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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.

Jennifer Harris (right) of the Dickey Museum Board accepts a $5,000 grant from Sylvia Tillotson of the Michael C. Duda Architectural Endowment.

Hutto has revealed the live music lineup for this year’s free 4th of July Celebration. Micah Marcos will kick things off before the Steph Cash Band rocks the stage.

Hutto residents participate in the Equity, Racism Inclusivity Task Force Public Form June 8. The district reported great conversation took place, or “heart work” as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director Thymai Dong says. Another community forum is planned for the fall. Facebook / Hutto ISD

One of Taylor’s upcoming subdivisions appears ready for the next step. On Thursday, June 23, the Taylor City Council will consider acceptance of a subdivision infrastructure for Castlewood’s firs phase.

Two weeks before the U.S. remembered the day became free, residents commemorated a day in which many Americans became free in another way.

On Thursday, June 16, the Hutto City Council held their mid-month meeting. The council discussed the 2022 Water and Wastewater Master Plan along with the Pavement Assessment and Management Plan.

Alternate routes will be needed to get around downtown Taylor Saturday On June 25, the Taylor PRIDE Music & Arts Festival will be from 2 to 10 p.m. at Black Sparrow Music Parlor, Texas Beer Company, Xchange Nightlife and outside along Second Street from Main to Vance streets and on half of a Talbot Street block north and south of Second.

Williamson County is under a burn ban. On June 21, Commissioners Court has issued a county-wide burn ban for a period not to exceed 90 days due to severe drought conditions, above average heat, low humidity, low fuel moistures and high winds that are creating dangerous wildfire conditions that would be exacerbated by outdoor burning.