Mansfield Record

Get the word out! Mansfield, Texas, is a booming city, nestled between Fort Worth and Dallas, but with a personality all its own. The city’s 76,247 citizens enjoy an award-winning school district, vibrant economy, historic downtown, prize-winning park system and community focus spread across 37 square miles.

Mansfield High School's pep squad poses outside Mansfield High, now the Mansfield ISD Administration Building, in 1960. To learn more about Mansfield history, check out the Mansfield Historical Museum, 102 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more info, call 817-473-4250, emailmuseum@mansfieldtexas.gov or go to mansfieldhistory.org. Photo courtesy of the Mansfield Historical Society.

Shari McConville, M.D., Melody Burton, D.O., Huan Pham, D.O., and Michelle O’Connor, APRN-CPNP Children’s Health, the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas, announced that Mansfield Pediatrics and Richardson Pediatric Associates have joined Children’s Health Medical Group, the system’s network of primary and specialty-care providers.

Timberview celebrated homecoming on Friday night, crowning Shanella Tadja and Shadrick Brown Jr. as queen and king, and routing Burleson, 64-0, at Vernon Newsom Stadium. (Photo courtesy of Heather Colburn) Mansfield Record The opening week of district play brought wildly mixed results for Mansfield’s football teams.

Beginning Oct. 1, Mansfield Water Utilities will implement a new water rate structure designed to more closely align rates with the cost of providing reliable drinking water service while encouraging responsible water use. The new rates affect all customer classes, including residential, commercial, industrial and multi-unit accounts. The amount of change will vary depending on customer class, meter size, and water use.

Bayit Brew Coffee House, an independent, family-owned specialty coffee shop, is now open at The Grove at La Frontera. Founded by husband-and-wife team Dave and Lindsay Takisaki, the shop was built to feel like home, carrying the tagline, "A neighborhood coffee shop, built for the long stay." Located at 621 E. Debbie Lane, Suite 100, Bayit Brew is designed around distinct spaces: The Coffee Bar, The Reading Wall and The Lounge, so guests can grab a quick cup or settle in for the afternoon.

In a joint effort to enhance community safety and save lives, the trauma team at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center donated 25 medical-grade Stop the Bleed kits to the Kennedale Police Department. The official kit presentation was conducted Sept. 15 during the Kennedale City Council meeting.

By Bob Kowalski Mansfield Record As summer drifts away -- despite the temperatures -- it's a great time to get outside the kitchen and prepare a meal low and slow on the smoker. And one of the easiest meals to cook that way is pulled pork. Cooking on a smoker can appear intimidating, but you can easily succeed from your first effort. A pork shoulder or pork butt can provide enough for an end-of-summer party, or a great family-size meals with enough for leftover sandwiches later in the week.

LanCarte Commercial has facilitated the sale of a 1.42-acre commercial development site located at the intersection of FM 157 and Watson Branch Lane in Mansfield. Mark Boone of LanCarte Commercial represented the seller, while Rudy Vasquez, an individual developer, represented the buyer. The site sits at a stop-lighted intersection on FM 157, which carries roughly 32,000 vehicles per day, giving it strong visibility and easy access.

Shann "Stu" Stewart settles into his Friday night office in the press box at Vernon Newsom Stadium. By Amanda Rogers Mansfield Record If you have seen a game at Vernon Newsom Stadium in the past seven years, you know his voice. Shann “Stu” Stewart gets the party started for high school football, booming from high in the press box overlooking the Friday night lights.