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LISD school board weighs in on naming honors

Leander ISD’s newest middle school will be named for longtime Cedar Park High School teacher and dance instructor Stacy Danielson. Courtesy photo

STAFF REPORTS

Leander ISD’s newest middle school will be named for longtime Cedar Park High School teacher and dance instructor Stacy Danielson after a unanimous vote of the district’s board of trustees on Dec. 13.

Danielson spent her entire 17-year teaching career at Cedar Park High School and passed away over the summer after a two-year battle with cancer.

The board’s 6-0 vote to name the district’s ninth middle school after Danielson came after four people spoke publicly in support of Danielson being chosen as the school’s namesake. A total of seven names were under consideration.

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District 6’s Flannigan reflects on ‘crazy, crazy year’

Jimmy Flannigan was sworn in to serve the people of Austin City Council District 6 nearly two years ago on Jan. 6, 2017. District 6 includes a large portion of the Four Points area. Flannigan, whose term ends Jan.7, 2021, reflects on 2018 and touches on local roads. Photo courtesy of the city of Austin

By JACK CRAVER, Austin Monitor

Council Member Jimmy Flannigan believes City Council had a lot more to deal with in 2018 than it should have.

Council welcomed a new city manager, found new chiefs for the police and fire departments, engaged in an extended dispute with the police union over oversight and pay, and tried and failed to overhaul the city’s land development code.

“It was a crazy, crazy year,” he said during an interview in his City Hall office.

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December 30 2018 Issue

VHS shares holiday cheer in many languages with RPE

Teacher Mima Nazarene sang “Mary Did You Know” with several Vandegrift students. They went to River Place
Elementary to meet students who, like them, are from other countries.

By MEGAN MESSER , Vandegrift Voice

Some 20 Vandegrift students, who are from all over the world, brought holiday cheer to about 20 students at River Place Elementary, who are also from other countries.

“The purpose of the trip was to spread cheer and to build relationships,” said Nazarene, the English as a Second Language teacher at VHS who organized the event.

Viper students – originally from China, Italy, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, El Salvador, Guatemala, Spain, Venezuela and Mexico – connected with RPE students while singing versions of “Jingle Bells” and “Feliz Navidad” accompanied by guitar. Then Nazarene and some Vipers sang “Mary Did You Know”.

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