📰 MIDDAY NEWS BRIEF 📰
Hood vote totals • Council returns • Saturday cleanup 👇
📆 November 4th, 2026AD
🔥 MIDDAY HEADLINES
1. 🗳️ Hood Election Day vote totals
2. 🏛️ Granbury City Council returns
3. 🎒 Tolar ISD school board totals
4. 🧹 Saturday cleanup and shredding
5. 🗺️ Tarrant County judge race
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🌤️ MIDDAY WEATHER
🌡️ CURRENT: 70° and clear at the Granbury airport at 11:15 a.m., with light and variable winds, according to the National Weather Service.
☀️ THIS AFTERNOON: Sunny, high near 72°, falling to around 70° in the afternoon, the National Weather Service forecasts.
🌙 TONIGHT: Mostly clear, low around 52°, with patchy fog after 1 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
⏱️ NEXT 12 HOURS: noon–3 p.m. sunny, 68°–72° • 3–6 p.m. sunny, 72°–71°
🌙 6–9 p.m.: partly cloudy to mostly clear, 67°–60° • 9 p.m.–midnight: mostly clear, 58°–56°. Rain chance: 0% throughout.
⚠️ HAZARDS: No National Weather Service alerts were listed for Hood County as of 11:40 a.m. CST.
📅 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Thursday: sunny, 77°/51°
Friday: sunny, 68°/48°
Saturday: partly sunny, 64°/46°
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🚗 TRAFFIC
🚧 Loop 567 lane closures run through midnight today between FM 4 and Highway 377 near Granbury Regional Airport, according to the City of Granbury.
🚧 Full closures in both directions are scheduled from 6 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, and from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday.
🚧 Saturday brings single-lane closures from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Temporary stops of up to 10 minutes follow Sunday through Tuesday while crews restore the area.
📍 Crockett and Bridge streets close Friday at 12:01 a.m. through Sunday at 10 p.m. for events, the city says.
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🏛️ MIDDAY LEAD
🗳️ HOOD’S UNOFFICIAL VOTE FAVORS REPUBLICANS
Hood County’s unofficial election results show Republican Ken Paxton with 75.02% of the county’s U.S. Senate vote, compared with Democrat James Talarico’s 22.74%.
In the governor’s race, Republican Greg Abbott has 77.02% of Hood’s vote and Democrat Gina Hinojosa has 21.46%. These are county totals, not statewide results.
The county’s election site lists 30,481 ballots cast out of 54,275 registered voters, about 56%. For governor, 29 of 30 precincts are listed as reporting.
District Clerk Melanie Graft, County Clerk Christine Leftwich and County Treasurer Leigh Ann McCoy each appear as the sole candidate in their contests.
The figures remain unofficial and incomplete.
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⚖️ GOVERNMENT + COURTS
🏛️ LOGSDON LEADS GRANBURY PLACE 4 TOTALS
The City of Granbury’s unofficial returns show Janet Logsdon with 3,005 votes, or 66%, and Skip Overdier with 1,528, or 34%, for City Council Place 4.
Alex Wolf, unopposed for Place 6, has 3,822 votes. Both seats carry three-year terms. County results list 8 of 9 city precincts reporting.
The city says the returns are scheduled to be officially confirmed at the council meeting Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 6 p.m. These are unofficial figures, not certified outcomes.
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🎒 SCHOOLS + SPORTS
🎒 MATTHEWS LEADS TOLAR PLACE 7 COUNT
Tommy Matthews leads the three-way Tolar ISD Place 7 contest with 628 votes, or 45.15%, on Hood County’s unofficial results site.
Chase Elliott has 385 votes and Blake Henderson has 378. All three Tolar precincts are listed as reporting for Place 7; the results remain unofficial.
Brad Cooper ran unopposed for Place 1 and Kelvin Murray for Place 2. The site lists 1,306 votes for Cooper and 1,311 for Murray.
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🤝 LOCAL PRIDE
🧹 CLEANUP, SHREDDING AND BULK TRASH SATURDAY
The Great Granbury Cleanup starts Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall, 116 W. Bridge St., according to the city.
Teams of four or more are needed. Volunteers must be at least 7 years old and should bring leather gloves; the city supplies trash bags, safety vests and grabbers.
Shred It Instead runs 9–11:30 a.m., or until the truck fills, at American Town Hall, 220 N. Travis St.
For Saturday’s bulk trash collection, have items at the curb by 7 a.m.
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NEWS FROM AROUND TEXAS
🗺️ KUT: SIMMONS DEFEATS TARRANT JUDGE O’HARE
Democratic commissioner Alisa Simmons defeated incumbent Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare, The Texas Newsroom reports via KUT, based on unofficial election results.
The report says it came even though a redrawn county precinct map had given Republican commissioners the majority on the court.
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✅ BOTTOM LINE
🗳️ Hood, Granbury and Tolar figures remain unofficial; county totals are not statewide results.
🧹 Saturday: bulk trash out by 7 a.m., cleanup at 8:30 and shredding at 9.
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Hood County Express — Est’d 1/26 🚂
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