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The public will finally get answers to ongoing questions about one of the darkest incidents in Bellaire’s recent history as the criminal trial of former Bellaire Police Officer Jeffrey Cotton begins in May. next week. Note: Trial was reset for May 3. Read more here.
The trial on Cotton’s charges of aggravated assault by a public [...]

A veteran Texas politician who served in the state’s Number 2 position for nearly two decades will visit the University of Houston next week to offer an insider’s perspective on Texas politics.
Former Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby Jr. will talk Texas people and politics in his free presentation, “A Political Atlas of Texas,” at 1 p.m. [...]

Democratic candidate for Texas Governor Bill White will visit Bellaire in mid March to speak to rotary club members about jobs, energy and education.
White won the Democratic nomination for governor in yesterday’s primary election with 76 percent of the vote. During the upcoming presentation for the Bellaire/Southwest Houston Rotary Club, White plans to reflect on [...]

Li Boynton, an 18-year-old student at Bellaire High School, was recently named an Outstanding Citizen of the City of Bellaire. Boynton earned a $65,000 award in a top science competition with her invention of a novel, cheap way of testing water for contamination. For her accomplishment, she was invited to sit with First Lady Michelle [...]

With 55 percent of the vote, Sarah Davis has clearly won the Republican nomination to run against incumbent Rep. Ellen Cohen to represent Bellaire in the Texas Legislature.
With all precincts reporting unofficial results, Davis has earned 4,379 votes while her opponent, former school teacher Bonnie Parker, has won 3,648 votes.
Davis will be the Republican candidate [...]

Colorful campaign signs greet voters at the Bellaire Civic Center, a primary election polling location for two precincts. When polls close at 7 p.m., InstantNewsBellaire will publish early voting results for local races. Later tonight, when a majority of precincts have reported election-day voting results, check back for another story.

This may be the last year of operation for Bellaire’s recycling center after the city council on Monday unanimously approved a recommendation to close it, considering the growing popularity of curbside recycling.
The Bellaire Recycling Committee recommended closing the Debbie Marshall Recycling Center on Edith Street because use of the facility has declined steadily as more [...]

A hit-and-run driver may have thought he got away with rear ending a woman in Bellaire last week, but police tracked him down the same day and arrested him.
Timothy Viser, 31, now faces charges of failure to stop and give information. Viser is accused of rear ending another car in the 5000 block of Bissonnet [...]

A 28-year-old man faces serious charges after he allegedly kicked a police officer on Saturday while he was being arrested for driving while intoxicated.
On Feb. 27, an officer saw Jon Blanchard driving too fast in the 4100 block of Bissonnet Street. The car also hit a curb and swerved between traffic lanes. During the traffic [...]

Tuesday is Election Day for the Democratic and Republican Primaries. Following is a list of voting locations for precincts in Bellaire.
Precinct 128
Democratic and Republican — Bellaire Civic Center, 7008 S. Rice Ave.
Precinct 182
Democratic and Republican — Horn Elementary School, 4535 Pine St.
Precinct 214
Democratic — Faith Lutheran Church, 4600 Bellaire Blvd.
Republican — Southwest Presbyterian Church South [...]

Beginning March 7, 30 contemporary metal works will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal.
Organized by Cindi Strauss, MFAH curator of modern and contemporary decorative arts and design, the exhibition explores the varied ways that contemporary artists have manipulated metal to highlight the [...]

Bellaire High School’s elite dance ensemble, eMOTION Dance Company, will host the 8th Annual Community Dance Concert next week.
The Sounds Of Emotion takes place on March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Bellaire High School auditorium. Tickets are $8 at the door.
The dance festival will include several community school dance teams: HSPVA, Lamar High School, [...]

Artists and scholars from the Glassell School of Art will unveil a year’s worth of original art work at an opening reception scheduled for March 5.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core program awards residencies to emerging visual artists and art scholars. Overseen by the Core Program’s associate director, Mary Leclère, the Core fellows annually [...]

The Weekley Family YMCA recently took parents and kids from the Houston area on a skiing and snowboarding adventure in Winter Park, Colorado. The Feb. 12 to 15 trip was part of the Adventure Guides program, which seeks to foster the relationship between parents and children. A surfing trip in July will finish this year’s [...]

After crews installed “No Texting While Driving” signs at Bellaire’s borders early this month, Bellaire police have been on the lookout for drivers breaking the new law — But no one has received a ticket, yet.
Community Resource Officer Tim Quimby said police wanted to wait until the signs were posted to enforce the new law, [...]