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Castle Lanterra Properties, a New York-based national real estate investment firm, announced the acquisition of Broadstone McKinney, a new 255-unit suburban multi-family community located minutes from bustling historic downtown McKinney, Texas. The company, which owns and operates more than 6,600 residential units across the country, has purchased the developer’s asset, Alliance Residential. Sources familiar with …

Community college officials are thinking outside the box when it comes to increasing enrollment through unique efforts such as targeted recruitment by zip code, outreach to women, and revamping online instruction. Community colleges in North Texas have seen a drastic drop in enrollment due to COVID-19. Dallas College saw a 15% drop from fall 2019 …

BIRMINGHAM, MI /ACCESSWIRE/October 12, 2021/M3Linked, the first franchise of its kind dedicated to cultivating business collaboration, continues its rapid expansion into a new state with the announcement of its first community in Texas. The Michigan-based brand that is revolutionizing the act of business collaboration in communities coast-to-coast will now operate in the Dallas market, welcoming …

Residents of Troup say they were getting calls from what they believed to be the city asking for their financial information. It is in fact a scam. TYLER, Texas – Con artists are always looking for new ways to target victims, and the latest scam, called “identity theft,” is circulating in the town of Troup, …

East Texans are now offered the opportunity to learn sign language for free. Clarkston Elementary from Tyler ISD offers a free course that will teach participants the basics of American Sign Language. Clarkston Elementary teacher Emily Woodbury said due to a high deaf population there needs to be greater proficiency in American Sign Language. “Everyone …

BELTON, Texas (KWTX) – The communities of Morgan’s Point and Belton have lost Josh Bingham, 39, a beloved businessman, friend and firefighter volunteer who died after battling COVID-19. “I would call it iconic,” said Charlie Gantenbein, a friend of Josh’s. Fishing lures are now hung from the fence outside Bingham Marine in memory of Josh …

An impromptu migrant camp under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, swelled to more than 4,500 people, according to Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, who said it had become an untenable situation for all. the people involved. Shocking photos show people being crushed, some sleeping on the floor, with clothes strung around them …

From Texas Standard: Boca Chica Beach, at the southern end of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, is next to the launch site for SpaceX, the private space exploration company of Tesla founder Elon Musk. SpaceX intends to send its shuttle to Mars one day. In the meantime, he has challenges closer to home. One …

Boca Chica Beach, at the southern end of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, neighbors the launch site of SpaceX, the private space exploration company of Tesla founder Elon Musk. SpaceX intends to one day send its rockets to Mars. In the meantime, however, he has challenges closer to home. One such challenge comes from residents of …

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” Release year : 1974 Location: round rock Director: To be Hooper Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger Manufacturing Notes: The original filming location for the film was on Quick Hill Road, just outside of Round Rock, south of where SH 45 N is today. The house used for filming has …

MARLIN, Texas (KWTX) – On Monday, X-Bow Systems Inc., or Crossbow, based in New Mexico, hosted a town hall meeting in Marlin to explore the possibility of locating a rocket test site in a remote area of ​​the Falls County. The next day, the company announced it would be removing Falls County from its list …

Cornerstone Home Lending buys Roscoe State Bank with $212.6 million in assets in Roscoe, Texas. Cornerstone, of Houston, did not say when he expects the deal to close or how much he has agreed to pay for Roscoe State Bank, which opened in 1906. Owning a bank will allow the mortgage lender “to significantly expand …

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of date. Please look at the timestamp on the story to see when it was last updated. THRALL, Texas (KXAN) – Heavy to severe storms rolled through central Texas counties Friday afternoon and evening, just as many schools had graduation plans. …

THRALL, Texas (KXAN) – Heavy to severe storms rolled through central Texas counties Friday afternoon and evening, just as many schools had graduation plans. One such graduation was for Thrall High School in Williamson County. The graduation ceremony, which was only open to families and close friends of the graduates, was actually moved inside the …

