For the past three years, the team at United Way of Hood County has been hard at work on two endeavors — combining the non-profits of Hood County under one roof and restoring that roof to its former glory. The culmination of these efforts relies on Granbury ISD’s Board of Trustee’s July decision to deed Decker Gym to United Way.

The Ruth’s Place Board of Directors has decided to transition the operations of outreach services to better serve the Oak Trail Shores community. To achieve this goal, both the organization’s Outreach Center and food pantry will relocate to First Christian Church.

The Senior Center is calling upon residents to help save Hood County’s Meals on Wheels program. Recent funding cuts have reduced the program’s ability to provide nutritious meals and life-supporting services to more than 100 of its regular patrons.

In 1886, a grand opera house was optimistically constructed as the crown jewel of a newly incorporated and equally optimistic town. Since 1886, the opera house’s story has mirrored the prosperity of the town of Granbury, participating in its feasts and its famines, and serving as a sign of the times for this little municipality.

Finding a Father’s Day gift can be difficult. Dads either “don’t know” what they want or you can’t afford the truck or grill they’ve been wanting for years. …

Everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Louise Deems eventually ends up wondering if she's hiding gills under her latex floral swim cap. Throughout the course of her long and colorful life, there’s not a time the 69-year-old Granburian recalls being out of the water for more than 48 hours. Every summer since 1977, she has spent her days in the pool of her Granbury home, teaching the community’s youngest and oldest residents alike how to swim.

Round up the posse and head down to the reunion grounds May 23-24 for a bucking good time at Hood County’s ninth annual Stampede Charity Rodeo. Join the cowboys and the roughstock of stampede as they bring in some of the world’s top bronc riding talent from around the world and wrangle up support for their charity of the year, the Be An Angel DFW.

Much like a highlight reel from everyone’s favorite grimy early 2000s reality show, “Dirty Jobs,” the city of Granbury’s new video series “On the Job” provides a peek into the daily lives of some of the city’s most essential — and often most overlooked — workers, those whose roles keep the daily lives of Granbury’s residents running smoothly.

Hood County Commissioners Court met Tuesday, May 14, for the bi-monthly meeting at the Ralph H. Walton Jr. Justice Center

Richard Nelson began his long affair with print news more than 40 years ago. With varied experience at seven publications and operating as the publisher of five of them, Nelson is excited to bring his garnered expertise to the HCN as its new executive editor.

With a hearty “yee-haw,” Hood County is leaving its red-hot brand on Texas’ “Cowboy Tourism” trail.

The world of school districts, board meetings and superintendents can be mystifying for those who don’t engage daily in the education sector of the community. To bridge the gap and strengthen ties between Granbury residents and GISD, new Superintendent Dr. Courtney Morawski has launched the Ambassador Program in hopes of educating the community about the district’s inner workings.