Public schools have existed on Galveston Island since 1884. In those 138 years, many notable individuals have walked the halls of Galveston schools, and soon those who’ve distinctly distinguished themselves as role models within their profession or in their communities at large will be memor…

Leslie Cappiello, Ph.D., is an educator and lives in Galveston.

Since I’ve mostly pared myself down to T-shirts and blue jeans, I’ve been thinking about how this sloppiness happened and where it all came from. (Warning: This column is mostly for women because I’m not much of an authority on men’s fashions.)

The world froze as a small group of people huddled around the back of the car leaning on each other for support. You couldn’t tell where one ended and the other began, and you got the feeling that each wouldn’t be able to support him/herself alone.

Can Joe Biden do the job?

I served on Galveston City Council from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2016.

The last time I wrote about television commercials, I was commending the ones that were really entertaining. Really nice.

The Daily News reported that the Department of Education recently named Calder Road Elementary School as Dickinson’s first National Blue Ribbon School (“Dickinson elementary school honored as National Blue Ribbon School,” The Daily News, Sept. 28).

As you decide Wednesday regarding middle school configuration, I wanted to share some historical information.

The small 5-year-old, brown-skinned, dark-haired girl played in the sand with her little sister on the beach. Their fully clothed mother and grandmother laid out a tablecloth and set the china place settings out with well-practiced movements.

The Texas City Garden Club will host its 49th annual Holiday Market from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Nessler Center, 2010 Fifth Ave. N. in Texas City.

You wouldn’t know it by the news, but there’s a majority. The good news is that the majority thinks, as I do, that we’re OK, and we’re better now than we were in the recent past.

It’s a blessing to live in the land of the free and home of the ... . Most will finish this sentence with no hesitation: home of the brave. We’ve unconsciously memorized phrases, idioms and even the Pledge of Allegiance. But how deep do these words reverberate within us?

With all of the confusion mayhem and constant hateful rhetoric on display everywhere, 24 hours every day, it’s mind-boggling to think that those of us who’ve lived in Precinct 3 since its inception are now having to contest a redistricting map which is designed, on its face, to disenfranchis…

All you word lovers out there, the few, the mighty, enjoy from time to time lists of long words, unknown words, interesting words.

Whether you’re hunkering down with the groceries you bought before the crowds descended or out in the mix reveling in one of the largest events of this type anywhere, it’s hard not to notice its Lone Star Rally weekend.

As you know, one’s perception is one’s reality. Once perception kicks in, facts will not sway one’s reality. The article (“Hundreds of homes rezoned to ban short-term rentals,” The Daily News, Oct. 29) is the latest in what appears to be a series that attacks short-term rentals.

As a historian who wrote a book on the subject of Juneteenth and has spent decades giving Civil War tours of Galveston, I’ve been very interested in the recent announcements regarding proposed museums and monuments.

The formula for surviving hurricanes and other weather disasters is part preparation and part recovery. The more effort and resources we invest in the former, the more success we can expect with the latter.