Travis County’s Summer Youth Employment Program is now accepting applications for two five-week sessions that will take place between June and August.Parents and their teens can begin the …
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1/27/23
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The Texas Department of Transportation will close the northbound and southbound I-35 main lanes this weekend to demolish and remove the northern portion of the Williams Drive bridge.The closures will …
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1/26/23
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The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) and Leander officials celebrated the ribbon cutting Wednesday for the opening of a second rail track between the Leander Station and the …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/26/23
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The Leander ISD Board of Trustees on Jan. 12 approved a program that will provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certain full-time special education teaching positions and a one-time payment of …
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By Clayton Kelley, Staff Writer
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1/25/23
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Water infrastructure improvements remained a pressing issue for Leander and it will represent the majority of the major capital improvement projects the city will tackle in 2023. Dan Grimsbo, …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/25/23
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The deadline for property owners to pay 2022 property taxes is next Tuesday. Williamson County Tax Assessor / Collector Larry Gaddes said in a reminder to property owners in the county that …
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1/24/23
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White supremacist fliers were distributed across several northern Leander neighborhoods in the last few hours of Sunday night, directly leading into Monday when the City of Leander held its …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/20/23
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The “Night to Shine” will return locally at Rockpointe Church for its ninth year on Feb. 10 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The prom-like event is a popular, annual …
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By Clayton Kelley, Staff Writer
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1/19/23
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Cedar Park, Leander and Williamson County spent most of 2022 scrambling to keep up with their unprecedented population growth by significantly increasing budgets and taking out large bonds to build …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/19/23
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The second annual Martin Luther King Day March and Ceremony drew over 3,000 people to Leander on Monday, highlighting how the event has continued to grow in popularity and draw visitors from …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/17/23
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Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tony Moline will serve as chair-elect for the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives (TCCE) Board for Fiscal Year 2023."I am honored and excited to be …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/17/23
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Construction work continues at the site of the new BASIS Charter School in Cedar Park. When complete the 10-acre site on Lakeline Boulevard near West Park Street will house a 78,000 square-foot …
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1/12/23
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While average gasoline prices across the Austin metro area rose about 1 cent per gallon in the last week, drivers in Cedar Park and Leander are seeing prices around 9 cents lower than early last …
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1/11/23
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Round Rock Police are re-investigating a 1983 murder. The suspect, Martin Gallegos, remains a fugitive with an active murder warrant. Gallegos was 22 in 1983 and would be 60 now. He was last seen in …
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1/11/23
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The COVID-19 pandemic finally crested in Williamson County in 2022 after starting the year the Omnicron variant caused the worst spike so far in cases and fatalities.One year later, the …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/11/23
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The City of Leander will hold its second-ever Martin Luther King Day March and Ceremony next Monday, Jan. 16, in Old Town Leander.The theme for this year's event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/8/23
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Through a partnership with Texas State University – Round Rock, 21 District K-12 teachers attended a STEM-for-All professional development day designed to build and educate diverse pipelines of …
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1/6/23
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CORRECTION: The article originally states that Texas Parents United PAC supported a slate of challenger candidates that included Mike Sanders, Brandi Burkman, Shawn Leege, Sharon Bell and Paul …
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By JOSH MONIZ, Senior Reporter
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1/5/23
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St David’s Emergency Center hopes to reduce the number of children who could injure themselves on the bicycles, skateboard and scooters they received over Christmas by …
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1/5/23
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The U.S. housing market continued to sag in the last few months as the impact of higher mortgage rates and concerns over the economy rattled buyers and sellers.Rates for 30-year, fixed mortgages …
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By Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg News (TNS)
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1/5/23
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