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Austin Girl Scout to get National Lifesaving Award for saving her father’s life
Sylvie Mider is a life-saver. Officially. The 11-year-old Barton Hills Elementary School fifth-grader will get the National Lifesaving Award Medal of Honor from Girl Scouts this spring for her cool...
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This weekend, we can leave the house again! 20 things to do with the family...
Hooray! We’re headed for a warm up this weekend with temps staying above freezing and even hitting 66 on Sunday. It’s going to be a great weekend to get out of the house, especially if you hunkered...
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Thinking ahead to summer camp: Save the dates for when to register for...
January often feels too early to think about summer camp, right? It’s not. Some of Austin’s most popular summer camps open their registration this month or next month and are full within days,...
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Reminder: Don’t skip your well-check, moms
It’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, but that’s not what’s important. What’s important is are you — busy mom of X number of children — taking care of yourself and getting your annual screenings? It’s...
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Win tickets to see ‘Go, Dog. Go!’ at the Paramount Theatre
“Go, Dog. Go!” was one of those books that got read a lot in my house when my children were younger. In fact, the P.D. Eastman book about a group of dogs on the go was the first book my son Ben could...
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20 things to do with the family in Austin this Martin Luther King Jr....
It’s going to be beautiful, long weekend for getting out of the house and doing something with the family. Celebrate diversity, learn something new and have fun with these 20 family events: Martin...
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Kendra Scott employees build playhouses for Dell Children’s, Ronald McDonald...
About 60 Kendra Scott employees helped build four playhouses on the grounds of the Zach Theatre complex Thursday afternoon. The playhouses will go to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas,...
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No school? What will you do on this snow day? We have ideas
OK, parents, what’s your plan? With many school districts canceling school on Tuesday because of the threat of a winter storm happening from midnight to 6 p.m. Tuesday what will you do with the kids?...
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Would you name your baby after a ‘Game of Thrones’ character?
“Game of Thrones” fans, would you name your baby after your favorite character? Maisie Williams plays Arya Stark. Last season she had a scene with Ed Sheeran, left. Helen Sloan/HBO Apparently people...
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Coming to BookPeople in April: Junot Díaz with new children’s book
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz will be coming to BookPeople April 4. Junot Diaz The author of acclaimed books “This is How You Lose Her,” “Drown” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”...
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17 things to keep the kids busy this weekend in Austin, Jan. 19-21
Need some ideas for the weekend? We have ideas that can keep kids busy. Know that Saturday is going to be beautiful, making it hard to believe we had a snow day earlier in the week. Sunday will be a...
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Does ibuprofen cause infertility in men?
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States seems to indicate that taking ibuprofen will lower the amount of testosterone a man produces. That...
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St. David’s Foundation giving $2 million to prevent death in childbirth
We’ve written about Texas having the highest maternal mortality rate in the nation. Texas had 35.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014 compared with 23.8 for the rest of the country, excluding...
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Keep kids busy this February with these Austin events
February is filled with Valentine’s Day events and Black History Month as well as fest celebrating caves, dinosaurs and the weather. Check out these family events in Austin next month: Amber Bower...
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15 things to do this weekend with the kids, Jan. 26-28
It’s going to be a seasonal weekend, with some rain possible on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday looks amazing. Factor that in when planning what to do with the kids. Here are 15 ideas of things...
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New technology allow doctors to treat and reverse a stroke more than six...
You might have heard that once a stroke happened, if you didn’t get to the hospital and seek treatment within six hours, the damage was done. It is true that the sooner you get to the hospital, the...
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New CDC figures for Zika-related defects in babies in the U.S.
Remember the Zika outbreak of 2016? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some statistics about the number of babies with Zika-related birth defects that year in the 15 states that...
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Austinite creates alphabet book of all things uniquely Austin
“A is for Austin, our local home base. It’s the beautiful setting where this story takes place.” So begins Lori Otto Samocha’s love letter to her hometown. In “W Is for Weird: An Austin Alphabet,” Otto...
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Your cellphone could be making you look old by damaging your skin
Could that smartphone, that tablet, that laptop be damaging your skin? That was a question dermatologists began talking about in Europe in 2016 at the Facial Aesthetics Conference and Exhibition. A...
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Roar like a dinosaur and more family fun in Austin, Feb. 2-4
This weekend is going to be what we love about winter in Austin. Sunny, highs in the 60s, possibly hitting 70. It’s a great weekend for doing things with the kids. Here are 20 events to get you...
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