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Beauty Empire Super Center now open at former Foodtown on Jones

Officials confirmed Beauty Empire Super Center opened its third location at the former Food Town location on Jan. 31.

What they offer: With several locations open across the Houston area, Beauty Empire Super Center offers several beauty products from NYX makeup products to hair care.

The beauty supply store also offers hair extensions, braids, lashes and hair growth products.

 
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PREVIEW: Cy-Fair ISD set to review internal policy changes at March 2 meeting

Cy-Fair ISD trustees are set to vote on changes to the district’s internal guidelines regarding student and employee complaint filings and standards of conduct. These changes align with recent rulings the board has made regarding student conduct and parental rights. 
 
The details: According to meeting agenda documents, CFISD board members will discuss multiple changes to its conduct policies at the upcoming March 2 regular board meeting. Some of the proposed updates involve policies regarding:

  • Public complaints 
  • Student rights and responsibilities
  • Employee complaints and grievances 
  • Student welfare and reporting abuse

What else?: A proposed edit to the student welfare policy includes a new standard regarding student pronouns and sexual orientations. The updated rule states that “the definitions of abuse and neglect specifically exclude the refusal of a person responsible for a child’s care, custody, or welfare to affirm the child’s expressed sexual orientation or perception of the child’s gender.”

As previously reported by Community Impact, CFISD adopted new external policies last year in January regarding pronouns and sexual orientation, with a new parental rights policy.

 

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Check out these new restaurants and bars opening across the Houston area.

Comfort Foodies to open 2nd location in Missouri City

Comfort Foodies, a Latin Caribbean soul food fusion restaurant, is set to open a second location at 8731 Hwy. 6, Missouri City, this spring, officials confirmed.

The restaurant features Dominican and Southern menu items, including oxtails, pork chops, catfish wings and empanadas, according to its website.

See more details.

 

🥯 River Oaks to receive first Texas storefront of popular New York bagel shop
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🥢 iWok now offering machine-cooked Asian cuisine in Katy
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🍤 Benny's Bar and Bistreaux opens along FM 1488 in Magnolia
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🍽️ New intimate 26-seat restaurant experience from Doke Concepts to open in the Heights this March
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La Argentina Gelato, award-winning gelato shop, serves Cy-Fair

Growing up, La Argentina Gelato owner Florencia Mansilla said like her father, she always had an entrepreneurial mindset. Founded in Katy in 2016, La Argentina Gelato expanded to the Cy-Fair area in February 2025.

At La Argentina Gelato, customers can enjoy scratch-made gelato with recipes created by Mansilla herself. During a process that can take hours, Mansilla creates 20 signature flavors of gelato daily while swapping out a few seasonally.

Read here.

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Texas to correct 4,200 errors in state-developed Bluebonnet textbooks

The Texas Education Agency must correct roughly 4,200 errors in its elementary and middle school curriculum, the State Board of Education ruled Feb. 25.

The overview: The changes to the Bluebonnet Learning materials, a set of state-developed textbooks, include replacing improperly licensed images, fixing formatting errors or typos and correcting factual errors.

The SBOE approved the Bluebonnet materials in November 2024. The curriculum, which became available to districts ahead of the 2025-26 school year, has been criticized for frequent biblical references in the reading materials, although proponents said the materials would help improve student outcomes.

Zooming in: Before approving the changes, several board members expressed concerns about the “unprecedented” number of issues with the state-developed textbooks, noting that Texas taxpayers will cover the costs of reprinting the updated materials, as they were developed with state funds.

“I’m very concerned that, as a board, we have set a precedent for sloppy publishing. Many times, even if it's a typo, it could become an error of fact,” SBOE member Pam Little, R-Fairview, said.

 

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