Romer Elementary School and Barksdale Middle School are two new facilities under construction within Northwest ISD and are scheduled to receive their first students in the 2026-27 school year.

The school district is required to change the attendance boundaries for its schools each time a new facility is opened, which can impact where students will attend classes in the upcoming school year.

The gist: Northwest ISD approved new attendance boundaries Jan. 12 in preparation of a new elementary school and middle school opening for the 2026-27 school year.

Boundary changes can mitigate overcrowding in some schools as the district continues to grow, NISD interim Chief of Facilities Sarah Stewart said during a presentation Jan. 12.

“We want to maintain our teacher-student ratio, minimize future boundary changes, improve efficiencies of our schools and consider the opening of new campuses,” she said.

Some context: Two district elementary schools and three middle schools are either overcapacity during the 2025-26 school year or were expected to reach overcapacity in the next three years, according to the district.

The May 2 general election to select Roanoke City Council members for Ward 1, Ward 2 and Ward 3 was canceled at the Feb. 24 meeting since only the incumbent candidates for each seat filed to run.

A special election to fill the vacancies for the unexpired terms for Ward 1 and Ward 2 will continue as scheduled on May 2.

What happened? Incumbent Holly Gray was declared the council member for Ward 1, incumbent Brian Darby will continue as council member of Ward 2 and incumbent David Brundage will remain council member of Ward 3, per city documents.

All three council members will serve a three-year term, according to city documents.

More details: Former Roanoke City Council members Bryan Moyers and Hogan Page stepped down from City Council earlier this year, prompting a special election to fill their seats.

The Keller location of Can Am Pizza is having a grand opening in mid-March.

The details: A media representative for Can Am Pizza said the Keller location will have a buy one, get one free pizza deal for 12-inch pizzas March 14.

While its grand opening is that Saturday, Can Am Pizza will start serving customers the day before on March 13.

The Keller Can Am Pizza is the second location to open in Texas. The company’s first Texas location opened in Frisco in 2024.

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Over 2.3 million Democrats and nearly 2.2 million Republicans voted in the March 3 election, according to unofficial election results from the secretary of state. Totaling nearly 4.5 million voters, this is “the highest voter turnout for a primary in Texas history,” the secretary of state’s office said.

By the numbers: Nearly one-fourth of Texas’ 18.7 million registered voters participated in the primaries, shattering turnout rates from recent years. Less than one-fifth of registered voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential and 2022 midterm primaries, state election records show.

Texas’ previous primary turnout record was set in 2008, when 4.2 million voters cast ballots in high-profile presidential primaries.

Zooming in: Election data shows the most people cast votes in the high-profile U.S. Senate races that topped the ticket, with the total numbers of votes steadily decreasing down the ballot in both primaries.

There is “some certainty” that voter enthusiasm will extend to the November midterm election, Republican data analyst Ross Hunt told Community Impact during early voting.