HTX-BAY: Impact 9/30/2025

Looking for some new dining, drink or dessert options? Check out some of the businesses in the Bay Area that have either opened recently, or are coming soon.

The overview: Some restaurants include: 

Now open
Jeff's Bagel Run
The Florida-based bagel chain serves coffee and an assortment of bagels, including asiago, blueberry, cinnamon sugar, garlic, poppy seed and sesame, among other bagel flavors, as well as spreads, including banana pudding, cake batter, strawberry and vegetable, among other spread flavors.

• Opened Sept. 3
• 923 Bay Area Blvd., Houston

• Opening in January
• 415 Royal Tern Way, Webster

Ohana Ice Cream and Snacks will open in League City on Oct. 4, according to a social media post from the business.

The details: The snack shop will officially open on Oct. 4, but will have a soft opening on Oct. 3, according to the post.

A menu was not available as of the publish date.

📍 1823 E. Main St., League City

A number of celebrations for National Night Out, an annual community campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie, will be held Oct. 7 in the Greater Houston area.

Conroe
City of Conroe police are participating in National Night Out with free food and music in the community.

• Oct. 7, 5-8 p.m.
• Free
• JCPenney parking lot, 3165 I-45 N., Conroe

• Oct. 7, 5-8 p.m.
• Free
• Katy City Park, 5850 Franz Road, Katy

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has reduced the number of jail inmates housed outside of the county since June, a Sept. 18 quarterly jail data report shows. However, outsourcing inmates at other facilities was still a top expense in the fiscal year 2025-26 county general fund budget, approved Sept. 24.

What’s changed: HCSO oversees four different facilities in downtown Houston, with two jail facilities outsourced in Louisiana and Mississippi. As of Sept. 9, the Harris County jail was outsourcing about 16%—or 1,388 inmates—of 8,793 total inmates to facilities outside the county or state.

Cost to the county: Outsourcing inmates to jails outside of Harris County’s overcrowded jails is the single most expensive budgeted item taxpayers pay for. The county set aside $48 million in its FY 2025-26 budget for inmate outsourcing, about an 8% drop from the $52 million budgeted in FY 2024-25.