The 9th annual Houston's Wine and Food Week returns to The Woodlands June 3–9 with a variety of festivities and events designed to attract food and wine lovers.

Wine and Food Week events feature more than 500 wines, food from 50 restaurants, collections of craft beers, gourmet food vendors and appearances from wine and culinary producers around the world. Guests can participate in wine education classes, cookbook author events, live and silent auctions, chef demonstrations and wine-and-dine experiences.

The week-long extravaganza offers more than 10 events for patrons with wine experience ranging from novice to enthusiast leveal. The week kicks off June 3 with a Wine Wizard seminar at 6 p.m. and a dinner event at 7 p.m. within the MAIN Restaurant at…

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The first wave of residents can now access free wireless Internet service in Shenandoah.
The city has launched Shenandoah Wireless Interface Technology, or SWIFT.

Residents who live along Holly Hill Drive will be the first with the service, and other areas of the city will follow. "We are pleased to be one of the first communities to offer wireless Internet service to residents at no charge,"" Shenandoah City Administrator Chip VanSteenberg said in an announcement of the service.

The initial service started Nov. 26, providing access to 168 homes. Monday, service was made available to another 144 homes. By Dec. 17, availability is expected for every single-family home in Shenandoah west of Interstate 45. Installation of the wireless service hasn't been…

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THE WOODLANDS, TX - This week's Luxury Housing Report just came in and we should give a look at it so we get to know what's going on. For starters, the ILHM National Luxury Composite Price was $1,266,086, a price that has been relatively stable in recent weeks.

However, one thing that did change was the average time in the market, which was 168 days, a lesser amount of days than in previous weeks. There was a total of 23,256 luxury homes on inventory all across of the country, of which 2443 are new listings.

The median house size is of 3,301 square feet while the median lot size ranges between 0.50 to 1.0 acre.

This data is national wise. As for the Greater Houston Area, the ILHM National Luxury Composite Price was $ 1,061,577, with a media house…

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