Olmos Park News

The marriage between art and gardening will be prevalent at this weekend's Uptown Art Stroll in Olmos Park Terrace.

Betty Eckert has run the Kenwood Community Center for a decade, providing meals and social services for area seniors.

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

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.

If Elizabeth Walker Carrington's design vocabulary could be put into words, they might all begin with F: frantic, frenetic, frenzied.

There's a bustling market for Victorian homes in San Antonio's neighborhoods near downtown that predate even the 1920s and 1930s houses of areas such as Monte Vista and Olmos Park.

Olmos Park officials hope to re-examine plans to install bicycle and pedestrian lanes along McCullough Avenue following the recent death of a jogger an effort that nearly saw fruition last year before being abandoned for lack of funding.

A sewer line cracked open near the Olmos Park Golf Course, sending some 100,00 gallons of sewage cascading into a drainage canal, and eventually into Olmos creek, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Rogers Ranch author touts new book Rogers Ranch resident Catherine Stier is publicizing a new book, "The Terrible Secrets of the Tell-All Club," which is geared for ages 9-12. Told from four viewpoints, this novel explores friendship, social pressures, bullying and other anxieties of girls and boys on the cusp of teenage life.

The Historic and Design Review Commission approved expansion of one of the city's newest historic districts Wednesday, and reset cases on two demolition requests.

Wednesday, Sept. 23 Kim Lewis puts in a bid for the Andrew Parker Olmos Park mansion during a government auction.

One of San Antonio's most expensive and most notorious homes hits the auction block today.

An Olmos Park mansion bought with money swindled from taxpayers sold at an auction Wednesday for $3.25 million, while some of the furniture is being sold separately through consignment.

From setting the new property tax rate to launching much-needed street repair and infrastructure work, Olmos Park City Council checked several items off its to-do list at a four-and-a-half-hour long meeting Sept.

State Rep. Joaquin Castro gives a legislative update at Braun Station Elementary School in a meeting hosted by the Northwest Neighborhood Alliance.

Olmos Park Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a runner who was injured after a SUV hit him Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

A jogger who was hit by an SUV Thursday has died. The dead man, Michael Gres, 29, was a 4th year pharmacy student at the University of Incarnate Word.

Library fundraising campaign underway The San Antonio Library Foundation has begun a capital fundraising campaign to help form a master plan for the site where the Parman Library at Stone Oak will be built.

The red brick, three-story, mansion at 407 E. Wildwood Drive in Olmos Park features an elevator, six huge bedrooms and eight baths plus a half-bath. The Jacuzzi tubs come with separate showers featuring massive shower heads that simulate a waterfall.

NISD OKs budget, tax hike The Northside Independent School District board voted Aug.