King Around Town: June 26 Summer Sounds concert headlines this week's Gainesville notes

The next Gainesville Summer Sounds concert is set for Friday, June 26, and the City of Gainesville's official calendar names Champagne Yacht Club as the featured act, with Blackout Betty listed as the special guest. That calendar entry runs the music from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and gives the location as 200 N. Chestnut St. in Gainesville.

On its Farmers Market page, the city describes Summer Sounds as an annual event at Market Square put on by the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce. The same page lists two other 2026 dates for the series, May 29 and July 31, which places the June 26 concert midway through this year's published schedule rather than at its start. The city describes Market Square more broadly as a spot where local farmers and makers set up alongside food trucks, musicians and community events through the season.

First United Methodist Church of Gainesville is pointing shoppers toward Second Time Around, a resale store the church counts among the ministries listed on its website. The shop sits at 105 S. Denton St., which the church describes as the corner of South Denton and Main, and it opens to customers Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to the store's page. That page says volunteers, whom the store refers to as Partners, run the operation entirely, and that sales and donated goods have funded tens of thousands of dollars in support for community organizations that serve people in need. Eula West founded the store in 1976 to help meet local needs, the page says.

For job seekers, Workforce Solutions Texoma lists its Cooke County office at 1311 North Grand Avenue, Suite 200, in Gainesville, an address that appears on both the agency's main site and its hiring-events page. The Texas Juvenile Justice Department's careers page names Juvenile Correctional Officer among its open positions and posts human-resources and recruiter contacts for the Gainesville State Juvenile Correctional Facility. The department directs applicants to WorkInTexas.com, which it describes as a free service the Texas Workforce Commission provides to employers and job seekers across the state. The same careers page carries salary figures for the correctional-officer career ladder for fiscal year 2026, covering Sept. 1, 2025, through Aug. 31, 2026. The department traces its own start to 2011, when the Legislature combined the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission.