Waltrip robotics team needs funds to compete in 2 international meets
The Waltrip High School robotics squad, known as the Rambot Team, is faced with raising $25,000 quickly to compete this summer in two prestigious international meets for which it has qualified.
Timbergrove residents hope fears over NW Mall nightclub are enough to keep it from opening
May 17, 2013 No Comment
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) and the ownership of a local Northwest Mall nightclub that’s under construction could be headed to court over the establishment’s mixed beverage license.
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The Baptist Temple Church in the Heights has sold its two oldest buildings at the southeast corner of Rutland and 20th Street to a commercial developer to be demolished and turned into retail and dining space. The original church sanctuary, built in 1912, and a larger sanctuary, built in the 1940s, were sold to Braun [...]
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It’s a place you hope you’ll never have to visit – but you can take comfort in knowing it’s in your community.
Memorial Hermann Northwest unveiled the first phase of its new state-of-the-art emergency room and trauma center this week. Staff members and media got the first peek Tuesday in ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and the center opened to the public on Wednesday.
A man somehow broke into a Wells Fargo branch at 34th Street at Highway 290 shortly before 7:30 Tuesday morning in a “takeover style” robbery in which he was physically aggressive toward employees but didn’t harm them, the FBI says. According to FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap, the man “verbally threatened” and “restrained” the workers, but [...]
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The eastbound exit from the North Loop to Ella Road will be shutting down at 6 a.m. Wednesday and remain closed through July 15, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. It’s all part of the ongoing reconstruction of the 610/290 area that will last into 2014. Motorists are encouraged to proceed to the Shepherd/Durham [...]
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Developers of the proposed 366-unit Alexan Heights apartment complex on Yale Street have indicated they’ve obtained a change in deed restrictions that could allow them to move forward with the project without a variance from the city.
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Everyone who knows Ivonne Higuera from her job at Tecate Mexican Restaurant on Ella knows about her kids. Son Joel is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin who plans to become a researcher in social neurosciences, daughter Jazmym is a beautiful 16-year-old who is into make-up and nails and nine-year-old Jaymez, or Junior, is a ju-jitsu star.
Continue reading …Oak Forest family has a ball creating an Art Car; details on rescheduled Saturday parade
May 10, 2013 No Comment
After four years of attending the Art Car Parade, the Tyska family of Oak Forest took it up a notch – a very big notch – by entering a car of their own creation. And so, “The Car With Ping Pong Balls On It” was born.
Continue reading …UPDATED: Man hit by lightning in Lazybrook-Timbergrove parking lot; storms waning for now
May 10, 2013 No Comment
After a harrowing morning Friday, the worst of this round of storms appears to be over, according to radar projections – but not before a man in the Lazybrook-Timbergrove area was struck by lightning.
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