📰 EVENING NEWS BRIEF 📰
Early voting Monday • Wind Advisory until 7 • Tonight low 45 👇
📅 October 16th, 2026AD
🔥 TONIGHT’S HEADLINES
1. 🗳️ Early voting opens Monday
2. 🛍️ Academy treats 20 local kids
3. 💧 $107M lined up for city water
4. 📋 State error backlogs voter files
5. 💊 Albertsons opioid deal for Texas
6. 🚀 Lockheed invests $300M
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🌤️ WEATHER
🌡️ CURRENT: 63° and clear at the Granbury airport at 3:15 p.m., with a north wind at 21 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
🌙 TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Low around 45, with temperatures rising to around 47 overnight. North wind 10 to 20 mph, gusts to 35 mph.
⚠️ HAZARDS: A Wind Advisory is in effect for Hood County until 7 p.m., with north winds 20 to 30 mph and gusts up to 50 mph. Outdoor burning is discouraged, the Fire Marshal says.
☀️ 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Saturday: sunny, high near 64
Sunday: sunny, high near 70
Monday: sunny, high near 76
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🚗 TRAFFIC
🚧 Old Granbury Road remains closed at Walnut Creek for bridge construction through spring 2027, weather permitting, the City said, citing TxDOT. Traffic is detoured to Industrial Boulevard and US 377.
💨 Until 7 p.m., the Wind Advisory can make driving difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles.
🚧 Plan ahead: parts of Jones, Rucker, Crossland and Pearl streets close Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. for the Granbury High School Homecoming Parade.
🛣️ Corridors to watch: Old Granbury Road, Industrial Boulevard and US 377.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🏛️ LOCAL LEAD
🗳️ EARLY VOTING OPENS MONDAY AT HOOD COUNTY ANNEX 1
Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election begins Monday, Oct. 19, and runs through Friday, Oct. 30, in the Annex 1 meeting room, 1410 W. Pearl St. in Granbury, according to Hood County Elections Administration.
Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 19-23; 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 26-30.
Friday, Oct. 23, is the last day to apply for a ballot by mail. Applications must be received by then, not just postmarked.
City of Granbury voters will also pick a Place 4 council member: Janet Logsdon or incumbent Skip Overdier. Alex Wolf is unopposed for Place 6, the City said.
Election Day voting runs 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3.
📅 Early voting: Oct. 19-30, Annex 1, 1410 W. Pearl St.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🤝 LOCAL PRIDE
🛍️ ACADEMY TREATS 20 LOCAL KIDS TO A SHOPPING SPREE
Academy Sports + Outdoors marked the grand opening of its new Granbury store by inviting 20 local children on a shopping spree, the Hood County News reported.
Each child, selected by the Hood County YMCA, received a $200 gift card. Academy also gave the YMCA a $1,000 gift card to help offset its expenses.
Store manager David Timm, who has lived in Granbury for almost 30 years, said the location was setting sales records for a new store opening.
"I am really excited to bring this store to our community," Timm said.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🏗️ INFRASTRUCTURE WATCH
💧 GRANBURY LINES UP $107 MILLION FOR DRINKING WATER UPGRADES
Granbury is receiving more than $107 million in state financial assistance to improve its drinking water system, the City of Granbury said.
On Sept. 10, the Texas Water Development Board approved $49.985 million in financing to improve the existing water treatment plant and help build a new 5-million-gallon-per-day plant.
The City expects that financing to save about $14.6 million over the life of the loan compared with conventional financing. It builds on a $57.8 million state grant awarded in October 2025.
The City says the advanced treatment upgrades will help address emerging contaminants such as PFAS.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
NEWS FROM AROUND TEXAS
📋 STATE ERROR BACKLOGS VOTER ADDRESS UPDATES BEFORE EARLY VOTING
County election officials learned Thursday about another state error that backlogged thousands of voter registration records, Votebeat and The Texas Tribune reported.
The error affected address updates submitted online. A Texas Secretary of State's Office spokesperson said 15,000 affected records were sent to counties, though not all counties were affected.
Officials have to sort out which updates were submitted by the Oct. 5 registration deadline and process them before early voting starts Monday. Voters with questions should contact their county voter registrar.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
💊 TEXAS COULD GET UP TO $57.8 MILLION FROM ALBERTSONS OPIOID DEAL
Texas and its political subdivisions are eligible to receive up to $57.8 million for opioid abatement under a multistate settlement with grocery chain Albertsons, Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced Thursday.
Once final, the settlement would require Albertsons to pay more than $773 million nationally to address its role in the opioid crisis.
Statewide opioid settlement funds are overseen by the Texas Opioid Council. The office encouraged affected cities and counties to sign on to the settlement.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🚀 LOCKHEED PUTS $300 MILLION INTO GRAND PRAIRIE MISSILE PLANT
Lockheed Martin is investing $300 million in its Grand Prairie operation, expanding its manufacturing footprint there to more than 735,000 square feet, the company announced Wednesday.
It also plans to create 6,000 jobs across the United States, including 2,000 in Texas.
The plant supports all of Lockheed's Missiles and Fire Control programs, including PAC-3 MSE and THAAD. A 24-machine automated cell from partner Hadrian is expected to be running in early 2027.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ BOTTOM LINE
🗳️ Early voting opens Monday at Annex 1, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
🛍️ Academy welcomed Granbury with a shopping spree for 20 kids.
💨 Wind Advisory until 7 p.m.
🌙 Tonight: mostly clear, low around 45. Saturday: high near 64.
— Hood County Express
Est’d 1/26 🚂
© 2026 Hood County Express. All Rights Reserved
HoodCountyExpress.com
