Fort Worth Report • 1 December 2025

Fort Worth family changes lives through lemonade stand sales during TCU football season

Eight years ago, Brance Glasgow and his brothers Colt, Breck and Dayne learned how Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas families along the Gulf of Mexico and knew they needed to help.

Not knowing how, the Tanglewood Elementary students asked their mother, Maida Glasgow, for ideas. Together, they decided to open a lemonade stand in their front yard to raise money. When their stand opened, the community responded and the brothers raised over $1,500 in just a few weeks. Ultimately, the Glasgow family...

Arlington Report • 26 November 2025

How Arlington’s Retro Tech Lab helps residents preserve memories

Librarian Mark Dellenbaugh read the faded ink written on the label of an old and unwatchable videotape: “Newborn Kyle” and “Ryan learning to ride tricycle.”

For over two decades, the camcorder memories of two of his children sat in storage, trapped in outdated formats. Without the equipment needed to play the tapes, Dellenbaugh’s irreplaceable recordings were stranded in an inaccessible past.

When the Arlington Genealogical Society asked Dellenbaugh how — if he had the money — he would innovat...

Fort Worth Report • 24 November 2025

Deadly bird collisions in Fort Worth rose from 2024. Here’s how to help

As fall migration nears its end, Fort Worth conservationists found more dead birds they believe were killed after colliding with windows than last year.

As of Nov. 15, surveyors found 56 dead birds in downtown so far this year, according to preliminary data provided by Lights Out Fort Worth, a Texas Conservation Alliance regional program that aims to prevent window-related bird deaths by reducing light pollution. By the end of fall last year, the group found 41 birds killed in window collisions...

Fort Worth Report • 11 November 2025

Tarrant County Veterans Day parade delivers long awaited pride to Vietnam veterans

The Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade made Vietnam veteran Larry Boetch proud, a feeling he had not felt when he returned from the war.

Boetch volunteered in the draft and landed in Vietnam as a 19-year-old infantryman. He spent nearly a year in the war torn country. When he finally returned home in 1968 to a not-so-warm welcome, he took off his uniform and placed it in his closet where it stayed until it was eventually lost, he said.

“It has been a long time coming, and it makes me feel prou...

Fort Worth Report • 10 November 2025

How Fort Worth-area school districts are looking to boost student military recruitment

Saginaw High School sophomore David Wey approached the pull-up bar next to a Marine Corps recruiter station during lunch.

The red iron monolith in the cafeteria served up a challenge: test your strength. A small crowd of students watched as Wey leaped, grabbed onto the grip and hung for a moment before pulling himself up. His classmates counted each rep behind him, urging him to do more.

“As Marines, we love healthy competition,” Marine Corps recruiter Sgt. Elbert Brown said.

The spectacle a...

Fort Worth Report • 30 October 2025

TCU student documentary showcases tennis victory at Lone Star Film Festival screening

Ella Hestand had no interest in tennis until she interviewed David Roditi, head coach for Texas Christian University men’s tennis team. 

Hestand, a TCU senior sports broadcast and journalism major, was nervous when chosen to direct and lead a team of 10 classmates to create “The Roditi Rule,” a documentary focused on the coach, she said. 

The documentary follows the team’s journey to become national champions in 2024, including how Roditi’s personality changed college tennis and his legacy. Th...

Fort Worth Report • 29 October 2025

Fort Worth director set for debut at Lone Star Film Festival

Nathan Price initially gave up on his newest short film during the COVID-19 pandemic when his dog, Milo, knocked his hard drive off a table, destroying its contents.

He had accumulated hours of footage after shooting a script he wrote out of boredom that then became a personal project. When his hard drive fell victim to his German shepherd’s bushy tail, Price says he got the message. Demoralized, he abandoned his own project but kept working on other filmmakers’ sets. He still longed for a film...

Fort Worth Report • 28 October 2025

Filmmakers challenge perception of homelessness at Lone Star festival

After his mother’s sudden death, Nicholas Buck knew he had to make a choice: follow his passion for filmmaking — or wish he had.

He chose his dreams.

Buck’s newest screenplay, “Storage Fees,” is derived from personal experience and follows a young man navigating loss, homelessness and the associated shame. The film is meant to challenge how people typically think about homelessness and presumptions about those suffering through it, he said.

