In a press release Tuesday, Fort Worth ISD advised spectators to consider if they should attend graduations in-person, because "the climate has been declared.
New developments would bring apartments, a hotel, retail and office space to Fort Worth’s Cultural District
The area has grown rapidly in recent years. The new developments could reshape its main corridor by 2023 Author: William Joy (WFAA) Updated: 10:28 PM CDT June 10, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas After decades of change, the growth Fort Worth’s Cultural District is accelerating, and the next few years will determine if change equals progress.
Dustin Van Orne has been in Fort Worth 20 years working at the Modern Art Museum and as past president of the Cultural District Alliance.
“Everything under the sun has moved over here,” Van Orne said. “We like to call it the living room of Fort Worth.”
In Twelve Mighty Orphans, author Jim Dent writes of football coach Harvey “Rusty” Russell arriving at the Fort Worth Masonic Home for Orphans in 1927 and being told by E.P. “Doc” Hall that the football field is used for grazing goats. “Doc, I’ve been around sheep and goats all my life,” Rusty says as he looks at the
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FC Brownsville (left, in gray), the officials (center, in green), and Fort Worth Vaqueros (right, in blue) line up for the dawn of a new season.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new feature we’re doing this summer. Starting today, I’ll be covering every Vaqueros’ home game. Having never experienced the home side live, I’m interested to see what I find.
The Vaqueros have played their previous home games at Farrington Field, but this year they’ve relocated to Texas Wesleyan’s home turf, Martin Field. With no bleachers, all the fans are at field level, with the advertising hoardings separating us from the touchline. This gives the game the feel of a Sunday-afternoon kickabout between schools, although these schoolkids are quite large and skilled. Also, there are quite a few more fans here than your average school game would draw. If you squint, the locals in their blue jerseys look like Leicester City, the English team that just won the FA
In Fort Worth, a series of vaccine registration events started in March and will continue through the middle of May. The latest event was held at Tarrant County College’s Trinity River Campus East on Belknap Street Saturday.
There was little traffic at the site Saturday, but nearly 200 people have signed up since the events kicked off in March, according to Roderick Miles. Miles is an executive administrator overseeing programs and outreach initiatives for Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks of Precinct 1.
“The county is really pushing for people to get vaccinated and to get registered so that we can get back to a sense of normalcy, so there is a renewed sense of urgency,” Brooks said. “One of the things I’ve learned is in order to have additional vaccination sites, we have to increase that number of people getting vaccinated, so they can justify actually having those sites up and running and having the staff operating those facilities.”