reminds customers to celebrate Valentine’s Day by keeping love in the air and balloons inside and away from power lines
Metallic balloons should be secured or weighted down because they can cause outages and safety hazards Houston – Feb. 13, 2025 – As Valentine’s Day approaches, CenterPoint Energy urges customers to keep themselves and their loved ones safe from the potential hazards of helium balloons impacting power lines or other electric infrastructure. Valentine’s Day is great for love in the air, not metallic balloons tangled in power lines causing power outages. “Balloons can be a […]
DPS Increases Enforcement for Sunday’s Big Game
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) reminds football fans, and anyone out on the roads, to drive responsibly ahead of Super Bowl LIX this weekend. As the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles compete for the Lombardi Trophy on Feb. 9, DPS will be increasing enforcement efforts statewide to ensure everyone has a safe Super Bowl weekend. “Getting behind the wheel when you’re impaired is never okay,” said DPS Colonel Freeman F. […]
Harmony School of Innovation – Sugar Land Named State Winner in Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow Competition
HOUSTON – Three Harmony School of Innovation – Sugar Land students have been named state champions in the 2024-2025 Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow competition. Syed Abidi, Nilgun Duman and Sara Saylam competed against hundreds of other middle and high school teams across the country. The student-teacher team was lead by Nebi Sahin, a Physics and Engineering Teacher at Harmony School of Innovation – Sugar Land. The competition pits public school students in grades 6–12 to leverage STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to […]
Mercedes-Benz of Sugar Land Hosts One-of-a-Kind Teen Driving Experience
Sugar Land, TX – January 22, 2025 – Mercedes-Benz of Sugar Land (MBSL) was honored to host a select group of 10 young drivers this past Saturday for their exclusive Teen Driving Experience at MSR Houston. The complimentary program immersed the teens in a wide variety of activities, ranging from in-class learning to hands-on training in Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Students were guided by professional instructors including former Pro-Indy Racer Kory Enders through critical safety maneuvers, accident-avoidance […]
Final Winter Storm Enzo Update: More than 99 percent of CenterPoint Energy customers maintained power through extreme winter weather; Company deactivates emergency operations center
CenterPoint crews and contractors continue working to restore the remaining customers out As of noon today, CenterPoint Energy deactivated its Emergency Operations Center and returned to normal business operations Company urges customers to heed local officials’ warnings to stay off roads when possible, to help prevent potential accidents and outages Houston – Jan. 22, 2025 – Following the historic Winter Storm Enzo and an overnight hard freeze, CenterPoint Energy shared Wednesday that approximately 99 percent of […]
CenterPoint Energy Winter Storm Enzo Update: More than 99.9 percent of customers continue to have power across Greater Houston area; Crews continuing to respond to scattered customer outages and prepare for coldest overnight temperatures of the year
As of 9 p.m. on Tuesday, CenterPoint crews have restored approximately 28,500 customers since midnight and continue safely responding to scattered customer outages To ensure public safety, CenterPoint continues to urge everyone to stay off roads to help prevent potential accidents and outages To support other states and communities, CenterPoint has released mutual aid workers to their home states Houston – Jan. 21, 2025 – With Winter Storm Enzo’s exit from CenterPoint Energy’s Texas service area, […]
CenterPoint Storm Update: 99.9 percent of customers have power as historic Winter Storm Enzo continues to impact Greater Houston area
As of 11 a.m. on Tuesday, CenterPoint had restored approximately 18,700 customers since the winter storm impacts began; 2,800 customers currently out of power 3,000 CenterPoint personnel and mutual assistance workers are responding to scattered outages across the Greater Houston area Company urges customers and the public to continue following warnings to stay off roads, ensure their own safety and help prevent power outages Houston – Jan. 20, 2025 – As of 11 a.m., CenterPoint Energy […]
Winter Storm Enzo poised to impact Gulf Coast and Greater Houston area; CenterPoint Energy crews and additional mutual aid workers mobilized and ready to respond
National Weather Service Winter Storm Warning to take effect Monday 6 at p.m. as forecasts converge on freezing precipitation and accumulation across Greater Houston Three staging sites set-up and approximately 1,200 additional mutual aid workers set to arrive today ahead of the storm to support potential restoration efforts Company activating emergency operations center this afternoon ahead of the projected arrival of precipitation CenterPoint urges customers to take public plea seriously to stay home Tuesday and […]