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In this Lewisville Connect issue...
🎸 The full Western Days music schedule is out, and it fills six stages
🏛️ Tonight is the public hearing on the property tax rate
📋 Planning and Zoning called a special meeting for Tuesday night
🎓 UNT admissions staff walk Lewisville teens through the college application
Monday, September 21st (today).
Lewisville City Council public hearing on the proposed property tax rate, 7 PM, Council Chambers, Lewisville City Hall, 151 W. Church St. Free and open to the public.
Free Monday Power Hour in the Plaza, 6:15 PM, Wayne Ferguson Plaza.
Tuesday, September 22nd.
Planning and Zoning Commission special called meeting, 6:30 PM, Lewisville City Hall, 151 W. Church St.
Visual Art League reception and awards ceremony for "Fresh Ideas 2026," 7 to 9 PM, Lewisville Grand Theater, 100 N. Charles St., free.
Wednesday, September 23rd.
Western Days street closures begin. The City Hall east parking lot closes at 6 AM. Church St. from Kealy to Charles and Mill St. from Main to Walters close at 9 AM.
Thursday, September 24th.
More Old Town closures. Charles from Elm to Seven Mile Cafe and Church from Charles to Herod at 6 AM, Main St. from Mill to Kealy at noon, Walters from Kealy to Charles and Mill from Walters to College at 5 PM.
Friday, September 25th.
Western Days, 4 to 11:30 PM, Old Town Lewisville. Eli Young Band closes the Republic Services Main Stage at 10 PM. Free before 6 PM, $15 after for everyone except children 12 and younger.
Free festival shuttles run from Electric Cowboy, 1165 S. Stemmons Freeway, 4 PM to midnight, and the DCTA Old Town Station, 617 E. Main St., 4 PM to 12:30 AM.
Saturday, September 26th.
Western Days, noon to 11:30 PM. Randy Rogers Band closes the main stage at 10 PM.
Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship, 1 PM, City Hall stage.
Final day to see "She Found Her Way" and "Fresh Ideas 2026" at Lewisville Grand Theater.
No farmers market this Saturday. The Plaza sits inside the festival footprint.
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The Western Days Music Schedule Is Out, and It Fills Six Stages
The city has posted the full live music lineup for Western Days, and the short version is that you could stand in Old Town for two days and not hear the same band twice. Six stages, more than 30 musical acts plus dance troupes, and all of it included with admission.
The Republic Services Main Stage at Church and Mill carries the headliners. Friday opens with Chaser Crouch at 6:30 PM, then Wilder Blue at 8:15, then Eli Young Band at 10. Saturday stacks six acts, starting with Kate Watson at 2 PM and running through Ashmore, J. Isaiah Evans and The Boss Tweed, Cole Phillips, and Carter Faith before Randy Rogers Band closes it out at 10.
The rest is spread across Old Town. The Bank of the West Stage on east Main at Kealy opens Friday at 4 PM with a Shania Twang tribute and runs ten acts across the weekend. The Bendt Distilling Co. Stage on west Main at Milton brings The Peterson Brothers Friday at 9 PM and Blaggards Saturday at 7. The CoServ Stage in the Lewisville Grand sculpture garden is the dance stage, with Old Town Brass, Zaara Belly Dance, Alma Corazon Ballet Folklorico, Solid Style Dance, and the 410 Line Dancers. State 28 Acoustic Saloon runs acoustic sets indoors on Main. Western Village at Main and Charles alternates Legends of Texas with Indigenous A.C.E. all weekend.
One thing worth knowing before you plan where to stand: the only reserved seats at the entire festival come from the Coolest Seats in the House contest presented by Southern Comfort Mechanical, and they are good for the Republic Services Main Stage viewing area. You enter at coolestseats.com. Everything else is first come, first served.
