'Skeeter Alert + COVID Resurges As Clinics Close + Cowgirls Rule

Rise and shine, Dallas! It's Sunday, July 18.

Today's Headlines: If the sun is still rising and the Earth still has gravity, Dallas is still spraying to rid the city of mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus. Find out if your area is one of them. Now ask yourself: Is North Texas cutting off its nose to spite its face? It seems that even as the delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading throughout the community, vaccination sites are closing because no one's going to them. And lastly, if you're a cowgirl, you have a museum full of memorabilia in Fort Worth!

First, today's weather: Humid and partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 96 Low: 78.

Among the top stories today in Dallas:

1. A Dallas resident has the first-ever case of monkeypox recorded in Texas. (FOX 4 Dallas)
2. A woman has died after apparently jumping from an overpass onto the LBJ Freeway, according to the Dallas police. (The Dallas Morning News)
3. What's your beef? Good, cheap steaks are searing in this week's 5 hottest Dallas headlines. (CultureMap Dallas)
4. COVID-19 cases are spiking in some Dallas county suburbs. (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)
5. A Dallas homeowner who's already paid for a pool remains still stuck with a hole in the backyard 10 months later (WFAA.com)

Today in Dallas

• Pioneer Power Sprint Tri & 5K (7:30 AM)
• FREE Community Bootcamp with I Am Lifted (10:00 AM)
• Open Casting Calls in Dallas (2:00 PM)

Dallas Patch Notebook

• West Village: "Saturdays are for the Mutts @muttscantina" (Instagram)
• Dallas Cowboys: "Tell us how excited you are for #CowboysCamp using only emojis...We'll start. #WorldEmojiDay " (Instagram)
• DFW Airport: "It's just something in the neighborhood of 300,000+ pounds passing directly over your head." (Facebook)
• Dallas Mavericks: "We are basically walking, talking emojis #WorldEmojiDay" (Instagram)
• Dallas ISD: ""Someone at the school actually believed in me." Paolaenid Rodney-Hernandez has been on the path to study" (Instagram)
• Dallas Farmers Market: "Be sure to grab some local peaches and make PEACH UPSIDE DOWN MINI CAKES. Swipe to add ice cream." (Instagram)
• Texas Trees Foundation: ""A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded" (Facebook)
• Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center: "BUSTED for being adorable! Our kitten nursery is currently overflowing with orphaned kittens who need foster homes" (Facebook)
• Dallas Zoo: "Leisurely snack time with Saambili! (Note little bro, Mbani's antics in the background. ) #SiblingSaturday" (Facebook)
• Dallas Farmers Market: "While you're planning that fall garden, don't forget to save the taste of summer with simple preservation" (Instagram)
• Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center: "A happy #FosterFriday goodnight from one of our foster pups, sweet, sleepy Linda (#A1121571)" (Facebook)

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— Kevin Phinney

About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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