Fair Oaks Ranch News

Some issues a city faces won't go away. Fair Oaks Ranch revisited concerns about the deer and the sewer plant during their November meeting.

Hacienda-style home in the Medical Center area is built around a swimming pool. The couple, who built the home 30 years ago, was influenced by many trips south of the border.

"Despite the recession the county has been able to hold the line and not raise taxes," Judge Gaylan Schroeder told members of the Sons of the American Revolution at a luncheon at Fair Oaks Ranch Country Club on Saturday.

Community-minded locals will team up with the Volunteer Center of Santa Clarita Valley as it hosts its annual Make a Difference Day on Saturday.

A beautiful Zexmenia plant with its yellow flowers brightens up the Barnes' yard in Fair Oaks Ranch.

A reader complains that the zeros on "John Doe's" Social Security card will match the entitlement program's cost-of-living increase for the next two years.

PHOTO COURTESY PHYLLIS BROWNING CO. Pam and Gregg Gandy want to downsize from their 3,500-square-foot home on 12 acres in Fair Oaks Ranch.

Fair Oaks Ranch City Council is proposing a budget which will hold the city's property tax rate steady for the coming year.

This home on High Crescent was originally appraised at $3,280,640. An adjustment lowered the appraisal to $3,250,000 - a reduction of $30,640. Everybody wants lower property taxes.

For the last 22 months, most of South Texas has received less than half its average rainfall totals.

Fair Oaks Ranch residents who don't want to see their wallets start circling the drain need to cut back on their water usage as of Friday under a tough water conservation law approved by City Council July 15.

Thanks to the kindness of some cowboys, a pooch who's terrified of fireworks is back home in Fair Oaks Ranch today after a harrowing few days in the wild.

Congressman Lamar Smith today announced that $250,000 for the City of Boerne was included the FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill at his request and approved by the full House.

Water usage is up in Fair Oaks Ranch, a city that hasn't seen much rain in a while.

Texas' national director Cotton George still can see the message emblazoned on the bottom of the paper plates used at the awards banquet in Springfield, Ill., after the 2007 National High School Rodeo Association Finals.

Three burglars kicked down yet another door in Fair Oaks Ranch on Monday, but they escaped sheriff's deputies.

Five burglary suspects were nabbed in two separate Canyon Country break-ins within just a few hours Friday, including one in Fair Oaks Ranch.

The "Little Princess in Wonderland" was recently performed on stage at Fair Oaks Ranch Community School in Canyon Country.