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Q&A: Meet the candidates running for Georgetown City Council District 6 in May

Emily Kaye Kipp is running against incumbent Jake French for the District 6 Georgetown City Council seat in the May 2 election.

Meet the candidates: Georgetown City Council consists of seven council members and the mayor. Each council member is elected for single-member districts and serves three-year terms, according to city documents. Council members must live within the district they represent.

District 6 is generally located north of University Avenue between I-35 and SH 130, and includes the downtown square, according to the city’s website.

Early voting runs from April 20-28, and residents have until April 2 to register to vote.

 
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Marshalls and HomeGoods coming to Georgetown strip mall

Marshalls and HomeGoods will open soon in Georgetown at the Cedar Breaks West retail development, according to architecture firm Arch Con Corporation.

Learn more: Arch Con Corp received city code approval in early February for two shell spaces that will house Marshalls and HomeGoods, the company announced in an Instagram post.

The contractor will work on tenant build-outs for the 24,000-square-foot Marshalls and 23,870-square-foot HomeGoods next. HomeGoods is adjacent to Sprouts Farmers Market, and Marshalls is a standalone building.

Cedar Breaks West is a retail development by Durham & Bassett Realty Group, home to businesses such as Petco and Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

  • 4610 Williams Drive, Ste. 101 and 105, Georgetown
 
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Crave to bring cookies and customizable sodas to Leander

Utah-based brand, Crave, is setting up shop in Leander this May, said owner Arun Serikar. The new location will mark the company’s first Austin-area venture, and will be locally owned and operated by franchisees Serikar and Purna Durshanpalli.

On the menu: The business will offer loaded sodas with syrups, creams and fruit add-ons, as well as a range of rotating cookie flavors.

Drinks include the Coconut Crave, which is a Diet Coke Mix with fresh lime and coconut syrup. Signature cookie offerings include Nutella sea salt, snickerdoodle and chocolate chip.

The deep-dish cookie flavors are rotated regularly, with six new combinations launched weekly.

Quote of note: “With the rapid growth in Leander and North Austin, we’re excited to bring something fun and unique to the area,” Serikar said in an email to Community Impact. “Crave is about great desserts, but also about building connections within the community.”

  • 19397 Ronald Reagan Blvd., Ste. 120, Leander
 

YOUR WEEKEND TO-DO LIST

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

Kaleidospoke

Round Rock Express Fan Fest

March 20, 7-9:30 p.m.
Cedar Park

March 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Round Rock

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Main Street Spring Market

Spring Plant & Tree Sale

March 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; March 22, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bastrop

March 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Buda

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Texas families now have until March 31 to apply for education savings accounts, judge rules

Texas families now have an additional two weeks to apply for the state’s new education savings account program, a Houston federal judge ruled March 17.

What's happening: U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ordered the state comptroller’s office to extend the application deadline to March 31 over concerns that no Islamic private schools had been greenlit to accept state ESA funds. In two lawsuits filed in early March, four Muslim parents said they felt deterred from applying for education savings accounts because the Islamic schools they send their children to were not among the 2,200 schools authorized to participate in the program.

Parents previously had until 11:59 p.m. March 17 to apply for the program.

Latest update: In a March 17 news release, the comptroller’s office confirmed that applications would be accepted through March 31 in compliance with the judge’s order.

Over 229,000 students had applied for the $1 billion program as of March 17, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said. The state will use a need- and income-based lottery system to determine who is accepted.

 

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