It's Christmas in July as Mr. and Mrs. Claus are working to raise funds to renovate their Granbury Santa House in the Gazebo on the Square.

The key to a happy Fourth of July is nearly solely reliant on one’s ability to practice safety, and the ability to ensure you are joining in the festivities within the limits of the law. Living by these two principles will ensure all sweat during this Independence Day is knowing how many hot dogs are too many hot dogs, and where to acquire the most industrial-grade bug spray.

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.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry. But what happens when you teach a woman to fish? Well, in the case of Sherry McClesky, it means you’ll spend your summers passing along the trade to other young women.

Have a young thespian looking for a chance to break into the spotlight? Look no further than Cornerstone Christian Academy’s Broadway Bootcamp.

When the curtain rises on Hairspray: The Broadway Musical at the historic Granbury Opera House, audiences had better buckle up. They’re in for a wild ride through 1962 Baltimore—a world …

Attendees of the Granbury ISD school board meeting May 19 fell silent as 22 young women filed into the room, a silence that was pierced only by the sound of their voices as they led those in attendance in a rousing rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” The Board of Trustees had invited them there to celebrate the multitude of accolades the choir acquired during the 2024-25 school year.

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.

Hood County is known for many things, its never-ending supply of festivals and events, its quaint historic square and its hospitable, yet eccentric citizens. But what really comes to people’s minds, especially as the weather gets warmer, are Hood County’s seemingly endless water activities – which pose equally endless threats of turning your family’s day of fun in the sun into a day at the ER.

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.

I am an unapologetic child of the late 1960s and early 1970s. For all the turmoil and social upheaval of the period, it was still, by and large, a time of innocence and simpler pleasures. Take …

If Jane Austen were alive today — and, let’s be honest, she'd totally be on TikTok with a million snarky followers — she might be delighted (and perhaps a little smug) to know that …