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Taylor High School’s Drama department recently presented Broadway Under the Stars at Heritage Square in downtown Taylor. Students performed numbers from Beetlejuice, Cats, Annie, Frozen, Hamilton and many more Broadway favorites.

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Angels

BY ISABELLA TEBEAU I saw an angel today. She taught me humility.

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Naomi Pasemann Elementary recognized one class at each grade level for achieving the most growth in reading and math for the first nine weeks of school. Teachers accepting the award for growth in math are Alesia Levario in second grade, Teresa Gonzales in third grade and Sarah Shurtz in fo...

PASEMANN CLASS AWARDS

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St. Mary’s Catholic School recently announced the October Virtue of the Month winners for the virtue of honesty. At St. Mary’s, students are encouraged to live with virtue in all that they do. Recipients from kindergarten through eighth grade are James Friesenhahn, Grayson Blakemore (not p...

VIRTUE STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Heritage Square Farmers Market The Farmers Market is typically every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Heritage Square, 400 N. Main St. in Taylor. For updates, visit https:// www.facebook.com/heritagesquarefarmersmarket.

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St. James Episcopal Church, which dates to 1893 and has an operational organ from 1914, will be a featured spot on the tour for the first time. Photo by Nicole Lessin

Christmas homes tour this weekend

After a four-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Taylor Conservation and Heritage Society is offering their Christmas Homes Tour Saturday, Dec. 3, and Sunday, Dec.

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The public is invited to come for a Pokémon Trading Card Game meetup Dec. 13 at OTH. Courtesy photo by Shay Jung

Free Pokémon TCG meetup

Love playing Pokémon Trading Card Game, but need more people to battle? Want to learn the basics of the card came but don’t know anyone willing to teach you? Libros Bookmobile, a mobile bookstore at Old Taylor High, will host a casual Pokémon Trading Card Game meetup from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec.

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CIVIC ORGANIZATION MEETINGS

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

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Retired Taylor teacher Kay Hortenstine reads a story to kindergarten students taught by her granddaughter, Lauren Hortenstine Jaecks. Hortenstine taught third grade for many years at T. H. Johnson Elementary and later at Pasemann. Photo by Tim Crow

HORTENSTINE RETURNS TO THJ

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

TAYLOR CITY COUNCIL Second/Fourth Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 400 Porter St.

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Student leaders host the Taylor ISD Ambassadors for a guided tour of their school. Students from left are Raegan Westerman, Amy Robles and Khalib Lewis. Adults from left are Principal Kerrie Pierce and Ambassadors Rachael Westerman, Tim Mikeska and Billie Logiudice.

School ambassadors visit MSI, Top Flight

Taylor ISD’s Ambassadors participated in their third session for the school year Nov. 4. Speakers included Clarissa Rodriguez, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, Jodi Witt, coordinator of student supports, and Anita Volek, executive director for the Taylor Educational Enrichment (TEE) Foundation.

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St. Mary’s second grade students show off their saint costumes. Courtesy photos

St. Mary's celebrated Saints to start November

With All Saints Day on Nov. 1, the students and staff of St.

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Students sit with Wesley West during the Veteran’s Day celebration at Thrall ISD.

Thrall ISD celebrates veterans

THRALL – On Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, Thrall ISD held a ceremony to honor local veterans. The event was campus wide, and had participants from the elementary, middle school and high school. Students raised the flags to start the event.

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St. Mary’s Kindergarten students Stormy Lynch, James Friesenhahn and Amelia Hammans enjoy the Veteran’s Day ceremony. Courtesy photo

St. Mary’s honors veterans

St. Mary’s Catholic School held a Veteran’s Day ceremony Nov.

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(Clockwise from left) Rotarians Dennis Richter, Cheryl Webster, Kathy Whisenant and George Qualley reading to first grade students at T.H. Johnson Elementary School. Courtesy photo

Bingeing on Books

“We know from research that parents reading to young children has a huge impact on how quickly children learn words and learn to read,” Rotary President Tia Rae Stone said. “Taylor ISD is more than 60% Hispanic, and when we learned that the school needed more Spanishlanguage books so parents can read to their students, we knew we wanted to help.” The club purchased and donated more than 45 books with a value of more than $750 to the THJ library where the children are in pre-kinder, kindergarten and first grade.

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