Alamo Heights News

Miss: Too much oregano on the pizza. Noteworthy: You can create your own pasta dish from a variety of pastas, sauces and vegetables.

First Take Media extends services First Take Media, a full service production studio located near Hollywood Park, announced last week its staff and facility are now extending their services beyond television programming production.

The San Antonio OASIS center is looking for volunteers 50 years and older to spend an hour a week reading with the same student through the school year.

Those big custom homes with the palatial master suites certainly are impressive.

Students harmonize at barbershop music fest On Sept. 19, more than 250 choir students from San Antonio and surrounding communities took part in the inaugural Barbershop Music Festival at Roosevelt High School.

Police and volunteers conduct a mock pursuit of a suspect as part of a Learning for Life Exploring demonstration and competition Oct.

On Monday, the eve of Election Day, Bexar County's elections chief gloomily predicted that fewer than one of every 20 registered voters will have cast ballots by the time polls close tonight.

Alamo Heights voters turned out in record numbers on Election Day Tuesday nearly three times the volume than for last year's presidential election handily rejecting a $10.3 million bond referendum for new municipal facilities while passing a measure to lower residential speed limits.

The Alamo Heights Fire Department has officially achieved the second-highest classification to its ISO rating a key emergency preparedness barometer.

Soe Reh and A Lee Naw, both refugees from Myanmar , and Sura Ali, a refugee from Iraq, watch as other schoolchildren walk through their classroom collecting candy during the Culebra Head Start's fall festival.

Get ready for the possibility of sharply higher gas prices in Texas after the 2011 session, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Nelson Lauro, 7, uses a laptop computer to work on his spelling skills at Cambridge Elementary School.

San Antonio City Council is facing a new hurdle as it considers the proposed expansion of the South Texas Nuclear Project, as representatives of suburban cities which rely on CPS Energy for power are threatening to attempt to block the measure, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Alamo Heights officials are seeking to recover legal fees incurred from a neighborhood group's failed court action last week against the city that tried to halt distribution of city literature related to the Nov.

Alamo Heights resident Lori Wenzel walks her son a half-mile to his elementary school several times a week despite her concern about the speed of traffic in residential areas.

Alamo Heights voters are being asked to vote on two propositions next month that would lower speed limits on certain residential streets and fund the construction of a $10.3 million city complex to house police, firefighters and other city services.

Castle Hills merchants received an economic boost from Oct. 5-10 during $hop Castle Hills, a promotion designed to encourage patronage of neighborhood stores.

Bill Kiel, who abruptly resigned from City Council Tuesday, has filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission against the head of the Alamo Heights Neighborhood Association, alleging non-compliance with election codes in the group's opposition to the city's plans for new facilities.

What was intended as a community meeting to discuss proposed municipal facilities for Alamo Heights last week took on the divisive characteristics of a spirited health care town hall meeting with shouting and bickering over residents' allotted speaking times.

The Alamo may attract millions of Arizona visitors each year, but a little museum in Alamo Heights ranks higher than both of them when it comes to off-the-wall attractions.