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Vendedores del Long Bazaar buscan un nuevo rumbo tras la venta sorpresiva a la organización Goodwill

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Vendors at the Long Bazaar in Northside scramble after surprise sale to Goodwill

Leticia Gandara sold artesanía Mexicana out of the same space at Long Bazaar for 28 years. 

During the week, the indoor market’s aisles are quiet. On the weekends, crowds bring the space to life.

Quinceañera dresses hang from racks beside stalls selling candy, furniture and jewelry. Barber shops are just a few doors down from a botánica. Neighbors lean across counters to talk, the way people do when they have shared a space for years.

Gandara and other vendors learned in April they have unti...
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Blood center urges North Texans to donate blood ahead of World Cup, summer slump

As millions of soccer fans prepare to descend on the Dallas-Fort Worth area this summer, Carter BloodCare is asking North Texans to do something that might not be on their World Cup to-do list: donate blood.

The Fort-Worth based blood center issued a public call for donors April 27, citing the anticipated arrival of an estimated 3.8 million visitors to the region for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which runs June 11 through July 19 across 11 U.S. cities including Arlington.

The timing of the call is...
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After 9 years, a Richland Hills cat cafe’s future is uncertain

Twice a week, sisters Gail LeBreton and Meg Dickens finish their workout and make their way to The Casual Cat Cafe on Glenview Drive in Richland Hills.

The pair have held monthly memberships at the cafe for 9 years.

At The Casual Cat Cafe, customers pay an entry fee to spend time with adoptable cats that roam freely through the lounge, while a separate retail section offers packaged drinks, snacks (for the humans) and cat-themed merchandise. 

Now, after years of annual lease renewals and ren...
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4 new murals across Fort Worth spotlight nonprofits, neighborhoods

A Ram pickup rolled toward Texas Wesleyan University last Tuesday with wooden panels of a 10-by-50-foot mural strapped to the truck bed.Brad Smith and his wife spent 22 days painting each of the panels depicting Wesleyan athletes, nursing students and theater kids and the surrounding Polytechnic Heights neighborhood as they are today. Assembled they tell a story.

“A good artist is a journalist,” Smith said. “We’re documenting this moment in Fort Worth.”

The Morris Foundation, a Fort Worth-base...
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How Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ found its home at a storied Cowtown dance hall

A year before the phone rang, Jean Czajkowski-Desai told her daughter she had one more wish for the Stagecoach Ballroom. 

“I really want another production at the Stagecoach, one more time,” Czajkowski-Desai’s daughter, Julia Paur, recalled her mom telling her.

Then a stranger phoned the dance hall on a Friday night while Jean was at her usual post selling tickets at the front door. He wanted to film a music video. She thought it was a scam.

It wasn’t. 

Within two weeks, the 65-year-old For...
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This Fort Worth group brings the parade to you

A procession of Jeeps — led by one nicknamed Shake-n-Bake with a bright yellow happy birthday flag waving off the back — pulled into the Richland Middle School parking lot on a rainy morning. 

Drivers exchanged ducks, mementos and caught up like old friends around the lot 30 minutes before roll out. One Bronco stuck out in the lineup.

“He’s a newbie,” Christy Mort called out as the group laughed. 

They mean it kindly. One of the things that sets the group apart, its members will tell you, is...
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UTA students question future of Hispanic-focused office after department move

University of Texas at Arlington junior Emmanuel Hernandez thought he might be in trouble when administrators called him into a meeting in February. 

Instead, they told him the university was restructuring the Hispanic Serving Institutions Initiatives office.

“I was just shocked,” Hernandez said. 

Now Hernandez and a group of students are pushing back against UTA administrators, arguing the decision to move the office under the broader Intercultural Student Engagement Center was made without...
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Here’s which Keller ISD schools could close as enrollment declines

Keller ISD mother Katie Gillham watched over the past few months as her Facebook filled with posts and chats speculating on which schools will close in the north Fort Worth district.

The Willis Lane Elementary parent drove to an April 2 committee meeting at the Keller ISD Education Center Thursday evening and learned about a plan for the closure of all three of the district’s intermediate schools serving fifth and sixth graders and its oldest elementary within the next two years. 

“I just want...
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Which Keller ISD schools will close? North Fort Worth district to reveal options

Keller ISD will reveal options for closing schools on Thursday as the district grapples with rising utility costs, enrollment uncertainty and an aging infrastructure in need of investment.

The meeting is at 6 p.m. April 2 at the Keller ISD Education Center, 350 Keller Parkway. Superintendent Cory Wilson said he expects the response from families, staff and the community to be challenging after closure options are announced.

“Once you’re talking about closing campuses, you’re talking about wher...
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Record enrollment, slower growth: What is shaping Crowley ISD’s student population?

Crowley ISD set an enrollment record but the district’s demographer Brent Alexander said the story is more complicated than the headline number.

The district counted 17,098 students in October, the most in its history. Yet that record was 54 more students than last year’s enrollment.

That slowdown is happening as builders broke ground on more than 1,700 new homes in the district last year and a record 2,075 families moved in — a figure that ranks Crowley fifth among all Dallas-Fort Worth schoo...
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Perimenopause film screening brings women’s health conversation to UTA

For many women, the way they describe perimenopause is simple: they don’t feel like themselves. 

Researchers have studied that exact phrase and found it is likely the most common way women first present symptoms.

That’s why women must track their moods and symptoms consistently to advocate for medical care, such as hormone testing, local health experts said.

“Know your body. Advocate for yourself,” licensed professional counselor Mone’t Smith told a crowd at UTA. “Even if they won’t listen t...
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Acting superintendent named at Lake Worth ISD as state takeover advances

Trent Dowd, a former principal, was named acting superintendent of Lake Worth ISD on Monday as the district awaits new leaders under a state takeover.

