Grapevine residents said Tuesday evening at a Grapevine City Council workshop meeting that they were generally pleased that the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center was making efforts to reduce noise and lights into the neighborhood.
But residents said they were shocked to learn that along with a pool facility, the Gaylord Texan would put a cement pad site across the street from residents to use for the hotelfs annual ICE! sculpture event.
The city of Grapevine awarded a $53,000 contract recently to J. Stowe and Company to conduct a water and wastewater cost-of-service and rate design model. The city, which has not adjusted the rates since 1999, will use the information in deciding whether to increase water and sewer rates.
The city of Grapevine currently charges $9.75 for the first 2,000 gallons of water and $7.80 for sewer with the first 2,000 gallons of water. After that, it is $2.74 for each thousand gallons of water, and $3.26 for sewer with each thousand gallons of water.
The bad guys — and gals — are out in force.
Doubt that, and glance at our weekly police blotters — everything from auto and home burglaries to vandalism of all types.
A 10-year-old Grapevine boy was struck by a pickup Monday night as he was walking across Dove Road near Dove Park.
The truck hit the boy about 9:30 p.m. Monday on Dove Road between Park Boulevard and Hood Lane as the boy was crossing from the park to a large apartment complex on the south side of the street.
Crayton Gordon, a member of the "Texas Lost Battalion" of World War II. He worked on the infamous Burma-Thailand railroad. One-fifth of the POWs used by the Japanese in forced labor on this project died.
On a recent Friday afternoon, Crayton Gordon stepped out of his home into the blazing sun to get the mail. Stepping back in, he couldn’t remember dropping some of the pieces on the front lawn.
At 88, despite two heart attacks and other health complications, Gordon, an Army prisoner of war in the 1940s and a Keller resident, gets around well but struggles with his memory. Such is the state of the story behind one of the most infamous prisoner of war experiences — construction of the Death Railway of World War II.
Southlake property owner Sean Brown and his girlfriend Yuliya Bairefoot had a happy signing with agent Hadi Shaaban.
Lured by thousands of dollars in signing bonuses, hundreds of Southlake residents gathered to sign their natural gas leases last week. The event featured free barbecue.
More than 200 Southlake residents attended the signing parties on June 25 and June 28 at St. John Church on Kimball Avenue.
Some of the bricks on the old Metro Cinema, now scheduled to open in August under a new name, were recently removed after slippage shattered a window at nearby Austin Lorin.
Last week as officials were announcing that Colleyville’s Metro Cinema will reopen in mid-August under new management, a large portion of bricks on the front wall of the theater slid down several inches placing additional weight on a steel support above a window of the Austin Lorin clothing store next door, shattering the window.
Mark Schulman, of Shulman Partners, the theater’s new manager, said Monday that the slippage was caused by a water leak, and that no structural damage was involved. A large number of bricks have been removed, Schulman said, to get to the leak.
David and Leslie Scott show off the new electric Tomberlin E-Merge vehicle. A new, more street-adapted cart, with doors, will be introduced in August. Consumers are attracted to the vehicles for in-town driving because of dramatic savings in fuel.
At first glance, the E-Merge looks like it was built to haul golf clubs, not groceries.
Upon closer examination, the vehicle has everything needed to hit the streets, including seat belts, mirrors, headlights, turn signals, a speedometer and a lockable trunk.
COLLEYVILLE
July 5 - Afriky Lolo presents The Goddess Zaouli, an African Dance Festival, at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Colleyville Center, 5301 Riverwalk Drive. Call 469-682-1118, 469-328-4650 or e-mail ccevents@ci.colleyville.tx.us.
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Trees and wealthy neighborhoods are some of the biggest attractions for Colleyville and helped it climb to No. 3 in D Magazine’s ranking of the 62 Best Suburbs in Dallas.
Grapevine made up some ground, too, moving from No. 25 to No. 24 in the biennial article’s ranking.
The Grapevine City Council on Tuesday approved a change in zoning for land along North Main Street that the property owners said was not needed.
The land is west of North Main Street between Peach Street and Banyan Drive. City officials said the land was rezoned to a zero-lot-line district to comply with the city’s master plan and to prevent commercial or multifamily development.
Members of the third-grade team "The Heritage 3" are from left, Allyson McCain, Athisha Piyapanee and Ishan Navendra.
Three students from Heritage Elementary in Grapevine stepped up to the plate when they attended the National Math Bee last month at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Ala.
Anisha Navendra, Ishan Navendra and Allyson McCain participated in an online math tournament May 2-3 sponsored by BatterUp, a computer math game that records players’ math skills in the form of batting averages. Since 2006, the online tournament has chosen the three highest scoring teams from each state to attend the national bee.
Nurse practicioner Barbara Buckely and Dr. Alan Cowen discuss the new system at a press conference.
Comprehensive Women’s Healthcare, inside Baylor Medical Center at Grapevine, is using its Web site to enable doctors to make virtual house calls.
Patients can interact with their doctors from the comfort and convenience of their own homes through www.grapevineob.com, the medical center’s Web site. This online, secure portal enables patients to enter symptoms into a questionnaire and receive their personal doctors’ consultation.
Grapevine-Colleyville school district released its annual report this month on the district’s random drug-testing program. Officials said they believe that the three-year-old program is deterring drug use among students.
Seven students tested positive for marijuana this past school year. Four of those were at Grapevine High, and three were at Colleyville Heritage.
The new steeple in Southlake belongs to Lakeside Presbyterian Church [P.C.A.] After much prayer and work, Lakeside completed a 7,000-square-foot church building at 2701 W. Southlake Blvd., neighboring the new Watermere development for senior living.
The Colleyville Commuter Rail Committee, appointed by the City Council, has had a series of meetings this month to get public input about the commuter rail that is expected to link Fort Worth to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport through Colleyville and Grapevine.
Weekly Police Blotter from June 27
Despite a sluggish economy nationally, area cities and school districts are seeing increases in property valuations and continuing growth from new construction.
Grapevine’s two public swimming pools are open for the summer.
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