Greg Rose is leading his 35-volunteer-strong Hood County chainsaw team down to San Angelo to provide relief to the victims of the devastating 4th of July flooding.

The key to a happy Fourth of July is nearly solely reliant on one’s ability to practice safety, and the ability to ensure you are joining in the festivities within the limits of the law. Living by these two principles will ensure all sweat during this Independence Day is knowing how many hot dogs are too many hot dogs, and where to acquire the most industrial-grade bug spray.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry. But what happens when you teach a woman to fish? Well, in the case of Sherry McClesky, it means you’ll spend your summers passing along the trade to other young women.

Everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Louise Deems eventually ends up wondering if she's hiding gills under her latex floral swim cap. Throughout the course of her long and colorful life, there’s not a time the 69-year-old Granburian recalls being out of the water for more than 48 hours. Every summer since 1977, she has spent her days in the pool of her Granbury home, teaching the community’s youngest and oldest residents alike how to swim.

Hood County is known for many things, its never-ending supply of festivals and events, its quaint historic square and its hospitable, yet eccentric citizens. But what really comes to people’s minds, especially as the weather gets warmer, are Hood County’s seemingly endless water activities – which pose equally endless threats of turning your family’s day of fun in the sun into a day at the ER.

If you thought you were having a bad day Friday, May 16, try being the dummy that was pinned under a tractor bucket having its leg sawed off by a man who learned what a gigli saw was only 30 seconds prior. It starts to put things in perspective, doesn’t it?

Round up the posse and head down to the reunion grounds May 23-24 for a bucking good time at Hood County’s ninth annual Stampede Charity Rodeo. Join the cowboys and the roughstock of stampede as they bring in some of the world’s top bronc riding talent from around the world and wrangle up support for their charity of the year, the Be An Angel DFW.

If you have lived in this area for any length of time, you know that spring in North Central Texas can be unpredictable, bringing a blend of warm sunshine and sudden, severe weather changes. Staying …

A walk down memory lane becomes even more enthralling when you’re accompanied by the enigmatic revolutionaries, indigenous forefathers and descendants of Texians who shaped our proud state’s history. Talk with these famed characters as you together take Hood County’s 14th annual “Stroll thru Texas History,” and see for yourself exactly how Granbury became known as the city “Where Texas History Lives.”

It's a well-known fact that most veterans share the love of two things — hot rods and collectible weaponry. These two passions collide on May 17 through Stars, Stripes and Sacrifice's first annual “Cars and ARs” event, the proceeds of which go to providing lifesaving supplies to the metroplex’s homeless veteran population.

Just about everyone can agree that nothing is more American than lemonade or capitalism. On May 17, hundreds of local children will flock to the curb loaded down with lemons, sugar, and water to demonstrate this idea and usher in Hood County’s third annual Lemonade Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., make it your goal to stuff your bladders and the pockets of local fifth graders by hitting the streets and supporting as many of the young entrepreneurs stands as possible.