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Chubbs marks 4th year delivering newspapers

Johnathon Chubbs, a local favorite, has been hand-delivering Four Points News to Steiner Ranch businesses for more than four years.

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Johnathon Chubbs marks his fourth year delivering Four Points News newspapers each week to businesses in Steiner Ranch. 

He is a local fixture at his “second home” at Cups & Cones where he faithfully rolls more than 40 papers to hand-deliver every week.

“He loves C&C and his Steiner Ranch family,” said Sherise Hunter, Chubbs mom. “He takes great pride in delivering the newspapers.”

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2019 on the Appalachian Trail: An unexpected feast

The start of this year’s Appalachian Trail section hike in Kent, CT.

By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News

Four years of hiking sections of the Appalachian Trail have taught me much — whether about myself, life or the trail itself — and 2019 was no exception.

This year I hiked across Connecticut and Massachusetts for a total of about 120 miles. The trail was familiar, an old friend: green, lush, bursting at the seams with lifeforms big and small. Ancient trees. Fingernail-sized frogs and fist-sized toads. Orange salamanders and striped racer snakes. Tiny black flies that like to swarm your face and land on your eyeballs.

Some features were new, such as the path itself that wended through the forest, more dirt and soft pine needles than the usual rocks that characterize the trail along previous sections I’ve hiked (Georgia, part of North Carolina, New Jersey and New York). The air, as always, smelled sweet and clean, but here I smelled too the tang of pines heated by the sun and the unmistakable Christmas smell of fir trees.

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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