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Round Rock Honey buzzes with local offerings

Konrad Bouffard initially began beekeeping because he wanted to grow and source his own food to cook with authentic ingredients. In 2003, Bouffard built his first house on a quarter acre of land in Round Rock. During the build, he dedicated a third of the land to an expansive garden and four bee hives.

In order to supplement his income as a school teacher, Bouffard and his wife Elizabeth started selling produce and honey from the garden at a farmer’s market in downtown Austin.

The background: The couple grew the business slowly and organically over the last 23 years, Bouffard explained, from bottling honey in their kitchen to selling products in H-E-B grocery stores.

What made customers excited about the product, Bouffard said, was Round Rock Honey’s authenticity, transparency and identity as a local, family-run business.

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Lionheart Children's Academy closes at Celebration Church near Georgetown, Round Rock border

Lionheart Children's Academy closed permanently earlier this year, according to its Facebook page.

The details: The Christian-based preschool, day care and child care service has operated out of Celebration Church for the last seven years. Officials with the church confirmed Lionheart is no longer leasing space with them.

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New LCRA reservoir could add 13B gallons to Central Texas water supply

The Lower Colorado River Authority is conducting studies to determine if a site northwest of Eagle Lake in Colorado County would be suitable for a new, larger water reservoir.

The details: LCRA already owns the 2,000-acre site, which could add over 13 billion gallons to the Central Texas water supply amid growing water needs.

Two-minute impact: The river authority, which supplies water and hydroelectric power to many communities throughout Central Texas, is exploring plans to build a new reservoir that could hold up to 90,000 acre feet of water. That would make it larger than the recently opened Arbuckle Reservoir, or two to three times the capacity of Lake Travis.

Why now? A new reservoir off the river authority's main channel was established in its Water Supply Resource Report, an overview of strategies to address regional water needs, that was approved last year, according to a Feb. 19 news release.