Galveston police baffled by 30 burnt palm trees
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Officials on Galveston Island are looking for the culprit in a bizarre palm tree torching spree.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Officials on Galveston Island are looking for the culprit in a bizarre palm tree torching spree.
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Researchers from Texas A&M University have fired up a new monitoring system on an offshore wind platform and detected a new “dead zone” in the Gulf south of Galveston. The size and impact of the zone has not yet been measured, but the low oxygen levels of the area spell danger for marine life. The pocket of water is south of Galveston, about nine nautical miles from shore....
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Galveston officials are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
"What we've got on our hands, a serial tree arsonist, I've never seen before," said Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson. "I've talked to colleagues of mine, and that's the first they've heard of setting palm trees on fire."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
GALVESTON, Texas -- Officials on Galveston Island are looking for the culprit in a bizarre palm tree torching spree.
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Galveston officials are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Tree service company owner Greg West is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to charges. He says the trees are the only living thing to survive Hurricane Ike last September.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Officials on Galveston Island are looking for the culprit in a bizarre palm tree torching spree.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Officials on Galveston Island are looking for the culprit in a bizarre palm tree torching spree.
Inside Pool (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Taylor Road Productions, promoters of the highly anticipated Galveston World Classic, have announced a live chat session to be hosted at TheWorldClassic.com on Thursday July, 2, 2009 at 8 pm EST, 7 pm CST. The live chat has been scheduled in order for the promoters, Bobby Rone and Louie Vickio, to deliver information to [...] Want to know the full story? Check it out
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Thirty trees have been burned in what has become a nightly problem for police. A witness saw a man laughing near one of the burning palms.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
The reports of burning palm trees began sporadically in May but have since become a nightly occurrence, Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson said.
Houstonist (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
... level will most likely rise between two and three feet. Either way, this leaves some parts of the Galveston area in immediate danger. "I think most scientists would agree from about Jamaica Beach west will probably disappear by the end of this century," said Anderson. Scientists and residents are in agreement that now is time to begin planning for the future of the island. "Do...
Hair Balls (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
The Flagship Hotel, that iconic building on a pier in Galveston, seems to forever be endangered. It now looks like it's more endangered than ever.The strange, twisty tale of the now semi-battered building might be coming to a conclusion, the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
New books, laptops and iPods will be heading to Galveston schools, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to shore up libraries in public schools nationwide. The Galveston Independent School District is one of six districts in Texas to receive the grant, which was the largest awarded in the state.