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🌱 How the Hubbard Creek bridge shutdown could change your daily drive
Cheers Breckenridge! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How the Hubbard Creek bridge shutdown could change your daily drive
- See how Breckenridge honored 100 years of its historic courthouse
Also on today's calendar: Tolar Varsity Baseball @ Breckenridge.
Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Clouds and sun; breezy, humid, with a high of 86 and low of 49 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: A shower in the a.m.; breezy, temps: high: 66, low: 43.
- Sunday: Pleasant with plenty of sun, with a high of 73 and low of 50 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Hubbard Creek Reservoir Bridge to be closed for maintenance (breckenridgeamerican.com) — Drivers in Breckenridge should prepare for a full shutdown of the Hubbard Creek Reservoir Bridge on US 180 starting Monday, April 27, lasting about a week. TxDOT will route heavy trucks via signed detours using US 183 and US 283, and local motorists are urged to follow detour signs, plan extra travel time, and consider alternate routes while crews complete this safety-focused maintenance. 
• Community celebrates courthouse centennial, unveils Travis letter plaque (breckenridgeamerican.com) — Stephens County just marked 100 years of its historic courthouse with a community celebration in downtown Breckenridge, capped by the Breckenridge High School band playing “Texas, Our Texas.” Local leaders reflected on the courthouse’s past, civil rights progress, and the unveiling of a heavy bronze plaque featuring William Barret Travis’ famous “Victory or Death” Alamo letter.
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Tolar JV Baseball @ Breckenridge
Breckenridge High School, 500 W Lindsey St, Breckenridge
5:00 pm
Tuesday April 21
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Tolar Varsity Baseball @ Breckenridge
Breckenridge High School , 500 W Lindsey St , Breckenridge
5:00 pm
Tuesday April 21
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Friday Forum 2025
Holiday Hills Golf Course , 4801 US-180 , Mineral Wells
11:30 am -
Live Music with Piano Man Mike
Library of Graham , 910 Cherry St , Graham
2:00 pm -
BB @ Winters
De Leon El Winters, Texas
4:00 pm -
Steers JV Baseball vs Stephenville - Baseball (M) - Junior Varsity
Graham High School Graham, TX 76450
4:30 pm -
Steers V Baseball vs Stephenville - Baseball (M) - Varsity
Graham High School Graham, TX 76450
4:30 pm -
Brock JV Baseball @ Mineral Wells
Mineral Wells High School , 3801 Ram Blvd , Mineral Wells
4:30 pm -
VARSITY SOFTBALL @ BALLINGER @ 5PM (JV TO FOLLOW)
Cross Plains H S Cross Plains, TX 76443
5:00 pm -
Lady Blues JV Softball vs Mineral Wells - Softball (F) - Junior Varsity
Graham High School Graham, TX 76450
5:00 pm -
Bellevue Varsity Baseball @ Bryson
Bryson High School , 300 N McCloud St , Bryson
5:00 pm -
NRA Basic/Instructor Course for Rifle, Shotgun, RSO (Weekend 2) — Frontier Trails District
Worth Ranch , 1518 Rd , Palo Pinto
5:00 pm
Friday April 17
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- Albertsons Companies, Inc. posted a job opening for Deli Clerk in Breckenridge. Apply here.
🗞 Nearby News
Mineral Wells
- Inside the patrol car: How officers assess risk in real time (police1.com)
- Lions surrender 15 runs in first inning of 16-4 loss at Glen Rose (koxe.com)
Abilene
- Abilene students sign on for technical careers at TSTC National Signing Day (bigcountryhomepage.com)
- Hydrogen Sulfide release at Petrosmith in Abilene sends one to the hospital (ktxs.com)
- Hendrick Health marks Donate Life Month with flag ceremony honoring organ donors (bigcountryhomepage.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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