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Family Barn: The locally owned indoor playground and coffee shop opened its second location. Owner Jane Korenskiy said her goal is to provide a safe and vibrant play environment for kids and a relaxing space for parents. The playground is for kids ages 6 months to 6 years.

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Cedar Park officials held a ribbon-cutting for the city's new, joint Public Safety Training Facility April 24.

A closer look: The 17,000-square-foot facility serves police, fire and emergency management personnel, featuring classrooms, offices, a simulation and training building, and a garage for emergency vehicles, according to a city news release. Additionally, the facility includes the city’s first dedicated Emergency Operations Center.

Emergency Management Coordinator John Cummins said the Emergency Operations Center provides a space "where all emergency services and all other city functions can come together in one room and have one voice in what's going on, make sure we're all on the same page and that the same effort is going out across the city."

Some context: Cedar Park voters approved $30 million for the joint Public Safety Training Facility as part of the city's 2022 bond program, breaking ground on the campus in Nov. 2024.

Williamson County Emergency Services District No. 9 partnered with the Sam Bass Fire Department for new specialized wildland equipment designed to combat wildfires, and aid in local search and rescue missions.

What is it: The upgraded equipment includes a command truck equipped with fire suppression gear, an air-conditioned trailer, and a utility task vehicle that acts as a mini off-road fire truck, ESD 9 Commissioner Alan Forster said. The UTV is specifically designed to navigate narrow hike-and-bike trails where traditional, larger fire engines cannot fit.

Funded by tax dollars through the ESD 9 partnership, the new equipment aims to protect urban wildland areas, including greenbelts and county parks, Sam Bass Fire Department Chief James Shofner said.

The new equipment will also aid in search and rescue efforts and flood responses, Shofner said.

From a Moxies in the Domain to a new business park in Georgetown, here are five of the most expensive projects filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Austin metro this week.

1. Moxies ($7 million): A new Moxies location is coming to the Domain, with construction set to begin in July. 

2. Austin Ridge Bible Church ($7 million): Austin Ridge purchased the Great Hills Baptist Church facility and are working on plans for renovation.

3. Mason Phase 2 ($5 million): This project includes improvements to a single family subdivision, covering 32,000 square feet.

4. Decker Lane site work ($4.5 million): This project includes work on Decker Industrial Park for five buildings, and associated connecting roads and utilities around the building.

5. Bell Gin Business Park ($3.72 million): The project consists of constructing five 7,200-square-foot shell buildings and two 10,800-square-foot buildings for commercial office and warehouse use.

More than 53,000 students will be invited to join Texas’ education savings account program this week, the state comptroller’s office said May 4.

The details: Families will be notified by email between May 4-6 if they were awarded funds in the second round of the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, per a news release from the comptroller’s office.

To date, nearly 96,000 students have been selected to participate, with these students set to receive about $820 million of the $1 billion state lawmakers allocated for the program, an agency spokesperson said. Of the 53,000 second-round awardees, over 51,000 are from low-income families. The other 2,000 students accepted this week were found to qualify for disability-related funding, the agency said.

The background: Families accepted to the TEFA program will receive state funds to send their children to private schools or homeschool them for the 2026-27 school year.

Proponents of the new program have said it will expand educational opportunities, while critics have expressed concerns that the program will unfairly benefit students already enrolled in private schools.