Cut And Shoot Connection

04/08/2023

While this article is several years ago, hopefully it is what is currently being constructed in our area.

Plans for raised medians along Texas 105 East are no longer being sought out by the Texas...

22/07/2022

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is coming to Conroe.

The expected opening date is TBA

It is going to be located at 1415 N Loop 336 W in the previous Ryan's Buffet Restaurant location.

05/10/2021

Community coming together to help! Won't you join us?

When the community suffers a loss, we all stand together to do what is needed during that time. This Friday October 8th, we will be donating 100 % of ALL FOOD SALES to the family of Chelsea Taylor Kelly to help with funeral expenses. We are open 11 am until 8 pm, but we will not stop serving food until everyone is served on Friday. If you have never stopped by we have a variety of food....Fish Plates (Same As We Have Always Served At Porky's Bar Fundraisers), Gulf Shrimp, Fresh Never Frozen Burgers, Fresh Cut Fries, Chicken Tenders, Chili Dogs, & Appetizers. We hope to see everyone at some point on Friday to help this family in their time of need.....Chelsea was a Mother of two young babies, a daughter, a sister, a niece & a friend to many.

29/07/2021

How Willie Nelson & Charley Pride Integrated East Texas
Houston Press January 2011
By William Michael Smith

Willie Nelson's Conroe buddy Larry Butler was not only a performer, he also ran a series of clubs in the area over the past 50 years, including Willie Nelson's Night Life on FM 1960 during Willie's IRS problem years.

And while Butler has some fond memories of IRS agents hanging around Willie's Night Life gigs waiting to garnish the singer's pay, he thinks maybe one of the most exciting -- and trying -- times he had in the club business was when he owned a joint on Highway 105 in Cut and Shoot called Pat's Longhorn Ballroom.

Along with Vidor, Cut and Shoot and nearby Conroe were long known as strong East Texas redoubts of the Ku Klux Klan and the segregationist movement. Cut and Shoot was also notorious for its "Hanging Bridge."

"Willie calls me and says he's got this guy who's been doing some shows with him who's great and that I need to book him," says Butler. "Willie and I both had this love for Hank Williams and, according to Willie, this fellow was as good at doing a Hank Williams song as anyone he'd ever seen.


This fellow was Charley Pride and, Butler says, "finally, Willie got around to telling me that Charley was a black man."

Butler told Nelson he must be crazy to think he could book an African-American into Pat's Longhorn.

"But Willie kept telling me 'this guy is going to be huge, Larry, and you're going to love him.' So Pat [Butler's wife] and I talked it over and decided to try it."

"It wasn't long before word got out that we'd scheduled a black singer at the club, and all hell broke loose," recalls Butler. "I got death threats, people saying they were going to burn the club down, just all kinds of crazy stuff.

"Mind you, country music was 100 percent white in those days, and this was before Charley's label put out any promotional photos or anything like that. So even though he'd already had a little radio success, no one really knew what Charley Pride looked like.

"I was so worried about the deal that I hired the Chief of Police and three deputies to work security that night. We also had seven Liquor Control Board agents come in to help us. So when Charley got there, they took him around to the back and got him safely inside.

"But the crowd was rowdy and hollering, acting up, and I honestly didn't know what was going to happen. I had the Liquor Board agents and the policemen line up in front of the stage between Charley and the crowd."

"My band was backing Charley up that night, and he'd brought along his own steel player. Well, it finally came time for Charley to go onstage and we introduced him. When he walked out, the tension was just incredible.

"But Charley just looked out at them and said something like 'howdy, folks, I know I've got a mighty dark suntan, I got it picking cotton down in Sledge, Mississippi. I hope you don't mind if I sing a few country songs for you.' And then he kicked off into Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and folks were just blown away.

"I looked over at the policemen and said 'don't worry, he's got 'em now.' But I was sure glad when that night was over.