Trustees named Dowd to the temporary role as Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath moves to appoint a new superintendent and replace the district’s locally elected board with a state-appointed board of managers. 

“Whether I’m in this seat for a week or whether I’m in this seat for months, my goal is to make sure that we stay focused on taking...
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Future doctors receive residency assignments at Fort Worth’s Match Day celebrations

White envelope in hand, Brenda Godoy dashed through a crowd of medical students and their families, trying to reach her own before the countdown ended. She reached her gathered family before opening the envelope with shaky hands and unfolding the paper inside.A smile erupted on her face. She was matched with her first-choice residency program.Godoy was one of thousands of medical students nationwide taking part in the largest-ever Match Day, the annual ceremony in which medical students learn wh...
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Women are finding their people where the West begins

When Olivia Baxter’s date bailed on their plans last November, she decided to go out anyway, alone, and filmed herself doing it. 

The video found its niche online, and the comments rapidly filled with women in Fort Worth looking for community and friendship.

Within weeks Baxter launched Fort Worth for the Girls, a women’s social club centered around Sunday wine walks. Seven walks later, 40 women show up each week to build friendship, community and navigate the particular loneliness of life aft...
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TikTok famous ice cream shop lands in Fort Worth

Teresa Viveiros did not plan on opening an ice cream shop. She was just hungry. 

Late one night during a trip to Boston with her cousins, she walked into The Scoop N Scootery and ordered a sundae. Before the bowl was empty, there was a consensus. 

“We gotta bring this to Fort Worth,” Viveiros said to her cousins.

Two years later, Teresa and husband Christian Viveiros brought the Massachusetts-born ice cream chain known for customizable sundaes, late-night delivery and a viral TikTok presence...
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Reimagined children’s gallery opens in Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

Cook Children’s wants kids to feel at ease in a hospital before they ever have to be in one. A new exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is how they plan to do it.

The museum debuted the reimagined TCU Children’s Gallery last weekend in collaboration with Trinity Metro and Cook Children’s, unveiling an interactive space redesigned into a miniature world modeled after the people, places and culture of Fort Worth. Originally opened in 2009, the redesigned space now offers a chan...
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Arlington women open porch pantries to feed neighbors in need

Tabatha Parker sat on the front porch of her Arlington home on Halloween, as she’s done for the last two decades, handing out candy as well as boxes of oatmeal to neighbors who voiced need.

“Are you OK? Do you have enough food, with the SNAP benefits thing and all that?” Parker asked.

Parker, 52, worried that her neighbors were without food during fall’s government shutdown that froze Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for millions of Americans. Tarrant County has the fourth hi...
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Made in Peru, taught in Texas: South American dance finds a home in North Texas

The thumping percussion of cajón criollo punctuates Sarah Helfers’ voice, echoing through a Fort Worth dance studio on a Friday night. 

Jesús Monteverde and Marcelo Avendaño, a traditional Peruvian box-shaped wood drum positioned between their knees, use their hands to strike the front panels in the staccato beats of festejo, a high-energy dance with African roots. 

Dancers follow Helfers’ lead, practicing the footwork and hip movements that make the Afro-Peruvian dance come alive.

This is A...
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5 years on, Reby Cary Youth Library still being discovered by Fort Worth families

Whitney Johnson remembered watching construction in her neighborhood and wondering what was being built. 

“I hope it’s something different,” Johnson said she recalled thinking at the time.

That construction site became the Reby Cary Youth Library. The space that adults can only enter if accompanied by a minor is the only of its kind in the Fort Worth library system.

The library is named after Reby Cary, a civil rights activist, historian and former state legislator. Now as its 5th anniversar...
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3 generations lace up for Cowtown 5K as 6-year-old leads family charge

The beat of Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” fuels 6-year-old Eli Jack Harrison on runs. 

When his legs get tired and the track feels long, his playlist and a memorized Bible verse keep him going: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Eli Jack ran the Fort Worth Cowtown 5K on Saturday alongside his father, David Harrison, 42, and grandfather, Josh Harrison, 74. Eli Jack placed 14 out of 202 runners in the 6-and-under category. 

With a finishing time of 38:17, the race brought to...
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McNair program at TCU opens doors for first-generation scholars

Each time Sharon Arthur sits through Ph.D. interviews she makes the same observation.

She is the only Black woman in the room. 

“I’ve heard that the higher you go up, the less you see of yourself,” Arthur said.

Arthur graduated from Texas Christian University with a bachelor’s in psychology and now works as a clinical assistant while applying to graduate programs. The isolation Arthur describes drives the mission of TCU’s Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, a federally fu...
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Garden challenge cultivates coding lessons at Fort Worth charter school

Colin Christian’s biggest gripe with school is that he doesn’t get enough opportunities to apply learning outside the classroom. The IDEA Rise junior is getting that chance now by coding a solar panel to water the school’s vegetable garden.

“I’m really glad I actually do get the chance to do that here,” Colin said.

Students at the far west Fort Worth charter are programming a solar panel to power an irrigation system for their garden club’s next harvest. The project merges environmental scienc...
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Rare white buffalo to appear at Fort Worth Stock Show Saturday

A rare, all-white buffalo named Mo will appear at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on Saturday.

Mo, the PlainsCapital Bank’s living mascot, will greet visitors from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday on Rip Johnson Drive across from the Richardson Bass Building. Handler Bree Worthington Clay will be on hand to answer questions.

“It’s not that often that you see a live buffalo on display, especially a white one, which is very rare,” said Mark Warren, PlainsCapital’s Fort Worth region chairman.

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