Town Updates

The Thrift stores page now plans your trip. Pick a day and how long you like to browse, and it suggests a tour from downtown in a driving order that reaches each shop before it closes, with one tap for directions.

• Tap Add to my trip on the shops you want, and the tour plans only those.
• Each stop shows about when you get there and the drive from the last stop. Shops that do not fit that day are listed apart.
• A This week list shows how many shops open each day and which ones.
• Each shop card shows its hours for the whole week and the day we last verified them.

See every local nursing home side by side: star ratings, nurse staffing, fines from the last three years and serious inspection findings. Open a home to read its citations and see its fines on a timeline.

• Built for your phone: one short row per home, no wide tables.
• Each home links to its business page and to Medicare's Care Compare.

The new Venues page lists halls, parks and party rooms in Cooke County. Filter by size, price, amenities, indoor or outdoor, and town. Every price and fact says how and when we checked it.

• Start with the birthday party guide, cheapest places first.
• Run a venue? Claim it or send us a correction from its page.

Election results now include a map of Cooke County's 17 voting precincts. Pick a race to see who leads in each precinct, or switch on arrows that show how far each precinct moved since 2024.

• Turn on commissioner, justice of the peace, city and school district lines.
• Open the map full screen, or save it as an image to share.
• Each race now keeps its tables and documents behind one More button.

Every state historical marker in Cooke County is now on one map, with the full text of each marker. Pick a day trip or build your own route, then open it in Google Maps.

• Five day trips: downtown on foot, around Gainesville, west to Lindsay and Muenster, south to Valley View and Era, and north and east.
• Markers on private property or listed as missing are marked so you don't drive out for nothing.

The new History page collects our On this day posts. Each one opens a Gainesville newspaper printed on the same date more than 95 years ago and shows its top story, its ads and its prices.

• A new day is added every morning.

The new Thrift stores page lists resale, consignment and antique shops in Gainesville, Muenster and Valley View. Pick a day and see which ones are open and their hours.

• Each store links to its Facebook page, its phone number and its website when it has them.

On a Cooke County Jail booking, tap the alert button and we email you if the same person is booked again. You can also set an alert on a name, exact or partial, for new bookings or new entries on the Texas sex offender registry.

• On a registry entry, an alert tells you when the address, status or risk level changes.
• Alerts need a free account. Pause or delete them any time in Settings.

The November 3 election page now shows early voting so far: Cooke County votes in person and by mail, the share of registered voters, and the totals for all of Texas.

Tap Sex offenders on the trick-or-treat map to show the locations on the Texas sex offender registry, so you can plan your walk around them. The map shows them only when you turn them on.

Use your Facebook account to join GvilleTX or sign in, next to Google and Apple. There is no new password to remember.

• Your Facebook account needs a confirmed email address. If it has none, join with your email instead.

On Halloween night, a host with plenty of treats and few visitors can send a Candy SOS. Turn on candy alerts on the Halloween map, and your phone tells you when a porch within about a mile calls.

• Turn alerts on with your location or by picking your street on the map. No account needed. A test alert comes right away, so you know alerts reach your phone; if it does not, the map shows how to allow them.
• At most 3 alerts an hour, and each porch can call once every 30 minutes. Tap an alert to see the house on the map, then tap Walking directions.
• We keep only a spot rounded to about half a mile, and delete it on Nov. 1.
• In Facebook's browser, open the page in Chrome first. On iPhone, add GvilleTX to your Home Screen to get alerts.

Drag the trick-or-treat map, zoom in to your street and read the street names. Every house is a little pumpkin; zoomed out, a pumpkin with a number shows how many houses are close together.

• Tap Route on any house to add it to your walking route, as many as you like. Your route stays on your phone, and long routes open as directions in parts.
• Search streets, treats or a host's note, and filter by every treat, decorations, step-free and sensory-friendly stops.
• On the night, hosts can tap Running low or Out of treats. The map shows it within a minute, and a house that is out of treats leaves your route until its host opens again.
• Tap Draw area and draw a loop around your streets. The list then shows only the houses inside, with one tap to add them all to your route and a clean list to print.
• Houses with photos come first, and each house photo now shows whole. A gold dot marks porches in the Porch Lights Contest; tap In the contest to see the entry.

Pages now have fewer boxes and buttons, so what you came for comes first. The Halloween map opens straight to the map.

