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Food trucks, restaurants among new businesses to open in Hutto

Several new food trucks and restaurants have opened in Hutto recently, while a couple more businesses focused on relaxation and recreation are on the way. Check out these 6 business updates.

Now open

Da’s Thai Cuisine: The restaurant opened a new location in Hutto this month. For starters, customers will find egg rolls, steamed dumplings, chicken satay, steamed edamame, fried tofu and crab rangoon rolls. The restaurant also serves curry, fried rice, pad Thai, beef and broccoli, and a variety of other Thai dishes.

  • Opened March 2

Shelly's Heart and Soul Food: The food truck, located within The Shoppes at Affordable Storage in Hutto, serves a a variety of soul food. The menu features hand-breaded catfish fillets and wings, with sides such as collard greens, rice and beans, macaroni and cheese, corn bread muffins, fries and grits. The food truck also serves breakfast options, including the Messiah's Mess, which comes with eggs, bacon and cheese on Texas toast.
  • Opened Jan. 28
 
Affecting your area
Power outage planned for part of Hutto March 19

A planned power outage will take place March 19 in Hutto, according to an announcement by the city.

Overview: According to a city of Hutto social media post, Oncor scheduled a power outage to occur at 11 p.m. on March 19, and lasting until 5 a.m. on March 20. During this time, traffic signals will be out at Hwy. 79 and South FM 1660, as well as at Hwy. 79 and North FM 1660.

Traffic control is expected to be onsite. The outage is part of work to remove a span of wire over the railroad at Hwy. 79 and South FM 1660. Residents and businesses affected will be notified by Oncor.

 
Neighboring News
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.

 

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

More info

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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

More info

More info

 
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CI Texas
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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