The short feature will be screened at the upcoming...

Fort Worth Report • 30 September 2025

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tarrant County addresses shortage of male mentors

Arlington mother Iesha Mustafa hoped to quickly find a good role model for her 10-year-old son, Isaiah Hassell, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. 

After two years of waiting, her hopes dwindled.

“I thought they forgot about us,” she said.

Isaiah was one of more than 400 children sitting on the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Tarrant waitlist. Delays caused by a shortage of male mentors have left boys waiting twice as long on average for a mentor than girls.

The male mentor s...

Fort Worth Report • 25 September 2025

Matcha mania in Fort Worth has shops whisking up solutions to shortages

Within a year, Ampersand co-owner Toan Luong watched matcha become one of his cafes’ most popular items.

The CEO ordered more of the tea, then more than that, and then more again. Luong now orders three to four times more matcha than the 55-pound shipments he routinely purchased four months ago.

Customer demand for matcha took him by surprise.

“We’ve run out of matcha a few times,” Luong said. “Whenever we do run out, customers are always a little bit sad, but everyone understands.”

Shop ow...

Fort Worth Report • 14 September 2025

Beloved White Settlement library cat dies after 13 years of purr-fect companionship

Sandra Rosas thoroughly read the ballot before making her selection.

It was a big decision, but she knew her favorite was the right choice: Browser.

Her vote helped name the White Settlement Public Library’s newly adopted kitten. 

A couple of years later, Rosas started working at the library, where she and Browser spent the next 13 years together.

Browser, 15, died Aug. 25 after he was euthanized due to kidney and thyroid issues. White Settlement residents and people from surrounding commun...

Fort Worth Report • 9 September 2025

Fort Worth shops adjust as THC vape ban takes effect

Nicholas Arneson, owner of Dallas Vape Delivery & Lounge on Rosedale Street, opened his business just three weeks before a ban on THC vape products took force.

He built his business on vape deliveries and leaned heavily on the product. Most of his customers were interested in THC vape products, he said.

Now, nine large boxes filled with the product sit in the back of Arneson’s store after a new law banning the sale of THC vape pens went into effect Sept. 1. Although some prepared for the loss...

Fort Worth Report • 1 September 2025

Cristo Rey Fort Worth’s $5.5M school expansion hits delay as enrollment grows

Sophomore Andrea Herrera was sitting in geometry when she became distracted.

The 15-year-old’s classroom at Cristo Rey Fort Worth College Preparatory is one of four temporary spaces set up in half of the private school’s gymnasium, now divided by lockers and racks of foldable chairs. She overheard teachers in neighboring spaces giving their lessons. 

“I kind of don’t like it as much because I get distracted very easily,” Herrera said. “Hearing the other classes going on and other sounds going...

South Bend Tribune • 25 August 2025

'Community' key to South Bend Mexican restaurant's rapid growth since pandemic opening

SOUTH BEND — When Francisco “Franky” Macias and his workers were laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the former production supervisor at Amerimex faced a difficult decision: Look for another corporate position or follow his dream of opening his own restaurant and risk losing everything he had left?He decided to take a leap of faith. With everything on the line — his house, his car, everything — he used all his savings and “every credit card you can imagine” to buy a rundown building with its...

South Bend Tribune • 18 August 2025

Beer, smoked meat served with a river view. Crooked Ewe puts time behind its craft

SOUTH BEND — In the 10 years Crooked Ewe Brewery & Ale House has been serving pints and smoked meat overlooking the St. Joseph River, the main goal has been to create food and beer where customers can “taste the time behind it,” restaurant co-owner Sean Meehan says.

Many of its menu items, whether a beer recipe perfected over years or smoked meat that takes nearly a month to travel from kitchen to plate, are the result of labor-intensive processes and the creative vision of the cooks or Andy Wa...

South Bend Tribune • 11 August 2025

Taste: South Bend’s newest public house offers flavors of the outdoors

SOUTH BEND — Built for live music and events, South Bend’s newest Public House boasts the largest indoor section of its now three locations. But this Public House’s outdoor seating is truly what makes this location special. Located in the same lot as the Indiana Dinosaur Museum, South Bend Public House hosts an outdoor section behind the restaurant with picnic table-style seating in small huts and fire pits amidst trees, tall grass and foliage, which includes a section of wild blueberry bushes....

