The following are samples of stories from this week's issue:

Westminster Manor plans expansion
for the new year

By Rose L. Thayer
Managing Editor,
and Paige Alam,
Staff Writer

Westminster Manor plans begin construction on their $115 million expansion some time in the new year. The popular West Austin retirement community was built around 40 years ago and is planning to construct a five-story building totaling 248,500 square feet just next door to the current facility...

West Side Stories:
Living Downtown

By Forrest Preece
Staff Writer

How do we like living downtown?

Linda and I moved out of our house on Shoal Creek where we resided for 31 years and have been living in the 44-story 360 high-rise condos at Third and Nueces for six months. Now when we go out, we invariably have someone asking questions about how we like it down here...

Ballet Fête at the Long Center

By Robert Godwin
Events Editor

Perfect weather played a starring role in the annual Ballet Fête which featured a theme of “Fly Me to the Moon” this year...

McCallum students sweep political awareness contest

By Rose L. Thayer
Managing Editor

Juniors in Jim Furgeson’s AP U.S. history class at McCallum nearly shut out the competition in a statewide political awareness campaign, earning $1,700 in prize money for the high school. More than 200 middle and high school students from across Texas made their political voices heard through the 2008 Tex Elects contest, which incorporates Get-Out-the-Vote activities into the classroom...

Regents Knights headed for state finals

The Regents Knights upset the heavily favored Saints of Carrollton Christian Academy on Saturday with a 40-15 victory in the state semifinal playoff game. As a result, this will be the fifth time the Regents Knights have reached the TAPPS state football finals since 2001...