SummaWatch
The daily front page for your neighborhood A SummaCore publication

Your community’s own newspaper, written fresh every day.

SummaWatch defines your neighborhood’s footprint once — then publishes a daily, editor-quality front page scoped exactly to it: curated local news, official HOA bulletins, weather and live radar, real drive times, gas and utility prices, the state of the Texas grid, and what’s opening around town. On lobby kiosks, clubhouse TVs, and every resident’s phone.

Newsstand watercolor · Bethany Ramirez
What residents get,
every day
Sample edition What a SummaWatch front page looks like

Illustrative data from a busy day — the live editions are linked below

Community

FM 1463 widening enters its next phase; nightly lane shifts begin Monday

Crews move to the segment between Spring Green and Katy Flewellen next week. Expect single-lane closures 8 PM–5 AM through the month; school-zone timing is unaffected. Detour maps are posted on the county’s project page.

FBCTOLLROAD.COM · This morning
Official · Your HOA

Pool season hours begin this weekend

  • Main pool & splash pad: 10 AM–8 PM daily
  • Lap lanes reserved 7–9 AM Tue/Thu
  • Guest passes available at the clubhouse front desk
  • Swim team practice closes the east bay weekdays 4–6 PM
Submitted by your community association · Expires June 30
Schools

Katy ISD approves the 2026–27 calendar; first day is August 12

Spring break aligns with the county fair week for the first time.

KATYISD.ORG · Yesterday
Business

New grocery fuel station clears permitting on Spring Green

Site work could begin within weeks, per county filings.

THEKATYNEWS.COM · Yesterday
Safety

County mosquito spraying scheduled overnight Wednesday

Trucks run the west side routes after 9 PM, weather permitting.

County health district · 2 days ago
NWS Alert Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 9:00 PM — National Weather Service, Houston/Galveston
Nowcast Rain reaching the neighborhood in ~12 minutes — derived from live radar over your footprint, updated every 5 minutes
84° Storm clouds building from the southwest.
Feels like 91° · Humidity 68% · Wind SSE 14 mph
3 PM
84°
20%
4 PM
79°
75%
5 PM
75°
85%
6 PM
74°
70%
7 PM
75°
40%
8 PM
76°
20%
9 PM
75°
10%
10 PM
74°
5%

Official National Weather Service alerts appear the moment they’re issued. Between alerts, SummaWatch samples live radar directly over your neighborhood and warns residents minutes before rain arrives — pool, golf course, and ballfield decisions get made with real lead time.

Real radar capture from the live Firethorne edition — storm cells over the Houston metro with the neighborhood labeled
Live animated radar · real capture from the Firethorne edition during June 7 storms
Real traffic flow capture from the live Firethorne edition — flow-colored roads and lettered incident pins around the neighborhood
Live flow map · real capture from the Firethorne edition · pins are lettered to match the incident list
Katy Mills
14 min
via FM 1463 → I-10 E
Energy Corridor
36 min
via I-10 E · slower than usual
Sugar Land
32 min
via FM 1463 → US-90 E
Active now Incidents
A
Traffic jam — FM 1463 northbound
Approaching the I-10 interchange · +9 min delay
B
Lane closed — I-10 eastbound
Past the Grand Parkway · roadwork until 5 AM
C
Stalled vehicle — US-90 westbound
Near Pin Oak Rd · shoulder, minor slowdown

Drive times update continuously with the route a navigation app would actually pick, labeled so residents know why the number changed. Incidents come from a metro-wide pool, so neighboring communities always agree on what’s happening.

Cheapest regular near you4-mile radius
Warehouse club fuel · Katy Fwy$2.49
Grocery fuel stop · Spring Green$2.55
Discount station · FM 1463$2.57
Name-brand station · Katy Flewellen$2.69

Scanned daily. Price history is kept, so the board can say “down 6¢ this week” — not just today’s number.

