Take a look at the top five trending stories across all of Community Impact Newspaper’s coverage areas as of Nov. 1.

Note: The following stories were published Oct. 29-Nov. 1.

Greater Houston

Proposed Lake Celestine development to bring multimillion-dollar homes to Lake Conroe


Plans for Lake Celestine call for 1,038 residential lots as well as lakefront restaurants, retail stores, live-work units, creative office space, a lakefront hotel and recreational amenities, according to the city’s Oct. 27 presentation.


IMPACTS ROUNDUP: 3 eateries coming soon to Clear Lake, League City

Here are three restaurants and similar businesses coming soon to the Bay Area.

Central Texas

Austin ISD teachers tell board morale at all-time low


“Staff and student morale at my campus is the lowest I’ve ever seen,” said Jennifer Lucas, a teacher in her ninth year at Northeast Early College High School, echoing several other speakers who referred to low morale at their schools.

Switch data center in Round Rock on track to break ground by end of 2021

Switch is a high-performing computing technology infrastructure company based out of Las Vegas, and its Tier 5 data center in Round Rock will constitute the company’s fifth campus, called The Rock.

Dallas-Fort Worth


TxDOT proposes 2 alignments for Spur 399 extension in McKinney


The Texas Department of Transportation presented two potential alignments for extending Spur 399 at a public meeting Oct. 21.

Anna Lotz, Maggie Quinlan, Jake Magee, Miranda Jaimes and Brooke Sjoberg contributed to this report.