Olmos Park News

About 40 families down on their luck this holiday season were able to take solace Wednesday morning in the fact that at least their possessions won't be carried out to the curb on Christmas or New Year's Day.

Olmos Park Mayor Ron Tefteller announced at the Dec. 18 City Council meeting he will not run for re-election in May, capping a 14-year stint in local politics that included a single mayoral term.

Meatloaf can be made in several ways. Restaurants Some suggestions for good meatloaf: The Lighthouse at Olmos Park, 4212 McCullough Ave., 805-9229 Tommy Moore's Caf & Deli, 915 S. Hackberry St., 531-9800 Bernard's Creole Kitchen, 509 Palo Alto, 921-1112. Creole meatloaf on Tuesdays.

's metro unemployment rate tumbled in November to 6.8%, as more than 4,000 people in the 12 county metro found jobs in the last month, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Sales tax collections declined in Texas in October, and San Antonio was not immune, as the city's collections fell 12.5 percent in October compared to the same month a year ago.

Olmos Park City Council Dec. 2 directed the Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children to make more drainage improvements at its facility after a resident's complaint of excessive storm runoff onto her adjacent property.

He's the guy you want when that ladder seems too high or it's too damn cold to get out there and hang those Christmas lights.

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.