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Are you a neighborhood Crime Analyst?
There will be a (free) presentation, How to be a Neighborhood Crime Analyst on Saturday, Oct. 30 11a – 1p at Carver Branch Library <http://www.austinlibrary.com/apllocations.cfm?acronym=acb> (1161 Angelina in East Austin)...Tonight’s ANA Executive Committee Meeting Agenda
Tonight’s ANA Executive Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm, October 28, 2010 Covenant Hall, second floor, Covenant Presbyterian Church Agenda Call to Order6:30-6:30 Agenda Approval 6:30-6:35 Minutes 6:35-6:40 Treasurer Report6:40-6:50 Committee Reports Safety –...Save the date, Friday Nov. 5th – Lamarfest 2010
Lamarfest is Friday, November 5th / 6pm – 9pm Lamar Middle School – 6201 Wynona Check out the amazing Silent Auction items that will be at Lamarfest 2010. Join us on November 5th for this community event and help support Lamar Middle School – Discount...Neighborhood Watch training this evening 10/26
Just wanted to remind everyone I'm doing Neighborhood Watch training at my house Tuesday, 10/26. 7:15pm – block captains 8:15pm – patrols Job descriptions: block captain – keeps the contact list for the street – informs people of...Austin-Travis County Obesity Survey thru Oct 31st
The City of Austin Health and Human Services Department is seekingfeedback from Austin/Travis County residents on the development of a newObesity Prevention Strategic Plan. The Plan will address policy andenvironmental changes that would make it easier for residents...
Yard Art in Allandale
Some people go beyond grass, plants, and trees to decorate their yards. Here are photos of yard art around Allandale. They include a land shark created by owner/artist Dustin Little at the corner of Shoal Creek and McElroy. Along Great Northern just north of...
Restaurant Review: El Chile Café y Cantina
Laura Dooley In the vicinity of Allandale, we have lots of restaurants that are fun to visit with kids. We take advantage of these opportunities to eat out as a family fairly regularly. But sometimes I leave those places thinking, “I wonder what it’d be like to eat...
McCallum Football Season Update
Erik Brewer It’s early in the season, but the McCallum Knights football team is off to a shaky, but exciting, start. In the first game, the Knights fell to the Trojans in the Taco Shack Bowl between the two North Austin rivals. Anderson won 48-34. The following week,...What’s Selling in Allandale – Real Estate Trends
Driving around the neighborhood these days it appears there are an unusual number of houses up for sale. I was wondering if this is indeed the case. Are there more homes for sale in Allandale today than two or three years ago before the economy went bad? What about home values in the area? Are they holding up? We know it’s a tough real estate market nationwide, but what is happening with real estate in our neighborhood?
I turned to some local realtors to get the story. Terry Echols, realtor with Keller Williams Realty, says, “there are currently 26 listings on the market in the Gullett portion of Allandale. Of those, 6 are under contract. This is a higher number of listings on the market than, say, 6 or 7 years ago, when folks planned to stay in their homes a long time. That mentality is changing.”