Saturday, October 10, 2026

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 91. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph. Saturday Night: Clear. Low around 65, with temperatures rising to around 67 overnight. South wind around 5 mph. Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 91. South southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 69. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Columbus Day: Sunny. High near 90, with temperatures falling to around 88 in the afternoon. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Air Quality Alert: the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Saturday, October 10, 2026, per the alert issued October 9 at 2:19PM CDT by NWS Fort Worth TX, which expires at 5:30 p.m. Saturday; the alert says atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Saturday, and lists sharing a ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive-through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your vehicle properly tuned as ways to help prevent ozone pollution. It was the only alert active for Aledo on the NWS alerts feed updated 2026-10-10T10:43:36+00:00.

Source: National Weather Service forecast for Aledo, updated 2026-10-10T10:36:35+00:00, and NWS active alerts for 32.6957 N, 97.6022 W, updated 2026-10-10T10:43:36+00:00, read Oct. 10

Bearcats 45, Arlington Bowie 7: Aledo scored 14 in the second quarter, 14 in the third and 17 in the fourth after Bowie's 7 in the first, per MaxPreps, and is 3-3 overall and 2-1 in District 3-6A; next is Arlington, Friday, Oct. 16, 7:00 PM, at Arlington

MaxPreps lists the Oct. 9 game as a home district game, result W 45-7, with the quarter line Bowie 7, 0, 0, 0 for 7 and Aledo 0, 14, 14, 17 for 45. The MaxPreps team pages compiled by the Ledger on Oct. 10 put Aledo at 3-3 overall and 2-1 in District 3-6A with 187 points for and 103 against; Arlington Martin is 6-0 and 3-0, Arlington 4-2 and 2-1, Weatherford 4-2 and 2-1, Arlington Bowie 3-3 and 2-1, Arlington Lamar 3-3 and 1-2, Arlington Sam Houston 3-3 and 0-3 and Granbury 2-4 and 0-3. MaxPreps listed no individual leaders for the game as of the build, and the Ledger did not review the broadcast. The next game is at Arlington, Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:00 PM, a district game, per Aledo ISD Athletics and MaxPreps; the game page carries the quarter line and the standings.

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Where it stands: Aledo is 2-3 overall and 1-1 in District 3-6A after a 35-21 loss to Arlington Martin at Tim Buchanan Stadium on Sept. 25, per MaxPreps; no game is listed for Oct. 2, and Arlington Bowie, 3-2 and 2-0 per MaxPreps as of Sept. 26, comes to Tim Buchanan Stadium Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.

Source: MaxPreps game page (https://www.maxpreps.com/tx/football/game/aledo-vs-bowie-arlington/10-9-2026/?c=ce1629c3-745c-4513-9356-630f6016c8e8) and Aledo schedule, read Oct. 10 by pipeline/fetch_maxpreps.py and pipeline/fetch_game_stats.py; MaxPreps District 3-6A team pages compiled Oct. 10 by pipeline/fetch_standings.py; Aledo ISD Athletics schedule, read Oct. 10

Aledo City Council, Oct. 1, draft minutes posted in the Oct. 15 packet: the settlement for Aledo and Fort Worth v. Willow Park, Beall-Dean Ranch, and Parker County was approved by unanimous vote on a motion by Summer Jones, second by Matthew Poston, with Councilman Todd Covington abstaining due to a conflict of interest, after an executive session from 7:12 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.; the 5 p.m. work session heard developers RJ Sikes and Joe McKie on Dean Ranch

The Oct. 15 Regular City Council Meeting agenda packet, 64 pages, lists the October 1, 2026 City Council Work Session minutes and the October 1, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting minutes on the consent agenda for approval. The work session minutes record that the council convened at 05:02 PM with Mayor Shane Davis, Mayor Pro Tem Summer Jones and Councilmembers Ben Clark, Todd Covington, Matthew Poston and Melanie Allen present, that RJ Sikes and Joe McKie, developers, discussed and received feedback from Council regarding their vision for the development of the Dean Ranch property, and that the session adjourned at 06:40 PM. The regular meeting minutes record that no one came forward at Citizen Appearances, that the executive session listed City of Aledo and City of Fort Worth v. City of Willow Park, Beall-Dean Ranch and Parker County potential Settlement Agreement, Dean Ranch Development Standards and Downtown Development under consultation with attorney, Citizen Boards and Commissions Appointments under personnel matters and the Dean Ranch Development Agreement under economic development negotiations, that Mayor Davis recessed the meeting into Executive Session at 7:12 p.m. and called it back to regular session at 8:45 p.m., and that the motion by Summer Jones, second by Matthew Poston, to approve the settlement for Aledo and Fort Worth v. Willow Park, Beall-Dean Ranch, and Parker County passed by unanimous vote, with Councilman Todd Covington abstaining due to a conflict of interest. The minutes do not describe the settlement's terms. The meeting adjourned at 08:45 PM. The minutes are a draft until the council approves them Oct. 15; the Ledger's Dean Ranch page carries the case history.

