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Jennifer Schaefer
Jennifer Schaefer

Editor, Lake Travis-Westlake and Northwest Austin

Jennifer joined Community Impact Newspaper in January 2022. She spent the past 16 years working in newspapers as a reporter, copy editor and page designer. She is from Florida but has spent the past six years in the Austin area. She lives in Northwest Austin with her family and two dachshunds.

Latest from Jennifer Schaefer
Confluence Park in San Antonio is one of the projects Rialto Studio has completed. (Courtesy Rialto Studio)
Bee Cave council selects firm to transform Brown Property
Jack Allen's Kitchen, an Austin restaurant serving Southern comfort food with a Texas twist, is offering teachers free lunch Aug. 2. (Photo courtesy Walter Pieringer)
Teachers get free lunch Aug. 2 at Jack Allen's, Salt Traders
(Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
Neighbors say acreage, independence part of The Homestead’s lure
Community leaders pounded symbolic railroad tracks with mallets at a groundbreaking for McKalla Station on July 18. (Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
McKalla Station groundbreaking draws crowd to Q2 Stadium
Tony Curtis-Wellings, owner of Faraday's Kitchen Store, and his wife, Melissa. Tony says he worries about being able to keep employees with living costs rising and inflation. (Courtesy photo)
Bee Cave, businesses look to solve staffing woes
(Courtesy photo)
Project Connect to break ground on McKalla Station on July 18
Dutch Bros. coffee opened July 8 on East Parmer Lane in Austin. (Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
Dutch Bros Coffee holds grand opening at Parmer Lane location
Easy Tiger is opening a third location. (Courtesy Easy Tiger)
6 businesses that are now open in Northwest Austin
Garbo's is at 12709 N. MoPac in Northwest Austin. (Courtesy Garbo's)
Garbo’s to host three-course lobster boil July 3
An artist's rendering of The Pearl. (Courtesy of The Morgan Group/Community Impact Newspaper)
Bee Cave tables request for changes to planned development district for The Pearl project
Jamie Hill is a licensed massage therapist and owner of Living Lotus Massage in Lakeway. (Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
Mental health practitioners see uptick in anxiety due to pandemic
Spicewood, Highland Lakes Lions Club to hold 4th of July parade
Bianca King addresses the Lakeway City Council at its June 21 meeting. (Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
Lakeway passes revised home occupation ordinance, to revisit daycare rules
Sandee Conroy received her first set of singing bowls as a birthday gift. (Courtesy photo)
Spicewood's Sandee Conroy uses bowls' vibrations to soothe souls
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Courtesy Alysse Gafkjen and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit)
8 events to look forward to in July in Northwest Austin and beyond
Fruit Scoot Boogie will take place around the lawn at Domain Northside through Sept.2. (Courtesy Domain Northside)
Fruity photo op returns to Domain Northside
Instruction is led by sensei Xande Ribeiro and Alexandre Kunzel, who are both well-accomplished martial artists and International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation world champions. (Courtesy Six Blades Jiu Jitsu)
Six Blades Jiu Jitsu opens in Northwest Austin
(Courtesy The Arboretum)
Arboretum to hold Summer Solstice Festival on June 25
Apple's new $1 billion campus is under construction in Northwest Austin off West Parmer Lane. (Jennifer Schaefer/Community Impact Newspaper)
Austin City Council to hold public hearing on land for Apple campus extension
Children will be able to bring injured or sick teddy bears in need of a little extra love and care to the Austin Humane Society Shelter. (Courtesy Austin Humane Society)
Austin Humane Society to host teddy bear surgery event on June 11