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Piper Homel, from left, Robby Wall and Lauren McFadden work in the kitchen at the Natural Living Cafe in League City. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

League City shop and co-op caters to the clean-eating crowd

In a quaint yellow house surrounded by majestic oak trees in League City, Lisa Piper and her staff of employees and volunteers are busy waiting on customers who arrive to pick up fresh produce, buy herbs, or grab a smoothie or lunch. [Read more…]

‘Complexity and craftsmanship’

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Doug McLean pulls up rotted floor covering to reveal beautiful tile work at the W.L. Moody Bank building on The Strand in Galveston. The massive building is undergoing major renovations. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Brick by brick, crews rescue an architectural masterpiece

As a child growing up in Galveston, Keith Bassett remembers going to Col. Bubbie’s Strand Surplus Senter, which occupied the entire 2200 block of The Strand in the island’s downtown. [Read more…]

‘Good for another century’

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Project manager H.P. Dodge operates a lift as restoration work continues on the old First National Bank building on The Strand in Galveston. The building is now home to the Galveston Arts Center. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Once on the brink of ruin, nationally important building undergoes restoration

After 14 years, two hurricanes and $3 million, the First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand in Galveston’s downtown, is restored down to the flourishes beneath the cornice. Its structure and future are secure. [Read more…]

The art of the matter

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Galveston Arts Center teaching artist Cristal Aldrete helps with a student’s clay project in a classroom at the center. Photo by Stuart Villanueva

Center serves as source of creativity as it seeks supporters

Long the hub of visual arts on the island, the Galveston Arts Center is re-emerging as a source of creativity, inspiration, artistic energy and community pride after a decade of significant trials that included structural failures in its downtown building, two hurricanes and the grind of maintaining a steady flow of operating funds. [Read more…]

‘I wanna catch the big fish’

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Omar Mancillas, far right, looks up after catching a bull shark while onlookers take photos and admire the catch at Galveston Fishing Pier in Galveston. Once Mancillas realized what he caught, most of the anglers on the pier helped him reel it in. After pictures and admiration, Mancillas released the shark back into the Gulf. Photo by Kelsey Walling

Island piers attract amateur and obsessed anglers

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A beloved Blazer Bay

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Eric Theriot rides through a Bayou Vista channel to reach West Galveston Bay. Theriot and his wife, Tonia, frequently take their Blazer Bay boat out to fish and enjoy the water. Photo by Kelsey Walling

Bayou Vista couple shares love of water on ultimate fishing boat

Eric and Tonia Theriot’s new Blazer Bay boat is more than just a fishing boat.

It’s  where the two spend much of their time, coasting and exploring the waters of Galveston County since moving to the fishing community of Bayou Vista, they said. [Read more…]