Live Oak News

Four Washington and Lee University students were selected to participate in a free, 10-day trip to Israel during their December break to Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Using an honorary badge in an attempt to pull over an irate driver is a bad idea.

Save that cork! That's what I've been doing for months in an effort to make my own corkboard, but now there's a better reason.

The City Council approved offering a pre-paid program for ambulance service to residents, moving forward with a sweeping residential survey and giving the green light for going after at least $50,000 in federal stimulus funds.

Nov. 19, 2009 - NAFCU President Fred Becker and Mark Sekula, senior vice president of business services at Randolph-Brooks FCU in Live Oak, Texas, attended a forum yesterday hosted by Treasury and the Small Business Administration on strategies for providing small businesses greater access to capital.

A Live Oak skate park moved a step closer to reality during an Oct. 27 City Council meeting.

A new reality television show about paranormal investigations will feature two local brothers.

City Council here showed it knows how to say "no" when it comes to spending city funds on items that can wait.

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Oct. 13, 2009 - Mark Sekula, senior vice president of business services at Randolph-Brooks FCU in Live Oak, Texas, will testify on behalf of NAFCU before the House Small Business Committee Wednesday on increasing capital for small businesses.

Local officials are hoping an agreement with Guadalupe County to improve a roadway, which connects FM 1518 to Schertz Parkway, will spark development of a moribund subdivision located along the road.

City employees are moving in to the new Live Oak Justice Center, an 18,300-square-foot facility that includes four jail cells, expanded patrol work stations and state-of-the-art monitoring systems.

Pizza Italia, 2950 Thousand Oaks Drive, has re-opened. It is open 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday. For more information, call 494-8646. Downtown fruteria Fruity's Downtown recently opened at 403 Jackson.

Central Texans are invited to a public hearing on a proposed restriction to ban trucks with three or more axels from using the left lane on Interstate 35.

Live Oak will celebrate the "Big 5 - 0" next April with a flurry of activity. The city celebrates its golden anniversary as an incorporated city on April 16, 2010, but most of the festivities will be the weekend before to coincide with the city's annual Park Day.

BEE COUNTY Enco Exploration of Corpus Christi has filed a permit to drill a 5,000-foot well in the Pearl field.

The latest building campaign by Alamo Colleges has added more than 1 million square feet of higher-education space to greater San Antonio, and now some of those buildings are being recognized for their design excellence.

DUVAL COUNTY The Voyager Gas Corporation of Spring has filed permits to drill two 7,500-foot wells in the Orcones field.

James Lazo served his country, but never asked the government to let him live in his modest wood-frame house tax-free. Now that the state is giving Lazo and other severely disabled veterans a full property tax exemption, he's grateful for the extra $2,600 a year to support his three children who are in college.

New information shows that at least nine Texas counties are experiencing their worst drought in history, and much of the state is facing the worst drought conditions in the United States, according to information compiled by Texas A&M University researchers.