Leon Valley News

With Leon Valley's new construction moratorium extended through mid-December, the city is taking a harder look at the possible changes that could come to the small town that sits enclosed by the sprawling city of San Antonio.

On Saturday, at Leon Valley City Hall from 9 to 11 a.m., a workshop will be conducted by Halff and Associates, Architects and Planners, on the proposed overlay district plan that will reshape our commercial corridor along Bandera Road as well as the proposed Town Center areas at Poss & Grissom roads.

Student artists will exhibit and sell their original artwork and limited edition prints at the 14th Annual Los Leones Student Arts Festival Saturday at Leon Valley Conference and Community Center, 6427 Evers Road.

It was a packed house at Leon Valley's Community Center Oct. 27, when Bexar County Commissioner Paul Elizondo and Bexar County Flood Control Divison Manager Art Villarreal met with citizens to address their concerns about the potential buyouts along El Verde Road and Jeff Loop.

Taggers in Leon Valley had better watch out. City officials are tired of all the graffiti and have now revealed a hidden-camera plan to catch taggers in the act.

The city of Leon Valley has purchased three game cameras, generally used to spot deer and other game in the woods, and will set them up in hopes of catching graffiti vandals in the act, 1200 WOAI's Berit Mason reports.

For the members of the hit Discovery Channel show "Ghost Lab," every day is Halloween.

Artworks such as this by participants in the 2008 Los Leones Arts Festival are produced by students, from elementary through high school, in the Northside Independent School District.

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.

After some five hours of sometimes heated debate, the Metropolitan Planning Organization voted late Monday not to remove tolling as an option for future construction and expansion of US 281 and Loop 1604, 1200 WOAI news reports.

The Huebner-Onion House, Leon Valley's chief historical site, remains behind fencing to protect it from vandals.

Claire Koskie, 13, who has diabetes, receives a temporary tattoo from Sigma Iota Alpha sorority member Esmeralda Contreras during the Walk to Cure Diabetes.

After roughly five months of trying to succeed in the used vehicle sales business, Fiesta Auto Center in Leon Valley has closed its doors.

When Christina Rangel, a single mom who lives with her own mother at 5900 El Verde Road, discovered in 2006 that her mother's home, along with roughly 47 others in the area, were part of a proposed buyout plan set in motion by Bexar County, she was none too thrilled.

Residents spilled into the lobby of Leon Valley City Hall on Monday night as attendance quickly exceeded capacity in chambers.

There's a deep divide among homeowners along El Verde and Jeff Loop in Leon Valley.

While the rest of the country experienced a rough year economically and is just now enjoying coming out of the slump, Leon Valley seems to have made it through the crisis relatively unscathed.

Here's the list of Farmers Markets I've found locally ... can't say they are all still there ... but this is where they've tried.

Tender pork ribs, smoked sausages and sides of potato salad and macaroni and cheese are always pavorites at Porky J's, 6905 Bandera Rd #5, in Leon Valley, where the Lawrence family has established their barbecue operation.

One of the longest-running issues in Leon Valley in recent years has been what to do about traffic congestion on Bandera Road.