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City Drought Restrictions Lifted Effective January 22
City Drought Restrictions Lifted Effective January 22 Water supply and demand conditions in the City of Granbury have improved to a level that the City can remove all drought restrictions. Effective January 22, 2019, the City of Granbury will deactivate Stage 2...
Wreck On Mitchell Bend Highway Injures Two
Granbury- Preliminary reports show that on January 16, 2018 at approximately 5:25pm, the Texas Highway Patrol responded to a two vehicle crash on State Highway 144 and F.M. 2425 (Mitchell Bend Hwy) in Hood County. Upon arrival, the Troopers found that a 2005 Saturn...
City Council Appoints Members to 11 Boards, Commissions
City Council Appoints Members to 11 Boards, Commissions The Granbury City Council appointed members to serve on 11 boards, commissions, and committees that had openings due to expired terms at the January 15 Granbury City Council Meeting. The purpose of the...
2019 Fire Department Responses
2019 Fire Department Responses Below is a comparison by each of our Volunteer Fire Departments for 2017 to 2018. There was an overall increase in calls for service County wide as well. The Fire Marshal’s Office would like to express our gratitude for all of our...
Kayleigh Price Named Honorary Councilmember by Granbury City Council
Kayleigh Price Named Honorary Councilmember by Granbury City Council The Granbury City Council named Baccus Elementary Student Council President Kayleigh Price an Honorary Councilmember at the January 15, 2019 City Council Meeting in recognition of her academic...
Warrant Service Nets Drug Arrest
Warrant Service Nets Drug Arrest On 1-15-19 around 230pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies went to the 3600 block of Josh Ct. to serve a felony drug warrant on David John Green (70 yoa). During the arrest Green was found to be in possession of over 3 grams of...
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Woman Found Napping At Stop Sign; Charged With Possession Of Meth
Hood County Sheriff's Department Press Release: Suspicious person call nets drug arrest This morning around 4:30a.m. Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a driver slumped over the steering wheel of her pickup near a stop sign on Skylark Dr. and...
Arrest Made in the Hit and Run of Blythe Baggett, Teen who was Killed While Skateboarding
Update on Hit and Run that occurred Thursday April 13, 2017 on Acton Highway where 19 year old Craig Blythe Baggett of Granbury was struck and killed while riding his skateboard. Clinton Dwayne Sandel, 34 from Arlington was arrested on Thursday morning for fail to...
Update: Injury to a Child Charges Dropped
Update: Charges against 37 year old father, Randal Shane Cain have changed. Upon further investigation, the State Felony for Injury to a Child was dropped, on the grounds that parents are allowed to use corporal punishment. The charge for a Class A Misdemeanor for...
Jeep Collides With Cresson Train Early This A.M.
Early this morning, a Jeep Cherokee traveling south on 377 tried to make it across the RailRoad Tracks but was struck by the train. The vehicle became entangled with the train and caught fire. The driver, a white male climbed out of the vehicle. No Injuries reported....
Autopsy Results In On Hood County Inmate
On March 13th Hood County Inmate, 25 year old Angel Isaiah Hernandez, was found unresponsive in his cell and later pronounced deceased at LGMC. The final autopsy report has been submitted by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office. The death was ruled a...
Teenage Skateboarder Killed in Hit and Run On Acton Highway
Thursday, April 13th, at around 10:00 PM, a passing motorist found the body of 19-year-old Blythe Craig Baggett (pictured above) laying in a ditch on Acton Highway and contacted the authorities. Baggett had been riding his skateboard on the roadway when he was struck...