June 6 2018 Issue
Category Archives: Westminster Glen
River Place students participate in “Ride Your Bike to School”
Photos by Diane McGaugh
About 30 River Place Elementary students rode their bikes from Sun Tree Park to school on May 18.
“It just happened to be National Ride Your Bike to Work Day and that was just a coincidence,” said Diane McGaugh, organizer of the event.
Two directors resign at Steiner HOA board meeting
Recently re-elected Steiner Ranch Master Association board member Robby Roberts (far right) and another at-large board member, Erika Fletcher, (second from right) both resigned and walked out of the SRMA board meeting on May 22. Other SRMA board members R-L Rekha Garapati, Amy Colton, Brad Stanton, Naren Chilukuri
Share reasons behind the departure
By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News
Posted May 29, 2018
Two board members of the Steiner Ranch Master Association resigned Tuesday night during the monthly SRMA board meeting, after the “intent to pursue” management service changes passed by the board.
After a majority of the board approved “the intent to pursue a management change after the costs involved are assessed and validated”, Robby Roberts — board member who was re-elected to his second term in April — shared comments, resigned and walked out. Erika Fletcher — who has served the board for one-year of her two-year term — followed suit by sharing comments, resigning and also walking out.
Both cited they do not feel they can effectively carry on their service to the Steiner community by being on the SRMA board.
Charter bus driver uses cell phone on I-35 while driving LISD students
This bus driver is caught on video using a cell phone while driving Stiles MS band students on I-35. Leander ISD is investigating.
By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News
Leander ISD is investigating a charter bus driver who was caught on video using a cell phone while driving on I-35 with a bus full of Stiles Middle School band students who were heading to Schlitterbahn water park on May 18.
“The video of a charter bus driver transporting Stiles Middle School Band students while handling his phone last weekend was concerning,” Corey Ryan, LISD’s chief communications officer, said in a statement.
Two missing, Lake Travis swimmers involve intensive searching over past few weeks
Kristen Dark, Senior Public Information Officer with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, provides an update on two swimmers who went missing on Lake Travis this month. Leslee Bassman
Travis County partners with state, local agencies to find male, female
By LESLEE BASSMAN, Four Points News
Over the past several weeks, multiple state and local agencies have been searching the Lake Travis waters for two missing swimmers from separate incidents.
“Lake Travis is an absolutely gorgeous asset that our county has. But it is a body of water that needs to be taken seriously, and that’s something we’ve seen evidence of already this year,” said Kristen Dark, senior public information officer with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. TCSO held a news briefing on May 22.