Notes from the GvilleTX desk
A new Blog section at /blog carries notes from the GvilleTX desk, starting with family deliveries, prescriptions, and caregiving in Cooke County.
The latest features, automated feeds, and improvements to your GvilleTX app.
A new Blog section at /blog carries notes from the GvilleTX desk, starting with family deliveries, prescriptions, and caregiving in Cooke County.
Community organizations now list ways to support them on their page, including Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, wish lists, and more. Claimed organizations can also keep their own support links and contact information up to date.
Gallery photos can now link to the local businesses and organizations they show. You'll find a Gallery section on those pages, and the gallery map now shows places with photos; when you contribute a photo, you can also say where it was taken.
Explore photos of places around Gainesville by category or on a map, with those photos now appearing on the matching business pages too. Have photos to share? Residents can apply to contribute their own.
Community Aid now marks seasonal services such as winter heaters and holiday meals with the time of year they're offered. You can also see service photos and find more organizations and services in the directory.
Churches, nonprofits, and agencies can now add or claim their business directory listing, then manage hours, services, contact details, and appointment requests there.
Community Aid profiles can now link directly to wish lists, registries, volunteer forms, and other specific ways to help.
You can now RSVP to an event and see it on your list — the button finally does what it says. Sharing works across the feed too: send a post, event, or notice to anyone in a tap.
The site now shows you the whole picture. A new Explore section on the home page lays out every part of GvilleTX in one place, and sections that were hard to stumble across — restaurant inspections, child safety, courts, school sports — are in the menus where you'd look for them.
Farm stands can now take orders. Fill a basket, choose a pickup time that works for you, and pay by card or in person when you collect. Sellers who deliver set their own area, fee and days. You'll hear when your order is confirmed and again when it's packed and ready.
Neighbors who sell honey, eggs, produce, baked goods and more can now run a free stand page: products with prices and photos, open days and hours, and a spot on the map. Browse what's fresh nearby, see who's open right now, and contact sellers directly.
Shop school spirit shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts for 14 area teams, plus a line of graphic tees, all $19.99 and printed to order in Gainesville. Pay by card right on the site, with local delivery around Gainesville or shipping anywhere in the US.
Sales posted with several photos only showed the first one. Now you can swipe or click through the whole set and open any photo full screen. Each sale also shows who posted it, with a link to their profile.
You can now get an opt-in alert before the weekend showing how many garage sales are planned around town, with a link to the garage-sales page. Turn on Garage sales in Notification Settings to receive it.
Saved news stories now display properly, every saved item type has a complete card, and the page loads more items as you scroll instead of stopping after the first group.
Verifying your address in your profile had been failing. It now works again and can confirm and standardize the address you enter.
The News section and our Facebook page now carry more stories each day, and the ones that matter most around here come first: wrecks and road emergencies, business and healthcare news, and what the city and county are deciding.
Verified owners can now add a logo, cover photo, gallery, hours, contact links and other public details. They can also publish an update once and have it appear in the community feed and on the business page.
Newly added garage sales can now appear on the GvilleTX Facebook page and group with a quick schedule, a sample photo when available and a link to the full listing. Add your own sale free and help build Gainesville's weekly garage-sale map.
Business applicants now get the right questions for the method they choose. Verify a business-domain email, give us a public phone and good call time, explain another verification path, or upload private supporting documents.
The homepage now brings together new neighbor posts, garage sales, Marketplace finds, community events, new local businesses and live incident reports in one compact view. When there is nothing new, it stays out of your way.
Local business pages can now show services, clear pricing and available appointment times. Business owners can find or add one listing in a single flow, identify the legal and public names, and choose a clear profession such as HVAC contractor, electrician, restaurant or nonprofit.
The Marketplace is open: post something for sale in about a minute with your phone camera, browse what your neighbors are selling, and see it all on a map so you know what is close. Make an offer, go back and forth on the price, and sort out the handoff by message without ever giving out your phone number.
The traffic and road maps now have a "Plate readers" layer showing where automated license plate reader cameras have been mapped around Cooke County. The locations come from residents and volunteers, not from any agency, so treat them as a starting point rather than a definitive list.
