📰 EVENING NEWS BRIEF 📰
New court filing • Grand Prix tomorrow • Loop 567 film production 👇
📅 November 6th, 2026AD
🔥 TONIGHT’S HEADLINES
1. ⚖️ New plea enters court docket
2. 🏁 Grand Prix on Historic Square
3. ♻️ Cleanup and shredding Saturday
4. 🚧 Loop 567 overnight film closure
5. 🏛️ Morales backs Thompson
6. 🎓 Team interviews TEA candidates
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🌤️ WEATHER
🌡️ CURRENT: 66° and overcast at the Granbury airport at 5:35 p.m., NNE wind 7 mph, according to Aviation Weather Center METAR data.
🌙 TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy, low around 50°.
⚠️ HAZARDS: No National Weather Service alerts for Hood County were listed at 5:42 p.m. CT.
📅 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Saturday: partly sunny, 65°/51°
Sunday: partly sunny then slight chance rain showers, 65°/50°
Monday: slight chance rain showers, 68°/52°
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🚗 TRAFFIC
🚧 Loop 567 between FM 4 and Highway 377: A full closure in both directions is scheduled from 6 p.m. tonight to 6 a.m. Saturday for film production, according to the City of Granbury.
🚧 Historic Square: Crockett and Bridge streets are closed through 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, for events, according to the city’s closure notice.
🛣️ Corridors to watch: The Loop 567 airport segment overnight and Square approaches during Grand Prix weekend.
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🏛️ LOCAL LEAD
⚖️ LOGSDON AND PIATT PLEA ENTERS DISTRICT COURT DOCKET
Janet Logsdon and Daniel Piatt’s “Original Plea in Intervention & Request for Declaratory Judgment” was entered Friday in Hood County district court case C2026539, according to the district clerk’s Odyssey docket.
Filed in Jarratt/Wadley/Overdier v. City of Granbury, before Judge Bufkin, the Nov. 6 entry carries e-file number 122178301.
A “Final Hearing” is listed at 9 a.m. Dec. 2 for that plea in the same docket. Its hearing comment identifies the document as the Logsdon and Piatt plea filed Nov. 6.
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🤝 LOCAL PRIDE
🏁 FREE GRAND PRIX STARTS TOMORROW
The Granbury Grand Prix begins Saturday and continues Sunday, Nov. 7–8, on a temporary circuit around Historic Granbury Square. Admission is free, according to Visit Granbury.
The event lists karts, off-road bikes, scooters, mountain bikes and unicycles, plus a Vendor Village and Expo Zone and a Pit Stop Food Zone. Plan around the Crockett and Bridge street closures.
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♻️ CLEANUP AND SHREDDING SET FOR SATURDAY
The Great Granbury Cleanup starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at City Hall, 116 W. Bridge St., according to the City of Granbury.
Shred It Instead runs from 9 to 11:30 a.m., or until the truck is full, at American Town Hall, 220 N. Travis St.
The city also reminds residents to have bulk-trash items at the curb by 7 a.m.
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🏗️ INFRASTRUCTURE WATCH
🚧 LOOP 567 CLOSES OVERNIGHT
Both directions of Loop 567 between FM 4 and Highway 377 near Granbury Regional Airport are scheduled to close at 6 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. Saturday for film production, the City of Granbury says.
Single-lane closures follow from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Granbury Police Department officers will assist with traffic control. Use another route during the overnight full closure.
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NEWS FROM AROUND TEXAS
🏛️ THOMPSON LEADS HOUSE SPEAKER RACE
Rep. Eddie Morales Jr., D-Eagle Pass, dropped his House speaker candidacy Friday morning and said he supports Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, CW39/Nexstar reports.
Thompson held a Friday afternoon Capitol news conference on her bid. The outlet reports she is the only Democrat publicly seeking the gavel; winning requires 76 votes.
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🎓 HINOJOSA TEAM INTERVIEWS TEA CANDIDATES
Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa said Thursday that her transition team is actively interviewing people to replace Texas Education Agency chief Mike Morath, The Texas Tribune reported Nov. 5.
Hinojosa also pledged a bipartisan transition and administration, according to the Tribune.
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✅ BOTTOM LINE
⚖️ The district court docket lists today’s Logsdon and Piatt filing and a Dec. 2 hearing.
🏁 Free Grand Prix racing starts Saturday around the Square.
♻️ Saturday cleanup starts at 8:30 a.m.; bulk trash is due at the curb by 7.
🚧 Plan another route for Loop 567’s overnight closure, scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
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Hood County Express — Est’d 1/26 🚂
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