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🌱 Burnet warns of fake rezoning bills targeting property applicants

Burnet, Texas Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning to you Burnet! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Burnet warns of fake rezoning bills targeting property applicants
  • Burnet teachers pitch classroom ideas, win over $70,000 in support
  • Burnet's Chanler Devore wins a Big Time Texas hunt

Also on today's calendar: BCRW Luncheon - Election of Officers and Honor our Veterans and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and delightful, with a high of 73 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Thursday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 77, low: 47.
  • Friday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, with a high of 76 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Burnet warns citizens of mail scams (dailytrib.com) — Burnet officials warn that scammers are sending rezoning applicants fake letters and emails demanding extra fees after their cases reach the Planning and Zoning Commission. The city says all rezoning fees are paid during application, never by wire transfer. Anyone receiving a suspicious demand should call development services at 512-715-3206 to verify it.
   

• Spark Tank raises over $70,000 for Burnet classroom innovation (dailytrib.com) — Burnet CISD teachers have more than $70,000 in support for classroom projects following the education foundation's second annual Spark Tank fundraiser Nov. 2. Teachers pitched ideas to judges for grants of up to $10,000, with proposals ranging from multisensory dyslexia tools to theater backdrops and a STEM lab.
   

• Big Time Texas Hunts Winners Announced (gilmermirror.com) — Chanler Devore of Burnet is among five Whitetail Bonanza winners in this year's Big Time Texas Hunts drawing. Texas Parks and Wildlife notified 14 winners overall, with 149,114 entries raising more than $1.35 million for wildlife research, habitat management and public hunting statewide.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Veterans Day hits different when you've worn the uniform and then come home and built something of your own.
    So this is my standing offer, today and every day: veteran-owned businesses across the Texas Hill Country get their Logo & Brand Development from Rex… (Nextdoor Cassie)
  • LA Care , the food bank in Burnet, needs plastic grocery bags.
    If you have some of them that you want to get rid of, this is a good way to recycle them. We go through a lot of them and our numbers are growing… (Nextdoor Wolf Creek Ranch)
  • Svetness posted a job opening for Personal Trainer in Burnet. Apply here.
  • CDS (Club Demonstration Services) posted a job opening for Part Time Product Demonstrator in Costco in Bertram. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Burnet here.

🗞 Nearby News

Marble Falls

  • FiestaJAM wants Marble Falls to be the new ‘songwriter capital of Texas' (dailytrib.com)
  • Victory Select Announces New Peptide Therapy Resources Across Texas (daily-tribune.com)
  • Marble Falls Honey Distillery Pours Into Grand Opening After Years of Buildout (newsbreak.com)

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Ok Burnet! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Burnet

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