Stories we’re covering this week:

• City of Mansfield purchases hundred-acre woods

• Local hospital board president honored

• City accepting vendor applications for Veterans Day Parade

• The last laugh of summer goes to the dogs

• In Sports, we set the stage for Friday Night Lights and Girls volleyball

In the Features Section:

• Tourism Manager Tim Roberts gets us up to date in the Cultural Arts Calendar

• Angel Biasatti talks about the importance of early detection of breast cancer in Methodist Mansfield News to Know

• Angela Hornburg addresses the changes in a Realtor’s commission in the Mansfield Real Estate Update

• Brian Certain grabs the lion by the tail in the Cocktail of the Week

And in the talk segment, Steve concludes his in-studio interview with Olympic athletes Joseph Brown and Jacob Fincham-Jukes, having just returned from the Summer Olympics in Paris. Plus, your chance to win a $25 gift card to a Mansfield restaurant of your choice with our Mansfield Trivia Question, courtesy of Joe Jenkins Insurance. We are Mansfield’s only source for news, talk and information. This is About Mansfield.