Freeport News

Who, upon seeing a police vehicle, doesn't feel the automatic reflex to slow down even before checking the speedometer? That instinctive action alone is proof law enforcement presence is a deterrent.

The city plans to splash some life into the Main Street area. City Council approved a measure at a meeting Monday allowing City Manager Jeff Pynes and his staff to spend up to $85,000 on a water feature in hopes of attracting people and businesses to Freeport's downtown sector.

Dealing with diabetes no picnic, but support event is No matter how much love and care they get from family and friends, children sometimes can feel alone when it comes to dealing with an illness day after day.

A group of coastal towns are leaving the rakes at home and embracing the smelly stuff floating ashore with the Gulf waves.

Artists from Clute, Freeport and Lake Jackson are featured in the current Brazosport Art League exhibit, 'Pinceladas ... del Alma' The show, sponsored by BASF and featuring paintings in watercolor, acrylic and oil, remains on display through July 5 at The Center for the Arts and Sciences in Clute.

Dow Chemicals announced on Monday plans to join Algenol Biofuels in a project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel.

A new mix of members and two changed votes resulted in Brazosport Water Authority reversing course and approving a rate increase.

Though he could have retired as Freeport's property manager two decades ago, 86-year-old Nat Hickey has kept the job - which he believes also has helped keep his mind sharp.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Agriculture Department found a new species of pest in a shipment of pineapples from Guatemala.

With the current heat wave expected to drive temperatures above the 100-degree mark this week, the city of Freeport has designated several public places as cooling locations for residents looking to get in out of the heat.

A car buff got the surprise of a lifetime Saturday when an old, beaten pickup he always dreamed of remodeling into a head-turning hot rod was unveiled - overhauled - at a local car show.

'If I were Jeff Pynes, my first official act as Freeport city manager would be to march in and cuss out the mayor,' one person joked.

Unfinished projects could push back the opening of the Freeport marina one month, but city officials say it is important not to rush toward the long-awaited ribbon-cutting. Crews have not yet installed the sprinkler system inside the dry stack storage building nor have water lines been connected to the structure, Freeport Economic Development Corp.

A woman died minutes after being struck by a car early Wednesday in what police believe was a drug deal gone bad.

City Council ended the search for its top administrator Tuesday when Jeff Pynes signed a contract to become city manager, but a hefty severance package specified in the agreement has one councilman worried the port city is now in over its head.

City officials say they support the push to create a transit system linking four of the area's cities, but want to tweak a couple of the buses' proposed stopping points.

A Freeport man police say was part of an illegal check-cashing ring was arrested Friday on accusations he and at least two others took $24,200 from a local credit union.

Surviving members of West Columbia's Class of 1934 say their bonds have grown stronger over time, thanks in part to annual get-togethers. 'We were pretty close,' Mary Kay Cornett said of the Class of 1934.

Freeport police will be under the control of the department's longest-tenured police officer for the next month while officials start the search for the city's new top cop.

Howdy! Well, hurricane season officially started Monday, and we already have had a tropical depression in the Atlantic - but it did not develop into anything, thank goodness.