Category Archives: Lake Travis

River Place Elementary parents seek answers for bus tardiness

LISD says congestion, construction,  lack of drivers are main reasons

Savannah Bruce is greeted by her family as she gets off her school bus on Nov. 20. Four Points neighborhoods off City Park Road are reporting school bus delays of up to an hour and 20 minutes in the afternoon coming from River Place Elementary. LESLEE BASSMAN

By LESLEE BASSMAN, Four Points News

As Thanksgiving break begins and the school year is well underway, parents in the neighborhoods along City Park Road have voiced concerns about ongoing Leander ISD school bus delays.

For Westminster Glen resident Ashley Bruce, whose daughter Savannah is in the third grade at River Place Elementary School, the issue has been mounting since the semester’s start.

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SEC accuses a Steiner Ranch resident of role in Ponzi scheme

Staff Reports 

On Nov. 25, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against Brett Pittsenbargar, a Texas-based external sales agent for Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC, and his wholly-owned alter ego company, for illegally selling Woodbridge securities and other securities in unregistered transactions to retail investors while acting as an unregistered broker. 

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December 1 2019 Issue

Vandegrift band & Vision Dance are Grand National Champions

Photos by Jennifer Lin Craven

By KRISTEN HILL, Contributor

The Vandegrift Viper band and Vision Dance Company was named the Bands of America Grand National Champions last weekend in Indianapolis with its 2019 field production, “Aria Queen of the Night”. 

“Their culminating performance at the Grand National finals was one of the most outstanding displays by high school students that I have ever witnessed,” said Mike Howard, VHS director of bands. “Being named Bands of America National Champions was just icing on the cake of an already terrific season.”

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Lender for the former 3M site pushes for foreclosure sale

A third foreclosure sale date has been set for Dec. 3 on the former 3M campus at RM 2222 and River Place Boulevard. WORLD CLASS HOLDINGS

Staff Reports

The latest foreclosure sale for the former 3M site at 6801 River Place Blvd. is set for Dec. 3, according to sources.

World Class avoided a previous foreclosure sale that had been scheduled for Oct. 1 and another that was set for Nov. 5.

“Lender Tuebor REIT Sub LLC has once again engaged the substitute trustee to sell the former 3M campus in northwest Austin at a foreclosure auction Dec. 3,” Jan Buchholz posted on Monday. She is an Austin real estate journalist who researches details and publishes them at ATX Real Estate News (atxrealestatenews.com).  

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