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Nov. 17—AUSTIN — Texas State Parks is kicking off the holiday season with close to 100 special seasonal activities happening across the state. Starting this month, visitors of all ages can ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott activated the state's emergency response resources due to the risk of severe weather. "As Texans and out-of-state visitors begin traveling after the Christmas holiday, it's ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day is a legal state holiday in Texas.It falls every year on August 27, to mark the birthday of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson.. After Johnson died in 1973, the Texas State Legislature created a legal state holiday to be observed every year on August 27 to honor the 36th president of the United States, one of their state's native sons.
La Belle, also known as LaBelle, [1] is an unincorporated community on Taylor Bayou and FM 365, approximately twelve miles south of Beaumont, in central Jefferson County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Beaumont– Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated with a parade on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. Nearly 25,000 union members and their families lined the streets of lower Manhattan near city ...
In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.
Texas portal This is a collection of articles about public holidays observed only, or primarily, by the U.S. State of Texas . For more widely celebrated holidays, see Category:Federal holidays in the United States .
Inflation fears heat up in Texas as thoughts of back-to-school shopping creep back to parents’ minds. But relief is coming in the form of a tax-free holiday the first weekend of August.