Category Archives: Four Points

SR evacuation route funding being considered

Construction on proposed $2.7 million project could start in early 2019

By KIM ESTES
Four Points News

A proposal funding construction of an emergency evacuation route from Steiner Ranch is scheduled for consideration Tuesday, Feb. 21 by Travis County Commissioners, said Travis Gatlin, budget director of the Travis County Planning and Budget Office.

The project creates a secondary access point from Flat Top Ranch Road to Fritz Hughes Park Road. Cost of the proposed route is $2.7 million. Additionally, the connection will not be open to everyday traffic, said David Greear, Travis County – Transportation and Natural Resources engineering division manager.

If approved as recommended by the Planning and Budget Office and the Transportation and Natural Resources office, construction could begin in less than two years, Greear said.

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Valentine’s in Four Points

Sydney Loest, LWBE first grader, likes Valentine’s because everyone dresses up in red, pink and white and sometimes black. This year her dad helped her make her box so she could collect cards and candy at her school party.

“My box explains about me. At church school we talked about the Garden of Eden and I decided to make that my box and added glitter and butterflies,” said Eden Stockdell, Laura W. Bush Elementary 1st grader.

I made a unicorn box cuz unicorns make me happy. Last year for Valentine’s I got a unicorn and I always sleep with it.

“My box explains about me. At church school we talked about the Garden of Eden and I decided to make that my box and added glitter and butterflies,” said Eden Stockdell, Laura W. Bush Elementary 1st grader.

Sawyer Jackson
LWBE 1st grader
I made a Star Wars, Pokemon, and Angry Bird Transformers box because I really like Star Wars, Pokemon and Angry Bird Transformers. It took a long time to color.

Grace Draeken
LWBE 1st grader
I made a unicorn box cuz unicorns make me happy. Last year for Valentine’s I got a unicorn and I always sleep with it.

Kevin Mena, 4th grade at River Ridge Elementary, shows off his Valentine’s box.

Lauren Wade’s kindergarten class at River Place Elementary featured Valentine’s boxes on Tuesday from L-R Landry, Caroline, Stella, Skylah, and Alex.

Raedyn
Debruyne, a pre-K student at Primrose of Four Points, worked hard perfecting the details of his Valentine’s cards this year.

William
Zimmerman
LWBE 1st grader
I made a robot because I like robots. We looked at some pictures and came up with this idea.

Bobcat in River Place greenbelt


Steve Snodell’s game camera captured a bobcat on Jan. 25 in his River Place backyard greenbelt on Merrywing Circle.

“I have never seen it, only on the game camera which has a motion sensor and infrared flash,” said Snodell, an orthodontist at Cedar Park Orthodontics.

Snodell’s camera is mounted to a tree and has a motion detector with infrared flash for night photos. Over the past couple of years, his game camera has captured photos of foxes, coyotes, deer, raccoons, skunks and opossums.

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Lake Austin to be refilled this week

The refill of Lake Austin will begin Thursday, Feb. 9. The drawdown has helped homeowners, businesses and restaurants, including the Hula Hut Austin at 3825 Lake Austin Blvd, to maintain shoreline property.

FPN Reports

The six-week drawdown of lakes Austin and LBJ will end later this week.

The refill of Lake Austin will begin Thursday, Feb. 9, and the refill of Lake LBJ will begin Friday, Feb. 10. Both lakes will be back in their normal operating ranges by Monday, Feb. 13.

The lakes were drawn down for six weeks beginning Jan. 2 to give lakeside property owners an opportunity to repair and maintain docks, retaining walls and other shoreline property. Lowering the lakes also helps curb the growth of nuisance aquatic vegetation such as hydrilla and Eurasian watermilfoil. Lake LBJ was lowered about 4 feet, and Lake Austin was drawn down about 10 feet.

Water to refill Lake Austin will be moved downstream from Lake Travis through Mansfield Dam. The water to refill Lake Austin is equivalent to about 8 inches of water in Lake Travis.

For more information on the lake lowerings, visit lcra.org/lakelowerings.