How Willie Nelson & Charley Pride Integrated East Texas
"After the show, Pat called down to this place in Conroe called the White Hut to tell them to expect 30 or 40 of us down there to eat. Now back in those days only whites sat in the front at restaurants in Conroe. Everybody else ate at little room off the back," says Butler.

"So we walked in with Charley, and the manager immediately comes over and says that she can't seat him with us, that he'd have to eat in the rear. Well, I said 'no, he's not gonna sit in the back.' And I explained to her who he was, that he'd just played our club and that if he couldn't sit with us we'd take our business elsewhere.

"She went in the back and they talked it over, and she finally told us it would be alright if Charley sat between Pat and I. So we all settled in and, as I recall, we all ate chicken fried steak and had a great meal. And there was no problem.

"Funny thing was, the White Hut started letting people sit anywhere they wanted right after that, so that night we sort of broke things down for that whole way of doing things," Butler surmises.

But Butler wasn't done with Charley Pride. He was so impressed with Pride's show that he partnered with Nelson to arrange for Pride to play the now-legendary Panther Hall in Fort Worth.

"We went up there about three or four weeks later [late 1967] and cut Charley Pride In Person. And if you listen closely, you can hear Charley tell a brief story about that night outside Conroe."

Not long after, Butler tried to book Pride into the huge and highly popular north Houston honky-tonk Dance Town USA.

"But the owner, he wouldn't let me book him because he said he would bring colored people in and he didn't want that. Well, I argued with him for a while and he finally said 'OK, if you want to take the chance, we're closed on Sundays so I'll let you book him in here on a Sunday night.'

"So I booked Charley and we charged $3 a ticket. I paid Charley $300, and I felt positive that it would be a money-maker. Well, he packed that place, and that pretty much opened the doors of every club in town for Charley. He used to work Houston a lot after that.

"And the funny thing was, only one black guy showed up for that show. It was Stoney Edwards."

Edwards would go on to become of the few successful black artists in country music. Pride is in the Country Music Hall of Fame and is a regular in Branson, Missouri these days.

07/07/2021

COMING SOON! DPS Driver License Office in New Caney

For Many years, even during his terms as Justice of the Peace, Commissioner Metts has worked to get a DPS Driver License office in New Caney. With the help of State Representative Will Metcalf, their hard work will become a reality for our community.

The new satellite office will be located inside the East Montgomery County Courthouse Annex located at 21130 US Highway 59 in New Caney. Being a satellite office they will not be able to perform driving tests but will be offering the following services:

• Driver license renewals and replacements
• Name change
• Update the physical or mailing address
• Veteran/Disabled veteran status
• Organ donor
• Emergency contact information; or
• Applicant contact information

We will be announcing the grand opening date soon so stay tuned!

29/06/2020

RUNOFF ELECTION VOTING STARTS TODAY!!!!

EARLY VOTING POLLING TIMES and LOCATIONS

June 29 – July 2, Monday – Thursday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
July 5, Sunday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
July 6 – July 10, Monday – Friday 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
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Locations

Lee G. Alworth Building
207 West Phillips Street
Conroe 77301

West Montgomery County Community
Development Center
31355 Friendship Drive Magnolia 77355

Magnolia Event Center
11659 FM 1488 Magnolia 77354

South County Community Center
2235 Lake Robbins Drive The Woodlands 77380

North Montgomery County Community Center
600 Gerald Street Willis 77378

East Montgomery County Fair Association Building
21675A McCleskey Road New Caney 77357

Lone Star Community Center
2500 Lone Star Parkway Montgomery 77356

Spring Creek Greenway Nature Center
1300 Riley Fuzzel Road The Woodlands 77386
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EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT and CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY!

07/04/2020

Please be on the lookout!

