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Young County Commissioners unanimously reimposed a 90-day countywide burn ban on Oct. 11, citing unseasonably hot and dry conditions that continue to plague North Texas.

Young County Commissioners approved funding to purchase a detention bed for one year at a juvenile detention facility in Granbury after the county juvenile probation director said all nearby detention facilities for children under 17 are full or too understaffed to take more detainees. The commissioners appropriated an additional $23,300 out of their contingency fund to pay Young County’s share of the bed at Lake Granbury Youth Services, operated by Rite of Passage. The county will share the $80,000-plus cost of the bed with Stephens County.

Young County’s elected clerks have been denied grievance hearings in their pay dispute with county commissioners, and say they will request a third hearing next year after the county failed to provide a quorum two years in a row despite having multiple avenues under state law for doing so.