The North Texas Maternal Health Accelerator started last year with the goal of reducing severe obstetric complication rates in the region. Just over a year into the project, the accelerator has yielded real results for mothers and babies while securing new partners — including the state. Fort Worth
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Lightbridge Academy to Provide Additional Fort Worth Families With Dependable, High-Quality Educational Child Care FORT WORTH, Texas (Sept., 2026) — Lightbridge Academy, renowned as The Solution for Working Families® and a leader in educational child care with over 200 centers ei...
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Gotta be positive. Even with things the way they are, so much overflows our cups. We must remain hopeful. And grateful. Since we’ve been covering Fort Worth for 30-plus years, we have never run out of good things to say about this city and environs, a.k.a. the Great 817. This yea...
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Antique & Vintage Finds Readers’ Choice: Montgomery Street Antique Mall (2601 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, 817-735-9685) Critic’s Choice: Ain’t that Something (341 W Main St, Azle, 817-913-1515) This antique shop is absolutely worth the drive! Ain’t that Something has countless ven...
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After weeks of discussion, a majority of council members made their collective stance on the dissolution of University of Texas at Arlington’s polling site clear. The city council voted 7-1 to adopt a resolution formally asking the Tarrant County Commissioners Court to reinstate ...
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Place to Adopt Pets Readers’ Choice & Critic’s Choice: Humane Society of North Texas (two area locations) Now celebrating its 121st birthday, Humane Society of North Texas is one of the oldest animal rescue organizations in Fort Worth. They currently have hundreds of animals avai...
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The city of Fort Worth approved incentives for a proposed $192.7 million manufacturing plant from Harting Connectivity that could bring 700 jobs and a possible relocation of the company’s U.S. headquarters. But Fort Worth is not the only city under consideration for the plant. On...
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Fort Worth’s SiNaCa Studios is officially moving to Arlington after council members approved a 10-year downtown lease and up to $1 million in financial support this week. However, the vote led an existing glass art studio to say the city is giving an unfair advantage to outside o...
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Art Gallery Readers’ Choice: William Campbell Gallery (217 Foch St, Fort Worth, 817-737-9566) Critic’s Choice: Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, 817-759-9475) In a time and place when art is not appreciated or supported by the philistines in charge, that this elegan...
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Susan Eugenie Slone, 80, passed away peacefully, leaving behind a lifetime of love, laughter, and cherished memories. Susan was a sweet and loving woman with a wonderful laugh that brought joy to those around her. She loved the Lord and found comfort in her faith. She is now in H...
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When I go into a movie by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, I know I’m going to hate myself. In terms of pure talent, he’s on an equal footing with his Mexican film-school buddies Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. Nevertheless, Iñárritu’s cudgel-like storytelling, his habit of making t...
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On the eve of the Feast of the Holy Archangels — revered as powerful protectors within the church — the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth decided to pray over its own civic defenders. Tarrant County first responders, Catholics or otherwise, gathered Sept. 28 at St. Maria Goretti Cat...
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Standing on a mostly empty patch of land in north Fort Worth, Jaskirat Singh gripped a shovel and eagerly anticipated what was to come on top of the land he readied to break into. Singh dug that symbolic hole in 2025. Two years later, he left something real behind — his name fore...