FROM A READER On Saturday Grace and I were in a wreck in Cut n Shoot, Texas. My FJ hit the water, hydroplaned and I hit a tree head-on. My right leg is broken and they're not sure if my hip will need to be replaced next. I had surgery Sunday for a plate and pins to hold my femur together. I am ou

15/01/2020

22/11/2019

04/10/2019

He has been denied a court appointed attorney and unjustly jailed in Montgomery county, Texas.

04/10/2019

Disaster Declaration approved!

Chambers, Harris, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery, and Orange Counties are covered by the request.

04/10/2019

04/10/2019

"It's a lot bigger than it was last year. We added some different things to fill that space," Conroe Professional Firefighter Thompson said.

02/10/2019

About 2 am a Deputy on patrol found a male in his 30's lying on the side of SH 105 just east of Crystal Forest, bleeding from the head and unconscious. EMS was called and CPR was initiated. NMC Fire and MCHD arrived on the scene and worked on the male close to 30 minutes before declaring him decease

01/10/2019

Sep 30, 2019: Hundreds of thousands of voters across the country were registered Tuesday, Sept. 24, as part of the nonpartisan National Voter Registration Day event.

23/09/2019

Houston, TX – The Postal Service continues to restore service to our customers. As an integral part of the communities we serve, the Postal Service is continuing recovery efforts every day, so we can reconnect our customers and businesses with their mail. The information below provides an updat

18/09/2019

Some reports of high water are starting to come in from the area of East Montgomery County where over 6-inches of rain have fallen since midnight. This compares with Magnolia at less than an inch and the Lake Conroe Area of right at 1-inch.

17/09/2019

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10/09/2019

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY - MC Commissioners office under the advisement of Montgomery County Fire Marshal's Office has issued a County Wide Burn Ban for Montgomery County - effective immediately and until further notice.

09/09/2019

Looks like the new construction on E. Davis/Hwy 105 E and Loop 336 E will be a Speedy Stop. They usually offer one of the three national brands of fuel. Exxon/Mobil, Shell or Chevron. They usually offer an Allpoint branded ATM too.

16/08/2019

El Barquito Seafood coming soon.
Located near M & G Feed Store and Time To Spare Bowling Alley on Hwy 105 East.

16/08/2019

140AM- A robbery has just occurred at the Valero at FM 3083 and Jefferson Chemical/Moorhead. Wanted is a white male, brown khaki shorts, black shirt with a black baseball cap facing backward. He was wearing 2 white shirts on his hands and had a purple bandana, He did display a large handgun. He fled

16/08/2019

Prayers!

A little after 6 a report came in of 3 missing children in the Grangerland area. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Caney Creek Fire, and MCHD responded. A little after 7 two of the children were recovered from a pond by a paramedic who went in after them. Medics are still on the scene it is not

13/08/2019

Woo Hoo!

The Conroe High School Tiger Band, made up of 370 high school students, has been selected to play the national anthem before the Houston Texans game this Saturday at NRG Stadium.

26/07/2019

Just after 11pm a female who was intoxicated was riding her bicycle on Morgan Cemetery near Fostoria Road when she was struck by a vehicle. She was transported to Conroe Regional Trauma Center in critical condition. It was determined she was at fault in the crash.

25/07/2019

Just before 11 a.m. Thursday MCSO and NMCFD responded to a reported structural collapse with two victims trapped. Units arrived to find a garage in the 800 block of Whipporwill on the ground. One person had already gotten out. The second was able to get out moments after units arrived. The pair were

23/07/2019

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14/07/2019

BALTIMORE - The Boston Red Sox have upgraded their starting rotation by obtaining right-hander and Conroe High School alum Andrew Cashner in a trade with the Baltimore Orioles. The deal was announced Saturday after Baltimore beat Tampa Bay 2-1 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. The Red S...

10/07/2019

Although it's not exactly Cut and Shoot, construction is moving right along on the new HEB on Hwy 242 between I-45 & FM 1314. It's only a few miles further than the HEB on Frazier, but being new with all the improvements and upgrades should be worth the trip.