AUBREY, Texas, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Roan Club, an innovative leader in equestrian services, is thrilled to invite you to its world-class horse boarding and training facility in Aubrey, Texas. This updated and redesigned facility, which caters to the needs of horses and riders, will open its doors to the public on July 8, 2023.

Welcome to the Roan Club, where we provide top-tier amenities for both horses and riders. Our facilities offer spacious stables, professional-grade indoor and outdoor arenas with excellent footing, paddocks, and a wholly secured facility. And you are connected with us using the Roan Club Mobile app, a first-of-a-kind in the industry.

We pride ourselves on fostering a nurturing environment for our equine friends and cultivating a supportive community for all riders.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony is organized with members of the Roan Club community, local leaders in the equine industry, horse enthusiasts, and members of the Aubrey 380 Chamber of Commerce.

This includes the facility's inauguration, our mobile app's launch for our members, and a tour of the facility.

"We're excited to bring this level of service to Aubrey," said Sash, the director of operations for Roan Club. We aim to provide an exceptional experience for horse lovers while boosting the local economy and tourism in the area.

Roan Club aims to strengthen the horse community here in the horse country in Aubrey, Pilot Point area, and across Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex and beyond. We invite horse enthusiasts of all levels to explore the new facility and join our growing community.

Get Your Open House Invitation

To attend the open house, RVSP on the Roan Club website and visit the site for more information about the Roan Club and its services. Follow Roan Club on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter for updates and news.

About Roan Club

Roan Club is a leading provider of equine services, offering top-quality horse boarding and training facilities. With a passion for horses and a dedication to the community, Roan Club strives to create a supportive and enriching environment for all riders and their horses.

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AUBREY, Texas — Kayla Frazier and her family are on year two of relying on 2.5-gallon jugs of water for drinking and cooking water.

“Since we’ve moved here, there have been constant, ongoing issues and just it tastes awful,” she said.

Frazier said their Silverado subdivision in Aubrey dealt with brown water for days before it shifted to being cloudy Wednesday morning.

“They’ve told us it was safe to drink all week,” she said.

“The water was not appealing looking, but at no time was it unsafe,” Chris Boyd, the general manager of the Mustang Special Utility District said. “We never met any requirements for a boil notice.”

Mustang handles water for nearly 90,000 homes, and that number is continuing to grow dramatically as new subdivision spring up in the area.

Boyd said an aggregate formation screening water at the bottom of the well failed, causing sand to get into water. They don’t know why it happened, yet.

“Would you have drank it?” WFAA asked Boyd.

“No, no, I would have not drank it,” he said.

Boyd said the same problem happened twice before to the well.

“There’s just going to be occasional failure of mechanical or aggregate formation,” he said.

“I don’t understand how any of it is legal and how they get away with any of it,” Frazier said. “I mean, they get away with it because they’re our only option.”

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said in a statement that it received multiple complaints from neighbors about the latest water issue.

“The investigation is ongoing, and the investigation results will be provided to the complainants,” TCEQ said in a statement.

Frazier said outside of the recent system failures, the water always smells of bleach or chlorine and has a consistent milky texture, sometimes creating what appears to be limescale when it dries. Her daughter and husband have had eczema breakouts. Other neighbors experienced their own rashes or hair falling out.

“I’ve never had a dry scalp before. I’ve never had super dry skin,” she said. “To not be able to shower or wash your hair in your own house. It’s disgusting.”

“Just can’t address how people feel and what they may think the problems are,” Boyd said. “We go on facts that we’ve got based on our testing.”

Frazier said on top of water bills, they pay a 1% property tax to the water supply district, which has added to the frustration.

“There’s no one else for us to go with and if there was, they would fix the issue because then they’d be losing money,” she said. “I love the community here. I have been looking at other houses, to move.”

Frazier and her family are on year two of feeling trapped.

“Fix the problem,” she said. “Make it better. Make it better for us.”

