Conroe - Montgomery Edition | December 2024

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Cajun Catfish Festival to no longer be downtown Friends of Conroe’s Conroe Cajun Catfish Festi- val will have to look for a new venue after Conroe City Council decided Nov. 14 the festival will no longer take place in downtown. How we got here Friends of Conroe has hosted the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival in downtown Conroe for 35 years, per a Nov. 22 news release posted via Facebook. In a presentation during the council’s Nov. 13 meeting, Assistant City Administrator Nancy Mikeska said fire and security concerns are the main reasons the festival should not be hosted downtown anymore. One more thing Friends of Conroe are actively looking for a new site to host the festival, per the news release.

Westside Recreation Center closing Dec. 31 During its Nov. 14 meeting, Conroe City Council agreed to close the Westside Rec- reation Center on or before Dec. 31, citing building concerns and the center’s location within a floodway. Assistant City Administrator Nancy Mikeska said while the city hopes to keep the recreation center in operation until Dec. 31, if equipment continues to malfunction, the facility will close before that date. Diving in deeper The city is working on conducting a study to decide the future use of the property; coun- cil member Howard Wood and Mikeska said listing the property for sale is not on the table. Options for using the land could include a disc golf course, an archery course and birding and nature trails, Mikeska said.

“My concern is the brick and mortar restaurants and businesses downtown are losing money. My second major concern is, this is historic downtown Conroe,

and if we can’t get a re truck in, that’s a major safety concern for me.”

MARSHA PORTER, COUNCIL MEMBER

“What I have heard personally from many of our vendors is that their revenue was severely impeded this

time. So that’s a concern that came to me just right after the festival.” DUKE COON, CONROE MAYOR

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