West Lake Hills News

Now is the time to prune oak trees, according to the Texas Forest Service. Foresters recommend that the pruning be done only in the hottest part of summer, from July 1 through Sept.

Between handling police tickets, court dealings, city council meetings, city development and a host of other issues, the work is never finished.A Add another full-time job, raising two children, and the workload becomes daunting.

Structura Inc. , a regional general contracting company, named R. Bruce Lowe operations manager.

West Lake Hills resident Edward Henigin wants to put up a Galvalume metal or steel roof but must go through a variance process before he can.

Police arrested two men after chasing their car through West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, and Austin.

The West Lake Hills sewer system is nearing completion as the city connects its commercial customers.

A West Lake Hills resident will be able to use energy-efficient roofing material despite its shiny appearance that is in violation of a city ordinance.

More than 200 people have signed an online petition asking the Eanes school board to appoint former candidate Sharman Reed of Rollingwood to the board seat being vacated by Gail King, according to ipetitions.com. As the five oa clock hour rolled by today, additional names continued to appear on the roster.

The weather Thursday night may have brought some much needed rain, but that storm has blown through and hot weather is in our near future.

The first funds in the new West Lake Hills landscape fund came from a recent lawsuit settlement.

Residents of a West Lake Hills neighborhood spoke against a proposed easement that would lie over their paved access ramp to Lake Austin during the West Lake Hills City Council meeting on May 27.

"Sometime in July, Flowers a ' award-winning teacher of English and religion, expert in mythology, past director of Plan II, confidante of PBS journalist Bill Moyers, consultant to NASA and corporations around the world, author of three poetry volumes a ' will move away from her home in West Lake Hills to commence a personal and romantic adventure ...

One special graduate: Betty Sue Flowers hugs son John Michael Flowers, 23, as he graduates from the Plan II program.

The Arrowhead Filmsa documentary about American women who served in the Vietnam War, a oeA Touch of Home: The Vietnam Wara s Red Cross Girls,a recently won as the Best Short Documentary in the 2009 GI Film Festival in Washington, DC.

An Austin woman was charged with aggravated assault against a peace officer after police said she attacked a West Lake Hills officer at the Travis County Sheriffa s Office Central Booking facility.

By Will Pafford, Staff Writer West Lake Hills resident Brad Armstrong has been a lawyer, an entrepreneur, an author and an actor.

West Lake Hills is working toward obtaining a federal grant for sidewalks that will help pedestrians travel to local schools.

Vice President Joe Bidena s visit to the National Domestic Violence Hotline in West Lake Hills left the staff of the center amazed by his warmness and sincere interest in helping victims of abuse.

Pinched household budgets are probably helping ignite more domestic violence, Vice President Joe Biden said today after touring an Austin-based national hotline for battered women that he helped create.

Cynthia Evans Probst, a member of the West Lake Hills City Council, has been charged with misdemeanor harassment, according to an arrest affidavit.