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GUEST ESSAY: Protecting Texas’ innovation economy is key to America’s competitive edge
News Staff
By Dave Porter
Tech is big in Texas. The Lone Star state is already the best state to do business, and is now quickly becoming the top state for technological innovation, driven by many of our local innovators here in Central Texas.
Friday, April 14, 2023
Sherry McRae won Best in Show for “Sweet Nectar Time” in the DeWitt County Shutterbugs Photography Contest.
Art Scapes: Animals are the art theme this month
Ellen Greeney
The Sun City Texas Photography Club announced three new exhibits now on display. “Birds of Sun City” is a 12-image exhibit in the Activities Center, 1 Texas Drive.
Monday, April 10, 2023
Granddaughter Greta Berg is ready for Easter. Photo by Linda Dwyer
Tastes of the Town: It’s Cadbury Egg season
Linda Dwyer
Happy Easter! The hunt is on and it’s the one time when putting all your eggs in one basket is okay.
Good things come in small chocolate packages, and Cadbury Eggs are in season.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Anna Lisa Leal’s “Remnants of the Past” is now on display at the Georgetown Art Center.
Art Scapes: Art Center features pastels of Anna Lisa Leal
Ellen Greeney
The newly installed exhibit at the Georgetown Art Center features “The Beauty of Botanical Beasts” created by Anna Lisa Leal. Her work will be on display through April 21 at 816 South Main Street.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Lisa Franke stands with a cherry pie.
Tastes of the Town: Lulu’s Pie Shoppe is ready for business
Linda Dwyer
Lulu’s Pie Shoppe is bringing pie and more to the Square in Georgetown.
“Our menu will grow, but the heart of our business will stay the same, pie,” said Lisa Franke, who goes by Lulu. “I didn’t come from a family that baked, but my mother-inlaw made cookies every year.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Tanya Tucker, Kathlyn Horan and Brandi Carlile, who brainstormed the film, pose at SXSW last year.
Playtime: Tanya Tucker film screening ahead of Two Step Inn
Linda Dwyer
GTX Film will be screening The Return of Tanya Tucker at 6 p.m., April 12, at the historic Palace Theatre. The film won the Audience Choice Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2022 and has received accolades around the country.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Melancholy Paradise: The dignity of Lou Gossett: A KGTN radio memory
Brad Stutzman
It’s funny, isn’t it, how one thought leads to another?
Lately I’ve been reading a collection of James Baldwin’s fiction and essays. One of the shortest — and yet also one of the most powerful — is his 1962 piece, “Letter to My Nephew on the 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation.
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Cooking up a storm ahead of Valentine’s Day
Laurie Locke
The ice storm last week brought with it many headaches in the way of power outages, fallen limbs and broken trees, etc.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Carol Light’s “Night Walk” is coming to the Georgetown Art Center.
Mindy Graber is guest speaker at WCAG
Ellen Greeney
The Williamson County Art Guild welcomes Mindy Graber as the guest speaker for its February 7 meeting. She is an artist in the Austin area working primarily in mosaic and resin art.
Her love of art started as a very young child doodling fostered by her father, who is also an artist.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Co-owner Ephraim Hailu at the Taste of Ethiopia in Pflugerville.
Enjoy the taste of Ethiopian cuisine
Linda Dwyer
Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa is the continent’s oldest independent country. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini’s Italy during World War II, it has never been colonized. The country is home of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, one of the oldest Christian denominations.
Saturday, February 4, 2023