An Olympic gold medalist has opened a gymnastics and ninja center, the Dominique Dawes Academy, in Jersey Village.

The specifics: Open seven days a week, Dominique Dawes Academy offers a variety of programs geared towards varying ages and experience levels, including:

• Recreational gymnastics

• Junior Gymnastics

• Ninja

• Tumbling

• Competitive gymnastics

Three-time Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Dominique Dawes said these academies are intended to be a positive experience where kids can learn about work ethic and commitment.

"It's really about an amazing community that we're building and fostering with coaches that care," Dawes said.

Quote of note: "It's not about training the next Simone Biles or Dominique Dawes, or some elite level programming sacrificing your childhood," Dawes said. "It's about making sure that every young kid that walks through the doors recognizes how unique, and special they are and how they matter."

On June 4, Lone Star College System's board of trustees will consider calling an election for three trustee seats in November.

The big picture: LSCS trustees for Districts 3, 4 and 9 are slated to be up for election Nov. 3, according to June 4 meeting documents for the college system. Trustee terms last six years for LSCS.

According to the LSCS website, the trustees scheduled to be up for election in November are:

• Board Secretery Iesheia Wilson for District 3
• Art Murillo for District 4
• Jim Cain for District 9

• District 3 covers parts of south-central Cy-Fair and northwest portions of central Houston
• District 4 includes portions of north-central Houston
• District 9 covers pieces of Tomball, north Klein and Cypress

Clear Lake residents and boaters have long been concerned about the hundreds of abandoned boats littering Clear Lake and surrounding bays, but while dozens of boats remain in Clear Lake, efforts to remove them have been slow. 

Recently, the Texas Land Commissioner and the office of Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia partnered to remove a 24-foot sailboat near Clear Lake Park and pledged to remove more boats. 

Why it matters: The Texas General Land Office, or GLO, and the commissioner’s office held the derelict-vessel removal event at the park May 28, according to a GLO news release. 

Stay tuned: Two additional boats are in the process of being removed and destroyed, according to the release.

Texas’ sweeping immigration enforcement law can take effect for now, a federal appeals court ruled May 29.

The background: Senate Bill 4 gives Texas officials the unprecedented authority to arrest and deport migrants suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. State lawmakers passed the measure in late 2023, and it has largely been tied up in court since.

The latest: In an unpublished order May 29, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed SB 4 to take effect as the case continues, lifting a lower court order that had blocked portions of the law. 

What they're saying: In a joint statement, a trio of civil rights groups decried the May 29 decision as “disappointing and out of step with the Constitution,” saying that they would continue to fight the law in court.

Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the order as a “major border security victory.” State agencies have not detailed their plans to arrest, detain or deport migrants under SB 4.