“The pandemic took away so much of our athletic enjoyment and at the very top of the things that covid stole from us were the third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders leaving the starting line for Get Fit Jog.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“The points champion for the recent Pasadena ISD seventh grade girls district track and field championship didn’t come from the first-place team.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Deer Park’s stampede through the 2022-23 District 22-6A girls basketball schedule was reflected in the coaches’ recent all-district selections.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A sophomore pitcher from a visiting team did something Thursday afternoon that so many senior pitchers have failed to do at Deer Park High School’s Jim Kethan Field.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Was that really Sam Rayburn’s varsity baseball team smacking 15 base hits and scoring enough runs to finish with double digits?”
Pasadena Citizen
Pasadena Citizen
“We now know who the favorite will be to win the eighth-grade boys district championship in track and field next March when the intermediate schools reconvene.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Highlighted by Chance Girod becoming the first-ever San Jacinto Intermediate School athlete to capture four gold medals at a district meet, the Tigers claimed the eighth-grade district boys championship with a narrow 150-138 win over Thompson at Allan Brown Stadium Wednesday night.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Uh oh, it looks like Channelview’s varsity softball team may be tired of nabbing the district’s third seed for the softball state playoffs.”
Pasadena Citizen
“After a powerful tornado damaged the Pasadena Girls Softball Association’s complex mid-afternoon on Jan. 24, the thought of staging normal opening-day festivities six weeks later seemed like a long shot.”
Pasadena Citizen
“During Lent are there ways we might increase our focus on faith? There always seems to be some tension between the law and faith. Legalism is both comforting and binding, yet we seem to gravitate to it regularly. In our efforts to maintain our relationship with God, it would be much easier if it were simply about rules.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The city of Pasadena garnered $43.02 million in sales tax revenue for 2022, which was almost $1.5 million, or 3.6 percent, more that the city received the year before, according to the latest report from the Texas State Comptroller’s Office.”
Pasadena Citizen
“OK, all is finally right with the sports world in Pasadena. The pandemic took this last missing piece away, but not anymore.
Saturday night before a packed house at PAL Gym, Super Swish, the 18th edition, returned better than ever.”
Pasadena Citizen
“We like to think of Jesus with excitement and expectation. Jesus loved little children, ministered to outcasts and lepers, healed the sick and comforted those in pain and grief. For Christians, Jesus is both God and our hero. The reality of Jesus’ life, suffering and death is not so comforting.”
Pasadena Citizen
“How in the heck did Westbury Christian finish in second place in Pasadena First Baptist Christian Academy’s district?”
Pasadena Citizen
“Pasadena First Baptist Christian Academy’s varsity boys basketball team wrapped its arms around the underdog role when it traveled to Marble Falls Tuesday night, forced to face the district champions from First Baptist of Marble Falls on the Flames’ home floor.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Once more, the Pasadena Citizen sports department has assembled what we believe is the highest grade of experts who have been asked to do almost the impossible.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Forget Super Sunday, it was Super Saturday for the two high school basketball teams struggling to reach the Class 6A state playoffs.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Members of Asbury United Methodist Church believe they were blessed that the Pasadena tornado that struck the area on Jan. 24 caused no damage to their building.”
Pasadena Citizen
“South Houston’s varsity boys basketball team completed the season sweep of Deer Park Wednesday night, all but capturing the District 22-6A crown in the process with a 45-41 win at Watkins Gym.”
Pasadena Citizen
“With each biannual “Manrique Brothers Bowl” that unfolds at Veterans Memorial Stadium, the stakes seem to get a bit higher and that’s a really good thing for the Pasadena ISD soccer scene.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The Trojans, in clinching a coveted Class 6A state playoff berth, led from start to finish in crushing Dobie 75-41 in a District 22-6A boys basketball game at the South Houston gym Saturday afternoon.”
Pasadena Citizen
“San Jacinto Intermediate’s 8A girls basketball team was so convincing, so effective, so business-like in their 8A postseason championship game that head coach Jordan Wilson paused her coaching duties just long enough to get a little boy a Band-aid.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A wily political consultant strikes gold by teaming a reluctant candidate with an eager office temp in Paul Slade Smith’s satire, “The Outsider,” which plays Feb. 3-12 at Pasadena Little Theatre.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Deer Park High School Choir’s performance of its annual gospel show on Sunday will benefit victims of the tornado that devastated parts of Pasadena and Deer Park this week.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Deer Park gave its tornado-weary basketball fans a reprieve from all of the destruction with a 64-55 District 22-6A victory over Pasadena at Watkins Gym Thursday night.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The filing period is underway for candidates in the city of Pasadena’s May 6 election, with all eight City Council seats on the ballot. Pasadena council members are limited to four consecutive two-year terms. Mayor Jeff Wagner will continue serving a second four-year term that ends in 2025.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The Mavs snapped district-leading South Houston’s winning streak at five, following a hard-fought and physical 52-45 win in the Mavs Gym Friday night.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A Pasadena-area actress who didn’t find her soulmate on the TV reality/dating show “Ready to Love” portrays a mysterious woman out to cause “a little mischief” in a drama at The Ensemble Theatre in Houston.”