Event Details
📅 Date: Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26
🕐 Time: Friday 4 to 11:30 PM, Saturday noon to 11:30 PM
📍 Location: Old Town Lewisville, six stages
💲 Admission: Free before 6 PM both days, $15 after 6 PM for everyone except children 12 and younger
The Property Tax Rate Hearing Is Tonight
We have flagged this one twice, so here is the short version. The Lewisville City Council takes public comment on the proposed property tax rate tonight at 7 PM in Council Chambers. It is the public hearing on the rate, which makes it the point where a resident's opinion becomes part of the official record rather than a conversation in a driveway.
The number on the table is .436381 per $100 of valuation, up from the current .419009. It sits inside a $148 million proposed General Fund budget that also carries a 7.8 percent utility rate increase. The city points out that even after the change, Lewisville's rate stays among the lowest in North Texas.
If you want to read the document before you speak on it, the proposed budget is posted on the city's Annual Budget page, and paper copies sit at the City Secretary's Office and the Lewisville Public Library during regular hours. Questions go to Budget Manager Ashley Carlisle at 972.219.3411.
Event Details
📅 Date: Monday, September 21
🕐 Time: 7 PM
📍 Location: Council Chambers, Lewisville City Hall, 151 W. Church St.
💲 Admission: Free and open to the public
Source: City of Lewisville
Planning and Zoning Called a Special Meeting for Tuesday Night
The Lewisville Planning and Zoning Commission has called a special meeting for Tuesday, September 22 at 6:30 PM at City Hall. Special called meetings are exactly what they sound like, business that did not wait for the regular calendar.
Worth knowing what this body does, because most residents never think about it until something gets built near them. Planning and Zoning is where zoning changes, plats, and site plans get their first public airing, which means its agenda is usually the earliest look at a project that will eventually land in front of City Council.
The city publishes agendas through its agenda e-newsletter and its online agenda portal rather than in the meeting announcement itself, so if you want to know what is on this one before you show up, that is where to look. The meeting is at 151 W. Church Street and is open to the public.
Event Details
📅 Date: Tuesday, September 22
🕐 Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: Lewisville City Hall, 151 W. Church St.
💲 Admission: Free and open to the public
UNT Admissions Staff Will Walk Lewisville Teens Through the College Application
The Lewisville Public Library has booked University of North Texas admissions staff for a session on the part of high school that quietly stresses out entire households: applications, testing, transcripts, and the first real look at financial aid.
College Admissions 101 runs Thursday, October 1 from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the Bennett Program Room on the library's first floor. It is built for teens ages 12 through 18 and the adults who will end up filling out half of it with them. Free, like everything else the library puts on.
Registration is required and opened September 17, so this is one to claim a seat for rather than wander into. The library sits at 1197 W. Main St.
Event Details
📅 Date: Thursday, October 1
🕐 Time: 6:30 to 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Bennett Program Room, Lewisville Public Library, 1197 W. Main St.
💲 Admission: Free, registration required
🕰️ Trivia Day in Lewisville
DCTA's A-train rolled into service on June 18, 2011, and it gave Lewisville three stations of its own.
The line runs from Denton down to Carrollton, where riders can hand off to DART and keep going into Dallas. Lewisville's three stops are Hebron, Old Town, and Highland Village/Lewisville Lake. If you take the free Western Days shuttle from the Old Town station Friday night, you are leaning on a piece of infrastructure that is only fifteen years old, which is young for something that already feels like it has always been there.
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🌊 Lake Lewisville Check
Lewisville Lake is at 84.4% full, and today's reading is a fresh one rather than a holdover. That is down from 84.9% two days ago and 86.1% a week ago, so the slow slide is still going.
The water sits at 518.62 feet, about 3.4 feet under the 522-foot conservation pool. Zoom out and the trend is clear rather than alarming: 91.9% a month ago, 100% back in June. This time last year the lake was at 92.8%.
Nothing in the data flags a problem at this level. Boat ramps, swim areas, and Party Cove all have water under them. Three and a half feet off full pool is fine for most of the lake, but it is enough that shallow launches get fussier and cutting close to an unfamiliar shoreline is a worse idea now than it was in June.
Source: Water Data for Texas
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