The American Dream: work hard, eat right, and live in the Lake Travis-overlooking, library-including, "In-Home Fitness Center"-boasting mansion of your dreams.
As the smoke clears from a Leander election season that tore a rift in the City Council and put the mayor before the city's Ethics Commission and ultimately unseated him one thing is certain: The friction between incumbent Mayor John Cowman and Mayor-elect Chris Fielder that sparked years of drama should be alleviated.
The Hye Post Office in Gillespie County was in danger of closure and is now on a list of locations being considered for reduced hours as the Postal Service tries to remain financially viable.
Ed Trevis, president and CEO of Corvalent, a tech company that moved from Silicon Valley to Cedar Park three and a half years ago, suggested the state adopt the saying Wednesday at the company's headquarters, where Gov.
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Robert George Toler, 86, of Galveston, passed away of heart failure on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at UTMB Hospital, just two weeks shy of his 87th birthday.
Leander officials approved plans Thursday for a 2,000-acre project that would add thousands of homes, retail space and schools to the Crystal Falls West development, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
At least one person was killed and two injured in a crash involving a Capital Metro train at a private rail crossing in North Austin at about 7:45 a.m., officials said this morning.
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Three more businesses - Longhorn Balls, a specialty chocolate shop; Lakeview Winery, selling Texas wines and gifts; and Crawshay Gallery, a fine art photography gallery - have joined the growing mix of shops at the Oasis on Lake Travis.
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Forty-one dogs taken in by the Humane Society of Williamson County in connection with a large seizure of neglected animals from the Uvalde Animal Shelter are healthy and ready for adoption, the shelter reports.
With strict rules about test security, interruptions and campus access, the days given over to standardized academic testing in Texas are always a little different from the usual routine.
All is clear at Knowles Elementary in Cedar Park after a suspicious package found on the school playground turned out to be food in a Tupperware container, Leander school district spokeswoman Veronica Sopher said.
City Description
Leander ( /liˈændər/ lee-AN-dər) is a city in Williamson and Travis counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 7,596 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the 2008 population at 25,424. The city was established in 1882 on the railroad to Austin and was named in honor of Leander "Catfish" Brown, a railroad official.
It was near Leander that the Leanderthal Lady, a skeleton dating back 10,000 to 13,000 years, was discovered; the site was one of the earliest intact burials found in the United States.
Leander is located at 30°33′40″N 97°51′37″W / 30.56111°N 97.86028°W / 30.56111; -97.86028 (30.561108, -97.860301), about 22 miles northwest of Austin.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.5 square miles (19.3 km²). None of the area is covered with water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 7,596 people, 2,522 households, and 2,042 families residing in the city. However, by 2003, that number had nearly doubled to 13,846. In 2000, The population density was 1,016.2 people per square mile (392.6/km²). There were 2,612 housing units at an average density of 349.4 per square mile (135.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city