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Pastor Womack Senior Pastor at Hope Community UMC Pasadena TX
“Our identity is one of the most important facets of our lives. We live in a time when identity theft seems to be a common occurrence. So how do we really know who we are and what it means to be so identified? Christians have a way of establishing their identity. It is through our baptism that we are identified.”
“Sales taxes generated in the first month of the holiday shopping season varied greatly in the municipalities on the south side of the Houston Ship Channel in November.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“They say it’s not how you start that matters, it’s how you finish. Well, South Houston High School’s boys basketball team made sure that the start not only mattered but so did the finish.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The Lady Deer, Dobie, Pasadena Memorial and Channelview have the inside track to extending their respective seasons and possible state playoff assignments the week of Valentine’s Day.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The way Pasadena began Tuesday night’s District 22-6A boys basketball game, it looked like the Eagles were trying to tiptoe around their opponent, let sleeping dogs lie in other words.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Fans really didn’t know which was better. Was it the spring-like temperatures or the soccer action during this past weekend’s Pearland/Pasadena Cup? They just know it was a pleasant start to the 2023 high school soccer season as 24 teams set out to see where they stood after three days of action at five sites, including Veterans Memorial Stadium.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The last time Pasadena High School’s varsity boys basketball team defeated Memorial on the road, there was a coach far, far away in Palestine, likely coaching a game.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A former college gym in Pasadena where numerous basketball conference titles were won and that helped propel the careers of eventual NBA players Sam Cassell and Steve Francis is being demolished this week.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/pasadena/sports/article/hc010623AndersGym-17698043.php
Pasadena Citizen
“A hint as to what was about to occur took place during Deer Park’s pre-game warm up. In their shoot around, the Lady Deer were draining five consecutive shots more than once. Was it a fluke because no one was guarding them or was it really a taste of things to come.”
Pasadena Citizen
“With highs in the 70s and a mere 40 percent chance of rain on Saturday, the new season kicks off in spectacular fashion when 24 teams will be competing. As always, Veterans Memorial Stadium will help host the soccer extravaganza by hosting 10 games, four on Thursday, three on Friday and three more on Saturday.”
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“The new year is here, meaning we’re about to see which District 22-6A girls roster devoured the most black-eyed peas this weekend.
It’s taken us forever just to get three games deep into the district schedule, but starting Tuesday night, it’ll be time to strap on the seatbelts.”
Pasadena Citizen
“It was a maddening day for Pasadena Memorial varsity girls basketball coach Jennifer Azul. And it wasn’t because she was unable to return one of her Christmas gifts at Kohl’s.”
Pasadena Citizen
“That incident capped a muted holiday season campaign for the organization in which its primary fundraising drive of the year, the Red Kettle campaign, fell $175,000 short of a $1.1 million goal. ”
Pasadena Citizen
“Deer Park High School’s most famous pitcher since Andy Pettitte will be looking for a bounce-back baseball campaign amongst the palm trees and sunny skies of Florida in 2023.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Members of the Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy six-man football team were recently honored for doing their part in handing the program its finest season in school history.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“Not just play it, but got better at it as a wealth of knowledgeable coaches spent two days with the youngsters during the Holiday Baseball Camp at the Deer Park High School baseball facilities on the North campus Tuesday and Wednesday.”
Pasadena Citizen
“While many families attempt to create their own tamale-making traditions at home, the long process is not easy.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/pasadena/article/hc122022TamaleSeason-17667267.php
Pasadena Citizen
“With 23 players garnering all-district honors, including three among the specialty awards, the District 22-6A football coaches richly rewarded unbeaten and district champion Channelview in a lucrative way.”