AUSTIN, Texas – What is short, rainbow, and leafy all over? Maegan King Groovy Small Plant Holder. At first glance, this is a small, rainbow-colored shelf adorned with cuttings from plants sitting in King’s front yard. But the longer you use it, the more the hidden value of the stand increases. What would you like …

Fundholders from the North Texas Community Foundation, Rainwater Charitable Foundation, Sid W. Richardson Foundation, Miles Foundation, Colonial Savings, and Texas Bank and Trust have come together to create the Fund to Advance Racial Equity in 2020 to to address community-wide issues. The fund awarded $500,520 to a number of community organizations in the first round …

The North Texas Community Foundation elected and approved the 2021-2022 board slate, which includes new officers and new board members, at its recent annual meeting. New board members include: Smith A. Brownlie III, partner and CEO of Brownlie and Braden LLC; Robert I. Fernandez, president of Fernandez & Company PC; Michael S. Malloy, managing partner …

The name lives on in nearby Cooper Lake State Park. Texas is full of cities with strange names. Many of them still exist today, but 90 minutes east of Dallas is a place that hasn’t improved over time: Granny’s Neck. Yes, Granny’s Neck is a real place. At least until 1991, when it was submerged. …

Jeff Ramert has worked in the gardening industry for almost 40 years, since the early 1980s (Kelsey Thompson / Community Impact Journal) As spring arrived in central Texas, the silent buzz of patrons at Round Rock Garden Center woke up on a Thursday morning as guests began searching for new houseplants and browsing through rows …

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin said Monday that the California-discovered variant of COVID-19, or B.1.429, has been detected among the campus community. This is the second variant found by UT’s genomic sequencing and analysis facility – the first being the UK variant or B.1.1.7. at the beginning of February. UT Austin …

LACY LAKEVIEW, Texas – The Lacy Lakeview Fire Department is trying to raise thousands of dollars. They will be selling raffle tickets now through April 2, raffle tickets for the tablet will be $10 each and $20 for the grill. There will be three prizes, a Triton charcoal/gas grill, an Android tablet and a Walmart …

Collin College did not renew the contract of historian Lora Burnett, who had criticized the college’s pandemic response and leadership (New York, NY) – PEN America today opposed the effective firing of historian Lora Burnett from a public community college in Texas. Burnett learned last week that his contract at Collin College would not be …

Sempra Energy announced on Friday that the Sempra Energy Foundation is pledging $1 million to help communities in Texas recover from the unprecedented winter storm that hit the state. This builds on a $250,000 donation from Sempra Energy for food aid in Houston and Southeast Texas and will bolster a $1 million donation from Oncor …

Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are “providing direct assistance when possible” in Texas after the deadly winter blast overwhelmed the power grid and left millions in darkness and without heat. On Twitter, Musk wrote that SpaceX helped in South Texas while Tesla helped in Central Texas, including rescuing cold-stunned turtles and helping power a …

The Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation awarded a $210,000 grant to Bastrop County Cares — a nonprofit focused on improving the social determinants of health in the county — to plan ways to create equal health opportunities for county residents. Bastrop County was one of five sites in the state chosen to receive the grant and …

DALLAS — An attorney for the family of a woman who was shot by a suburban Houston police officer last year during a fight over a stun gun said Thursday that police department leadership must enact “reforms specific” or resign. The call came three days after Baytown officer Juan Delacruz was charged with aggravated assault …

Governor Greg Abbott announced Friday that the federal government has granted his request to expand Community Based Testing Cites operations across Texas. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told NBC 5 on Friday afternoon that it will extend 14-day support for five community testing sites in Texas and also provide additional resources to …

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) — The 20th annual Community Health Fair will be held Friday at MSU Texas in Centennial Hall. According to MSU Texas, the event is hosted by the Gunn College of Health Sciences and Human Services and will run from 9 a.m. to noon. Participants can get free health checks and community …

Government agencies, community organizations, professional drone pilots or manned aircraft management – ​​almost everyone in the drone industry agrees that providing new recreational and professional drone operators with the resources they need need to understand the rules and fly safely is a huge challenge. The North Texas Drone Safety and Integration Task Force partners with …

