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Vandegrift wins contest at LEEF gala

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The Vandegrift team of principals and administrators won the top prize of $7,000 for Project Graduation at the Leander ISD Educational Excellence Foundation 3rd annual gala on Saturday.

LEEF’s executive director, Gloria Gonzales estimates that $125,000 was raised for LEEF programs and initiatives. More than 450 guests filled a ballroom at the Hilton Austin for the sold-out event on Jan. 27.  

The highlight of the gala was the 1970s’ inspired, lip sync battle between the six LISD high school principals and their feeder path middle and elementary school principals and administration.

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4Points Academy relocates within Steiner

The Isidores started 4Points Academy located in Steiner Ranch: Eustace, Nesia, Naome (7), and Etienne (8).

Local founders have passion for education

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Started as an educational vision by local residents, 4Points Academy recently relocated to a larger space in the same Quinlan Crossing shopping center near Randalls.

Eustace Isidore and his wife Nesia Warner Isidore — each originally from the Caribbean and both successful as a patent attorney who owns a law firm and global trade consultant for a worldwide accounting firm — created 4Points Academy in 2016. The private school offers full time kinder through 8th grade, flexible and part-time programs for home-schoolers and athletes, and after school options.

“The new facilities have more space and a nicer feel overall. We plan to put a playscape in back and use some of the green space for instruction,” Eustace said. The school is located at 5145 RM 620.

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Local resident named “Citizen of the Year”

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Laney Lyons of Steiner Ranch was named “Citizen of the Year” by the West Austin Chamber of Commerce last week for the work Lyons does with Community First Village and school children in East Austin.

Lyons — an entrepreneur who owns two small businesses: Hiring and

Empowering, a staffing and coaching company, and Back Office Drafting, a virtual paralegal services company — moved from Tampa, Fla. to Austin almost four years ago.

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2017 Four Points home sales down, prices up

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The number of homes sold in the Four Points area — including Steiner Ranch, River Place, Grandview Hills and Comanche Trails — were down 3 percent in 2017 but sale prices increased per square foot.  

There were 408 homes sold in 2017, down from 421 homes sold in 2016 in Four Points, “continuing a six-year trend of reduced unit sales,” said Tom Radack, owner Bartlett Real Estate, Keller Williams Realty.

“However, the median price increased to $525,250, or $165 per square foot, continuing the trend of previous years,” Radack said. Last year, the median price was closer to $492,500 or $160 per square foot.

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