Colleyville City Manager Bill Lindley is a candidate for town administrator in Highland Park.

That town’s administrator, George Patterson, is retiring.

Colleyville

JUNE 29: 9:30 a.m., police were called to a home in the 600 block of Saddlebrook, where two vehicles had been burglarized. Loss included a radar detector [$300], 100 music CDs [$1,500], a car battery [$75] and parking permit for American Airlines.

COLLEYVILLE

July 23, Aug. 6 - Compass Christian Church, 2600 Hall-Johnson, presents Career Coaching for Students from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Youth Center for high school and college students. Registration deadline is Friday. For information, call 817-358-1713 or see mycompasschurch.com/highlandmeadows.

The restaurant 62 Main and its companion business, Bar on 2, located in the same building in the Village at Colleyville, both locked their doors on Saturday, July 12. The closing of the high-end restaurant marked another failure for the Village, once touted as the premier development in Colleyville by former Mayor Donna Arp and developer Richard Myers.

"We’ve enjoyed your patronage and the friendships we’ve made," said a recording left by David McMillan on the restaurant’s phone. McMillan did not respond to a telephone message left at the restaurant. A renowned chef, McMillan served quality, high-priced fare at the restaurant that made it a Metroplex destination in better economic times.

Slinky. Scaly. Scary. Snakes are subjects of colorful descriptions and phobias. With lots of ponds, greenbelts and still some open land, Southlake has a healthy snake population and this leads to regular encounters between humans and snakes.

Officer Ronnie White, field services officer for the Southlake DPS, said that the department averages one snake call per day in summer and fall. Most of the snakes are not venomous and are, he says, beneficial.

The Grapevine-Colleyville school board has been selected as the outstanding school board by the Education Service Center Region XI, headquartered in Fort Worth.

The GCISD Board of Trustees is now in the running for outstanding school board in the state.

Several Grapevine residents have contacted the Courier questioning the need for the city of Grapevine to fund a trip to Scotland in June to begin a new sister city relationship. The trip was paid for by the Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau, a city department funded largely through hotel taxes.

A total of 72 people in a Grapevine delegation visited West Lothian, Scotland, in June for a ceremony to begin a sister city partnership.

Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange [GRACE], the charity that serves Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake, is feeding lunch to more than 400 children each weekday at five locations in Grapevine.

Brenda McClure, the volunteer coordinator for the GRACE Feed Our Kids program, said the number of kids served lunch has increased about 30 to 40 percent over last year, which was the first year for the program.

More than 20 foreign exchange students will arrive in the area to attend a language and culture camp July 24 to Aug 24. Host families are needed for the students, who will be in the U.S. for a six-week stay. The camp will be at the Messiah Lutheran Classical Academy in Keller, not far from U.S. 377 and FM 1709, at 1308 Whitley Road.

Eight of the students will also need host families for the school year in Southlake, Keller and Flower Mound, said Pam Bilton, state coordinator for American Scandinavian Student Exchange.

The Grapevine City Council on Tuesday tabled a request to change the zoning on land at 210 N. Starnes St. that would have allowed an office building to be constructed.

Several council members said they want to review whether highway commercial district zoning is appropriate for the area, which is an historical African-American neighborhood known locally as "The Hill."