Beth Bond

Pease Park Conservancy hosts its third annual MLK Day Food Drive next week in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Donations will be accepted at the picnic tables in Kingsbury Commons at Pease Park (1100 Kingsbury St.) between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15. Suggested items include peanut butter, canned chicken breast or […]

Through the end of this year and the beginning of the next, the Austin Monitor will be publishing insightful interviews with 16 local officials, covering their reflections on their work in 2023 and their goals for 2024. Those interviews will hit your inbox if you’re subscribed to our morning email featuring headlines and whispers, but […]

The Austin Parks Foundation announced that it’s giving $205,600 in grants for work on parks across town. The Fall 2023 ACL Music Festival grants will fund the following improvements and amenities identified by community members: $88,000 to Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Metro Park (District 3) for nature trail installation and maintenance $50,000 to Dottie […]

For this year’s annual holiday lights on 37th Street, residents of Austin’s twinkliest block have partnered with the city’s Living Streets Program to close the street to car traffic during event hours. The Living Streets Program envisions local streets as places where communities can walk, bike, gather and connect. The annual event, which dates back […]

The next phase of the William Cannon Railroad Overpass is underway and expected to be wrapped up by April. In early December, the Capital Delivery Services Department completed the first phase of stabilization of the overpass, and the next step includes replacement of the sidewalk and the wall cap, adding a traffic barrier and a […]

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is expected to break its record for the most travelers in one year, with about 1 million more in 2023 compared to 2022. The holiday travel season is always crunch time regardless, so the airport has sent an advisory to make this year’s holiday go a little more smoothly. Basically, plan ahead, […]

The Central Health Board of Managers has elected a new chair to succeed its retiring leader. Ann Kitchen will follow Dr. Charles Bell as the board chair of Travis County’s hospital district, which provides health care and coverage to people with low income. After eight years as a City Council member representing South Austin, Kitchen […]

Austin is one of 10 communities picked to participate in a federal program to help people with behavioral health needs in the criminal justice system. The Downtown Austin Community Court is an inaugural partner for the Criminal Justice Mental Health Learning Site Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. Free […]

To reduce injuries and deaths caused by impaired drivers this holiday season, the No Refusal Initiative will take place every night between Dec. 14 and Jan. 1. That’s when officers are allowed to obtain blood search warrants during certain hours when an arrested driver refuses to submit to a blood alcohol test. During the rest […]

Free and low-cost testing and treatment resources are available locally to prevent the spread of infection, as numbers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise. Those resources include: 3rd Annual LGBTQIA+ Health and Resource Fair – noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, Permitting and Development Center, 6310 Wilhelmina Delco Drive, Austin, TX 78752, free parking available […]

With the goal of finding professional visual artists and artist-led teams to create artwork for public places in Austin, the application window for three public art opportunities is open till 5 p.m. Dec. 19. The effort is sponsored by the Economic Development Department’s Art in Public Places Program (AIPP), and budgets for the three projects […]

Anyone who lives, works or spends time in Austin is invited to a series of open houses hosted by Austin Transit Partnership to register their expectations for the new light rail system and to share what their mobility experiences are like. The org will use the information gathered to help design a system to enhance […]