Barbara Gibson has been a part of the Granbury town square since the late 1960s. She owned a few shops there back in the day and sold a few different items, but some of her creations can still be …

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.

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.

Alongside members of the David Crockett Chapter of the Sons of the Republic of Texas (SRT) and Hood’s Texas Brigade Association Reactivated, residents and community leaders gathered Friday, June 13, to witness the unveiling of Gen. John Bell Hood’s first Texas infantry brigade flag.

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.

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.

It's a rare scenario when a family has become so engrained in a community that they can boast five consecutive generations to have all graduated from the same high school, but the story of the Huston/Warren’s family out of Tolar is one such example.

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

A walk down memory lane becomes even more enthralling when you’re accompanied by the enigmatic revolutionaries, indigenous forefathers and descendants of Texians who shaped our proud state’s history. Talk with these famed characters as you together take Hood County’s 14th annual “Stroll thru Texas History,” and see for yourself exactly how Granbury became known as the city “Where Texas History Lives.”

The pecan has played a pivotal role in the culture and livelihoods of Hood County residents for well over a century now, but recent developments in Pecan Plantation may come to show the decline of the nut’s influence over this humble community

Despite 100 years spent galivanting around the globe, earning medals of valor, and maintaining Midland through its oil boom, centenarian Wendell Brown is still most known for two things — his enduring optimism and dedication.