A Texas man was charged in federal court with threatening a prominent health policy professional over her Covid-19 vaccination advocacy, ethnic background and gender, authorities said Tuesday.

The Justice Department said the man, Scott Eli Harris, 51, of Aubrey, was arrested following Tuesday's unsealing of a grand jury indictment that contained a single allegation.

It says he "knowingly and willingly transmitted in interstate commerce a threat to injure the person of another" on July 12. In a statement, the Justice Department alleged that Harris texted the threats to the victim, identified in the indictment only as "Dr. L.W., who had been a vocal proponent" of vaccination.

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NBC affiliate WBAL of Baltimore identified the victim as Dr. Leana Wen, the former Baltimore health commissioner and onetime national president of Planned Parenthood. She didn't immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted through the Brookings Institution, where she is a nonresident senior fellow.

Wen said on MSNBC last year that testing and vaccination were the country's primary ways out of the coronavirus pandemic. "We now know what it takes to control Covid-19," she said.

She also recently wrote a book, "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health."

Authorities alleged that the statements in the text to Wen, which included a reference to her gender and her perceived ethnicity, said, "Never going to take your wonder drug."

Harris is also alleged to have written: "I'm a 5th general U.S. Army veteran and a sniper.. I can't wait for the shooting to start.. I hope you are ready.. [Expletive].. where's your [expletive] office?"

The U.S. attorney for Maryland, Erek L. Barron, said in a statement Tuesday, "We take seriously threats and intimidation, and this charge makes clear that such conduct will be prosecuted federally."

The FBI investigated. An Army spokesman said he could verify Harris' military claims only if he had his date of birth or at least part of his Social Security number.

It wasn't clear whether Harris had legal representation. The office of the federal public defender in Maryland didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Justice Department said he was due in federal court Wednesday in Plano, Texas. If he is convicted, Harris could face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Dennis Romero

Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Michael Kosnar contributed.

The North Texas residential community Silverado in Aubrey was the top seller of homes in Texas for the first half of the year.

Credit: Jake Dean/Dallas Business Journal

DALLAS — This story originally appeared on the Dallas Business Journal

The North Texas residential community Silverado in Aubrey was the top seller of homes in Texas for the first half of the year and third-highest in the nation, according to a new report.

Silverado, being developed by Arlington-based D.R. Horton, earned the third-place rank with 599 sales through the first half of 2022, according to the mid-2022 “50 Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities” report compiled by RCLCO Real Estate Consulting.

The 599 home sales was a 200% increase over the 200 homes sold in Silverado in the first half of 2021. It came during a period when many builders are seeing year-over-year sales declines.

Four communities in North Texas made the top 50.

Wildcat Ranch in Crandall ranked 27th nationally, with 276 home sales in the first half of the year. That’s down 3% from the 285 sold in the community midway through last year. Sessions Development and PMB Capital are building Wildcat Ranch.

Magnolia Ranch in Royse City ranked 32nd nationwide, with 255 home sales. The development by D.R. Horton fell by 15% from 301 home sales in the first half of last year.

Union Park, a Hillwood Communities development in Little Elm, ranked 42nd, with 227 home sales in the first half of this year. That’s down 19% from the 279 sold in the initial six months of 221.

Texas and Florida dominate in home sales at the halfway point of 2022, the RCLCO report says. Florida grabbed about 36% of sales among ranked communities while Texas logged 34%.

Nationwide, sales in the ranked communities fell 18% at mid-2022 compared to the first six months of 2021.

The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metro area had 13 master-planned communities in the top 50, which is more than any other metro area. Sunterra, in the Houston suburb of Katy, ranked eighth, with 450 homes sold in the first half of 2022. The community is being built by Land Tejas/Starwood Land.

The Houston metro area also topped the rankings for total sales, with 3,430, which totals almost 20% of all master-planned community homes bought.