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Where it stands: Aledo and Fort Worth's suit against Willow Park over the 320-acre Beall-Dean Ranch tract is pending in the 43rd District Court. Aledo's Sept. 17 minutes record an executive session on a potential Settlement Agreement with no action taken; the Oct. 1 agenda opens with a 5 p.m. work session on Dean Ranch and lists the case in closed session. Willow Park's Sept. 22 agenda listed it with the words Mediated Settlement Agreement & Mutual Release; no minutes from that meeting were posted as of Sept. 27. No ruling on the injunction has been published.

Minutes are the official record of votes. They are approved at the next regular meeting and appear in that meeting's agenda packet.

Source: 2026.10.01 WS Minutes and 2026.10.01 Draft Minutes, pages 21 to 26 of the 2026.10.15 Agenda Packet (CivicClerk fileId 3293, event 65), City of Aledo, read Oct. 10 (pipeline/out/packet-65.pdf)

Aledo City Council, Oct. 1, the other votes per the draft minutes: Ordinance No. 2026-O-26 amending the FY 2026 budget, Ordinance No. 2026-O-27 adopting the FY 2027 Municipal Fee Schedule, Resolution No. 2026-R-18 amending the purchasing policy, Ordinance 2026-O-28 removing the prohibition of class 1 E-bikes on trails, Resolution No. 2026-R-19 creating the Parker County Public Utility Agency and the agency's initial funding agreement, each passed by unanimous vote; appointments to the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Aledo Economic Development Commission

Per the draft minutes in the Oct. 15 packet: the consent agenda, with the September 17, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes, passed on a motion by Summer Jones, second by Todd Covington, by unanimous vote. At the public hearing on Ordinance No. 2026-O-26 amending the Fiscal Year 2026 Adopted Budget, opened at 6:52 p.m., no one came forward to speak in favor of or opposition, and the ordinance passed on a motion by Todd Covington, second by Summer Jones, by unanimous vote. At the public hearing on Ordinance No. 2026-O-27 adopting the FY 2027 Municipal Fee Schedule, opened at 6:54 p.m., no one came forward, and the ordinance passed on a motion by Matthew Poston, second by Todd Covington, by unanimous vote. Resolution No. 2026-R-18 amending the City of Aledo Purchasing Policy passed on a motion by Melanie Allen, second by Ben Clark, by unanimous vote; the minutes record the Finance Manager explaining that Texas Senate Bill (SB) 1173 raised the expenditure threshold for competitive procurement from $50,000 to $100,000. Ordinance 2026-O-28 removing the prohibition of class 1 E-bikes on paved and unpaved trails in alignment with the Weatherford Mountain Biking Club's established trail rules passed on a motion by Summer Jones, second by Melanie Allen, by unanimous vote. Resolution No. 2026-R-19 creating the Parker County Public Utility Agency and authorizing the City of Aledo's membership passed on a motion by Todd Covington, second by Ben Clark, by unanimous vote, with the minutes recording 14 initial participating entities; the Agreement regarding the Creation and Initial Funding of the Parker County Public Utility Agency passed on a motion by Summer Jones, second by Todd Covington, by unanimous vote. After executive session, the council appointed, on a motion by Matthew Poston, second by Summer Jones, Place 2 - Holly Robertson, Place 4 - Ryan Henning, Alternate 2 - Jeff Streetman and Alternate 4 - Logan Hammons to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and, on a motion by Melanie Allen, second by Summer Jones, Place 2 - Jospeh Lilly, Place 4 - Justin Lauderdale, Place 6 - Nicole Reilly, Alternate 2 - James Berner and Alternate 4 - Katie Sutton to the Aledo Economic Development Commission, each by unanimous vote, names as the minutes spell them. The proclamation recognizing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month was moved to the October 15, 2026 agenda.

Where it stands: Fourteen public entities are identified as initial participants in a county public utility agency for long-term water supply; Aledo's annual contribution would be $20,000 from the Enterprise Fund, and the initial payment is returned if the agency is not created by May 31, 2027. Aledo's council votes Oct. 1 on Resolution 2026-R-19 and the funding agreement. Willow Park's council was asked Sept. 22 to join and pay a $20,000 share due by Sept. 30; its vote was not on the record as of Sept. 27.

