Election day is March 3, and before heading to the polls to cast their ballots, here’s what Conroe- and Montgomery-area voters should know.

At the polls: When going to vote on election day, Montgomery County voters must vote at their designated polling place. According to the Texas Secretary of State’s office, voters must bring one of the following when going to vote:

• Texas driver's license
• Texas election identification certificate
• Texas personal identification card
• Texas handgun license
• U.S. military identification card with a photo
• U.S. citizenship certificate with a photo
• U.S. passport

Texas Crawfish Co. officials told Community Impact the crawfish company is opening a brick-and-mortar in Conroe in mid-March.

The details: The locally owned crawfish company is owned by Colton and Marina Goff and was founded in 2019 as Big Cab’s Crawfish with a food truck located in Spring. The crawfish company rebranded to Texas Crawfish Co. in 2024, officials said.

On the menu: Texas Crawfish Co. plans to offer boiled crawfish, shrimp, snow crab legs, corn, potatoes, sausage and mushrooms.

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Conroe City Council members Feb. 26 weighed whether to allow a trap-neuter-return program for feral cats, an item supporters said could reduce shelter intake and euthanasia rates.

What happened: The agenda item proposed amending the city’s animal ordinance to formally allow a TNR program, which would permit approved caregivers and organizations to humanely trap, vaccinate, sterilize and return free-roaming cats to where they were found.

Conroe Police Chief Jon Buckholtz told council the proposal comes as the Conroe Animal Shelter has worked to improve outcomes and recently achieved a no-kill status. He said managing the city’s growing feral cat population is one of the next challenges.

Veterinarian Jennifer Money told council that current ordinances prevent volunteers and the shelter from returning sterilized cats within city limits, forcing animal control officers to relocate them elsewhere.

What they’re saying: Council members asked questions about enforcement, public safety and how a managed colony system would operate.

An estimated 8.4% of registered voters in Montgomery County voted in the second week of early voting, Feb. 23-27, according to Montgomery County Election Central.

Breaking it down: Numbers from the polls show that from Feb. 23-27, 39,500 total votes were cast in the Democratic and Republican primaries. The most votes cast on a single day—including both in-person and mail voting—were Feb. 27, with over 8,000 votes cast in the Republican primary and over 3,000 in the Democratic primary.

Primary election day in Texas is March 3. With dozens of state, regional and local races on the ballot, voters in the Republican and Democratic primaries will determine their parties’ nominees for the November midterm election.

At the polls: Polling places across Texas will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. March 3, according to the secretary of state.

On election day, voters in the following counties in Community Impact’s coverage areas can vote at any polling location within their county of residence: Bastrop, Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Collin, Comal, Fort Bend, Galveston, Guadalupe, Harris, Hays, Tarrant and Travis. Registered voters in other counties are required to visit a polling place specific to their voting precinct.

Voters are required to bring photo identification to the polls.

On the ballot: Voters will choose their political parties’ nominees for the U.S. Senate, seven state offices, 10 state judicial seats, 38 congressional seats, nearly all state legislative seats and over half of the State Board of Education. Candidates who win their primaries will advance to the November ballot.

Dozens of Texans shared their feedback Feb. 25 on the current phase of a lengthy revision of the state’s social studies curriculum standards. Parents, educators and students urged the State Board of Education to slow the revision process down and give those drafting the new curriculum more time to work.

The overview: The state is currently overhauling the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for social studies, which are the standards dictating what public school students should learn at each grade level. The board is expected to adopt the new standards this summer before they are rolled out to classrooms in 2030.

“We have one opportunity to get this right for an entire generation of students,” said Meghan Dougherty, an Austin-area social studies specialist involved in the revision process.

Zooming in: Several educators involved in drafting the new curriculum plan said current proposals included "too much content" with a heavy emphasis on Texas history, while some appointed content advisers and SBOE members argued schools should teach lessons focused on "American exceptionalism [and] Texan exceptionalism."