Danielle Austin moved to Austin for work in 1997, shortly after graduating from college. Two years later she met Ron Austin, who had moved from Miami, and they later married. They bought a home in North Austin in 2004, but as their family grew and their needs changed, the Austins moved to Pflugerville with their two children, where they have lived for about six years.
“We needed more space and wanted to make sure we found a school district with good education programs and where athletics and extracurricular activities were active and built up,” Ron Austin said.
More Austin families have started to move to neighboring Central Texas cities over the past decade, and local leaders attribute that to a combination of factors, including the rising cost of living in Austin, the tightening housing market, the desire for more space, and the importance of good schools and welcoming communities.
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Sometimes, help comes from places you don t expect.
Austin City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison seemed to be feeling that when she tweeted on Sunday, We re currently handing out a hundred @Via313Pizza pies here at the Millennium courtesy of @diplo. Not a sentence I ever expected to type.
Just the night before, music producer and EDM star Diplo real name Thomas Wesley Pentz had tweeted, to families in the Austin area. we will have 400+ meals tmrw SUNDAY. stop by the @atxmusicians disaster relief drive starting at 3pm. He also included the address for East Austin s Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, which is where the Via 313 pizzas ended up.
In lieu of the
MLK Day, the organization will be hosting a socially distanced
MLK Day In-Car Rally at St. James Missionary Baptist Church (3417 E. MLK) on Monday, Jan. 18, at 10:30am, to commemorate Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.
The rally – which Austinites are able to attend virtually via a Facebook livestream (www.fb.com/mlkcelebration) or in-person by signing up for a parking spot (registration required) – is one of several socially distanced or virtual events the Austin Area Heritage Council has planned for this weekend, including Saturday’s
Youth Legacy Scholarship Reception for high school juniors and seniors, where recipients of the MLK Youth Scholarship Awards will be recognized.
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UT Austin nursing student Paige Holloway gets the COVID-19 vaccine at Dell Medical School on Dec. 15.
As part of the strategy to immunize people as quickly and efficiently as possible in Texas, H-E-B, CVS, Kroger and Walgreens make up a significant chunk of companies administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
The problem with the state s plan is pretty obvious for officials in low-income communities of color: These communities don’t tend to attract a lot of big chain stores.
Manor Mayor Larry Wallace said his suburban community in the eastern part of Travis County is going to have a harder time getting access to the vaccine.