Source: 2026.10.01 Draft Minutes, pages 22 to 26 of the 2026.10.15 Agenda Packet (CivicClerk fileId 3293, event 65), City of Aledo, read Oct. 10

Aledo City Council, Oct. 15, the agenda packet: a $135,082 Kingdom Technology Services maintenance agreement for the Wastewater Treatment Plant UV Disinfectant System over 24 months; Ordinance No. 2026-O-29 removing the 1977 $50.00 building-permit threshold and council approval of individual permits; Ordinance No. 2026-O-30 adopting the Atmos Energy Rate Review Mechanism tariff with a $24.40 monthly residential customer charge; a proposed $20 annual registration for individual food trucks; the TML Region 8 ballot; agenda posted October 8, 2026 3:06 PM

The 2026.10.15 AP, 64 pages, was on CivicClerk as of the Oct. 10 build; the Oct. 9 build found only the agenda. The Public Works Director's memo says Aledo had Kingdom Technology install a new UV system in June 2025 in advance of the WWTP Expansion, and that the maintenance agreement would be for 24 months with a deposit of $50,000 due at contract signing and a subscription fee of $3,545 paid monthly over the 24-month period for a total contract cost of $135,082, including two technicians on site twice a year, all parts, all lamps, glass tubes and electronics; funding in the amount of $135,082 was included in the FY 2026-2027 budget, and the proposal, 8162 R3, dated 10/01/2026, lists the system as a K-Tech 20V with 80 total lamps. The Permit Technician's memo on Ordinance No. 2026-O-29 says the amendments update provisions originally adopted in 1977 to remove the $50.00 permit threshold, application deadlines tied to City Council meetings and the requirement for City Council to approve or disapprove individual building permit applications, and establish the Building Official or designee as the authority for reviewing and issuing permits under the 2021 International Residential Code, 2021 International Building Code and 2021 International Existing Building Code as amended by the City. The City Manager's memo on Ordinance No. 2026-O-30 says the council recently approved membership in the Atmos Cities Steering Committee, that the memo anticipates Atmos Energy beginning natural gas service to customers within the Aledo city limits in 2027, and that those customers would then be subject to the RRM rates; the attached Rate Schedule R - Residential Sales, effective for bills rendered on or after 10/01/2026, lists a Customer Charge per Bill of $24.35 per month, a Rider CEE Surcharge of $0.05 per month, a Total Customer Charge of $24.40 per month and a Commodity Charge of $1.03839 per Ccf, and the Commercial schedule a $115.50 monthly customer charge and $0.27784 per Ccf. The food truck work session memo says staff recommends a simplified annual registration for individual food trucks with a proposed registration fee of $20, no Specific Use Permit and no minimum lot size, $1M required insurance, one food truck unit per property outside a food truck park, hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and that the policy question for Council is whether individual food trucks should be permitted outside designated food truck parks and in which zoning districts; food truck parks would keep the existing Specific Use Permit, site plan and Certificate of Occupancy requirements. The Texas Municipal League Region 8 Director ballot lists Mike Browning, Councilmember, Aubrey, and Mary Sarver, Mayor Pro Tem, Grandview (Incumbent), for a two-year term, with ballots due at the TML office by 5:00 p.m. Central Time on November 5, 2026. Staff recommends appointing Travis Askins, Director of Public Works, as the voting member and Candice Edmondson, City Manager, as the alternate on the Fort Worth Wholesale Water Customer Advisory Committee for the fiscal year October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. The sign regulations item is discussion only, with no action required.

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CivicClerk listed the meeting with no agenda posted as of Oct. 4. The Oct. 1 votes on the FY 2026 budget amendment, the FY 2027 fee schedule, the purchasing policy, the e-bike ordinance and the Parker County Public Utility Agency resolution were not on the record as of Oct. 4; the Oct. 1 minutes are the document to watch for.

Texas law requires agendas to be posted at least 72 hours before a meeting. Citizen comments at Aledo council meetings are limited to three minutes; sign in before the meeting starts.

Source: 2026.10.15 Agenda Packet (CivicClerk fileId 3293, event 65, Agenda Posted on October 8, 2026 3:06 PM), City of Aledo, 64 pages, read Oct. 10 (pipeline/out/packet-65.pdf)

Burn ban: Parker County remains on the Texas A&M Forest Service list, 154 counties on the list stamped 10/8/2026 8:25:13 AM, the same list read for the Oct. 9 edition

The Forest Service feed had not been restamped since 10/8/2026 8:25:13 AM as of the Oct. 10 fetch at 10:47 UTC. Of Parker County's neighbors, Tarrant, Palo Pinto, Wise, Jack, Erath and Somervell are on the list and Hood, Denton and Johnson are not, the same nine as Oct. 9. The Ledger's day-by-day count since Sept. 17 is on the burn-ban page.

