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BY RACHEL LELAND
BY ASIA ARMOUR
FM 646 to see widening, safety improvement projects begin in 2025
• Free (admission) • 100 W. Walker St., League City • www.leaguecitylibrary.org
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D&D Character Creation Workshop Helen Hall Library hosts this workshop for Dungeons & Dragons players over 18 years old who are looking to make an adventurer for a new campaign or who need ideas for nonplayable characters. The event will help guide attendees through the essentials of building a D&D character from scratch. • Jan. 26, 2-3:30 p.m. • Free (admission) • 100 W. Walker St., League City • www.leaguecitytx.gov Astronomy in the Park League City invites residents to observe the stars at Rustic Oaks Park. Led by Daniel Roy, attendees are encouraged to bring binoculars to look at the night sky. • Feb. 1, 7-9:30 p.m. • Free (admission) • 5101 Orange Blossom Court, League City • www.leaguecitytx.gov/4537/Astronomy-in-the-Park Black History Month Celebrate Black History Month at Helen Hall Library staff with stories, activities and games. • Feb. 1, 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Mosaic Art Workshop League City area residents will learn how to craft their own Turkish mosaic lamps at this artistic workshop hosted by Pedalisa Art at the Holiday Inn Express Houston Space Center. Throughout the event, attendees will be provided Turkish tea, Turkish delight and homemade baklava while learning this 500-year-old technique. • Feb. 8, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2-4:30 p.m. • $69 • 900 Rogers Court, Webster • www.pedalisaart.com Clear Creek Cleanup Volunteers are needed on foot or by boat to clean up around Clear Lake. Meeting at the FM 270 boat ramp under the bridge on the League City side, boat captains will take volunteers and drop them off at selected locations to collect trash in bags provided by the Clear Creek Environmental Foundation. • Feb. 15, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. • Free (admission) • League City Boat Ramp and Park, Egret Bay Blvd., League City • Facebook: Clear Creek Environmental Foundation
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project includes striping, base repairs and a 3-inch asphalt overlay, as well as making improvements to intersections and upgrading traffic signals. Construction is expected to start two months after the project is contracted out, Perez said. Perez said the upgrades planned for both projects are due in part to the growth the northern part of Galveston County has experienced in recent years. Stay tuned “As we continue to expand the entire I-45 corridor in Galveston County, we want to also focus on the smaller state highways and [farm to market] roads,” Perez said. These projects and all other closures will be posted at www.houstontranstar.org. Throughout the project, Perez said the plan is to keep the lane capacity that is currently available now at each road
In the new year, the Texas Department of Transportation will begin a few upgrades on a major corridor in the Bay Area, officials said. The gist In April, TxDOT will begin a $115 million project to widen FM 646 from east of Edmund Way to Hwy. 146 from a two-lane roadway to a four-lane road- way, and construct a bridge project to bypass the railroad tracks, TxDOT Public Information Officer Danny Perez said in a Jan. 6 email. This project is slated to wrap up in 2029, Perez said. Also of note TxDOT has also put out a bid for a project to make safety improvements along a nearly 4-mile stretch of FM 646 east of Hwy. 146, Perez said. That project is expected to cost $10.5 million. The
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Music in the Historic District Residents can come to the historic League Park for a night of live music from around a dozen artists of all genres. The League City Folk Association and the League City Historic Society bring musician Sam Miller to the spotlight for this show.
the same during construction, which he said can be done with phasing the work. Some closures may happen, he said, but often those will be for just a day or so, or a weekend. “We want to remind the community to always be mindful when traveling through work zones,” Perez said. “This includes slowing down, putting the phones down and always expecting the unexpected, as work zones can bring many moving pieces such as work crews and equipment.”
• Jan. 31, 7-10 p.m. • Free (admission) • 512 Second St., League City • Facebook: League City Folk Association
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