Magnolia West High School was forced to close its campus from Tuesday to Thursday due to a malfunction with its water wells.

Sorting out the details: Denise Meyers, MISD assistant superintendent of Communications, said that the campus HVAC systems rely on the district water wells to operate. The malfunction affected both running water and air conditioning on campus.

District crews and water delivery trucks arrived Tuesday to conduct repairs and fill the water tanks to capacity. The repairs were deemed complete on Wednesday, and MISD officially reopened the campus on Thursday.

Tomball business Copan Coffee Roasters, which opened in 2002, is launching a mobile coffee trailer called the Copan Coffee Lab.

Respecting the craft: The trailer will serve matcha, tea, lattes and imported coffee, alongside halal and seed-oil-free baked goods from Houston-area bakery Honey & Salt. Additionally, 5% of sales from the trailer will be donated to the global nonprofit Re:wild to support wildlife conservation.

Key events for the mobile trailer include:

• A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. at 716 S. Persimmon St. in Tomball.

• The public grand opening on Oct. 10.

In an Oct. 1 news release, officials with the Texas Department of Transportation announced the southbound lanes of Hwy. 249 will be completely closed from Oct. 2-5 at Compaq Center Drive for bridge repairs.

What we know: The closure will allow TxDOT crews to repair the Compaq Center Drive bridge over Hwy. 249, which has several damaged bridge beams.

Southbound traffic on Hwy. 249 will be detoured off the highway at the Chasewood Park/Cypresswood Drive exit. Drivers will be able to get back on the highway at the next entrance ramp beyond Compaq Center Drive.

The closure will start at 9 p.m. on Oct. 2 and will be in effect until 5 a.m. Oct. 5, per the news release.

Texas school districts using the state-developed Bluebonnet Learning curriculum saw slightly better year-over-year achievement last school year than other districts, according to Texas Education Agency data released Sept. 30.

What's happening: During the 2025-26 school year, 619 of Texas' roughly 1,200 public school districts opted in to implement at least one of the three Bluebonnet curriculum programs—elementary math, secondary math and elementary language arts.

On this spring's State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam, districts using the state-developed math materials saw student improvement that was 0.6 percentage points higher than students in other districts, while districts that implemented the reading materials performed 0.2 percentage points higher on the STAAR than other schools.

What they're saying: The TEA said the gains in student achievement an "encouraging sign of early progress."

Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, a statewide educator union, disagreed, calling the results "rather paltry."

"It may take a few more years to determine if this is a valid trend or simply an anomaly," Capo said in a statement.