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Learn more about 6 brunch spots in Keller, Roanoke, north Fort Worth

Check out six dining options where guests can have a choice of breakfast fare or lunch items in Keller, Roanoke and north Fort Worth. This list is not comprehensive.

Breakfast Club 51
The eatery serves up popular breakfast and lunch items daily, according to its website. Breakfast offerings include steak and eggs, chicken fried steak with eggs, avocado toast, corned beef hash, waffles, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. For lunch the restaurant has southern shrimp and grits, wraps, chicken fried chicken, cheeseburgers, Monte Cristo sandwiches and salads.

  • 1212 N. Hwy 377, Ste. 127, Roanoke

First Watch
The restaurant serves breakfast classics and lunch options, according to its website. The daytime dining concept serves made-to-order breakfast items such as million dollar bacon, classic Benedicts, omelets, barbacoa chilaquiles breakfast bowls, pancakes, waffles and French toast. Other options included Baja turkey burgers, roast beef and Havarti sandwiches, Cobb salads and veggie burgers.

  • 3001 Heritage Trace Parkway, Ste. 101, Fort Worth

 
In Your Community
Keller Public Library announces facility upgrades funded by $50K grant

The Keller Public Library is getting a new rental service for creative devices, like a 3D printer and heat press, and a mural this month.

The upgrades are funded by a $50,000 private grant to the library.

The details: Any Keller Public Library card holder can go to the front desk to request a device from the new MakerStation. Items from the station include a 3D printer, button maker, sewing and embroidery machine, a Glowforge laser cutting machine and a heat press.

“Maker stations are kind of trendy in libraries and it’s something that we’ve wanted for a long time,” library director Ann Flournoy said. “I’m excited to see what the community makes.”

Zooming in: The private grant has been used to fund the MakerStation, the mural in the library's meeting room, events for its Late Night at the Library series and the library’s One Book One City gala in March, Flournoy said.

Rachel Reynolds, the city’s communications and engagement manager, said the mural is still in progress and should be completed in mid-April.

 
Transportation Tuesday
Check out 5 Dallas Fort Worth transportation updates

Stay informed on what road projects are happening or coming up around Dallas-Fort Worth.

Dallas County

1. Lakeside Boulevard reconstruction
Project: Crews are reconstructing the street and implementing utility improvements on Lakeside Boulevard from US 75 to Campbell Road, and Lawnview Drive from Lakeside to Greenville Avenue in Richardson.

Update: Installation of the water line sewers from the roundabout to Campbell is currently underway, along with work in the Lawnview median.

  • Timeline: winter 2024-spring 2026
  • Cost: $10 million
  • Funding source: city of Richardson

Tarrant County

2. Cheek-Sparger, Bedford Road roundabout

Project: The project will add a single-lane roundabout at the Cheek-Sparger and Bedford Road intersection and relocate 500 feet of water line within the roundabout in Colleyville. 

Update: Colleyville City Council approved the relocation of the waterline to be added to the project at the April 7 meeting, which increased the project’s design cost by $47,000. 
  • Timeline: The project will go out to bid for a construction company later this year.
  • Cost: $199,000 for designs
  • Funding source: city of Colleyville

 
CI Texas
Students, educators share concerns about sweeping rewrite of Texas social studies curriculum

Texas education officials are currently overhauling the state’s social studies curriculum standards, with policymakers, teachers, parents and historians clashing over how students should be taught about the history of Texas, the U.S. and the world.

The overview: The State Board of Education reviews standards for all curriculum areas every 15-20 years, dictating what Texas' 5.5 million public school students should learn at each grade level.

As written, the plan would reduce how much time students spend learning about world history and cultures in favor of more Texas-focused subjects. Critics of the proposal have pushed to include a more diverse set of perspectives to ensure all students feel represented in the curriculum, while those who support it said students’ education should be centered around American exceptionalism, state history and Christianity.

Next steps: The SBOE, which has the final say on the curriculum changes, was taking an initial vote on the plan as of press time and is scheduled to adopt the final standards in June. The new requirements would be rolled out to classrooms in 2030.

 

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