📰 EVENING NEWS BRIEF 📰
Council recap • Cleanup • Loop 567 👇
📅 November 4th, 2026AD
🔥 TONIGHT’S HEADLINES
1. 🏛️ City of Granbury funds design
2. ♻️ Cleanup and shredding Saturday
3. 🏈 Pirates play Thursday
4. 🚧 Loop 567 road closures
5. 🚧 Historic Square closures Friday
6. ⚖️ Democrats gain court seats
7. 🎓 Board control hinges on one race
8. 🏗️ Data center pause pledged
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🌤️ WEATHER
🌡️ CURRENT: 72° and clear at Granbury Regional Airport at 5:15 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
🌙 TONIGHT: Clear. Patchy fog after 1 a.m., low around 51, according to the National Weather Service.
⚠️ HAZARDS: No active National Weather Service alerts were listed for Hood County at 5:32 p.m. Conditions can change.
☀️ 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Thursday: sunny, 78°/50°
Friday: sunny, 67°/48°
Saturday: mostly cloudy, 64°/46°
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🚗 TRAFFIC
🚧 Loop 567 between FM 4 and Highway 377: Overnight closures begin Thursday. Details and daytime restrictions are below.
🚧 Crockett and Bridge streets: Closures begin early Friday on the Historic Square.
🛣️ Current DriveTexas conditions were not checked for this brief. No corridor all-clear is established.
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🏛️ LOCAL LEAD
🏛️ COUNCIL APPROVES STREET DESIGN, LEGAL FUNDS
Granbury City Council approved $1.17 million for street-improvement engineering and design Tuesday, according to the city’s meeting recap.
Another $250,000 was approved for anticipated legal expenses, according to the recap, which does not identify their purpose.
A proposed Pirate Drive gas station failed to secure the required supermajority. The recap does not give a vote count.
Council Member Zeb Ullom announced plans to resign at Tuesday’s meeting. The recap gives no reason or effective date for his departure.
Election returns are scheduled for official confirmation at the Nov. 17 council meeting, which starts at 6 p.m.
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🤝 LOCAL PRIDE
♻️ SATURDAY CLEANUP HAS THREE SERVICES
Saturday’s Great Granbury Cleanup starts at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall, 116 W. Bridge St., according to the city.
Shred It Instead runs from 9 to 11:30 a.m., or until the truck fills, at American Town Hall, 220 N. Travis St. Residents may bring up to three Bankers Boxes of paper only.
For Saturday’s bulk trash collection, put items at the curb by 7 a.m.
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🏈 GHS PLAYS ARLINGTON MARTIN THURSDAY
Granbury High School’s varsity football team is scheduled to play Arlington Martin on Thursday, Nov. 5, according to the school’s official calendar.
The game is billed as Elementary Night, but the calendar listing shows no kickoff time. Check with the school before heading out.
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🏗️ INFRASTRUCTURE WATCH
🚧 LOOP 567 OVERNIGHT CLOSURES START THURSDAY
A film production will close Loop 567 in both directions between FM 4 and Highway 377 from 6 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, then from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday, the city says.
Daytime restrictions run from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Plan another route for the overnight closures.
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🚧 TWO SQUARE STREETS CLOSE FRIDAY
Crockett and Bridge streets on the Historic Granbury Square will close to traffic from 12:01 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, through 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, according to the city.
The notice says the closures are for events. It names those two streets, not the entire Square.
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NEWS FROM AROUND TEXAS
⚖️ DEMOCRATS GAIN SEATS ON STATEWIDE COURTS
Democrats won all four Texas Supreme Court seats on Tuesday’s ballot and all three seats on the 15th Court of Appeals, The Texas Tribune reports.
Republicans will retain a 5-4 majority on the nine-member Supreme Court. These reported election outcomes are not certified final results.
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🎓 EDUCATION BOARD CONTROL HINGES ON ONE RACE
Democrats and Republicans each hold seven seats on the 15-member State Board of Education, with one race undecided, The Texas Tribune reports.
The final matchup will determine which party gains majority control. Board members determine what schools must teach and which learning materials schools can choose.
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🏗️ HINOJOSA PLEDGES DATA CENTER MORATORIUM
Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has promised to pause data center approvals until lawmakers pass new protections, The Texas Tribune reports.
That remains a campaign commitment, not an order she has issued as governor.
Her proposal would go beyond Gov. Greg Abbott’s existing freeze on environmental permitting and grid connections for data centers during an audit, according to the report.
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✅ BOTTOM LINE
🏛️ Council approved street-design funding Tuesday; Ullom announced plans to resign.
♻️ Saturday brings cleanup, shredding and bulk trash collection.
🚧 Loop 567 overnight closures start Thursday; Square street closures begin early Friday.
🎓 One undecided race leaves state education board control unsettled.
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Hood County Express — Est’d 1/26 🚂
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