Today (March 15) marks the beginning of the last official week of winter (though climatologically we are already well into to spring here in southeast Texas). It also is the infamous "Ides of March" from Shakespeare's epic about Julius Caesar....a day met with apprehension in ancient times. Two years ago on this day, the mercury soared to 87 degrees in Galveston, giving the city its warmest March reading ever. By the way, high temperature in Dickinson/League City was 88 on that same day.
While jogging Feb. 28, on a Galveston beach, I noticed a Coke bottle resting at the edge of the previous night's high tide mark. The wine cork sealed perfectly, protecting the note inside as the bottle bobbed along in the Gulf of Mexico.
Early on Tuesday night, election officials, candidates and poll workers were pretty much in agreement that voter turnout in the county's Democratic and Republican primaries was on the light side.
La Marque Police Chief Randall Aragon has begun a community policing initiative, sending officers into residents' homes asking what their top priorities are for fighting crime in their neighborhoods.
Galveston city council members are meeting in a workshop today to discuss releasing $25 million it obligated to the Galveston Housing Authority to begin a controversial rebuilding of public housing on the island.
