By The Alliance Gazette | June 28, 2026
📅 COMMUNITY EVENTS | June 29 – July 5, 2026 Here’s what’s happening in Eastland County this week — and it’s a BIG one! 🎆🇺🇸 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 TUESDAY, JUNE 30 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ Special Meeting — Eastland County Commissioners Court 🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 📍 Eastland County Courthouse, 100 W Main St, Eastland Special session to discuss the Salary Grievance Committee & financing for a new motor grader. Public is welcome! 🤝 The Vine Addiction & Recovery Group 🕡 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM 📍 The WoodBridge Church, 1418 Loop 254, Ranger Fellowship & support for those fighting addiction and in recovery.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧁 Bake Sale Honoring Jackson Jacoby 🕗 8:00 AM – until sold out 📍 210 W Main St, Ranger Supporting Jackson Jacoby’s family — goodies, burgers, chips & drinks. Donations are welcome. ❤️ 🎨 Family Paint Night 🕠 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM 📍 Lyric Art Center, 107 S Lamar St, Eastland The Lyric Art Center invites the whole family for a fun night of painting! $35 per person.
🖌️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 THURSDAY, JULY 2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🦅 ECVSO Raffle — 250th Celebration 🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Eastland County Courthouse (South Side), 100 W Main St FREE event! Hot dogs, prize giveaways & a raffle for a beautiful Eagle Statue — hosted by the Eastland County Veterans Service Office! 🎂 Woodlands 250th Celebration & Auction 🕛 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM 📍 Woodlands Assisted Living, 125 Inspiration Blvd, Eastland Food, face painting, music, cake & a silent auction + bake sale! Proceeds support the Residents Activity Fund.
🇺🇸 Stars, Stripes & Splashes 🕠 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM 📍 City of Eastland Swimming Pool, 402 Neblett St, Eastland An All-American themed evening at the pool with music & ice cream sundaes! 🏊🍦 🎯 Shuffleboard Tournament 🕖 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 VFW Post 4136, 918 Hwy 570, Eastland Every Thursday at the Eastland VFW — come enjoy the fun! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 FRIDAY, JULY 3 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎆 250th Celebration — City of Cisco 🕒 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM+ 📍 Conrad N. Hilton Center & Legacy Park, 309 Conrad Hilton Blvd, Cisco 🛍️ Crafts & Vendors: 3–9 PM 🎉 Parade: 6 PM 🎶 Live Music & Car Show: 6:30 PM 🎇 Fireworks: 10 PM Don’t miss this one — it’s going to be a blast!
🚗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 SATURDAY, JULY 4 🇺🇸 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎇 Freedom Festival — Rising Star 🕚 11:00 AM – Dusk 📍 Rising Star City Park, 210 Cooper St, Rising Star Food, vendors & fireworks from 11 AM to dusk! Come celebrate the Fourth in Rising Star! 🤠 Big Bang at the Bay 🕛 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM 📍 Stephens Bay RV Park, 519 Co Rd 237, Eastland Hosted by Stephens Bay RV Park & Cowboys Chuck Wagon! 🍖 Brisket Rib Plates: $15 for 1 / $20 for 2 🐟 Free catfish while supplies last!
Bring a cooler (no glass bottles) & stay the night for just $20! 🌙 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 SUNDAY, JULY 5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 Eastland Farmer’s Market 🕛 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM 📍 900 E Main St, Eastland (next to Maverick Stadium) Home-grown foods, handcrafted items & delicious eats every Sunday, weather permitting! ☀️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 ALSO! — RSVP REMINDER ⏰ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨🍳 Food Challenge Camp — July 8, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 📍 Eastland County AgriLife Extension Office, 102 N Lamar St, Eastland The Eastland County AgriLife Extension Office is hosting a camp where kids in grades 3–12 will learn basic cooking skills and kitchen safety!
🍳🥄 ⚠️ RSVP is required by July 2nd — that’s THIS THURSDAY! Don’t miss the deadline to get your kiddo signed up! Contact the AgriLife Extension Office directly to reserve your spot! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗓️ Visit back next Sunday for another updated calendar post!
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