🗺️ MICROPLEX NEWS 🗺️
Amazon plans Somervell data center; Tarleton hosts ACU 👇
📅 November 6th, 2026AD
The top 10 stories everyone around the Hood County Microplex is talking about right now.
📋 TODAY’S TOP 10
1. 🏭 Amazon data center, Glen Rose
2. 🏈 Tarleton hosts ACU Saturday
3. 🏁 Grand Prix this weekend
4. 🚧 Loop 567 closes overnight again
5. 🚧 Crockett and Bridge closed
6. 🔭 Star party gates open at 5 p.m.
7. ♻️ Cleanup, shredding, bulk trash
8. 🗳️ Voters reject $62.5M bond
9. 🦕 Dino-Bility Day on Saturday
10. 🌤️ High near 70; weekend near 68
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🏭 AMAZON PLANS SOMERVELL DATA CENTER
Amazon is planning a data center campus in unincorporated Somervell County near Glen Rose, on Vistra Corp. land next to Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, an Amazon press statement dated Nov. 5 says.
The project is expected to support at least 550 full-time jobs with wages well above the county average, plus construction work for local contractors, Amazon says.
Amazon says site preparation is underway and cooling water would come from existing Vistra surface-water rights, not local groundwater or drinking supplies.
📍 Somervell County near Glen Rose
📅 Statement posted Nov. 5
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🏈 TARLETON HOSTS ACU SATURDAY
Tarleton State hosts No. 23 Abilene Christian at 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Stephenville, Tarleton Athletics lists on its football schedule.
Saturday’s game is marked Senior Day and a UAC conference matchup, with the Tarleton Alumni Association as game sponsor.
Tickets and broadcast links are posted at tarletonsports.com. Stephenville is in Erath County.
📍 Memorial Stadium, Stephenville
🕒 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7
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🏁 GRANBURY GRAND PRIX THIS WEEKEND
Granbury Grand Prix runs Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7-8, on a temporary race circuit around the Historic Square, Visit Granbury says.
Free admission covers an all-ages weekend of karts, off-road bikes, scooters, mountain bikes and unicycles, plus a vendor village, food zone and live entertainment.
Crockett St. and Bridge St. on the Square stay closed through 10 p.m. Sunday for events, the City of Granbury says.
📍 Historic Square, Granbury
📅 Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 7-8
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🚧 LOOP 567 CLOSES AGAIN TONIGHT
A film production is causing traffic delays on Loop 567 between FM 4 and Highway 377 near Granbury Regional Airport, the City of Granbury says.
Friday brings single-lane closures from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., then a full closure both directions from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday still has single-lane closures from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Granbury Police Department officers are assisting with traffic control. Plan another route.
📍 Loop 567 near the airport
🕒 Full closure 6 p.m. Fri–6 a.m. Sat
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🚧 SQUARE STREETS CLOSED THROUGH SUNDAY
Crockett St. and Bridge St. on the Historic Square are closed to traffic from Friday, Nov. 6, at 12:01 a.m. through Sunday, Nov. 8, at 10 p.m. for events, the City of Granbury says.
City officials ask drivers to use alternate routes and drive with extra care near the Square because increased pedestrian activity is expected.
That notice names Crockett and Bridge streets only, not the whole Square.
📍 Crockett St. and Bridge St.
📅 Through 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8
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🔭 TARLETON STAR PARTY TONIGHT
Tarleton State University hosts a free Fall Star Party tonight, Friday, Nov. 6, at the Tarleton Astronomical Observatory at Hunewell Ranch, about 8 miles northeast of Stephenville, the university says.
Gates open at 5 p.m. Guests can view the sky through the program’s 32-inch research telescope and smaller scopes outside; visitors should use parking lights and drive slowly near the site.
The observatory is at 5090 County Road 182, Stephenville. Warm clothing is recommended; overnight camping is not allowed.
📍 5090 County Road 182, Stephenville
🕒 Gates open 5 p.m. Friday
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♻️ CLEANUP AND SHREDDING SATURDAY
The Great Granbury Cleanup starts Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall. Teams need at least four people; volunteers must be 7 or older and should bring leather gloves. The city provides bags, vests and grabbers.
Shred It Instead runs from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., or until the truck fills, at American Town Hall, 220 N. Travis St. Bring up to three Bankers Boxes of paper only.
For Saturday’s bulk trash collection, put items at the curb by 7 a.m., the City of Granbury says.
📍 City Hall and American Town Hall
📅 Saturday, Nov. 7
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🗳️ CLEBURNE REJECTS SAFETY BOND
Cleburne voters rejected a $62.5 million public safety bond on Election Day, the Cleburne Times-Review reports from unofficial Johnson County Elections Office returns.
Proposition A failed with 4,811 votes against, or 51.74%, and 4,487 votes for, a margin of 324 votes.
Cleburne is in Johnson County. Results remain unofficial until canvassed.
📍 Cleburne / Johnson County
🗳️ Unofficial Election Day returns
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🦕 DINO-BILITY DAY IN GLEN ROSE
Dinosaur Valley State Park hosts the second annual Dino-Bility Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the park’s Blue Hole, Visit Glen Rose says.
Organizers designed the inclusive event so visitors of all abilities can experience the park’s dinosaur tracks and natural areas, with ASL interpreters on site.
Glen Rose is also listing a chili cook-off weekend at Dinosaur Valley RV Park and other November events around town.
📍 Dinosaur Valley State Park, Glen Rose
🕒 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday
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🌤️ PARTLY SUNNY, COOL WEEKEND
NWS Fort Worth forecasts a partly sunny Friday in Granbury with a high near 70 and a north wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday and Sunday look partly to mostly cloudy with highs near 68. Overnight lows settle near 50 to 52.
Monday trends mostly sunny with a high near 71, according to the Granbury zone forecast updated this morning.
📍 Granbury / Hood County
🌡️ High near 70 today
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THE BOTTOM LINE
🏭 Amazon outlines a Somervell County data center plan near Glen Rose.
🏈 Tarleton hosts ACU Saturday at 6 p.m.; star party is tonight at 5.
🚧 Loop 567 closes again tonight; Square streets stay closed through Sunday.
Six counties. One region. Plenty happening.
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