Five stories that have North Texas talking: Price tags for high school stadiums in Texas are getting bigger; Sid Miller criticizes Six Flags; baseball gloves are still made in this Texas town; and more.
It鈥檚 no surprise that Texas towns pour millions into their high school football programs. The price tag for Katy ISD鈥檚 new 12,000-seat Legacy Stadium鈥檚 grabbing headlines, though. At $72 million, it鈥檚 believed to be the most expensive high school football stadium ever built.
The school district holds its first game next week. Eight high schools will use the field. Soccer will be played there, too. The Associated Press reports: 鈥淜aty voters in 2014 approved the construction as part of a whopping $748 million bond that will pay for new schools for a district of 74,000 students that's growing at a rate of 2,000 students a year.鈥�
About $58 million was initially set aside for the stadium but rising costs pushed the price tag upward.
As reports, 鈥淟egacy Stadium pushes a culture of Texas high school football stadiums that won't be slowing down anytime soon.鈥�
But, it was the 18,000-seat stadium that Allen ISD opened five years ago that set a whole new precedent for high school stadiums, according to the Chronicle. It came with a then-record price tag of $60 million in 2012.
The home of the Allen Eagles had to for a year and a half after large cracks were found in the concrete.
Two more North Texas school districts have new, multimillion-dollar stadiums in the works. McKinney ISD is beginning construction of its nearly $70 million-stadium, which is set to open sometime next year. And, Prosper ISD recently announced plans to open a new $48 million-stadium in 2019. [The Associated Press, Houston Chronicle]
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- Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller calls and four others part of a 鈥渕ilitant, anarchist movement sweeping our country, destroying and attempting to sanitize our nation鈥檚 history.鈥� [The Texas Tribune]
- Baseball gloves aren鈥檛 really made in America anymore, with the exception of a small town in Montague County north of Fort Worth. has been making gloves since the Great Depression. [Fort Worth Star-Telegram]
- Texas Woman鈥檚 University has its first-ever mascot 鈥� 鈥� plus a new logo and slogan, 鈥淏oldly Go.鈥� [Denton Record-Chronicle]
- . The vegan restaurant operates locations in Dallas and Fort Worth, too. [The Dentonite]
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