It's Farmers Market Week at the Art Center! Be sure to stop by this Saturday, August 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vendors will be set up INSIDE and OUTSIDE the center.

Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced its first-ever Critical Suppliers Prize Competition, a national contest to strengthen U.S. manufacturing and critical industry supply chains by expanding capacity at key chokepoints. The competition will award up to $20 million in non‑dilutive capital, including as many as six prizes with a maximum of $6 million each, to small businesses that demonstrate the capacity to rapidly scale domestic production through measurable, enduring supply chain solutions.

The Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership at Texas Woman's University has selected Bobbie Mitchell, Denton County Commissioner for Precinct 3, as the recipient of its 2026 Distinguished Public Service Award, recognizing more than three decades of exceptional service and leadership in government.

Upper Trinity Regional Water District’s (UTRWD) Thomas E. Taylor Water Treatment Plant has been recognized as having the “Best Tasting Surface Water” in 2026 by the Texas Water Utilities Association (TWUA). As part of the TWUA’s Annual School, water utilities from across Texas compete for the title of Best Tasting Water.

Oil and Acrylic Painting with Dean Todd, and Ceramics with Andy Johnson will both continue August 8, Stained Glass Class begins August 18, Fused Glass Class starts August 19, Kidz Craftz is set for August 22, a Senior Social is slated for August 29.

1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. Richard Nixon's resignation speech was a national television address delivered from the Oval Office by U.S. president Richard Nixon the evening of August 8, 1974, during which Nixon announced his intention to resign the presidency the following day, August 9, 1974, due to the Watergate scandal. Nixon's resignation was the culmination of what he referred to in his speech as the "long and difficult period of Watergate," a 1970s federal political scandal stemming from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Office Building by five men during the 1972 presidential election and the Nixon administration's subsequent attempts to cover up its involvement in the crime. Nixon ultimately lost much of his popular and political support as a result of Watergate. At the time of his resignation the next day, Nixon faced almost certain impeachment and removal from office. According to his address, Nixon said he was resigning because "I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation would require." Nixon also stated his hope that, by resigning, "I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." Nixon acknowledged that some of his judgments "were wrong," and he expressed contrition, saying: "I deeply regret any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision." He made no explicit mention, however, of the articles of impeachment pending against him. The following morning, August 9, Nixon submitted a signed letter of resignation to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, becoming the first and only U.S. president to date to resign from office.