• Text size is the "Aa" button at the top of every page.
• Sections read as simple tabs, and each page opens with its title and one line about it.
• On the Halloween map, Filters holds the treat and stop choices, and List and Find me sit on the map.
• Business categories are a simple two-column list.

Porch Lights Contest hosts can now add up to five photos of their decorations, and add more later. Neighbors see every photo on the contest page and the Halloween map.

• Add photos from your host page until Thu., Oct. 29, 11:59 PM. Each photo shows after a quick review.
• Remove a photo to make room for another.

Use your Google or Apple account to join GvilleTX or sign in. There is no new password to remember, and you can vote in the Porch Lights Contest right away.

• The buttons are on the sign-in and join pages, and wherever we ask you to sign in.
• Apple lets you hide your email address. Our emails still reach you.

See which porches lead each award on the new leaderboard. Hosts can print a porch sign with a code that neighbors scan to vote for that porch.

• Print your sign from your host page once your porch is in the contest: one full page, or two small cards for the candy bowl.
• Confirm your email address before you vote. You can now vote for your own porch.
• The Halloween map shows each house where it is, by its address. It never shows your name.
• GvilleTX delivers each prize check to the winning address by Nov. 15. GvilleTX administration picks the judges.

The Porch Lights Contest has six awards and $500 in prizes for the best porches in Cooke County. Put your house on the trick-or-treat map and add a photo of your decorations by Thu., Oct. 29, 11:59 PM to enter.

• Voting is open now. Sign in and pick one porch in each award: People's Choice, Best Theme, Most Creative, Less Is More, Spookiest and Best Treat Stop. Change your picks until Sat., Oct. 31, 11:59 PM, also from the night map as you walk.
• People's Choice goes to the most votes. In the other five awards, judges give up to 70 points and votes up to 30. Each household can win one award.
• Winners are named Sun., Nov. 1. Each winning host gets a check from GvilleTX by Nov. 15.

The trick-or-treat map now shows each house as soon as it joins, for everyone. Hosts choose to show their name or stay anonymous.

Every page is redesigned to be easier to read and quicker to scan, with bigger pictures, clearer headings and a guide beside long pages so you can jump straight to the part you need. Light mode is the default; you can switch to dark mode from the top bar.

• The Text size button in the top bar makes every page larger.
• Your account, saved items, alerts and settings carry over unchanged.

Sign up to welcome trick-or-treaters, choose your treats and hours, and get a Halloween reminder. Plan a walking route on Halloween night.

• Find public trunk-or-treat events and check the Halloween-night forecast.

Choose email or browser alerts for Cooke County and nearby counties. Get a notice when a burn ban starts, is lifted, or its start date changes. Email signup does not need an account.

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.

• RSVP is separate from saving, so you can still bookmark an event without committing.
• Share buttons on feed cards now open your phone's share sheet, or copy the link.
• Copying a garage-sale link tells you it worked instead of doing nothing.
• Seats with no current officeholder link through to that office's page.

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.

• Community Voices posts now turn up in search, where they were missing before.
• Restaurant pages link straight to that kitchen's inspection history.
• Event pages link to the venue's business listing when we have one.
• Search keeps you on the site instead of sending you elsewhere to read a story.
• Pages no longer say a story is missing when the site is simply busy.

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.

• Pickup directions arrive with your confirmation, so you know exactly where to go.
• Sellers keep every cent of the price they set we take nothing.
• Browse every seller's products in one place, and find stands near you.
• Once you've collected an order you can leave a review, and the seller can reply.
• Farmers markets have their own pages now: when they run, where they are, and who has a booth.

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.

• Home-based sellers appear as an approximate area on the map, never an exact home address.
• Each product shows how recently the seller confirmed it's available.
• Cottage food and raw milk listings carry the required Texas labeling notices.
• Have something to sell? Set up your stand from the Sellers page in a few minutes.

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.

• Every design comes in sizes S to 2XL.
• Orders of $200 or more ship or deliver free.
• Local delivery is offered within 15 miles of Gainesville; live shipping rates show at checkout.
• Track your order any time from the link in your confirmation email.

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.

• Stories from Gainesville and Cooke County towns are prioritized over regional filler.
• Original GvilleTX reporting reaches the site the same day it clears review.

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.

• Business pages now give the logo, cover photo and latest updates more visual space.
• Owners can add social, booking and ordering links from the My Business workspace.
• After a claim is approved, the owner controls the public business details.