What utilities cost hereYour providers
Electricity · competitive-plan benchmark 10.2¢/kWh ▾ steady
Natural gas · your utility’s filed rate $11.50/Mcf
Water & sewer · your district’s full bill $11.90/kgal

Every number shows its work — residents can open the full derivation: which rate order, which tier, what the district actually charges. No estimates dressed up as facts; when a price can’t be confirmed, the board says so.

Grid normal
Current demand
62.4 GW
Committed capacity
71.8 GW
Headroom
13.1%

Texans live on the ERCOT grid — and after every winter storm, residents want to know what it’s doing today. SummaWatch reads the grid operator’s live feed directly: current conditions, demand against capacity, and today’s load tracked against yesterday’s curve.

Today Yesterday
6 AM NOON 4 PM 9 PM
Real Around Town capture from the live Firethorne edition — lettered business markers, the subdivision outline, and grocery landmarks
Geocoded map · real capture from the Firethorne edition · the dashed outline is the subdivision itself
A
Mediterranean grill — coming soon
Spring Green Blvd · state license issued May 28
B
Coffee & wine bar — license pending
Katy Flewellen · filed June 2
C
Pediatric clinic — under construction
FM 1463 · from the city development report
D
Retail center, phase 2 — site work started
Falcon Landing · capital project, est. completion spring ’27

Sourced from official city development reports and state license filings — residents find out what’s coming to that empty corner lot before the signage goes up.

In the works

Neighborhood classifieds

A resident-to-resident column — the garage-sale-and-lawn-service layer of a real community paper, with the same editorial standards as everything else on the page.

In the works

Deeper school coverage

Campus-level calendars, board actions that affect your attendance zone, and event reminders for the schools your community actually feeds into.

In the works

More data layers, same page

The platform is built to add a data stream once and publish it to every community it applies to — service outages, district meetings, county notices. The page grows; the simplicity doesn’t change.

Already live

Phones, kiosks, and TVs

The same edition adapts itself: a viewport-locked front page on lobby displays, a fast tabbed reader on phones — no app store, no accounts.

The product Built like a newspaper, runs like software
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Editorial, not widgets

Every edition reads like a local paper: a lead story, sections, datelines, sources. Residents trust it because it respects them — official notices outrank gossip, and every number cites where it came from.

24/7

Always current

Weather, radar, traffic, and grid data refresh around the clock; news and bulletins are re-edited as things happen. A storm escalates the publishing tempo automatically — exactly when residents are checking.

Scoped to your footprint

Your community’s boundary is drawn on the map once. From then on, every data stream — radar, drive times, gas prices, new businesses — is computed for that footprint, not a city-wide average.

Our editorial line What it deliberately is not
“A reference desk,
not a soapbox.” Neutral by design
  • NotA political platform. No politics, local or national — no campaigns, no endorsements, no partisan framing. The only election coverage you’ll see is where to park on voting day.
  • NotOpinion or commentary. News is surfaced and linked as information, with named sources. Summaries describe; they never take sides.
  • NotA discussion or complaint board. It’s a publication, not a forum — no comment threads, no pile-ons, no neighborhood drama.
  • NotGossip. If it isn’t from an official source or a real publication, it doesn’t run. Nothing sourced to social-media chatter, ever.
  • NotA replacement for your association’s voice. It amplifies your official notices — it never speaks for you.
Live now Communities publishing today

These are the real, live editions — not demos. What you see is what their residents see right now.

For your board How a community comes aboard
1

We map your community

Your subdivision boundary, your utility providers, your school feeders, your routes. That definition drives everything that follows.

2

The engine starts publishing

Within a day, your community has a live edition at yourname.summawatch.com — weather, traffic, prices, and news already scoped to your footprint.

3

Your voice joins the page

Your association’s notices — pool hours, board meetings, maintenance windows — flow into the edition as official content that outranks everything else.

Where your data lives: on our servers, in our database, full stop. Resident-facing pages need no accounts and set no trackers; your community’s information is never resold or shared with third parties.

Would your community read its own front page?

Tell us about your neighborhood — we’ll reply with what a live edition would look like for it.

Start the conversation info@summacore.com