Ticket prices: Adults/$10, Seniors/$7, children 12 and under free.

For more information and a $1 discount coupon, click here.

** note NOT open on Friday

TICKET COST:

REGULAR $9.00

SENIORS $7.00 (all weekend)

CHILDREN 14 AND UNDER ARE FREE

One Dollar off discount coupons available through Tom Thumb, circular, or by clicking here.

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Once again, the Town of Flower Mound will host the “Wild About Flower Mound” Festival. The hours are as follows.

Friday, June 18 – 5 to 10 p.m.
Saturday June 19 – 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Wild About Flower Mound is a free event with free parking on site. Activities include two days of live music, a kid zone featuring bounce houses, rock climbing wall, stick horse rodeo, pony rides and petting zoo, and refreshments.

The event will take place at Bakersfield Park, 1201 Duncan Lane, south of FM3040 from 5 – 10 p.m. on Friday Jun 18th and 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 19th. Admission and onsite parking are free for all attendees.

For more information, click here.

There will be interactive activities, grilling exhibitions, BMX stunts, scuba diving, trampoline acrobat stunts, bungee jumping, kayaking, and of course the traditional carnival and midway.

Festival Hours

* Friday, May 21 – 10:00am – 5:00pm, FREE ADMISSION
* Friday, May 21 – 5:00pm – 11:30pm
* Saturday, May 22 – 10:00am – 11:30pm

* Sunday, May 23 – 11:00am – 6:00pm

Admission is free on Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

* Daily Admission – Adults: $7
* Daily Admission – Seniors (62+): $5
* Daily Admission – Children (6-12): $5
* Daily Admission – Children under 6: FREE
* Weekend Pass Pin: $15
* Weekend Souvenir Pass Pin: $20

No dogs or pets allowed.

For more information, click here.

Elections in most cities this time of year are usually ho-humm, but not so for Flower Mound where voters turned out in huge numbers.   There were reports of residents waiting over an hour to cast their vote.  Even for early voting in recent weeks, reports of 10-15 deep voters in line were common.

Challengers for council positions running on a passionate platform of slowing gas activities and variances in the city brought out the passion of voters and achieved a shake-up of local leadership.

• Melissa Northern defeated incumbent Jody Smith for Mayor
• Al Filidoro remained as the incumbent in the Place 2 Council Seat
• Steve Lyda defeated opponents for Place 4 Council Seat

Northern, Filidoro, and Lyda campaigned as the “NFL” team.  Unofficial results show voters supported the trio who campaigned united by a significent margin with Northern currently at 59%, Filidoro at 59%, and Lyda at 61% of votes cast.

The issue of gas drilling will be on the November ballot.  For such a hotly contested race, it’s interesting to note that 8,400 voters turned out in the district out of 42,111 registered voters.  That represents 19.95% of our registered voters, an impressive number for a May General Election.

For Cumulative results from the Denton County Election Board, click here.

One occupant, presumed to be the pilot, was found dead. He was identified as Travis Perkins, 27, of Flower Mound, Texas, according to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO).

Capt. Eben Bratcher, spokesman for YCSO, said Perkins had been pulled out of the plane by passers-by before emergency personnel arrived.

Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Bratcher said Perkins was flying Thursday morning to drop sterile fruit files into Yuma County fields. Robby Rodriguez, SCFD spokesman, said it took about 10 minutes to extinguish the flames from the wreck and firefighters used the Compressed Air Foam system to put out the fire. The system is standard on their fire trucks, he said.

The cause of the crash is unknown, and the National Transportation Safety Board is en route to investigate the crash.

After holding on the line (office line) to Sprint Customer Service for several minutes I knew something larger was going on. When the tech rep came on the line, after the usual annoying query of my phone number, again, and security pin, they advised me that service was out in most of Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama.

She explained that they had ‘towers down’ all over the area. I’m sure there’s a better explanation that that, but that’s the way it is.  After about 5 hours, service returned to normal and the messages started streaming through at 9:20AM CST

The Highland Village Resolution Run starts Saturday, January 16th at 9am and takes advantage of the first segment, City Trail of the Highland Village Trail System.  And the good news is that it should be a nice weekend with temperatures expected to be much warmer than the first part of the year!

For more information on the run, and to register, click here.

Area photographer John Hudson will be taking photos and booking photo sessions at the run.  Anyone that books on the day of the run will receive the following:

• Receive a 10% discount on the $149 Creative Session Fee
• $35 donation benefiting Highland Village Parks Foundation and Trail System
• Receive a $25 print credit to be used towards prints or a $50 credit towards the purchase of a fine art canvas gallery wrap
• Creative Session Fee covers 90 minutes on location in DFW area or in studio.

For more information, visit his link here,  or call 972-691-3555.

Check around on Craigslist, Ebay and with brokers as some are reportedly selling tickets at less than face value.

The trees cannot be flocked and all decorations and nails must be removed.    If you would like some of the mulch, just bring your own containers.

For more information, call 972.874.PARK.   Christmas Trees can also be placed curbside for pick up during regular bulk pick up days.  Trees picked up by Allied Waste will not be recycled.  For a schedule of bulk pick up days please visit www.flower-mound.com.