Lago Vista News

The struggle to keep cool during the hottest summer in Central Texas weather history seems to be a distant memory by now.

Credit Union at Connally to put students to work Students will get on-the-job banking experience when A+ Federal Credit Union opens a branch at Connally High School at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year.

With the approval of Marble Falls city council Monday, the Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation is closer to securing its acquisition of an old property for a new regional vocational school.

First, I wanted to send a big thank you to the new Monthly Pledgers who signed up for recurring monthly donations online.

Leander Mayor John Cowman can legally vote for himself, the town's outside attorney wrote in an opinion released today, as a group of local mayors gather this afternoon to pick a member of the Capital Metro board.

Their business may be new to Lakeway, but Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Homes & Cremation Services is a name familiar to generations of Austin-area residents.

The UIL declared a Jarrell football player eligible for his senior season on Wednesday, overturning a previous ruling by the District 25-2A executive committee.

FM 969: Various eastbound and westbound lane closures between Blake-Manor Road and Bastrop County line from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.

The Abbey Habit: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery for the Beatles, as 'most famous' album cover inspires dozens of imitations." The UK Daily Mail found more than 50 knockoff album covers, all spoofs of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road.

Mike Hargreaves sits in a hole dug a year ago for a landscape screen of trees. He and other residents of The Harbor development want to know why no trees have been planted yet.

The widow of a Texas man who ran a Ponzi stock scheme is suing eight investors who received money from his life insurance policy, authorities say.

The estate of a man found after his death to have been running a Ponzi scheme is suing eight early investors he paid while he was still alive from funds taken from later investors.

By Jean Thompson Special to the View Lakeway Airpark hosted its first Young Eaglea s Rally on July 4. Sponsored by the, EAA Young Eagles was launched in 1992 to give interested young people, aged 8-17, an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane.

Two passengers on a plane that crashed in Arizona on Wednesday on its way to Lago Vista, killing all four on board, had criminal records for possession of marijuana and controlled substances, according to court documents.

A private plane that crashed on takeoff from Arizona on a flight to the Austin area carried more than 12 pounds of marijuana and a suitcase with cash.

Plane crash in Arizona kills four Authorities say four people are dead after a small plane en route from California to Lago Vista crashed at an Arizona airport late Wednesday afternoon.

Two Central Texas school districts - Lake Travis and Lago Vista - will be the unintended beneficiaries of a decision by Education Commissioner Robert Scott to help one struggling Houston-area school district.

After deliberating in a closed session for 30 minutes Wednesday, the Ennis ISD School Board chose Barbara Qualls as the lone finalist for the superintendent's position.

When it comes to golf, most of us would love to shoot our age, but not 90-year-old Leonard Jones, of Lago Vista.

Pat Dixon May 6, 2009 "You may be asking who is Pat Dixon. I am the chairman of the Libertarian Party of Texas and I want to that Travis for inviting the Libertarian Party to be here tonight and participate with you" "I notice in the tea parties that our staff participated in in Austin, the tea party in San Antonio where I was earlier, and the tea ...