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The Sunday Sun, July 26, 2015
New father
arrested at
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Manuel Esquivel, Jr., a
19-year-old man from Taylor,
became a father Sunday. On
Monday, he was arrested for
allegedly assaulting his wife in
a labor and delivery room at St.
David’s Georgetown Hospital.
Georgetown police arrived
at the hospital and found a distraught woman inside a “room
torn up with multiple items on
the floor,” an arrest report filed
Tuesday said.
Mr. Esquivel told police he
was trying to leave before signing paternity paperwork and
had just told his wife he was
going to move back in with
his parents. Mr. Esquivel was
headbutted by his wife, who
he then punched and slapped,
he told police.
When officers interviewed
the wife, she said the argument began with Mr. Esquivel
attempting to avoid the paternity paperwork and quickly escalated to him allegedly throwing her onto the bed, where he
held her down by her neck and
upper arms.
Police observed a swollen
“goose egg” lump above the
wife’s left eye, the arrest report
said.
The officers also interviewed Mr. Esquivel’s brother, who denied being in the
hospital room during the altercation. Mr. Esquivel said
his brother was in the room
during the tussle and tried to
convince his brother he had in
fact been in the room.
St. David’s staff intervened
and asked for Mr. Esquivel to
be removed from the hospital
over concerns for the newborn’s safety. Police determined Mr. Esquivel was the
primary aggressor and arrested him. He was charged with
assaulting a family member
for the second time within 12
months, a third-degree felony
punishable by two to 10 years
in prison.
Mr. Esquivel was released
from Williamson County Jail
Wednesday on a $10,000 bond.
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The new front page of the city website at www.georgetown.org displays vibrant colors and a
revamped layout, part of an ongoing redesign of the city’s online portal.
Revamped look greets visitors
to city’s online portal
links to maps, the Chamber
of Commerce, Georgetown
Independent School District
and the Visitors Bureau.
The new site, full of panoramic photography by
Rudy Ximenez, also works
more efficiently on smartphones and tablets, Mr.
Hutchinson said.
“We know mobile users
are a big and quickly growing segment of our users,”
he said.
“That was also a big focus
— making sure the site looks
good and performs well on
mobile devices.”
Resident Dina Jones,
dining Tuesday just off the
Square, was impressed with
the look of the new front
page as she viewed the website on a tablet.
“The colors work well together,” said Ms. Jones, who
was familiar with the old
site.
“That’s what you notice
right away — the colors and
the photography. It is a huge
upgrade over what they had
before.”
B y M A T T L O E S C H M A N new site.
Visitors seeking information from the City of Georgetown’s website noticed big
changes last week as a new
front page debuted July 11
with vibrant colors and larger photos, part of an ongoing
redesign of the city’s online
presence.
“It has only been a
few days but we’ve had a
very positive response to
the changes,” said Keith
Hutchinson, city spokesman, who has spearheaded
the website redesign project
since last August.
“We are still working on
transitioning many of the
pages over. I’d say we are
more than 50 percent done
at this point with the goal
to have all the changes implemented by sometime this
fall.”
City officials have worked
with Steel Branding of Austin to revamp the entire
website, www.georgetown.
org, using the theme “Life in
Balance.” The city’s communications department sent
out surveys to gauge what
people wanted to see on the
ternoon at www.wilco.org.
City council workshop
4 p.m. Tuesday, 101 East Seventh Street
The city council gathers
prior to regular meetings for
in-depth discussion on matters up for consideration. City
staffers and outside groups
regularly give presentations
This week’s workshop will
include further budget and
tax rate discussion as well as a
review of the medical transfer
services franchise agreement,
presented by Fire Chief John
Sullivan.
“We got a ton of input and
we feel like Steel Branding
really came through for us,”
Mr. Hutchinson said.
The current work is phase
two of the project. City Webmaster Erin McDonald is
responsible for transitioning the old site to the new.
She is now moving smaller
department pages over before she tackles police, fire,
economic development and
other larger departments in
phase three.
The new website features
a consistent theme, whether
visitors are on the library
page or the page dedicated to
parks and recreation. Those
two pages have rotating promotional tiles that spotlight
upcoming events.
“One of the main goals
was to get that consistency
and get things better organized,” Mr. Hutchinson said.
The “Life In Balance”
concept plays off the idea
that Georgetown has both
big-city amenities and smalltown charm and ease. In the
top right corner, every page
has a search bar, quick links
to pay city bills and other
City council meeting
6 p.m. Tuesday, 101 East Seventh Street
Numerous matters are up
for consideration Tuesday
including joining a regional
SWAT team with the cities of
Cedar Park and Leander; possible approval of final engineering plans for the Southwest
Bypass/Wolf Ranch Parkway
extension; and consideration
of a $3 million bid for electric
system overhead construction
and maintenance.
The coucil will also hear updates on downtown parking,
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General Government &
Finance Advisory Board
3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Georgetown Public Library, 402 West
Eighth Street
This five-member board
meets the fourth Wednesday
of each month to review and
analyze the city’s general government and finance activities
in areas such as accounting,
purchasing, facilities maintenance, payroll and information technology.
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