Save the date, Oct. 29, for 4th annual Boo Bash!

Hidden Creek's Fall Softball season is delayed until Oct. 10 

Due to the extreme drought, unsafe field conditions and Stage 1 Water Restrictions, the City of Burleson's Fall Softball season has been delayed until Monday, Oct. 10. This will be a mini-six game season with a $75 reduction in the fee (was $300/now $225). Registration ends Oct. 3. Registration is limited to the first nine teams in each league. Games are Monday-Thursday at Hidden Creek Softball Complex. Register 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday-Friday at the BRiCk (Burleson Recreation Center). Call Paula Benjamin at 817-295-6611 or go to the Softball page for more information about the league. To register, call the BRiCk at 817-426-9104/9106.

Police promote Child Passenger Safety The Burleson Police Department is joining with other law enforcement agencies in Texas to promote Child Passenger Safety Week, Sept. 18-24. The week is hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and supported by Safe Kids USA, a nationwide network of organizations working to prevent unintentional childhood injury. According to TxDOT, three out of four child passenger safety seats are incorrectly installed. Burleson's public safety officers are not certified to do child safety seat checks, but those checks can be done through Safe Kids. The Texas Child Restraint Law requires children younger than 8 years old or shorter than 4 feet 9 inches to be in child restraint seats. Read More

Rail Car #330 reopens for tours Sept. 21

Volunteers with the Burleson Visitors Center will reopen Rail Car #330 Sept. 21. The car has been closed for several months while repairs were made to the exterior.  The rail car returned to Old Town in March 2010 thanks to extensive refurbishing by members of the Burleson Heritage Foundation. This is the oldest rail car of its kind in North Texas. The rail car ran the electrified rails of North Texas from 1902-1934 on the Fort Worth-Dallas and Fort Worth-Cleburne interurban lines. Rail Car #330 and the Burleson Visitors Center - located at 124 W. Ellison St.  - are open for visitors and tours Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Read More

City, TxDOT host meeting Sept. 27 to reveal proposed changes to Hwy. 174 

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is in the design stage of a construction project to add medians to Hwy. 174, from I-35W to John Jones Drive. Raised concrete medians would replace the center turn lane. The project is scheduled for construction in 2012. The City and TxDOT are hosting a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at Burleson City Hall, 141 W. Renfro St. TxDOT will unveil the proposed design plans and listen to input from the public. The median is fully funded by the Federal Highway Administration and TxDOT. Possible landscaping and irrigation of those medians would be funded by the City. For more information, go to the video of the Aug. 15 city council meeting and click on Item 4A. 

Fall/Winter Community Guide is ready to download from website 

The Fall/Winter 2011 Community Guide is now posted on the City website. The parks and recreation department put together the 16-page guide which includes changes in BRiCk membership fees (starting Oct. 1), as well as facility rentals, special events, youth programs, dancing and tumbling, martial arts, fitness, adult sports, aquatics, and the Senior Activity Center. Download a copy today!

Two posts - one youth and one adult- are open on Mayor's Youth Council 

Two positions are open on the Mayor's Youth Council. One is for a youth member and the other post is for an adult. The council will fill the positions on an interim basis for the remainder of the year (June 1, 2011-May 31, 2012). The positions will be filled from nominations, questionnaires and applications that are submitted by Sept. 30. Interviews will start the first of October. The members who are appointed on an interim basis will be considered for an official appointment. Those appointments will be made in June 2012. Youth members must be 13-19 years of age. Youth and adult members must live in Burleson or the ETJ (extra-territorial jurisdiction). Read More

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