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Around 4 million people in the U.S. work as contractors for app services like DoorDash delivering pizzas, salads and pad thai. Those in areas with extreme heat are taking new measures to keep working through it.

Firefighters made major progress Thursday in fighting half a dozen wildfires burning across North Texas.

The Texas A&M Forest Service said there are now six active fires in the region. That includes fires in Dallas, Erath, Jack, Johnson, Red River, and Parker counties.

Firefighters are currently battling three wildfires in North Texas. The NWS believes two of those may have been sparked by lightning from small thunderstorms.

Jack County’s new conservationist spoke to Jacksboro Lions Club members at the Wednesday, July 12 meeting. Corban Hemphill, who has been here since May, worked in Henrietta before taking the position here.

Jack County Judge Keith Umphress was named District 3 Man of the Year by the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association during a Tuesday, July 11 banquet. Umphress has been judge since 2019, and presently serves as chairman of the North Texas Regional Planning Commission, chair of the 271st District Juvenile Justice Committee and president of the Association of Rural Communities of Texas.

The Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture has launched this summers regional museum theme, \

The state legislature made a $3 billion investment in mental health programs this session, including a grant program that will fund community-based initiatives “to develop innovative strategies that provided resiliency, coping and social skills, healthy social and familial relationships, and parenting skills and behaviors.”

Lions Club International’s motto is “We Serve.” Serving more than 310 plates of fish in 90 minutes, Jacksboro Lions hosted another successful fish fry Thursday, June 1 outside the Jack County Courthouse. The fish fry, the local club’s biggest fundraiser, goes to benefit Lions programs such as scholarships, Lions Camp and vision projects.

Led by Andrew Murr, a West Texas rancher and lawyer, and Ann Johnson, a former prosecutor, the team of 12 includes 11 with law degrees.