Officials with the Health Center of Southeast Texas celebrated the grand opening of their new clinic in Roman Forest on Oct. 10. Located at 2503 Roman Forest Blvd., the clinic began seeing patients for appointments on Oct. 5.

What they offer: The healthcare provider offers several services at the new location, including:

• Primary care

• Women's health

• Pediatric care

• Behavioral health

• Pharmacy and laboratory services

The clinic accepts Medicare, Medicaid and most major insurance plans. For patients who do not have insurance, the provider offers a sliding fee scale program that is based on household income.

Some context: The provider also operates locations in Cleveland, Shepherd, Liberty, Livingston and Dayton.

Several events are scheduled in New Caney and Porter for the weekend of Oct. 23-25 and the following week. All listed events offer free admission:

• The Montgomery County Market Days will host a pickle-themed shopping event featuring food and contests on Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bull Sallas Park in New Caney.

• Children can decorate a glow-in-the-dark bucket for Halloween at McCoy's Building Supply in New Caney on Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Tiffany’s Pop-up Markets will host the Bonkers Halloween Bash on Oct. 25 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Porter, featuring local vendors, food, a bounce house and a playground.

• The R.B. Tullis Library in New Caney will host a Halloween story time and costume parade for children ages 0-5 on Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. featuring books, crafts, songs and snacks.

On the day that Montgomery County utility provider Quadvest completed its $540 million sale earlier this month, CEO Simon Sequeira gave every employee a gift and a personalized letter that promised to change their lives.

In the letters, Sequeira wrote something nice about each employee and what he remembered about the work they had done for the company. Included too was an estimate of each employee's share of $40 million in bonuses divided up among 115 of them that Sequeira's family would distribute as part of the sale.

"The people who gave some of the best years of their lives to us, we just thought it was the right thing to do," Sequeira said in an interview, "to reward them for all their hard work."

What’s changing? Quadvest now has more than 100,000 customers, Sequeira said and that could double in a few years with Montgomery County's expected growth. The Magnolia-based utility provider has stressed that customers shouldn’t expect any hiccups in the changing of the guard.

Texas environmental regulators have continued processing certain data center permits in the month since Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a permitting pause, according to a new report from FracTracker, an oil and gas watchdog group.

The details: Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality last month to "halt all permits sought by data centers" while the Electric Reliability Council of Texas audits proposed projects.

Yet as of Oct. 16, the TCEQ had moved at least 35 data center-related applications forward, per an analysis of TCEQ records.

Zooming in: The agency has issued public notices for three data center projects since Abbott ordered the pause Sept. 21. It also approved stormwater coverage, certified air emissions limits or assigned engineers to other projects.

"No permits have been approved," Andrew Mahaleris, the governor's press secretary, said Oct. 20. "In line with the governor’s directive, TCEQ has not taken and will not take any proactive actions related to the approval of data center permits."

"These actions do not signal an agency trying to pause," FracTracker said in the report.