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400+ member VHS band wins Sudler Shield award

The Vandegrift High School Band has been chosen as the 2019 Sudler Shield Award Winner!  The Sudler Shield is an international award recognizing “High School and International Marching Bands of World Class Excellence” and is administered by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. 

By NATALIE BRINK,  CLAIRE LAWRENCE 

Vandegrift Voice

The John Philip Sousa Foundation awarded the Vandegrift band and Vision Dance Company the 2019 Sudler Shield. The award recognizes high school marching bands that meet the foundation’s international standards of excellence.

“It was a shock,” snare captain Israel Ramirez said. “It’s really difficult what the directors asked of us, and people who have four years of experience doing what we did, people who had two months of experience all worked toward the same goal. The fact that we could get rewarded was really important to me.”

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TxDOT to break ground in 2022 on RM 620 South widening

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The $75 million RM 620 South widening project is scheduled to break ground in late 2022. 

The Texas Department of Transportation hosted a public hearing on Feb. 20 to share the proposed improvements to RM 620 South, from SH 71 to Hudson Bend Road, not far from Mansfield Dam. 

“Total price tag is estimated to be $75 million from SH 71 to Hudson Bend Road,” said Brad Wheelis, TxDOT public information officer. “It will cost $60 million from SH 71 to Oak Grove Boulevard. That section is expected to start construction in late 2022.”

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Foster’s body found at Hippie Hollow

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The Travis County Sheriff’s Office Lake Patrol found a body on the shoreline of Lake Travis just after 7 a.m. on Feb. 21 and later confirmed it was the body of Brenden “Chameleon” Foster.

Foster’s body was found in the vicinity of Hippie Hollow, where the abandoned vehicle and his belongings were discovered 16 days earlier on Feb. 5.  

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Death ruled accidental of body in car in Lake Austin Feb. 2019

Nancy Eisemann Blackburn
Sept. 28, 1965 – Feb. 1, 2019

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Nancy Eisemann Blackburn’s body was discovered in a submerged vehicle in Lake Austin at the end of Quinlan Park Road just over a year ago on Feb. 2, 2019, and Austin Police Department stated that her blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit.  

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Man’s whereabouts unknown since abandoned car found Feb. 5

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Brenden Foster’s vehicle was found by authorities abandoned on Feb. 5 in the Four Points area and he was reported missing by his family after that, but extensive searches by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office and volunteers have not turned up conclusive answers as to his whereabouts as of Thursday morning. 

On Feb. 6, articles of Foster’s personal belongings, including his prescription eyeglasses were found near the water at stairwell 14 (the last stairwell in the park) when park officials did preliminary search of park, according to information from the family.

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