Day: January 20, 2024

Secure those empty trash cans! Another gusty day is in store Friday as a cold front sends another dose of cooler air into South Central Texas.

The superintendent of a Texas school district has drawn new criticism over suspending a Black student over his locs hairstyle after defending the district in a full-page newspaper ad in the Houston Chronicle. Greg Poole, the top official at Barbers Hill ISD since 2006, says the district’s Education Foundation took “the unprecedented step of buying advertising to ensure an unaltered response” after the Houston Chronicle’s Editorial Board published an opinion piece on December 21.

The editorial was published a few weeks after Barbers Hill High School student Darryl George was placed in in-school suspension in early December, the same day he completed a 30-day stint at the school district’s alternative school. He was initially suspended in September over a dress code violation related to his hair, the same month Texas’ CROWN Act went into effect.

According to the Houston Chronicle, George initially was suspended for wearing his hair in dreadlocks pinned up in a barrel roll. The Barbers Hill ISD student handbook says male students are prohibited from having hair below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” and hair cannot reach “below the top of a T-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a T-shirt collar, below the…

Nikola Jokic, playing two days after the death of Dejan Milojevic, his former coach in Serbia, had 34 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists as Denver handed Boston its first home loss of the season in a game that had all the lookings of an NBA Finals clash.

The festival provides scholarships for local students, raises money for area non-profits, and supports arts and crafts businesses, farmers and growers.