Magnolia City Council will meet April 20 to consider censuring Magnolia Mayor Matthew “Doc” Dantzer following his arrest on April 14.

What you need to know: The announcement of the special meeting came on the same day as the mayor’s arrest, at Magnolia City Council’s previously scheduled regular meeting. Dantzer was arrested April 14 and booked into the Montgomery County Jail on a felony charge of assault on a pregnant person, per a Montgomery County jail representative. His arrest follows a Texas Rangers investigation tied to allegations that surfaced late 2025.

Some context: As previously reported by Community Impact, former Magnolia Human Resources Director Kristy Powell sued the city and Dantzer, alleging retaliation after reporting what the lawsuit describes as an October 2025 incident involving City Secretary Christian Gable during a Texas Municipal League conference in Fort Worth.
 

Smoothie and juice bar JuiceLand is now serving the Vintage park area according to business officials.

The details: JuiceLand provides a variety of beverages and smoothie bowls made with fruits, vegetables and inclusions such as yerba mate and guayusa. Some of the business's signature smoothies include:

• Honey beary: Made with almond milk, bananas, blueberries, peanut butter and Texas wildflower honey

• Rehydrator: Includes watermelon, raspberry, mango, peach, beet, coconut oil, mint, lime and sea salt

• Double choco coco nuts: Made with banana, almond milk, whey protein, cacao, cacao nibs, hemp protein, coconut flakes and whipped coconut

The new shop will offer JuiceLand's full smoothie and juice menu, according to the business website.

The Magnolia Fire Department is hosting a community town hall April 16 to inform residents and answer questions about Proposition A, a sales tax measure that will appear on the May 2 ballot.

Officials said the measure, if passed, would help fund new stations and equipment, staffing and other department needs amid growth in the area, as previously reported by Community Impact.

What you need to know: According to an April 1 Facebook post, at the community town hall, residents will have the opportunity to:

• Get information about the department’s funding
• Learn about the growth in the area that officials said is impacting service demand
• Ask questions and get more information about Proposition A

Montgomery County commissioners are set to begin work on the county’s fiscal year 2026-27 budget, with a proposed calendar that lays out months of department meetings, public presentations, budget workshops and a final adoption date Sept. 8. 

What you need to know: The budget calendar launched the FY 2026-27 process April 9, with a formal kick-off scheduled for the next Commissioners Court meeting April 23, Budget Officer Amanda Carter said.

According to the county’s budget schedule, the first phase—budget development—runs from April 9 to July 15 and includes training, budget packet distribution and meetings between the budget office, department heads and elected officials about their funding needs.

County departments would receive budget training and budget packets April 27-May 1, per the calendar. After that, the budget office is scheduled to meet with individual departments and elected officials from May 7-June 12. 

The big picture: Per Carter's presentation, the process is broken into three stages: budget development, preliminary budget and workshops, and adoption with compensation updates.

Harris County commissioners are set to take up more than 400 agenda items April 16, including discussion about federally funded flood mitigation and recovery projects, affordable housing developments and the first annual status report of the county’s Climate Justice Plan.

At a glance: Commissioners are scheduled to hear a presentation on the implementation of the Harris County Climate Justice Plan, a multiyear climate resilience framework the court adopted April 10, 2025, per agenda documents. Staff from the Office of County Administration’s Sustainability Division will deliver the first report to Commissioners Court reflecting on a year of progress.

Also of note: The Harris County Flood Control District is expected to provide project-level updates to commissioners regarding local flood mitigation and recovery efforts that received funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. Staff from HCFCD will share a schedule detailing construction start dates, estimated completion dates, cost escalations and other updates for each project.

Stay tuned: Harris County Commissioners Court meetings are held at 9 a.m. at 1001 Preston St., Houston. 

The Artemis 2 astronauts safely returned to Earth on April 10, splashing down off the coast of San Diego at 7:07 CDT, according to NASA’s website.

The successful landing concluded the nearly 10-day mission that marked NASA’s first crewed journey to the moon in over 50 years.

In case you missed it: The mission sent NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a lunar flyby, making them the first humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 to go beyond low-Earth orbit, as previously reported by Community Impact.

The crew included Friendswood residents Wiseman and Hansen, along with pilot Glover, who is a parent within Clear Creek ISD.

Texas retailers can resume selling smokable hemp products after a Travis County judge temporarily blocked some of the state’s sweeping new regulations on the hemp industry.

The background: On March 31, the state health department enacted rules changing how THC content is measured in consumable hemp, which industry experts said effectively outlawed most smokable hemp products.

The Texas Hemp Business Council, a federal hemp industry group, and several local hemp companies sued the state April 8, arguing that the state health department does not have the authority to reclassify legal THC levels. State officials have defended the rules, saying they are in line with a September executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott, who at the time called for stricter oversight of the multibillion-dollar hemp industry.

The latest: Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble sided with the hemp industry in an April 10 ruling, directing the state not to enforce the new THC testing requirement and a restriction on the transportation of hemp products between states. An additional hearing is scheduled for April 23.