Category Archives: Grandview Hills

Travis Co. Sheriff’s & DPS recap 5-vehicle 620 accident

Ryan McKittrick, Texas Highway Patrol sergeant, recapped the May 16 accident at the Steiner Ranch Neighborhood Association meeting on June 18. Usually an accident is cleared in a couple of hours but this one lasted 8 hours because it was so complex.

SRNA hosts officials

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Officers from Travis County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety were at last week’s Steiner Ranch Neighborhood Association meeting to explain how they handled the five-vehicle accident on May 16 that affected thousands of local residents over 8 hours.

Law enforcement officials said that this was one of the biggest accidents that the county has ever had.

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Vandegrift graduation 2018

Some 550 Vandegrift graduates received their high school diploma on June 8 at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. Eight members of the VHS class of 2018 graduated early in January:

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Fathers build with kindergartners

Earlier this month, kindergartners at Laura W. Bush Elementary worked with their dads to build and paint airplanes. Home Depot experts came out to help at the event for the third year.

“Our kindergartners had a fun day building with their dads on June 5,” said Mindy Hostick, LWBE kinder teacher.

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Austin Fire Dept. investigates Steiner brush fire

The investigation continues on the June 13 brush fire that consumed more than an acre in the greenbelt around University of Texas Golf Club near Lake Austin.

By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News

Austin Fire Department continues its investigation of the cause of last week’s greenbelt fire that consumed just over an acre between the University of Texas Golf Club community of Steiner Ranch and Lake Austin.

On June 13 after 4 p.m., Lake Travis Fire Rescue crews arrived on the scene near the 1600 block of Lakecliff Hills Lane to find a fire burning in the greenbelt, said Glenn Trubee, captain of prevention division LTFR.

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