🌱Second Round Of Brush Pickups + Seed Trading At The Library

Good morning, everyone! Elaine Thompson here, your host of the Round Rock Patch newsletter — here to impart all the most important things happening in town these days. Including news on:

• When the next brush pickup date is.
• The Seed Library is available, just in time for spring!
• Events coming up this month and in April.

But first, today's weather:

Warm with variable clouds. High: 82 Low: 65.

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Here are the top stories in Round Rock today:

1. If you're still waiting for your debris from the ice storm to be picked up, the city notes that you should have the brush at your curb by March 10 for the second round of pickups. There is No special request needs to be filed online for this second round, but any pickups needed after March 10 will have to be requested. Once storm debris cleanup is finished, the normal $25 curbside pickup fee will be reinstated. Free mulch can be picked up at the Brush Recycling center on Deepwood Drive. More on this story at City of Round Rock.
2. Remember the Seed Library from the old location? It's back at the new and improved library on the first floor, in the Business center. "The Seed Library is a unique collection of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds. Any Round Rock citizen can borrow and donate seeds! Donations can be given to Library staff on the 1st floor Circulation desk." No library card is required to borrow seeds. Get all of the details at City of Round Rock.
3. With spring around the corner, plenty of fun is on the calendar, with these activities in March and April. On March 10, the Williamson County Symphony Orchestra will perform at Round Rock First United Methodist Church. Shaylah Dame Artistic Scholarship Fish Fry will be at the American Legion George Johns Post 447, serving up good eats, with profits going toward scholarships for local students. "That Takes the Cake" is coming to the Round Rock Sports Center, featuring "entrants from all over the world who will compete for the best cake or sugar art sculpture." Find more upcoming local events at Community Impact Newspaper.

Today in Round Rock:

• National Hiring Month at AutoZone (9 AM)
• Title 101 Class at Doma Title (9 AM)
• Awakening Yoga • Weekly Class *Virtual* (9:30 AM)
• Marketing Strategy: Plan to Bring in Leads and Convert Them at The Brass Tap (Noon)

From my notebook:

• One of the city's own plants roots in Mansfield, TX: "Flix Brewhouse was founded in Round Rock, Texas in 2011 and is the planet's only first-run cinema brewery. The world's only first-run dine-in cinema brewpub, announced today it has signed a 15-year lease with Shops at Broad." (PR Newswire)
• A new place to get your fitness on! "A Round Rock location of FACT Fitness, an athletic training facility that has a variety of programs based on its proprietary six-phase Foundational Athletic Coaching Technique, opened at 2000 S. I-35, Ste. J1, on Jan. 3." (Community Impact Newspaper)
• Hallelujah, University Boulevard! "Almost to the end of the road, y'all! Work along University Boulevard is substantially complete, with final pavement striping this week during evening hours. Following that, new signals will be turned on." (Round Rock, Texas – City Government via Facebook)

Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Wednesday. I'll see you around!

— Elaine Thompson

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