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Daylight saving time set to begin on November 5th

When I first moved to the U.S. in the September of 2008, daylight saving time was a delightful revelation.

The addition of a whole extra hour in November was a like a godsend for a university student juggling multiple journalism courses.

Every November, I promise myself that I'll use this as a chance to start waking up earlier. Here's hoping it becomes a lasting habit this year.

Daylight saving time aims to make better use of daylight and conserve energy by aligning waking hours more closely with natural light, allowing people to make the most of longer evenings.

The practice has been called into question in recent years. Do you think it should continue?

Juhi Varma, Fort Bend reporter

juhi.varma@houstonchronicle.com

Need to Know

Bitcoin tokens are symbolic since the cryptocurrency itself really exists only digitally. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images/TNS)

Photo by: Dan Kitwood, Staff / TNS

Sugar Land man pleads guilty in $500K cryptocurrency scam.

A Sugar Land man who last year was indicted and accused of laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cryptocurrency scheme pleaded guilty last week to aggravated identity theft.

Education

A car drives past a proposed location of a new elementary school as part of Fort Bend ISD Construction off of Harlem Road near Harvest Garden Boulevard on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023 in Richmond. Fort Bend ISD has planned a new school on the site of the former Harlem Prison Farm, activists are worried there is a cemetery on the property.

Photo by: Elizabeth Conley, Staff Photographer

Fort Bend ISD plans to build a school over a former prison farm. Critics say it's 'embarrassing.'

Fort Bend ISD is planning to build a new elementary school in an area which may have held a prison cemetery for leased convicts, sparking outrage among social justice advocates in the county.

Openings and Closings

Are you looking for a place to recycle scrap metal? C&D Scrap Metal's new location at 15222 McKaskle road, Sugar Land is now open. Find out more here.

Shout Out

The OutRun Hunger 5K Family Walk and Run, hosted in Harvest Green, Richmond, raised $34,000 to help Fort Bend County families in need. The race has raised approximately $131,500 since its inception in 2018.

One last thing ...

Songbird migration in autumn is just as spectacular as in spring, but we're hardly aware of it, writes my colleague Gary Clark. Houston will play host to several migratory songbirds over the next few months. Some will stay with us for the winter, while others will only stop to rest and feed before flying across the Gulf of Mexico to winter residences in Latin America.