The 2024-2025 school year is off to a fantastic start. Our goal is to make this an exciting and productive year full of academic- fun and learning, as well as a year of building friendships, partnerships, and social- emotional skills.

Dear Bulldog Families, We have had a great start to the 2024-2025 school year! As we begin this fresh chapter, I want to emphasize the importance of teamwork in achieving our goals. I am committed to building a culture of collaboration, empathy, and mutual support.

MUSEUM MUSINGS Pleasant Grove Baptist Church stands between Iola and North Zulch. It dates back to 1881, when D.R.

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS A 26-page report from the Texas Comptroller concludes that the state needs 306,000 additional homes, a shortage that has sent housing costs soaring, The Texas Tribune reported. Homebuilding hasn’t kept up with the booming economy as millions of new residents have moved here over the past decade, leaving more than half of the state’s homeowners and renters struggling to find and keep affordable housing.

Volume 1 of local history states that Freewill Baptist Church of North Zulch was organized in August of 1907 on George McGill’s front porch. The 7 original members included George and Emma McGill, Tom and Sarah Keefer, Plummer and Lizzie Taylor, and Brother Tom Search.

The dog-day heat wave has sent power demands to new records, the Austin American- Statesman reported. With much of the state enduring an excessive heat warning, power demand peaked at 85,559 megawatts last week, breaking a record set last August.

As Texans endure the dog days of summer, experts say deaths related to heat in Texas and nationwide are likely undercounted, the Texas Standard reported. With climate change causing warmer days and nights, last year was the hottest on record in Texas.

The current Museum exhibit on local churches is shaping up well. Today’s Musings somewhat fits.

Texas public schools received more than $19 billion in pandemic relief funds over the last four years, but that pipeline of cash will largely end on Sept. 30, The Texas Tribune reported.