Last month, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal reported that although wildfire season typically begins in March, West Texas experiences wildfires even earlier in the year. As a result, many communities have a wildfire action plan. But how many Texas communities do a dry run before an emergency actually happens? So far only one, the Comanche Trail …

For Juanita Valdez-Cox, asking all 2020 census respondents if they are US citizens would mean less food on family tables and more people unable to pay their rent. Valdez-Cox is the executive director of La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, a community union in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which is the lead plaintiff in …

A community group used the Kids First Allen Story Map Journal as part of a campaign to spur a $272 million school attendance measure for the Allen Independent School District (AISD) in suburban Dallas to Allen, TX. Created using the Esri Story Map Journal app, the Kids First Allen Story Map Journal has been integrated …

TYLER, Texas – In the heart of northeast Texas, Tyler’s rolling landscape is dotted with churches and historic homes, and the town is known for its roses and flower gardens. But the community is also clouded by a grim statistic, one that leaders are struggling to better understand and address. Smith County, which encompasses Tyler …

TYLER, Texas – In the heart of northeast Texas, Tyler’s rolling landscape is dotted with churches and historic homes, and the town is known for its roses and flower gardens. But the community is also clouded by a grim statistic, one that leaders are struggling to better understand and address. Smith County, which encompasses Tyler …

Katran Packard, a student at Austin Community College, said she hoped not to get pregnant before her expected graduation in December. “And now we’re having a baby in December,” said the business administration student and mother of two. For Packard, 28, it has been a battle to find birth control for several years. While living …

Karina Ramirez has attended community health centers with her family all her life. It’s affordable, the Nuestra Clinica del Valle is only 15 minutes from her home in Mercedes, she can go for her annual medical check-up, there is little waiting time and she likes her gynecologist. Ramirez, 18, seven months pregnant with her second …

ROCKPORT, Texas – It has been five months since Hurricane Harvey passed through Texas. Yet when driving through this coastal town, the damage is still significant. Mountains of debris – tree branches intertwined with metal sheets and what were once the roofs and walls of houses – are piled on the median of the freeway …

On the day that Vice President Pence travels to Sutherland Springs, Texas to console the victims of Sunday’s church shooting, townspeople are still reacting and reflecting on what happened to the small community. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Texas authorities have released a list of those who died in the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland …

Texas Governor Greg Abbot said at least 26 people were killed in Sunday’s shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs. The shooter is dead – the exact circumstances are under investigation. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The First Baptist Church in Sutherlands Springs, Texas is a crime scene this morning. A sniper opened fire there …

Nestled in the heart of central Texas is the perfect residential community for first-time buyers: Larks foot. Situated on 608 acres and boasting nearly 1,500 future hospitality sites, Larkspur offers all of the first class features we expect and love from a community planned by MileStone Community Builders. Residents will be able to soak up …

Campus Porting States Texas is now the eighth state to allow concealed weapons at public universities. Here are the other seven. Chelsea Land, USA TODAY EL PASO — A state law that allows licensed firearms owners to carry concealed handguns at institutions of higher learning extends to Texas community colleges starting Tuesday. Texas Senate Bill …

IRVING, Texas — A police spokesperson said the suspected shooter and a second person died in an apparent murder-suicide on the campus of a community college in suburban Dallas. Irving Police spokesman James McLellan said it does not appear anyone else was injured in Wednesday’s shooting at North Lake College. The Irving college had previously …

Grandstand today In South Texas, a fire-ravaged mosque is seen as a symbol of unityVictoria’s Muslim community is getting a lot of help picking up the pieces of its burnt-out mosque, which has become a symbol of unity amid a period of national fear and discord. Analysis: Rising criticism threatens single vote in TexasMost states …

There’s a group of North Texans preparing for impending doom. But they don’t just stockpile weapons and supplies. They will have underground bunkers, tunnels, and even a DNA vault. Make no mistake, they plan to live in luxury and style. Ector, Texas is a small, one-traffic town that most only see from the freeway. But …