Pasadena Citizen
“On the eve of an anticipated freeze for the Houston area, those in the plumbing industry such as John Eccles are preparing for what may come, with memories still fresh of the demands they faced during 2021’s Winter Storm Uri.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“At the same time that a similar ceremony was taking place Saturday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C. Crown Hill Cemetery in Pasadena was holding its own solemn event to lay wreaths at the graves of military veterans.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“Meeting the 2022 Miss America at a recent event helped give Meaghan Co of Deer Park the confidence that she, too, might win the grandaddy of all titles in the pageant world.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Pasadena Memorial High School’s varsity girls basketball team is guaranteed to be in good shape going into the Christmas break, but they’d prefer to be in excellent shape.”
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/pasadena/sports/article/hc121722LadyMavs-17660264.php
Pasadena Citizen
“Let’s face it, a Pasadena ISD girls basketball team knocking down six 3-point goals in a single half rarely happens.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Over the last five months, Pasadena has averaged a 7.11 percent improvement in year-on-year totals.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“In a San Jacinto Invitational seventh grade A Silver bracket where just six points spelled the difference in four contests, the championship game was as tight as they come.”
Pasadena Citizen
“There was a reason Pasadena Memorial’s boys basketball team finished Tuesday night’s game with three players scoring in double figures. Yeah, perhaps they took advantage of a leaky defense, but the primary reason was to water down the production of one Kempner High School player.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Pasadena High School’s program, in reaching the Class 6A playoffs for a second straight season, matched Dobie with two of its players garnering honors. Freshman Caryme Molina was picked as the Newcomer of the Year recipient and Angelina Cruz secured Defensive Player of the Year recognition.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Amid pleasant early December temperatures, crowds watched the procession travel Fairmont Parkway’s eastbound lanes, make a turn and finish with a westbound trek to the starting point on Mickey Gilley Boulevard. Sonic Drive-In’s bays were packed with people instead of cars. At the entrance to Castle Dental and JCPenney, parade-watchers stood six rows deep.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The name of Lanham Briley will be etched in the memory banks of Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy’s varsity football players for quite awhile.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The way new Pasadena High School boys basketball coach Chris Cole saw it, his club didn’t almost let an 11-point fourth-period lead slip away, he instead saw his club gain valuable experience in winning a nailbiter.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“The Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy varsity football team competed in their first fourth quarter of the season this past Friday night and the results were spectacular.”
Pasadena Citizen
“When South Houston drained 50 percent of their shot attempts to start their boys basketball game against non-district foe Cinco Ranch Wednesday afternoon, it had promise written all over it.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Despite two cliffhangers, Pasadena Memorial’s varsity boys basketball team is making plans for a rare trip to a McDonald’s Texas Invitational championship game on Saturday”
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Pasadena Citizen
A decade ago, the McDonald’s Texas Invitational looked very much like it does today when the 19th annual event begins another three-day basketball blizzard.
“The South Houston, Pasadena Memorial and Deer Park boys basketball teams earned berths to Friday and Saturday’s McDonald’s Texas Invitational Division II Gold Bracket after each enjoyed 2-0 ledgers during Thursday’s 80-game pool play competition at 10 sites.”
Pasadena Citizen
“American Legion Post 521 members Bill Schiemann and Hubert Winters were solemn during a ceremony Saturday at Pasadena’s historic Crown Cemetery.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The McDonald’s Texas Invitational has been around for almost two decades and it’s still crazy to think that in one day 80 high school basketball games will be played within easy driving distance of Phillips Field House, the tournament’s hub.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Anyone who was on the campus of Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy Friday night knows what an accomplishment it was to get their state playoff football game in.”
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Pasadena Citizen
“Hiding behind football playoffs and the excitement of the Houston Astros winning the world championship, the athletics departments at Pasadena and Deer Park are reminding residents that they are currently conducting youth basketball registration for children ages 7-12.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The gift that Deer Park, South Houston and Dobie’s varsity football teams worked so hard to earn this fall arrives Friday night.”
Pasadena Citizen
“It was purely icing on the cake to the regular season and Deer Park’s football team got to savor most of it.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Restaurants and high school culinary teams came ready with scrumptious secret weapons as they vied to win favor with hungry visitors and judges at Pasadena Chamber of Commerce’s 33rd annual Taste of the Town on Nov. 4.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Upstart Pasadena and its improved volleyball program keeps probing for way to make a statement win against a quality opponent. They tickled the imagination this season with one-set wins against Dobie and three total against Pasadena Memorial.”
