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.

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The $1.3 million project will slim an eight-block section of the street from four lanes to three and add bike lanes in an effort to make travel safer and smoother.

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Former Rapoport Academy administrator Barbara Page will fill the top spot at Kendrick starting this summer.

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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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Prosecutors with the Office of the Attorney General offered Adam Hoffman a one-day sentence after the defendant admitted the abuse, sparking a public uproar. Now it’s a campaign issue in the May 26 U.S. Senate runoff.

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The public-private partnership would develop a 252-acre parcel alongside at Highway 6 and bring national retailers to the vacant tract. In return, Waco estimates $105 million in private retail development.

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The process to fill a vacant seat has split the board for months. Tensions came to a head Thursday when Jose Vidaña took to social media to criticize other board members for replacing him as board president.

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After years of academic struggles, massive change is underway at the district this month, with new leadership and consolidated campuses.

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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.”

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“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.

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