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Happy New Year from Baytown!

That beautiful flare glowing from atop ExxonMobil Chemical’s Olefins plant in Baytown last Thursday night wasn’t just a pretty New Year’s display for the city. It came with a couple of bonuses: two...

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Deer Park: What’s in that Water?

The water in Deer Park has been looking a little cloudy lately: As Aimee Carroll pours a glass of water at her home in Deer Park, she cringes at the thought of drinking it. She says the nine people...

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Openings and Closings: Lost Outpost of the Space Cowboys

A quick roundup: Closing in January: NASA hangout the Outpost Tavern, an army barracks building turned spacesuit-and-bikini-festooned party site, down NASA Rd. 1 from the Johnson Space Center at 18113...

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Picking Up Cash for the Chemical Spew

How did Harris County government swing half a million dollars in cash from Shell Chemical? The company is turning over that amount as part of a settlement covering 5 unreported chemical releases...

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What Will Become of Deer Park Prairie?

The Bayou Land Conservancy is really pushing to raise $4 million in the next week or so in order to outbid a homebuilder on a 50-acre patch of prairie in Deer Park. The video above is part of what the...

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Chunk of Change Delays Deer Park Prairie Deadline

Apparently, the owner of that would-be-sold-and-developed 53-acre patch of prairie in Deer Park has been persuaded to give the Bayou Land Conservancy 3 more weeks to come up with the rest of the money...

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Preserving the Deer Park Prairie with Sardonic Teevee Power

The mad dash to raise the $4 million to buy up 53 acres of the Deer Park Prairie and save it from development got an early $2 million boost from a minor Houston celebrity, long-time environmental...

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Preservationists Purchase Deer Park Prairie

No thanks to Stephen Colbert, but enough money has rolled in from more than 1,000 donations — including $2 million from Terry Hershey — for the Bayou Land Conservancy to buy up those 53 acres of...

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Deer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: Clean Escape

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A Crisp, Seventies Irving Phillips Custom Contemporary in Deer Park, Air...

Crisp cutouts and angled volumes designed into a 1974 custom contemporary in Deer Park give light, air, and views multi-level pathways throughout the tilt-topped property. Architect Irving Phillips,...

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Giant Refinery Smoke Plume after Lightning Strike Nothing To Worry About,...

Yesterday’s entry in Houston’s recurring game of what’s-that-mysterious-black-cloud was brought to you by LyondellBasell’s Pasadena refinery at 12000 Lawndale St. (the same one that caught fire back...

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Deer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Capsule

1308 E. Norwood St. [HAR] … Read More

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Deer Park City Hall Moves Next Door Tomorrow

Deer Park’s government officials are taking a long weekend in order to move out of their existing 2-story, brick city hall building on E. San Augustine St. and into the new, 5,000-sq.-ft. bigger one...

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Deer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: Shut Out

2410 Pickerton Dr. [HAR] … Read More

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Deer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: Dead End

2214 Canterbury Ct. [HAR] … Read More

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