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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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Pet of the Week Austin
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin, a labrador-retriever mix, is up for adopt at Austin Pets Alive. Here is something more from the Austin Pets Alive website: " With a little twinkle in his eyes, Austin comes over to greet you as if to say, 'Hi friend, let's go for a walk!' Easy-going, friendly and playful, he embodies many of the wonderful traits you would want in a family pet. Austin ...
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University of Texas graduates 4200
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The University of Texas will graduate 4,200 students today. We spoke to two of them. The University of Texas at Austin is expecting about 4,200 graduating students at the main commencement ceremony Saturday night with a total crowd of about 25,000. Rebekah Scheuerle is a UT senior graduating from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Scheuerle, a chemical engineering major, set her ...
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Community News Helicopters on display at STAR Flight in Austin Round Rock schools honor community partners
Helicopters on display at STAR Flight STAR Flight -- a round-the-clock aerial emergency medical services provider in Texas -- is hosting an open house from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday at the medical provider's hangar, 7800 Old Manor Road.The free event, which is being held in conjunction with National Emergency Medical Services Week, will give attendees the opportunity to take a look inside the ...
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Ball Animal house teaches AISD kids about critters
Debbie Garcia, a Living Materials specialist, holds Sonic, a hedgehog, at the Living Materials Center, which houses all kinds of critters for teachers to check out for their classrooms, like a ...
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Novak A life spent in development — and in philanthropy
Dick Rathgeber spent much of the past five decades helping shape Austin's development scene.Along the way, he has parlayed his penchant for deal-making into helping countless people and scores of charitable ...
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Grimm looking for positive results vs. Tigers
Rangers right-hander Justin Grimm, who has struggled over his last three starts, must now face the team that handed him the worst outing of his short Major League career. Grimm will take the ball against the Tigers on Saturday night in the third of a four-game series at Rangers Ballpark. The 24-year-old will oppose Anibal Sanchez as Texas tries to reclaim the series lead after having its ...
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Austin startup YouEarnedIt grows with a rewards program in which employees recognize each other
When employees at software firm Mass Relevance do something that impresses a colleague, they get more than praise.Using a program created by Austin startup YouEarnedIt, workers reward each other with digital points, which can be saved up and cashed in for prizes like iPhones and iPads, gift cards and dinner at ...
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Flood leads to redirection for racehorse rescuer
In the middle of an epic drought, a deluge came to Cedar Creek in late January 2012.At Lynn Reardon's racehorse rescue, LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers), the water totaled her and her husband Tom's vehicles, crumbled the driveway, rendered fencing useless and ruined some 300 bales of hay. The 11 horses then in her care had to be boarded. Reardon estimated damage at more than ...
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Memorial Day events focus on new Veterans Park
The dedication Memorial Day ceremony for Smithville's Veterans Memorial Park on May 27 is shaping up as a tribute to the war veterans of Bastrop County. It will mark the official opening of the park on 2nd Street and include a parade down Main Street."We have close to 4,000 names on plaques," Mayor Mark Bunte said of military members who served during the course of U.S. ...
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Long-term unemployment weighs on local national economic growth
Texas escaped the worst of the recession, but it still has a few bruises to show for one of the sharpest economic downturns in recent memory.One of the deepest bruises might be the state's stubbornly high rate of long-term ...
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Cedar Park Leander send project wish lists to county for funding
Cedar Park and Leander have sent a wish list of road and parks projects to Williamson County that could become part of a November bond election.If approved by the county commissioners court, the projects will be put in the hands of voters in ...
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Top Local Business Stories of the Week
PC maker sees earnings plunge 79 percent: Dell Inc., which remains the target of a takeover battle, said last week earnings plunged 79 percent in its fiscal first quarter as demand for personal computers continued to ...
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Council clears way for wastewater service expansion
Residents on the northeastern side of West Lake Hills will have access to the city's septic system starting in spring of 2014.At the City Council meeting earlier this month, wastewater commission Chairman Steve Hudson told the Council that the city had enough resident demand to justify paying to extend sewer lines to the area. At least 25 of the area's 51 residents who live along Hull ...
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The top local stories of the week
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who was released from jail last week after serving time on a drunken driving charge, said in a statement that she will get treatment for an unspecified issue. "I am currently seeking professional help on the advice of one of the foremost experts in this region concerning the issues that led to my behavior the night I was arrested," ...
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Love My Austin Job Burt-Watts builds success by breaking industry stereotypes
By Mauri ElbelSpecial to Statesman SolutionsHeather Merz, chief financial officer at Burt-Watts, never guessed she would end up working in the construction industry.Before joining the Austin-based general contracting and construction firm, Merz was as an audit manager for Ernst & Young -- a job that required about 80 percent travel. After she had her first child in 2005, she began looking ...
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South Lamar area’s transformation continues
The face of South Lamar Boulevard is rapidly changing - and one of the biggest transformations is happening at the former site of Lamar Plaza.Most of the 50-year-old shopping center, at 1000 S. Lamar Blvd. at Treadwell St. in South Austin, was razed this year to make way for Lamar Union, a multistory mixed-use project that will feature 443 apartments and 85,000 square feet of ground-floor retail ...
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Austin among the leading US cities emerging from recession
The financial crisis, now refered to by some as the Great Recession, has battered cities across the country, but Austin has become a pocket of hope where jobs are available and the population is growing, suggesting that the city may be among a few in the US leading the country out of the recession.
Austin has been ranked in the top 20 US cities with strong population growth, the study was done by the Census Bureau, this is a reflection of the sound economic performance of Texas as whole (the state had several of its cities in the top 20), and subsequently may be given four additional House seats following the 2010 census. Read more
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