Live incident reporting depends on public-safety radio, and that radio is sometimes unavailable to us. When it is, the incident page now says so plainly and tells you the last time we heard anything, instead of leaving older reports on screen as though nothing had happened since.
Incident reports used to be a single line. They now carry everything we actually know: what happened, where, who responded, whether anyone was hurt, and how it ended. When more comes in over the radio, the report updates itself instead of staying frozen at the first thirty seconds.
The homepage now shows live incident reports as they happen, so you can quickly see what emergency crews are responding to around Gainesville and Cooke County.
See what emergency crews are responding to around town, usually within minutes: fires, crashes, hazards and more, each with an approximate street-level location on a map. Every report is preliminary and double-checked before it posts, and you can confirm it, dispute it, or report an error right on the page.
Use the new search box in the header to find local news, events, businesses, government documents, garage sales, community aid, and public safety information. Open the full results page to filter by type and narrow things down.
You can now find recent Gainesville and Cooke County obituary notices here, with the key details and a direct link to each full memorial notice.
GvilleTX now nudges you about the things you told us you care about — no more checking back and hoping you didn't miss it.
Road closures now appear in alerts, gas-price drops can reach you when you opt in, and you can add local sports scores to your daily digest.
You can now add a morning jail report to your daily digest, with new bookings, booking photos, and the most common charges from the day before. It starts off, so turn it on in Notification Settings if you want it.
When you set up GvilleTX, you can now turn on local alerts and choose a daily email digest before heading to your dashboard. Not ready? You can skip both and change them later in Settings.
You can now turn on severe weather and urgent local alerts from Weather or Garage Sales without creating an account. If you sign up later, your alert settings come with you.
Removal requests now ask for a photo ID so requests come from the person filing them. Your ID is reviewed by a person, never published, and deleted when the request is decided.
Choose School & service alerts in Notification Settings to get a heads-up when school closes or local trash pickup shifts. Active notices also appear on the School and Waste pages.
Save a search for news, events, or garage sales and we’ll let you know when something new matches. Manage your searches anytime in Settings.
Reading a story, checking an event, or browsing garage sales? You can now sign up for Gainesville updates without leaving the page.
If a jail booking record is wrong or has been legally cleared, you can now submit a private request directly from the record page. Every request is reviewed by a person.
Posted a garage sale and need to fix a date, the address, or the list of items — or take it down? Open your sale and use Edit or Delete. Only you can change a sale you posted, and your updates show up right away.
The Privacy page now has a one-tap button to clear the anonymous visitor identifier we keep on your device. Our existing opt-out still works the same way; this just lets you wipe it yourself whenever you want.
Jail booking and sex offender registry write-ups now read in plain language and go deeper. Instead of a bare list of codes, each one explains the charges in everyday terms, the bond, a person's prior record around the county, and — when it's in the court system — where the case stands.
GvilleTX now has an Articles section — opinion columns and letters on local issues across Gainesville and Cooke County. Find it in the site menu and check back for new pieces.
The Events page got a full redesign. A new monthly calendar puts what's happening front and center — every day shows its events so you can scan the week at a glance, and all-summer programs no longer clutter every square. Tap any day for the full rundown, and browse featured happenings and everything else upcoming below.
There's a new page for summer Vacation Bible School. See which Gainesville-area churches are hosting, with the theme, dates, times, ages, and a link to register — browse them grouped by month or flip to a calendar to see what's happening on any given day.
The My City picker grew from 6 to 38: every city, town, census-designated place, unincorporated community, and historical ghost town in Cooke County, plus our Grayson County neighbors across the border. Pick yours and you'll now see who runs the local water, fire, EMS, post office, schools, library, and community center — where we could confirm it.
When a Silver, AMBER, or other Texas DPS alert goes out for our area, you now get the details that matter at a glance — the person's name and age, where and when they were last seen, what they were wearing, and their photo — and each alert links straight to its own page instead of the general list.
You can now report the gas prices you see around town. Tap the new Report button (or report straight from the gas page), enter the price by hand or snap a photo of the sign, and once it's checked it shows up for everyone with a "Community" tag. The freshest price wins, so your report can bump an out-of-date one.
We pulled Alerts out of the Public Safety section and gave it its own home at /alerts. The redesigned page leads with a glance-and-go status strip, surfaces accidents, utility outages, and warming-center openings alongside weather and AMBER alerts, and tucks long-term construction projects into a collapsible section so a real emergency doesn't get buried under a multi-year highway widening.
