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Chris Perez struck out 12 batters last Friday, March 18, on the road against Lake Belton. The Ducks blanked the Broncos 4-0 to slide into a tie for second place in District 19-4A.

It was all green on St. Patrick’s Day as the Taylor varsity girls track team had the competition seeing green at the Riesel Indian Invitational last Thursday, March 17.

This past Friday, March 18, the Taylor girls powerlifting team competed at the state meet in Corpus Christi. Rylie Dlouhy placed 11th with a total weight of 720 pounds.

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.

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.