The Villages, a community in Central Florida, was the top-seller in the country with an estimated 1,500 sales. Lakewood Ranch, in Sarasota, Fla., claimed second place, with 1,026 sales.

Nationwide, supply chain issues and inadequate new home inventory have continued to cause problems for builders, and price increases and interest rate hikes have begun to impact traffic from potential buyers in recent months, according to the RCLCO report.

Home builders in North Texas saw increasing cancelations in the first half of the year.

The percentage of home sales that fell out of contract last month in the Dallas area was 19.9% — a full 5% higher than the national average, according to a Redfin study. In the Fort Worth area, 18.9% of contracts fell through.

Nationally, the average price among all new single-family homes is up 15% since mid-year 2021, and over 40% since April 2020 and the depths of pandemic pricing.

New home prices in DFW last month broke $500,000 for the first time, according to a HomesUSA report. The three-month moving average of new home sale prices in June was a record $501,327 compared to $486,172 in May. The average new home price in DFW is up over $85,000 since June 2021, an increase of over 20% year-over-year.

Despite slowing of new sales, many developers remain optimistic since higher prices have meant that they’ve been able to meet budget despite fewer sales, the RCLCO report says.

The fundamentals underlying new home demand for the longer term remain strong, according to the report.

“Specifically, as millennial households continue to enter their prime family formation years in large numbers, a life stage that traditionally precedes single-family home ownership, long-term demand for single-family housing is likely to remain strong,” the report says. “Furthermore, these strong demand projections brought on by demographic tailwinds are coupled with a housing environment that continues to be undersupplied.”

While a recession may result from the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to combat inflation, the housing market is not oversupplied the way it was in 2008, when home sales fell 66%.

“If a there is a recession, as some economists are predicting, it’s important to remember that on average, in past recessions new home sales declined by less than 10%,” the report says.

A Union Pacific freight train went off its tracks Wednesday morning, sending eight freight cars within feet of a row of homes in the Denton County city of Aubrey.[[504105021,R]]

In a statement to NBC 5 Union Pacific said a locomotive and six rail cars derailed upright while another seven overturned at about 9:30 a.m.

Video from Texas Sky Ranger showed at least eight rail cars piled up along the tracks that split Pecan Street east of South Main Street -- many of the rail cars were off of their wheels.

Throughout the day, dozens of people stopped to take pictures of the wreckage, or just to see it for themselves.

Train Cars Derail, Pile Up Behind Aubrey Homes

"Biggest thing that's gone on around here in a while," said Aubrey resident Daniel Smith.

Some of the cars appeared to have missed hitting one of the homes on Pecan by only a few inches. Debris from the derailment does appear to have contacted a garage detached from a home on the north sided of Pecan.

Derailed Train Nearly Hits Home in Aubrey

Rick Huckabee, who lives at that home not far from the tracks, says he heard what sounded to him like an earthquake. He was working in his shop, and felt the rumble of the derailment.

"Whole lot of rattling and shaking," said Huckabee. "I've never been in a major earthquake, but I think that's what it would sound like."

The derailment occurred near a switch, but Union Pacific has not yet determined what caused train to jump the tracks and is investigating the incident.

Photos: Derailed Train Nearly Hits Home in Aubrey

"We are working to quickly and safely clear the mainline. An inspection team will look at the tracks and make any necessary repairs," Union Pacific said in a statement.

Union Pacific said no injuries were reported and there were no hazardous materials on the train. Heavy machinery was brought to the scene to help with the removal of the derailed cars, which began Wednesday afternoon. The rail operator says once those cars are removed and the track is repaired, rail service could resume by Thursday evening.

Road Closures:

377 & Stewart (south of Krugerville) New Hope Road & Cortes railroad crossing (Aubrey) South Main Street & Spring Hill Road railroad crossing (Aubrey) Plum Street railroad crossing (Aubrey) Elm Street railroad crossing (Aubrey)

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