Issue 34
Published September 8, 2026 · Bilingual edition
Friday is the one night a year the town splits in half, and it arrives with the two records exactly backwards from the last time these two met. Then two things that have nothing to do with football: why nobody can tell you when 1488 will be finished, and a free afternoon on Halloween that asks for groceries instead of a ticket.
Sports · The Magnolia Bowl
Last Year Magnolia Won It 45-12. This Friday They Arrive 0-2 and the Mustangs Are Unbeaten.
The Bulldogs lost both openers, one of them a shutout and one by three on the road. Magnolia West has won both by a combined 46 points. They meet Friday at Mustang Stadium.
Read the story →Roads · Civic Watch
The FM 1488 Work Is Not One Project. It Is Two, and Only One of Them Is Nearly Done.
West of town: 98 percent, finishing this year. Through town: 64 percent, scheduled for the third quarter of 2027. The two together cost $83.63 million.
Read the story →Community · Calendar
Free on Halloween, and the Cover Charge Is a Box of Cereal
October 31, 11 to 4, at the Magnolia Event Center. Admission costs nothing. They are collecting cereal and jelly at the door for the Society of Samaritans' school-break snack program.
Read the story →Coming next
The livestock show runs the 16th through the 20th and the auction is that Saturday evening. We would rather publish the sale results with real numbers than a guess, so that waits for the committee to post them. If your kid sold, or if you bought, the newsroom would like to hear how it went.