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.

• Choose whether the appointment is at the business, at your address or by phone or online. A customer address stays private.
• Businesses can confirm a request, suggest another time or explain why they cannot take it.
• Appointment reminders help customers keep the plan on track.
• Owners can publish services and fees, set working hours and closures, and handle requests from one dashboard after their claim is verified.
• A searchable local-business catalog keeps professions separate from profile tools, so customers can understand what each business actually does.

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.

• Snap photos or a short video, and your listing can go up before you have finished writing the description. Most appear right away; a few are held for a quick check first.
• Filter by category, condition, price and distance, or switch to the map to see what is within a few minutes' drive.
• Offers are proper back-and-forth: propose a price, get a counter, accept, and the item is held for you while you arrange to meet.
• Saved searches watch for the thing you want and tell you when somebody lists it.
• Your exact address is never shown listings appear as a general area only, and messaging keeps your contact details private.
• Leave a review after a deal, block anyone you would rather not hear from, and report a listing in a couple of taps. Everything you are buying and selling lives under Buying & Selling.

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.

• Tap any camera pin for the direction it faces and when the location was last updated.
• Every pin links out so you can check it, correct it, or add one that is missing.
• The layer names no operating agency, because the underlying data does not identify one.
• Turn the layer off any time with the "Plate readers" button above the map.

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.

• An empty page no longer implies a quiet night when the real reason is that we are not receiving anything.
• Reporting resumes on its own as soon as the radio is available again.
• For anything happening right now, contact local authorities directly and in an emergency, call 911.

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.

• A report that changed shows when it was updated, so you know you are reading the current version.
• Far more of what happens around town now reaches the incident page, including the routine calls that never used to make it.
• The bar for a Facebook post is deliberately higher than the bar for the website you only get interrupted for something worth acting on.
• The privacy rules have not moved: street-level locations only, no names, no medical details, and nothing that implies anyone is guilty.

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.

• Locations are approximate on purpose: street level only, never an exact address.
• No names, no medical details, and nothing that implies anyone is guilty.
• Spot something wrong? Every report has a one-tap error report, no account needed.

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.

• Open Obituaries any time from the News & Alerts menu.
• If you use the daily email digest, you can add Obituaries in Notification Settings.

GvilleTX now nudges you about the things you told us you care about no more checking back and hoping you didn't miss it.

• Save an event and we'll remind you the day before and right before it starts.
• Save a garage sale and we'll remind you the evening before it begins.
• Get a heads-up the day before public government meetings (turn on Gov Docs in your digest settings).
• A lost pet reported in town now sends an alert so more eyes are looking sooner.
• Watching a topic in Gov Docs now sends a real notification to your device, not just a bell on the site.
• If you're on a visit streak, we'll warn you the evening it's about to break.

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.

• Turn on Local sports scores in Notification Settings for Friday-night finals and score cards in your digest.
• Garage-sale cards can now show how far away they are when you have added a location to your profile.
• Road conditions in your digest focus on nearby conditions when a profile location is available.

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.

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.

• Charges are spelled out in plain English instead of court shorthand.
• When someone has been booked before, the rundown notes the pattern how often and for what.
• If a case is on the court docket, you'll see the court, the next hearing, and how earlier cases were resolved.
• These fuller write-ups now lead the posts shared to our Facebook page and group, too.

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.

• Each calendar day lists its events by name and time; tap a day to see the details.
• Long-running programs (like summer reading) are tucked into a single "Ongoing this month" strip instead of repeating on every day.
• On your phone, the calendar becomes an easy day-by-day agenda.
• Events with a photo get a Featured spotlight; everything else is laid out in clean, readable cards.

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.

• Switch between a month-by-month list and a calendar view.
• Each listing shows the host church, dates and times, age range, and a Register link when one's available.
• A church's page now points you to its VBS when it has one coming up.

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.

• Pick by county and type: Cooke or Grayson, City / Town / Census-designated place / Unincorporated / Historical.
• Each service entry includes a phone you can tap to call and a website link when one exists. Nothing is invented if we couldn't confirm it, we left it off.
• Ghost towns (Bloomfield, Coesfield, Custer City, Freemound, Hemming) show up too, tagged "(historical)", with a one-sentence note about each.
• Your current community pick stays remembered on your device, so you land where you expect next time.

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.

