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Hot, soggy and loving it

sponsored by the Round Rock Sertoma Club, on the Fourth. An amazing number of volunteers and city workers start a very early day prepping for the onslaught of floats, vehicles, Cub Scouts and chaos, which coalesces into a long and very interesting parade....

Feeding growth – one expensive omnivore

Companies and ventures desirous of a presence in our county are numerous, and the draw for families to live here and commute to local jobs remains strong.

There are now over 74,000 single-family homes outside of municipalities. This means they do not have ...

Mental illness impacts us all

Many general terms are used to describe mental illness: mental disorder, serious emotional disorder, extreme emotional distress, psychiatric illness, mental illness, nervous exhaustion, mental breakdown, nervous breakdown and burnout.

So, what forms does m...

The EV Diaries

 I made sure this salesperson was saved in my contacts. The next call came two weeks later, and the car had arrived early on Feb. 23, but I didn’t have time until that Saturday afternoon, Feb. 25, to close the deal.

That car was a technology shock...

Why the county needs a groundwater conservation district

The Legislature gave authority to groundwater conservation districts to develop scientific information on the region of an aquifer within that district and to develop a plan, reviewed annually and updated as necessary, to protect that aquifer. The science...

One heck of an ice storm

This layered on our already stressed woody plants from Mother Nature’s onslaught over these past two years and brought them to their breaking point. Long-timers in this area were in total agreement of never having experienced such widespread destruction.

T...

It's 2023 and our resolutions are …

This is the time of year when many become introspective – who are we? Who do we want to be? Stronger, leaner, more resilient, more learned individuals perhaps? How long does that last? What are our values?

Mahatma Ghandi once stated that “we should watch o...