Convenience Big Store: Fort Bend proposed park bonds: Here's what's in the plan for your city

Financial relief: Qualifying families may get $30 off monthly internet bills, $100 off laptop.

The federal government's Affordable Connectivity Program is offering families who meet income requirements a $30 monthly discount on their internet bills, along with a one-time $100 discount applicable to laptops and tablets.

Families with children enrolled in free or reduced school breakfasts and lunches, along with those whose schools are designated as Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) campuses, where all students enjoy free meals, are eligible for the offered discounts.

Likewise, families with at least one household member participating in federal assistance programs like SNAP, SSI, or WIC, are also eligible.

Find out more here: AffordableConnectivity.gov

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Juhi Varma, Fort Bend reporter

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Need to Know

Students ride school buses to Russell and Cindie Faldyn Elementary on the first day of school for Katy ISD, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in Katy.

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Katy mom still has questions after 5-year-old dropped at wrong bus stop, found by stranger.

The 5-year old was found wandering the streets by a stranger who picked the child up and drove him back to the school. He was reunited with his parents more than an hour later.

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Growing Fort Bend

In addition to the landmark $712.6 million mobility bond proposition, Fort Bend County voters will also weigh in on a parks package worth $153 million in the upcoming November elections.

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Old Fort Bend County Courthouse, Richmond, TX on Tuesday, October 1, 2019.

Photo by: Craig Moseley, Staff Photographer

Fort Bend County proposes a landmark $712 million mobility bond.

Fort Bend voters in November will decide on the largest bond proposal in county history, at a total of $712.6 million.

Openings and Closings

Tiffany Callicott, owner of Tiffany's Tiny Flower Truck, will be opening a brick-and-mortar store in September 2023. Callicott opened her business during COVID, selling her design-it-yourself blooms at farmer's markets and delivering subscription-based custom bouquets in her cheerfully painted flower truck.

Shout Out

Congratulations to Hightower High School alum and former Willowridge High School registrar assistant Pearl Juarez for fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a Fort Bend ISD police officer. Juarez was sworn into the district's police department on Monday.