• Alerts shared to our Facebook page now lead with a clear poster image and the key facts, so you can recognize someone and act fast.
• Tapping an alert takes you to that specific alert, with everything in one place.
• Call 911 if you see the person the agency handling the case is listed too.

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.

• Report from the floating Report button anywhere on the site, or from the gas prices page and the gas card on your home screen.
• Type the prices yourself or take a photo of the station sign or pump your call.
• Submitted prices are reviewed before they go live, so the numbers stay trustworthy.
• Approved community prices show a "Community" badge in the list, on the map, and on your home screen.
• Earn points for the reports you contribute your running total shows on your profile.

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.

• Live count chips at the top "3 Advisories", "12 Civic Updates" tap to jump to that section.
• Election deadlines, new educator Do-Not-Hire entries, and recently-opened warming or cooling centers now show up alongside weather and DPS alerts.
• Every alert is a tap-through with a real detail page or source link no more dead-end rows.
• When nothing's happening, the page shows a clear "All Clear" message plus a list of what cleared up in the past week so you know the page is working.
• Push notifications for a wider set of urgent alerts: severe weather, AMBER and missing-person alerts, accidents on I-35, warming/cooling centers opening, and city emergency declarations.
• Mid-sentence cutoffs in feed descriptions ("to ..") are gone the card now invites you to tap for the full text instead.

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.

• New: Your Neighbor's House Food Pantry in west Grayson County, open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
• New: Custer City Baptist Church free Clothes Closet every Thursday 9am to noon, plus the annual Prom Dress giveaway so you can see we track those pop-up events too.
• DASH hot meals corrected weekends and federal holidays, 10am to noon, with the approval contact (Mary Klements, 940-665-0661) now on the listing.
• Meals on Wheels listing now lists Judy Hunt at TCOG (903-813-3505 ext 1, [email protected] email is faster) and notes proof of income is required.
• Abigail's Arms 24-hour crisis hotline and emergency shelter are walk-in (no appointment), plus their Amazon and Walmart wishlists are surfaced in the give-help panel.
• VISTO Backpack Buddies shows as its own card so the kids' weekend program isn't buried under the main pantry.
• Calendar 'Clothes' filter now actually shows clothes orgs on the All Transportation tab works too both used to silently come up empty.
• Month view: tap any future day with services to jump straight to that day's listings.

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.

• Living Word Ministries hours match their 2026 calendar open Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to noon, weeks 1, 2, and 3 of each month.
• Mt Pleasant Bible Church lists their Amazon wishlist directly so you can ship items they need.
• VISTO's give-help list reads as plain items, no fine-print footers.

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.

• Searches across org names, the services they run, requirements text, and the city / address.
• Typo-tolerant “sacrid hart” still finds Sacred Heart.

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.

• Today is anchored with a red rail and a TODAY badge so you can find right now at a glance.
• Color-coded categories: orange for food, indigo for bills & housing, teal for health, violet for benefits & access, rose for clothes.
• Always-available services (24/7 blessing boxes, by-appointment pantries) pulled up to an 'Available Anytime' section at the top.
• Filter by need (food, housing, health, benefits, clothes) matches the same filter on the main page.
• Names and addresses no longer get cut off every row is full width.

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.

• A dozen new organizations added Meals on Wheels of Texoma, DASH (weekend hot-meal delivery), Abigail's Arms Family Crisis Center, Texoma Community Center for mental-health support, TCOG energy/utility assistance, Real Life Church food pantry, Gainesville Housing Authority, Cooke County Library Wi-Fi & computer access.
• Plus the WIC and Texas HHSC offices for help signing up for SNAP, Medicaid, and CHIP.
• Photos on every card so you know what to look for when you arrive.
• Live status: "Open now," "Opens at X," or "Closed for the day," plus a section for 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.

• 18 Cooke County orgs to start: VISTO, VFW, Living Word, Sacred Heart, St. Martha's, Soul Food, Hillcrest, plus blessing boxes at the library, VISTO, and Whaley UMC and more.
• Calendar + map views answer 'what's open today and tomorrow.'
• Submit a correction or a new org admin reviews and applies.

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.

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.

• Daily digest at the time you choose, in your inbox or as a phone push
• Friday afternoon weekly recap
• Visit streaks with a 🔥 badge in the header
• Verify your phone to receive SMS digests
• Install GvilleTX from your home screen Android Play Store + iOS coming via App Store

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.