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CONCORD – With help from Santa Claus and Charlotte Motor Speedway’s mascot Lug Nut, members of Speedway Children’s Charities Charlotte chapter’s Board of Trustees and staff visited area nonprofits earlier

Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox will leave office on Monday after serving in the role for three years and winning back-to-back elections in 2018 and 2019 when the city changed term lengths for local officials. Cox said she first ran to try to bring people together as the city underwent rapid growth and a shifting demographic.  “Im a planner,” she said. “I really thought we needed some tools in place for the city to get much more sophisticated about how we approach economic development, plan for...

All results are unofficial until certified and canvassed by the county clerk. Bee Cave The makeup of Bee Cave City Council will remain unchanged following the May 1 local election. Incumbents Andrew Clark, Kevin Hight and Andrea Willott will hold onto their seats after receiving a majority of votes. Bee Cave voters also approved a special election to reauthorize the local sales and use tax along with eight ballot propositions focused on updating the city’s charter. Read more about the elect...

Changes coming to Pflugerville, Lake Travis school boards For Travis County election results and vote count totals, please visit our election results page. Champagne, Spradley keep seats on Eanes school board Incumbents Jennifer Champagne, Place 5, and James Spradley, Place 4, will keep their seats on the Eanes school board after a very contentious and expensive election.  Final results from the county show Champagne with 54.5% of the votes in her race against opponent Jennifer Stevens. Spra...

As a growing number of community volunteers descend on the MaineHealth COVID-19 clinics in Knox and Waldo counties, a common theme has emerged. Volunteers see the clinics as the largest – and most important – community events that Knox and Waldo counties have ever experienced. And they want to be a part of it. “It absolutely feels like a community event where everyone is pulling together for the sake of the town,” said volunteer Sandy Cox, in a MaineHealth news release. Cox is a Camden ...

As a growing number of community volunteers descend on the MaineHealth COVID-19 clinics in Knox and Waldo counties, a common theme has emerged. Volunteers see the clinics as the largest – and most important – community events that Knox and Waldo counties have ever experienced. And they want to be a part of it. “It absolutely feels like a community event where everyone is pulling together for the sake of the town,” said volunteer Sandy Cox, in a MaineHealth news release. Cox is a Camden ...

The Lakeway City Council voted Monday night to extend the winter storm disaster declaration, which will help those applying for financial relief do so more easily, Mayor Sandy Cox said.  Cox called the storm “probably the worst disaster this area has ever experienced in its history” and thanked city staff, first responders and the community for helping the area pull through the crisis.  Cox said the city did not initially declare a disaster because the state and county declarations covere...

In the wake of the unprecedented winter storm that dumped freezing rain and more than a foot of snow on the Lakeway area during a week in mid-February, Lakeway City Council on March 1 unanimously approved extending a disaster declaration for the city. Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox first declared a disaster within the city limits Feb. 26. The disaster declaration will make it easier for residents to file insurance and other kinds of claims to cover damages resulting from the storm, she said. During...

The idea behind extending Main is to connect RM 620 to Lohmans Crossing to take pressure off an increasingly crowded RM 620. Adding urgency is that at some point in the future, construction will take place on RM 620 to widen the roadway. Having Main connect Lohmans Crossing to RM 620 would provide an alternative, safer route during construction, Cox said. However, doing so requires working with two separate developers—Stratus Lakeway Center LLC and Legend Communities. Both own property along ...

The idea of proportionality is laid out in Texas Local Government Code, according to the Texas Public Law website. The law states a municipality can require a developer to pay for costs such as road construction, but those costs “may not exceed the amount required for infrastructure improvements that are roughly proportionate to the proposed development as approved by a professional engineer,” according to the public law website. York said if Lakeway were to delay action on the ordinance, i...