Nina Hernandez

Beginning on Friday, March 31, Montopolis-area residents will once a week have access to a mobile farm stand, the first in the neighborhood’s history, outside the Central Health Southeast Health & Wellness Center. On Fridays from noon-2 p.m., the Farmshare Austin Fresh for Less Mobile Market will set up shop with produce that is both […]

The city’s Animal Services Office wants to know what the public thinks of how it’s doing its job. Those interested in giving that feedback can attend a public meeting on Monday, April 3, at Pillow Elementary. The session starts at 6:30 p.m. and is an opportunity for the public to shape the future of the […]

The city’s Cultural Arts Division has announced the return of the Art After Six lecture series to tackle important issues in the arts community as a community. The series consists of seven free panel discussions stretching from a March 31 talk on the role of art in politics to a Sept. 29 conversation on mixed […]

Learn about the rich history of baseball in Austin at the Play Ball! Austin and the Great American Pastime photography exhibit at the Austin History Center’s David Earl Holt Photo Gallery. Made up of 22 photographs from the center’s vast collection, the exhibit chronicles some of the 150-year love affair between the city and the […]

Just what’s in your backyard soil? Local gardeners can find out next month at the city’s free Soil Kitchen, where experts from the city’s Brownfields Office will collect samples that they will later screen for heavy metals and nutrients. The results will reveal how effective the soil in question will be at growing vegetables. From […]

The city continues its CodeNEXT outreach with the newly announced Code Talk series. It will consist of five sessions from now until June that cover environmental, affordability, mobility and other issues. Residents can ask questions about those specific aspects of the new code, listen to what their neighbors think and talk to the actual code […]

The city’s Parks and Recreation Department, in collaboration with the Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony last weekend for the redesigned stream bed in Zilker’s Isamu Taniguchi Japanese Garden. The original stream bed deteriorated since its creation nearly 50 years ago and was losing water to both leaks and evaporation. The grandson of […]

Austin Energy’s Plug-In Electric Vehicle Readiness Initiative continues to work toward its goal of helping the community adapt to the new technology. The EV team, accompanied by Mayor Steve Adler and other “influential Austin leaders,” will talk about the progress they’ve made and how the tech fits into Austin’s future as a smart city at […]

The next CodeNEXT open house starts at noon tomorrow at Stephen F. Austin High School, 1715 Cesar Chavez. It’s the fourth in a series of public meetings to inform the public about the first draft of the code, which has been the target of much skepticism since its release earlier this year. On April 1, […]

Yesterday City Council took steps to hand off the city’s troubled DNA lab to the Texas Department of Public Safety, which has agreed to revamp the department over the next five years. Part of that was approving an agreement with Travis County to split the costs of contracts to find out what went wrong and […]

Austin Water uses its Landscape Survival Tools Rebate to encourage lawn care practices that conserve water. Pay upfront for the mulch, compost and core aeration. Once the work is completed, you’ll take pictures, and send them to the city along with your receipts and application. Two cubic yards (or 54 feet) of compost will earn […]

Yesterday, the city announced that Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services Chief Ernesto Rodriguez will serve on the National Agenda 2050 Panel, a collaborative effort on the part of 10 members to craft an outline of the field’s 30-year-plan. Rodriguez and the other members will work with people in the EMS, health care and public safety […]