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KIWANIS CLUB • Meets every Wednesday at noon at Sirloin Stockade, 3607 N. Main St.

The Williamson County AgriLife Extension Service will offer a vegetable growers conference on Wednesday, April 6. The program will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the SPJST Hall, 5025 FM 619 in Taylor.

Are you interested in learning more about which plants do well in this area? The Green Thumbs Up Gardening Program is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Local students will have animals to be adopted next next month. The National Honor Society chapter of Legacy Early College High School is sponsoring a pet adoption event April 2 from 10 a.m.

Keeping a hive of bees can be an educational family experience, according to the Central Texas Beekeepers Association, as well as providing honey for your table and pollination for your garden and flowering plants. Most city ordinances allow up to two bee hives per city lot.

“Don’t just chase your dreams, catch them.” — Annette White, travel writer, author, serial adventurer, and creator of the travel blog, “Bucket List Journey.” Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman’s hilarious movie by the same name aside, I’m not fond of the term ‘bucket list.’ My list is more about chasing dreams and making memories. I call it my someday list.

AUSTIN - With severe weather ripping through multiple regions of Texas, the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) encourages citizens to report damage to property by submitting a damage assessment survey. Monday’s severe storms produced large hail, damaging winds and dangerous tornadoes.

HUTTO – On March 9, Ovivo started moving dirt in the Titan Innovation Business Park in Hutto. Ovivo is a leading supplier of water and wastewater treatment technologies and high-performance physical, chemical and biological treatment technologies for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment.

HUTTO – Last week, children in Taylor visited the truck petting zoo, but prior to the event, they touched trucks in Hutto. The city of Hutto hosted its first ever Touch-A-Truck event during Spring Break.

HUTTO – Jessica Krause, of Round Rock, left her job as a pet groomer to enroll at Texas State Technical College (TSTC) in East Williamson County to study Welding Technology. The first-semester student said she was not expecting such a fast pace of teaching.

Rotary Club of Taylor is ready to celebrate spring by getting golfers on the green. “Our annual golf tournament helps us support students and community projects all year long,” Club President Tia Rae Stone said.

Followers of the Taylor Press Facebook page caught glimpses and wreckage of tornados that swept through parts of East Williamson County Monday evening. These are a collection of photos submitted by readers.

A severe line of early spring thunderstorms that carved a path of destruction across central Texas spawned at least five tornadoes, including one that wreaked havoc in Hutto, Granger and Taylor. The total extent of property damage and any injuries was still being assessed from the storm Monday, March 21.

Before taking up a thousand acres of Taylor, the city’s newest incoming residents have explained their hopes to benefit and not annoy its new home. Representatives from the Samsung Austin Semiconductor plant visited with members of Taylor’s business community at the Greater Taylor Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday, March 21.

Internships are opening up ahead of the planned Samsung semiconductor plant in Taylor. On March 21, Samsung officials announced that the application process for the Taylor High School internship program was launching.