a dry, brittle week where some longtime places couldn't hang on, a couple of new ones planted a flag anyway, and the ground itself is reminding everybody what happens when you don't tend your roots.
An A for Aledo ISD (and Benbrook Middle High School), a pause button for data centers, new roads for a growing county, and a hometown pitcher who waited 679 days for his shot back.
A billion-dollar plan dies, a $606M one rises, a grocery store fills a corner, and twenty rattlesnakes remind us nothing in Texas just quietly goes away.
Josh Harville
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Aug 14, 2026
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