Pasadena Citizen
“When Deer Park Junior Seminole football coaches teach the fundamentals of catching a football to young receivers, Jaxon Payton, 10, pays no attention to the instructions. ”
Pasadena Citizen
“Thanks to the Deer Park High School volleyball team, the spikes far outnumbered the spirits in the La Porte High School fieldhouse Monday.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Pasadena led the way with $3.51 million showing in the sales tax revenue in August. That figure was 12.4 percent above the $3.12 million the city took in during the same month in 2021. That year-on-year increase of greater than 10 percent was the first time Pasadena had logged a double-digit monthly climb since February.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Thanks to the Deer Park High School volleyball team, the spikes far outnumbered the spirits in the La Porte High School fieldhouse Monday.”
Pasadena Citizen
“South Houston shocked the Pasadena ISD football neighborhood Friday night by handing Dobie its first PISD loss in five years as the Trojans snapped the Longhorns’ school record 20-game winning streak with a convincing 28-0 win at Veterans Memorial Stadium.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Combine the fact that a Sam Rayburn High School football team hasn’t won its game the week before the Pasadena contest in 20 years and an angry Deer Park team that likely lost its chance at the district title last week and what do you get?”
“The solo round of University Interscholastic League competition is designed to give younger thespians a taste of what it’s like to participate in high school UIL one-act contests”
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Pasadena Citizen
“A near perfect score by Thompson Intermediate’s eighth grade boys team and a sweep by the Bondy girls highlighted the opening day to Pasadena ISD’s intermediate school cross country season on the Dobie High School grounds Wednesday.”
For the second consecutive season, Pasadena High School’s varsity volleyball team won’t be shutting things down now that the District 22-6A campaign is finished.
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Pasadena Citizen
“In the open field across from Hope Community United Methodist Church, 2838 Lily in Pasadena, the church’s annual pumpkin patch brought some color to the field again this year, but something was amiss.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Once again, the Region III cross country field was just too rich for the Deer Park and Pasadena ISD camps Monday morning.”
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“A change of classification scenery has done Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy’s football program a world of good.”
Pasadena Citizen
“What has 18 lead changes and lasts well over two hours?”
“Why the Pasadena Memorial versus Pasadena volleyball match, that’s what. And it gave fans a preview of the Class 6A state playoffs when the Lady Mavs prevailed 3-2 in the Mavs Gym Tuesday night, winning 25-22, 23-25, 25-22, 20-25, 15-7.”
Pasadena Citizen
“For neither Deer Park or Channelview, there were no surprises Friday night leading up to their district championship showdown next weekend.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A nine-game winning streak by South Houston against rival Sam Rayburn acted as a life preserver for the Trojans and their football state playoff hopes Thursday night.”
Pasadena Citizen
“You might consider eating light during the day on Nov. 3 if you plan to drop by later at the annual Taste of the Town at the Pasadena Convention Center.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Six Deer Park student filmmakers hope the horror movie they made last year, “When Night Falls,” will win more honors when they attend the 2022 All American High School Film Festival Oct. 22-23 in New York City.”
Pasadena Citizen
“It wasn’t a surprise that the Deer Park boys and Dobie girls repeated as District 22-6A cross country champions, it was the folks who were pursuing them the closest that were the surprise.”
Pasadena Citizen
“It is not too soon to start thinking about holidays, particularly if you are planning to have an entry in the Pasadena Holiday Lighted Parade, which is gaining steam again two years after being canceled because of the pandemic and one year after participation was capped at 75 entries.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Pasadena Memorial’s varsity volleyball team didn’t get the memo that there was supposed to be a match that was scheduled to last over two hours just like on Sept. 16.”
Pasadena Citizen
“The city of Pasadena’s animal shelter is at capacity and seeking people to adopt or foster pets or to volunteer.
“Our shelter is extremely full right now,” said Ginger Bishop, the city’s adoption event coordinator.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Morning dew on the grass and a bunch of cross country runners stretched across a starting line. That describes this past weekend’s Trojan Tune Up but it will also likely describe this Thursday morning’s all-important District 22-6A meet in Deer Park.”
Pasadena Citizen
“Dobie’s varsity football program keeps finding ways to show Pasadena Memorial they’re still king of the Beltway.”
Pasadena Citizen
“A who’s who of Bay Area thespians comprise the cast of Ken Ludwig’s popular adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery “Murder on the Orient Express,” playing Oct. 14-23 at Pasadena Little Theatre.”
Pasadena Citizen
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BREAKING: Daniel Chacon, the prime suspect in Maira Gutierrez’s kidnapping and death, has been charged with capital murder, according to the Pasadena Police Department.
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“The Trojans are good, good at teasing their fans with rallies and coming within a touchdown of their opponents, but no closer.”
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