Few U.S. athletes look past their Olympic trials and its tough “first three past the post” policy. One slip-up and even the world’s best will be following the Olympics on television. The 2008 U.S. Olympic trials begin Friday and for world champion 400m hurdler Kerron Clement it’s showtime. “Everything is just great,” he says. “I am just ready to compete. I am very anxious to run actually.”
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Brian Sterling is a native Texan, born and raised in Pasadena. He is a 1981 graduate of Deer Park High School. In 1984, he earned an Associate of Arts degree from San Jacinto College in Social Science with additional coursework in engineering, drafting and the visual arts. Brian is married to the love of his life, Norma and together they have four children.
In February 1986, Brian began his career with the City of La Porte as a drafter in the Community Development Department. Currently Brian serves the City as GIS Manager in the Planning Department. Throughout his City career, Brian has received several awards including Employee of the Quarter and Employee of the Year in 1989, Employee of the Quarter and Employee of the Year in 2002, and an award from the Texas City Managers Association for Innovation in Municipal Government for his assistance to the La Porte Police Department in crime scene investigation
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Judges from the Harris County Drug Treatment STAR (Success Through Addiction Recovery) program got "down and dirty" on Saturday. They traded their robes and gavels for work clothes, gloves and "grabbers" and joined 100 volunteers, in a two-hour successful clean-up on and along the banks of Buffalo Bayou. Approximately 25 cubic yards of trash, enough to fill a typical commercial construction dumpster, was collected. This clean-up effort was part of the Clean & Green Port of Houston Program. [more]

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, bringing news about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. [more]

By unanimous vote, the Harris County Commissioners Court and the Houston City Council today jointly re-appointed Jim Edmonds as chairman of the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority. County commissioners and city council members gathered at the Harris County Administration Building for the re-appointment vote. [more]

The San Jacinto Texas Historic District unveiled its second piece of original artwork on May 26th, commemorating events related to the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836.The mural, a full-color representation of Texas history measuring 30-feet by 90-feet is displayed on a chemical storage tank at the Vopak North America facility in Deer Park at 2759 Battleground Road. [more]