The academy’s first graduating class has been embedded in elementary school classrooms and taken college-level education courses, with several receiving associate degrees.
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Rural residents alarmed as a second data center is proposed in the Waco area
Cipher Digital has bought some 300 acres near Riesel and is seeking to connect to the state electric grid. Area residents and leaders say they remain in the dark about the details.
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Cracked streets and leaking pipes give Lacy Lakeview leaders headaches. They see data center dollars as the cure.
Lacy Lakeview struggled for years with tight budgets and deteriorating streets and utilities. The promise of $10 billion in tax base from the Infrakey project looked like a once-in-a-lifetime solution. A photo essay.
Posted inCommunity
Waco Voices: Honoring the legends of the neighborhood that formed him
Anthony Betters Sr. launched “U-Dawg Friday” to connect the South Waco neighborhood of his upbringing and to celebrate its champions.
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Lacy Lakeview needs Waco’s help to realize its data center dreams. It’s not going well.
Lacy Lakeview’s hasty approach to the data center project has alienated the Waco officials who would control water service to the site.
“Without the City of Waco agreeing to it, Lacy Lakeview can’t do anything out there and neither can Infrakey,” State Rep. Pat Curry said. “Those guys don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
Posted inEducation
Generations of students and educators give Speegleville Elementary a bittersweet sendoff
“Nostalgic and bittersweet for sure, knowing this place isn’t going to be educating people as the way that I was fortunate enough to is kind of saddening,” former student Matthew Mounce said.
Posted inGrowth
A storied Waco school falls to bulldozers, but the stories will remain
An effort to preserve the history of the school originally known as Jefferson-Moore High proceeds as the 54-year-old campus is cleared for the Barron’s Branch development.
Posted inGrowthElections
See results from city and school races in McLennan County
Preliminary results show a losses for incumbents in Lacy Lakeview and China Spring ISD and re-election for a Bellmead council member.
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New Mayborn Museum exhibit depicts Central Texas as a “Cultural Crossroads”
The “Cultural Crossroads” exhibit shows how Native Americans, Anglo settlers, Tejanos and Black residents shaped the Central Texas we know today.
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Divided Waco ISD board appoints Everett Phipps to fill board vacancy
After a weekslong deadlock, Waco ISD board of trustees decided by a split vote to appoint Everett Phipps to the at-large seat that Keith Guillory is vacating. Phipps is a Waco ISD parent who works at Insurors of Texas.
