Here is a recap of what was featured in the Wednesday, Aug. 2 e-edition of the Taylor Press.
The e-edition is emailed to subscribers and available at www.taylorpress. net.
CELEBRITY VISIT COULD BRING CONTROVERSY
See You at the Library will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
5 in the meeting room at the Taylor Public Library. Former 90s TV star and evangelical Christian activist Kirk Cameron and Riley Gaines, an American former competitive swimmer, who made headlines for speaking out against transgender females competing in women’s sports, will be on hand to pray, sing and read passages from BRAVE books to the consternation of area supporters of LGBTQ+ rights.
The event is hosted Williamson County Citizens Defending Freedom. Local hosts are Annette Maruska, Allison Tangeman, Pat Werner and Michael Prillaman.
Cameron will only appear in Taylor, however, similar events will be held in Hutto and Round Rock.
CITY EXPANDS FIRE SERVICES TO THE ETJ
At the July 27 regular meeting, the Taylor City Council approved a resolution to extend fire service provision within the next 60 days to an eight-square mile area of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction that is not currently covered by Williamson County Emergency Services District No. 10.
In May, after what many consider an acrimonious election, voters in the ETJ west of State Highway 95 approved a petition for ESD 10 to annex a boot-shaped territory to become the first-responder for emergency service, which had been previously covered by Avery Pickett Volunteer Fire Department, a nearly 120-year-old organization that had been rocked by scandal in recent years after former Fire Chief Billy Hughes was charged with illegally pocketing more than $300,000 in donations.
GRANGER ISD BREAKS GROUND ON NEW HIGH SCHOOL
GRANGER – Granger Independent School District honored the past, present and future as the district broke ground on a new building.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for its new high school location Tuesday, Aug.
1, a mark which symbolizes the beginning of the project’s construction.
When construction is completed, the high school students will leave behind the building that housed them for 100 years.
The school will be a two-story building and will hold roughly 375 students. It will have an administrative suite, a single point of entry for visitors, a 500-seat competition gym with locker rooms and a weight room, a commercial kitchen and cafeteria, a band hall and a vocational welding shop.
Additionally, there will be 14 classrooms, including science labs, a computer lab, a life skills suite, a media center, an audio/visual lab and a vet technician classroom.
The project is expected to take anywhere from 18 to 23 months.
Students and faculty are expected to move into the completed building in time for the 20252026 school year.
