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Fox 7 News in Austin aired a story this morning about Lake Travis High School.  LTHS has been in the news a lot lately, but mainly because of the amazing football team that won state last year and that is flying high this year.  This story featured the LTHS Interact Club, a club that I have worked with as a Rotary Club adviser since ...

The Lake Travis High School Interact Club, a community service club, is holding a coin drive to raise money to send to the American Red Cross to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike.  This is being done at the high school over the next 10 days, but you can help in another way. Interact is also holding a car wash.  Most of the proceeds will ...

Sales of new homes in Apache Shores have really fallen flat.  By new, I mean built in 2007 or later.  Only 3 new homes have sold in Apache Shores in 2008 and there are 2 under contract.  There are currently 36 active listings for new homes in Apache Shores. Of the new active listings, they average 1913 square feet with 3 bedrooms ...

From the Lake Travis ISD weekly e-newsletter: "For the third year in a row, Lake Travis High School is listed as one of Newsweek's Top 1,300 schools in the country. This year, the campus jumped more than 200 spots to be listed at number 503 - its highest ranking yet. According to the magazine (The Top of the Class, newsweek.com, 2007), ...

Part of what I do with the Lakeway - Lake Travis Rotary Club is act as adviser to a community service club at Lake Travis High School (LTHS) called Interact. As its international service project for this school year, the Lake Travis High School Interact Club held a two week long coin drive as a fundraiser for Heifer International.  The group ...

36 - 34 was the final score and I have no idea who would have believed it - except for everyone at Lake Travis High School.  The LT football team had a record of 15 and 1 and ended their season with the state championship in 4A Division II football.  I didn't get to go to the game as I was out of town, but my friend ...

Two new communities are coming on line in the Lakeway and Bee Cave area. North Lakeway features town homes and single family homes. The prices range from the low 300's to the mid 400's. The town homes are 2,500 to 2,600 square feet. The single family homes are 2,250, 4,000 square feet. This project features great Hill Country and Lake ...

I just got back from my LAkeway - Lake Travis Rotary Club meeting, at which the developer of the new Hill Country Galleria Mall gave us a great update.  Highlites: Dillards will have a soft opening September 21 and the official opening September 26.  The western most entrance to the mall, where Dillards is, will be open as will the ...

I listened to Rocky Kirk, the superintendent of the Lake Travis ISD, today at a lunch.  Rocky gave an update on school district growth and a few other things. At the end of Rocky's talk Russ Eitel asked a question about property tax reform.  Rocky told us that although many people think the state legislature ended what we call ...

There is a piece of land of about 1050 acres west of Austin that will be turned into a very nice community of luxury homes if the developer gets everything permitted.  What was the Covert Ranch will become Vizcaya, a community slated to have around 500 homes, walking paths, a golf course and a marina on Lake Travis.  ...