Candidates appear at ATPE forum Written by Beverly Horner Published: 20 April 2021
The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) held a forum April 12 for candidates for the Humble ISD school board. Topics ranged from how to better prepare students for next steps, transgender sporting participation, volunteering, Title 1 schools, diversity and technology.
Each candidate was given one minute to answer the posed questions to the best of their ability. The talent pool was vast, as the candidates each came with differing strengths, ideas for change and backgrounds to benefit the students of the district.
Several questions had the candidates unified in response, such as diversity and inclusion, transgender sporting participation and pandemic handling.
Campaign reports detail candidate donations Written by Cynthia Calvert Published: 20 April 2021
The first round of required campaign reports have been filed by candidates for the May 1 Humble ISD school board election. The reports are for the initial period ending March 31.
State law dictates reports must be filed 30 days before the election and again eight days before the vote. All the reports may be found on the Humble ISD website under the “school board” tab.
Several running have amassed significant sums while most of the 19 running have received much less or no money at all.
Chris Parker, candidate for the open seat Pos. 3, collected the highest amount of donations, $12,910.60. Robert Sitton, the incumbent running for Pos. 1, garnered the second highest with $11,952.04. Ken Kirchhofer, running for the open seat of Pos. 4, reported the third highest total with $6,000 in donations while Martina Lemond Dixon, an incumbent running for Pos. 5, repo
Humble ISD school board election set for May 1 Written by David Tatchin Published: 22 February 2021
The candidates running for four Humble ISD board seats have been finalized, with Election Day set to take place on May 1. Early voting will begin Monday, April 19 and continue until April 27.
School board members are volunteers, who serve without pay, and are elected for four-year terms. Four of the board’s seven seats are up for reelection this year.
The deadline to submit applications closed at 5 p.m. Feb. 12. There are a total of 19 candidates running for the four positions. They are:
Position No. 1: Edgar Clayton, William A. Epperson, Robert A. Sitton, Rebecca Tribo
Kingwood wants a dog park to call its own Written by Tom Broad Published: 08 February 2021
No doubt about it. Kingwood residents love their dogs, and the universal question is, “Why doesn’t Kingwood have a dog park?”
That question was posted on the neighborhood social website Nextdoor recently by a new Kingwood resident and dog lover. The response was, well, overwhelming. Post after post, like-minded Kingwood dog lovers were enthusiastic. Kingwood needs a dog park.
Kingwood came close to securing a dog park in 2017 when community activist Robert Rehak, and Dee Price, president of Kingwood Service Association (KSA), formed a committee to investigate a dog park in Kingwood.
Humble Rodeo kicks off scaled-down event amid coronavirus pandemic
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“It’s a live, full blown rodeo,” said rodeo vice president Robert Sitton.
Full-blown in terms of the events scaled back in terms of the crowd this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Humble Rodeo was able to proceed in part because of a smaller venue. Compared to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo which had to cancel this year’s event Humble had less to manage.
“What we’ve had to do is tier our ticket sales,” Sitton said. “So we had to really manage our online ticket sales, Cavender’s ticket stores.”