Every Community Aid card now shows the at-a-glance tags that used to be hidden until you clicked in — By appointment, ID required, Seniors, Children, Proof of residency, Approval required. The calendar gained a Month view alongside the existing Week view, and when a filter comes up short the list now keeps adding upcoming days until you have a real handful of options.
Stanford House senior breakfast, Mt Pleasant Bible Church, Valley View Cares, MasterKey Food Assistance, My Bro's House, the VISTO Backpack Buddy program, Meals on Wheels home delivery, TAPS public transit, and ABBA Women's Center for diapers and formula. Cleaner labels on every page, and a tidy 'Photo coming soon' placeholder where we don't have one yet.
A new search bar at the top of the Community Aid page lets you type what you need — “food”, “diapers”, “rent help”, “Lindsay” — and we'll find every nearby org and service that matches, with typo tolerance built in.
The weekly schedule went from a cramped seven-column grid to a clear day-by-day itinerary. Each day is its own section, services are color-coded by need, and 24/7 places sit at the top so you don't have to scroll past them seven times.
The Community Aid page now covers food, housing, utilities, mental health, internet access, and government benefits. New: photos on every card, "Open now" / "Opens at X" / "Closed for the day" status, and a section showing what's open tomorrow.
Texas DPS alerts in your app now carry the full alert — subject names and ages, vehicle descriptions, agency contact info, and the flyer images DPS publishes — not just a short headline. Push, SMS, and email notifications fire the same way.
Texas DPS Statewide Alerts — AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered Missing Persons, CLEAR, CAMO, and Power Outage — are now in the app. Alerts in or near Cooke County reach your push, SMS, and email automatically. Want every Texas alert? Toggle 'statewide DPS alerts' in notification settings.
Find what's open today, browse by type (food pantry / hot meal / blessing box / clothes), see requirements up front, and support the orgs by donating or fulfilling their current needs.
Your full slate of representatives is now grouped by level (Federal → State → County → City → School) — every seat that affects you, not just the top six. The 'Browse by Level' map redraws as you change tabs, showing your jurisdiction highlighted with neighbors faded. Seats where we have a name but no photo show as 'Photo coming soon'; seats nobody currently holds show as 'Seat unfilled — help us track this' so you can flag what we're missing.
See every elected official who represents you, from the President all the way down to your county commissioner precinct. Type your address (or sign in) to get a personalized list. Each rep page shows their term, contact info, predecessors going back 20+ years, and a map of their district. Browse by level (Federal/State/County/City/School/Special) or by jurisdiction.
The Texas Education Agency's Do Not Hire registry is now searchable in the app — educators ruled ineligible for hire or under investigation, by name. When a name on the registry matches a local jail booking or sex-offender entry, you'll see a cross-link badge on their profile.
When neighbors report a garage sale has wrapped up early, you'll see a heads-up banner on the listing, the map popup, and your digest — so you don't drive across town for nothing.
Pick a time and we'll send you the day's events, mugshots, gov docs, garage sales, weather, and gas prices in one email or push. Visit daily and earn a flame badge for your streak.
Every business in the directory now has a proper page: hours of operation, photos, offerings (menus / services / products), multiple contact methods, and customer-suggested edits.
Verify your phone number and we'll text you your daily digest. Six-digit code, ten-minute window. Your number stays private.
Build a profile, follow other locals, and follow topics like Public Safety, Schools, or Government to filter your feed to what you care about.
The Cooke County jail roster is now in the app and kept current — see who's been booked and what they're charged with, in plain language. The Texas DPS sex-offender registry is in too, with a map view of your neighborhood.
Every council agenda, meeting minutes, ordinance, and notice from the City of Gainesville and Cooke County is now in the app. Each one comes with a 2-minute readable summary so you don't have to wade through a 50-page PDF.
Every local event from the City, Parks & Rec, the Chamber, the library, and AgriLife is now in one place, with consistent categories so you can find what you actually want. Browse, filter, RSVP.
The full Gainesville Chamber of Commerce directory is now in the app, plus our own additions. Search by category, see hours, get the phone number.