The Community Garden thrums with life, murmuring in the morning light as enthusiastic Tarrant County kids dash from one thrilling sight to another. The aroma of barbeque and sugar hangs thicker than the humid air on this patch of vibrant green grass tucked away behind a line of trees on Industrial Boulevard. Another brutal Texas summer…

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BEDFORD — It’s the first true day of spring break, and something is very wrong. A collection of middle school students from New Hope Baptist Church in Austin, Texas have trekked north for their vacation. But they’re doing anything but rest. While other youth groups are having lock-ins and hitting the slopes of distant mountains…

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If there’s one thing we malign at Christmas time, it’s the busy-bodied lack of focus that comes with the thousands of commitments we seem to make as soon as the Thanksgiving Turkey is wrapped in foil and dropped, without ceremony, into the fridge. From that moment until the serenity of Christmas morning, it’s all about to-do…

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If you’ve ever attended a 6 Stones event, you’ve probably met John Moody. He’s the resident grill master, the consummate volunteer and the near-ubiquitous face at our main offices in Bedford. If there’s a chance to serve, John is hard at work before the volunteer registration even opens. But it wasn’t always that way. A disabled…

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BEDFORD – The air hums with music: the chatter of families mingling with the hard punch of speakers at the end of the block. This quarter mile of residential road, normally devoid of activity no matter the hour, is teeming with life. Children race the length of the closed-off street, leaping into emergency vehicles opened…

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