Where it stands: 90,400 acres in Palo Pinto County, 83% contained as of InciWeb's Sept. 12 update; cause listed as equipment use, under investigation. Parker County remains under a burn ban, one of 216 counties on the Forest Service list stamped 9/26/2026 8:23:40 AM.

Source: Texas A&M Forest Service burn-ban county list, stamped 10/8/2026 8:25:13 AM, read Oct. 10 by pipeline/fetch_burnban.py

Rotolo's Craft & Crust Willow Park: the state filing shows a 3,800-square-foot interior renovation of a former restaurant space for a new restaurant at 225 Shops Blvd, Suite 105, $500,000 estimated cost, completion filed for Jan. 31, 2026, status Project Registered

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation's Architectural Barriers project TABS2026004822, Rotolo's Craft & Crust, was registered 10/31/2025 with a start date of 11/9/2025 and a completion date of 1/31/2026 as filed, renovation/alteration, 3,800 square feet, scope of work an interior renovation of a previous restaurant tenant space for a new restaurant, privately funded with the private funds provided by the tenant; the current status is Project Registered. Read the brief

Source: TDLR Architectural Barriers project TABS2026004822, read Oct. 10; Texas Comptroller Active Sales Tax Permit Holders, read Oct. 10 (pipeline/fetch_new_businesses.py)

Friday, Oct. 16, 7:00 PM: Bearcats at Arlington, Arlington, a district game, per Aledo ISD Athletics; Aledo is 3-3 and 2-1 in District 3-6A and Arlington is 4-2 and 2-1, per MaxPreps as of Oct. 10

What you can do. Kickoff 7 p.m. at Arlington; the game page carries the opponent's record and results per MaxPreps, refreshed Oct. 10.

Where it stands: Aledo is 2-3 overall and 1-1 in District 3-6A after a 35-21 loss to Arlington Martin at Tim Buchanan Stadium on Sept. 25, per MaxPreps; no game is listed for Oct. 2, and Arlington Bowie, 3-2 and 2-0 per MaxPreps as of Sept. 26, comes to Tim Buchanan Stadium Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10, 9:00 AM: Swimming invite, NISD Aquatic Center, Northlake, per Aledo ISD Athletics

What you can do. Every varsity schedule and result is on the Ledger's sports page; no result was posted for the Oct. 9 volleyball match vs. Bowie or the Oct. 3 swimming invite as of the build.

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 6:00 PM: Regular Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee Meeting, one item, Discussion on Aledo Parks Master Plan, at the Aledo Community Center, 104 Robinson Ct, per the agenda posted October 7, 2026 7:15 AM on CivicClerk, which lists the meeting at the Aledo Municipal Complex, 200 Old Annetta Road; 6:30 PM: volleyball vs. Arlington at Aledo, per Aledo ISD Athletics; 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Dementia Support Group, Harvest of Aledo 1043 Bailey Ranch Rd. Aledo, Texas, per Parker County Chamber of Commerce

What you can do. The agenda lists no public comment item; the agenda PDF is on CivicClerk, and the chamber's listing for the support group is linked.

CivicClerk lists the meeting for 6 p.m. at the Aledo Municipal Complex, 200 Old Annetta Road, with no agenda posted as of Oct. 4.

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.: PCCC Membership Luncheon-Former Mayor Betsy Price, New River Fellowship 3252 E I-20 Hudson Oaks, 76087, per Parker County Chamber of Commerce

What you can do. The chamber's listing is linked.

Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:00 PM: Regular City Council Meeting, City Council Chambers, Aledo Municipal Complex, 200 Old Annetta Road, per the agenda posted October 8, 2026 3:06 PM on CivicClerk: the Oct. 1 minutes on consent, the $135,082 Kingdom Technology Services maintenance agreement, Ordinance No. 2026-O-29, Ordinance No. 2026-O-30, the Texas Municipal League Region 8 Director Election vote, work sessions on food trucks and sign regulations, and Dean Ranch in executive session; cross country District meet, Athletic Performance Ranch, Fort Worth, per Aledo ISD Athletics

What you can do. Sign in before the start of the meeting to speak at Citizen Appearances, normally limited to 3 minutes per the agenda; the agenda and the 64-page packet are on CivicClerk.

CivicClerk listed the meeting with no agenda posted as of Oct. 4. The Oct. 1 votes on the FY 2026 budget amendment, the FY 2027 fee schedule, the purchasing policy, the e-bike ordinance and the Parker County Public Utility Agency resolution were not on the record as of Oct. 4; the Oct. 1 minutes are the document to watch for.

Sports: every varsity schedule and result the district posts, and the District 3-6A standings per MaxPreps

Agendas: every posted agenda and packet for Aledo's council, Planning and Zoning Commission and the Aledo ISD board