South Bend Tribune • 25 July 2025

Notre Dame researcher studies bonding between father and daughter baboons in Kenya

Daddy-daughter dances have been a staple of American culture for a couple decades.

As it turns out, baboon fathers and daughters engage in a bonding ritual — grooming, in their case, rather than a formal dance — that serves a similar purpose.

“In humans, we know that people who are socially connected and feel a sense of social support live longer than people who are socially isolated,” Elizabeth Archie, a professor of behavioral ecology at the University of Notre Dame and one of the directors...

South Bend Tribune • 1 July 2025

The sounds of war in times of celebration: how fireworks affect veterans

SOUTH BEND - South Bend native Joe Siglawski enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1965, just as the U.S. began to send troops into Vietnam.Sixty years later — long after he returned home and the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, fell to the North Vietnamese — he still carries the mental and emotional scars from the war.He says he is never alone because of a constant ringing in his ear — the result of frequent gunfire and explosions. And, his son, David, said, his...

South Bend Tribune • 28 June 2025

St. Joseph County 4-H Fair celebrates its 100th opening as an event for family, community

SOUTH BEND — For Kristen Sikorski-Conklin, everything about the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair comes back to family and community.

Having been born and raised on the westside of South Bend, she grew up with the 4-H fair. And for the past 21 years, she has helped organize the event in various roles, including her positions on the board of directors. Now, as the board’s president for the past four years, Sikorski-Conklin said family and community are what she strives to provide.

“I think (the 4-H fa...

South Bend Tribune • 26 June 2025

How two Notre Dame professors are communicating science, advocacy through symphonic music

SOUTH BEND — For Lee Haines, a professor of medical entomology at the University of Notre Dame, communicating details of her work to someone who knows nothing about insects always starts by simplifying her message to what is important and applicable.And when she unveiled her commissioned symphonic project with Cynthia Katsarelis, a professor of conducting at Notre Dame, at the Notre Dame College of Science’s Pint of Science event at Chicory Café in downtown South Bend on May 19, that's exactly...

South Bend Tribune • 22 June 2025

Food, music, community — South Bend Juneteenth event celebrates Black heritage

SOUTH BEND — Dressed in white shorts and a white shirt with a “Black Lives Matter” chain around his neck, the Rev. Sylvester Williams Jr. faced the crowd, microphone in hand, as he prepared to give the opening prayer for the annual Juneteenth celebration.

“Lord help us, lest we forget how far we’ve come to get here today,” Williams said. “Lord help us, lest we forget, that you brought us from a mighty long way. Lord help us, lest we forget our forerunners who were deemed less than a human being...

South Bend Tribune • 15 June 2025

Hundreds of protestors in Niles oppose Trump policies, call on politicians to rein him in

NILES — Hundreds of people gathered on Flag Day at the intersection of 2nd and Main streets to protest President Donald Trump’s policies and actions, citing corruption, lack of due process and fear for the state of democracy.

The large crowd of demonstrators filled an otherwise quiet town with chants, cheers and horns from supporters in passing cars as part of the estimated 2,000 No Kings demonstrations happening nationwide. The demonstrations are meant to protest Trump’s planned military parad...

South Bend Tribune • 3 June 2025

Ready for their closeup: Two movie lovers buy The Bremen Theatre

BREMEN — Sean Steinke and Rex Higham found their love for cinema at a young age, wearing out VHS tapes at home and frequently going to see movies in theaters with their families, a common interest that helped form their friendship when they met more than two decades ago as freshman at Concord High School.

Now, they've bought their own movie house, The Bremen Theatre, at 103 E. Plymouth St.

“(The theater) has always been an important part of my life,” Higham said. “We became friends … and just...

South Bend Tribune • 26 May 2025

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Hundreds of residents — families, friends, children and dogs — lined the streets along South Bend's and Mishawaka’s Memorial Day parade routes with lawn chairs and blankets on Monday morning, waving American flags and cheering as the floats passed.

Old Ford and Studebaker model cars, modern and sleek sport cars, fire trucks, pickup trucks, floats and more carried veterans and other participants waving their hands or American flags toward the onlooking crowd.