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

Heritage Square Farmers Market The Farmers Market is typically every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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

On Monday, June 27, community members are invited to take a walk over history. The Dickey footbridge, located near east Second Street between Robinson and Dolan, has been restored.

Williamson County 4-H is hosting three Summer Fun Day Camps from 9 a.m. to noon on three Wednesdays in July.

Milam Community Theater has announced its Summer Youth Camp performances of the 2022 season, “Happily Ever Before,” by Tracy Wells and directed by Andrea Bailey. Week One camp cast will take the stage June 24-25, while week two cast performances will be presented July 1-2.

Viola Ruth (Braun) Clark, 87, of Thrall passed away Sunday, June 12, 2022. Ruth was born on Feb.

Jimmy Edward Wentrcek, 76, of Granger, joined the Lord Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Jimmy was born Aug.

Daniel Darwin Filla, 83 of Granger, passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2022 Visitation was held Wednesday, June 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Providence Funeral Home, 807 Carlos Parker Blvd NW in Taylor.

Doug Moehnke passed away at home Friday, June 17, 2022, at the age of 70. He was born July 1, 1951, in Taylor, to Rudolph and Rose (Streit) Moehnke with an older sister Joyce Davidson and brother Robert. He was confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in west Taylor and graduated from Taylor High School while also spending a year at Allen Academy in Bryan.

Nadine Renee French passed away Sunday, June 19, 2022. She was born March 21, 1952, in Taylor.

Patrick Taylor presents Susan Komandosky, chair of the Moody Museum advisory board, with a $500 H-E-B gift card donated by Taylor PRIDE. This donation will go to Shepherd’s Heart Food Pantry & Ministries as part of the museum’s annual Pounds of Plenty food drive to be held Saturday, June 25. The museum will be accepting monetary donations as well as non-perishable food from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Courtesy photo

Williamson County and the city of Granger invite the public to a ribbon-cutting for the Davilla Street improvement project. The project included replacing a collapsed box culvert under Davilla Street and replacing some of the street’s brick pavers with colored stamped concrete in the vicinity of the Davilla Street and Walton Street intersection.

“You leave the Pennsylvania Station ‘bout a quarter to four, Read a magazine, and then you’re in Baltimore. Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer, Than to have your ham an’ eggs in Carolina.” — Song lyrics from “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” by Glenn Miller The silent passing of another small piece of Americana went mostly unnoticed some years ago.