The Colleyville Lions Club and Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange (GRACE) worked with local doctors in Southlake and Colleyville to provide comprehensive eye exams and eye glasses to 39 people on Nov. 15.
It’s hard to stop a train, but some Colleyville residents are trying anyway.
Jorge Rodriguez, Grapevine-Colleyville school board trustee, requested more campus-level detail from the annual accountability report than has been provided to the board, but his request was denied by the board with a 4-3 vote.
Newsracks are now banned on public property within 100 feet of the Main Street Historic District in Grapevine or property designated on the National Register of Historic Places, the City Council decided Monday.
Grapevine High School’s annual Tribute to Veterans included guest speaker Calvin Spann, a fighter pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a pioneering outfit of black fighter pilots in World War II.
Transportation leaders took a dramatic step this month to pay for a regional commuter rail system.
Some of the 14 members of the Gainesville State School’s football team had tears in their eyes after being welcomed onto the field at Faith Christian School in Grapevine with a team banner for them to run through and a spirit line with 300 people cheering for them, said Kris Hogan, Faith Christian School athletic director and football coach.
In response to the historic election of Sen. Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, several unofficial protests were reported last week, most notably in schools that included Colleyville and Cross Timbers middle schools, as well as Grapevine and Northwest high schools.
NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler came to campus last week to give students at Colleyville Heritage High School a driving lesson: Do not drive and use text messaging at the same time. Sadler said statistics show that drivers sending text messages are even more likely to have accidents than those who drink and drive.
The economically disadvantaged group at Colleyville Heritage High School did not meet the 95 percent participation expectation in math in the 2008 Adequate Yearly Progress Report, which is overseen by the federal government.
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