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MINERAL WELLS — Competing groups are funding the lion’s share of campaigns for city council as Mineral Wells residents look to the May 4 election.

MINERAL WELLS — Competing groups are funding the lion’s share of campaigns for city council as Mineral Wells residents look to the May 4 election.

MINERAL WELLS — Contacts continue with potential downtown Mineral Wells retailers, the Main Street Program board learned during a meeting that unveiled a full spring and summer schedule of events.

Recently designated the Wellness Capital of Texas, the sleepy town, 80 miles west of Dallas, is waking up. In a few years, the town, named for the mineral water found underground, could become a renewed tourist destination with the opening of a new upscale restaurant and the reopening of two old hotels. Rose Jordan, director of tourism for the Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB, said the target tourist — a “wellness traveler” who’s the present-day version of the people who visited Mineral Wells 150 years ago — seeks healthy food and experiences in nature.

MINERAL WELLS — Palo Pinto residents are being invited to an inaugural lunch to restart a political club envisioned as a way to inform and engage Republican women.