Mike Sallés

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A New Indoor Playground for Ages 4 to 12 Just Opened in Spring

Issue #024 | An air-conditioned playground for the four-to-twelve set, six indoor padel courts on West Lane, Casa Medina's last month in Shenandoah.

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A Spring Chef Took His Own Knife to New York for a Shot at Bobby Flay

Issue #023 | A thirty-two-ingredient mole on Food Network Tuesday, public water in Tamina after 155 years, the Express stop at the VA on the move Monday.

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Eight Cents on Every Dollar Comes Off August 7 Through 9

Issue #022 | Eight cents back on the dollar August 7 through 9, sixty seasons and a city day for a Conroe theater, a Patriot marker five DAR chapters funded together.

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A 25-Ton Steel Sculpture Now Stands Where The Woodlands Began

Issue #021 | Twenty-five tons of steel where the first concrete went down, Magnolia at the top of Houston's growth list, Engine 105 out on Pagehurst for a duck rescue.

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Eight Trolley Shelters Are Being Turned Into Public Art

Issue #020 | Eight trolley stops turned over to artists, Western swing next to Puccini in Conroe, a hotel of the year at City Place.

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A Car Club Has Given $100,000 to 70 Montgomery County Charities

Issue #019 | $100,000 from a car club's Sunday mornings, five new names on Canopy's council at ten years, Gymboree back on Kuykendahl.

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Bark Back at the Storm Drain. If It Barks Again, It's a Frog

Issue #018 | The bark test for a storm drain, half a million dollars for summer power bills, an 8,000-square-foot senior center off Pruitt Road.

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Seven Builders, a 55-Plus Village, and a Town Green on FM 1488

Issue #017 | Seven builders and a 55-plus village on 156 acres north of FM 1488, a $300 million courthouse question with ten days left on the clock, four Conroe ISD meetings open to anyone with an opinion.

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Uni Sushi Is Coming Back, and Grogan's Mill Is Almost Full

Issue #016 | Uni Sushi back at Grogan's Mill in 2027, eighty vendors still setting up in that same lot every Saturday, two Township lifeguards on their way to the state finals.

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Fifty Acres in Creekside Park Are Becoming a Public Golf Complex

Issue #015 | Twelve million dollars and fifty acres for public golf in Creekside Park, butterfly wings carrying strangers' messages into a cancer center, a John Cooper student on a Johns Hopkins list.

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Emma's Kind Kloset and Team Abilities Team Up for a Free Back-to-School Shopping Day

Issue #014 | A free shopping day welcoming The Woodlands' special needs community, a tuition-free charter school opening at Kuykendahl and FM 2920, and the only attorney running for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3.

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A Spring Podcaster Is Turning Titanic Artifacts Into an Investigation

Issue #013 | Twelve episodes tracing Titanic relics object by object, a College Park graduate servicing F-35s at NAS Lemoore, Tractor Supply's first storefront on Kuykendahl Road.

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A Luncheon, a Celebrity Chef, and 90,000 Reasons to Show Up

Issue #012 | 90,000 monthly visits to Montgomery County Food Bank, a Tijuana taco dream come true in Spring, a fine craft show's new name at the Waterway Marriott.

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The Woodlands Waives Fees for Storm-Damaged Property Owners

Issue #011 | A new fee waiver for storm-damaged property owners, a 10-year cap on public art and memorials, a full-service animal hospital opening in Conroe.

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Five Courts, One New Front Door: Padel Arrives on FM 1488

Five new courts at a rebuilt FM 1488 sports hub, a Tomball bowler's 50th consecutive trip to bowling's biggest stage, the last week to log summer reading at Montgomery County libraries.

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Four Homes, Five Days, One New Beginning in Magnolia

Issue #009 | Four homes in five days at Habitat's new Marble Creek, a Citizen of the Year for Township Chairman Brad Bailey, a Texas Country Music Award nod for The Woodlands' own Tiona Campbell.

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30 Years, One Bank, One Conroe Root: Mayrant Takes the Top Job at Woodforest

Issue #008 | July 18, 2026 | Thirty years and one Conroe branch behind Woodforest's new CEO, a fourth Waygood Coffee landing on College Park Drive, the 8th annual Home & Outdoor Living Show returning to Conroe.

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TWD | Issue #007

Media coverage on four continents for a City Place art installation, a permanent new home for National Youth Theater in Conroe, climbing retail rents across The Woodlands area.

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TWD | Issue #006

Six years without a place of their own, four Township board seats up for filing, a year of free Bundtlets at a new Conroe bakery.

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TWD | Issue #005

A two-hour drive to help send off a fellow nurse, a fifty-year-old Fourth of July parade tradition, canoes and s'mores brought inside a children's hospital.

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TWD | Issue #004

A silent alarm and a baby kept safe at a Woodlands fire station, a half century of balancing the books in Spring, $100,000 in grants aimed at a stretch of Hwy. 249 in Tomball.

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TWD | Issue #003

300 seats and a genetics-driven cattle program from a chef returning to Hughes Landing, five new faces on the county's Food Bank board, a Dallas firm now designing Montgomery County's next courthouse.

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TWD | Issue #002

The youngest golfer ever to qualify for a national junior championship, Sting and Santana headlining a stacked Pavilion season, a mom's coffee-and-kids boutique doubling down in downtown Conroe.

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TWD | Issue #001

Twenty years of teaching kids to hold a stage, a four-candidate slate vying for Township board, a new corporate tenant settling into Hughes Landing.

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Mike Sallés

A New Indoor Playground for Ages 4 to 12 Just Opened in Spring

A Spring Chef Took His Own Knife to New York for a Shot at Bobby Flay

Eight Cents on Every Dollar Comes Off August 7 Through 9

A 25-Ton Steel Sculpture Now Stands Where The Woodlands Began

Eight Trolley Shelters Are Being Turned Into Public Art

A Car Club Has Given $100,000 to 70 Montgomery County Charities

Bark Back at the Storm Drain. If It Barks Again, It's a Frog

Seven Builders, a 55-Plus Village, and a Town Green on FM 1488

Uni Sushi Is Coming Back, and Grogan's Mill Is Almost Full

Fifty Acres in Creekside Park Are Becoming a Public Golf Complex

Emma's Kind Kloset and Team Abilities Team Up for a Free Back-to-School Shopping Day

A Spring Podcaster Is Turning Titanic Artifacts Into an Investigation

A Luncheon, a Celebrity Chef, and 90,000 Reasons to Show Up

The Woodlands Waives Fees for Storm-Damaged Property Owners

Five Courts, One New Front Door: Padel Arrives on FM 1488

Four Homes, Five Days, One New Beginning in Magnolia

30 Years, One Bank, One Conroe Root: Mayrant Takes the Top Job at Woodforest

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