GCISD Opens the Door to Campus Transfers

🏫 GCISD Families Can Soon Request a Different Campus

🚒 A Gentler Wake-Up Call for Colleyville Firefighters

❤️ Local Favorite: Ristorante Mulino in Southlake

📅 Plus: 30+ Local Events, Weather & More

🏫 GCISD Families Can Soon Request a Different Campus

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD families who'd rather not attend their zoned school will soon have a formal way to ask for a different GCISD campus. The board approved a new intradistrict transfer policy 5-2 on Oct. 26, and it takes effect for the 2027-28 school year, Community Impact reports.

Superintendent Jason Adams said the policy is meant to give families more flexibility and keep residents who might be weighing other options in GCISD schools. Trustees Shannon Braun and Kathy Florence Spradley voted no, and Braun raised concerns about how much room campuses will actually have.

Here's how the new rules work:

An approved student can stay at the new campus until moving up to the next school level, then applies again at the jumps to kindergarten, middle school and high school.

Read Community Impact's full report → | Review the policy the board approved →

🚒 A Gentler Wake-Up Call for Colleyville Firefighters

Some of the equipment that sends Colleyville firefighters out the door has been in service for more than 25 years. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, the City Council will consider a contract of up to $441,703.81 with Motorola Solutions to replace the alerting systems at all three of the city's fire stations.

According to the fire department's staff report, the gear at Stations 1 and 2 has been running for at least 18 years, repairs have gotten harder, and parts of the system were custom-built without the documentation needed to fix them. The new setup adds dedicated alerting and two-way radios at each station and moves equipment into enclosed racks so wiring and audio settings can't get bumped by accident.

The change crews may notice most comes overnight. The new system raises station lights and alert volume gradually during a dispatch, which staff says is meant to soften the abrupt jolt of traditional nighttime alerts while keeping notifications clear. The project was budgeted at $450,000 in the city's 2027 capital plan, sits on the consent agenda, and staff recommends approval.

The same agenda includes design contracts for rehab work on the L.D. Lockett ground storage tank and pump station and the Overland Trail lift station. The evening opens with a Veterans Day ceremony at 4:45 PM at Heroes Park at City Hall, 100 Main St., and the regular meeting starts at 7 PM.

Review the Nov. 4 council agenda →

❤️ Local Favorite: Ristorante Mulino | 1125 Davis Blvd., Suite 450, Southlake

Mulino means "the mill," and this Davis Boulevard spot takes its dough seriously. The restaurant says its Neapolitan pizzas start with Caputo flour from an Italian mill and yeast imported from Italy, then get San Marzano tomato sauce and buffalo mozzarella from Campania before going into a wood-fired brick oven that was also imported from Italy.

Beyond the pizza, the menu covers pastas, soups like pasta fagioli and Italian wedding, and starters like arancini and fried calamari. The patio is changing, too: on Oct. 6, the Southlake City Council approved the restaurant's plan to convert its outdoor patio into a permanently enclosed part of the building. Mulino is open Tuesday through Sunday for lunch and dinner.

Visit Ristorante Mulino's website → | 817-329-2071

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