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updated: Sat Jul 05, 2008 04:10 am

Highland Park News

Local news for Highland Park, TX continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

Saturday | Graham Leader

The Big Five return home

From left, Cora Jean McMurtry Strehli, Jo Ann Deakins Hackley and Jean Brown Folse and Rubyetta Easterling More than five decades after they roamed the halls at Graham High School, the Big Five continue to be ...

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Related Topix: Fort Worth, TX, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Graham, TX

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Dallas Morning News

University Park to start July 4 off with a bang with Firecracker Fun Run

By TOMI MAXTED / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Tomi Maxted is a freelance writer in Dallas.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, University Park, TX, Dallas County, TX

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Dallas Morning News

It took a year, but $15 million Highland Park property sells 3:36 PM CT

A prime piece of undeveloped Highland Park land on the market for $15 million has sold.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

North Texas e-News

DCHHS to spray area in Highland Park to control mosquitoes

Weather conditions permitting, DCHHS will spray an area of the Town of Highland Park South of Mockingbird, West of Airline, North of Euclid, and East of Drexel after 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

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Related Topix: Weather, Dallas County, TX

Tue Jul 01, 2008

WFAA-TV Dallas

Study: Handheld phone bans not the answer

Banning handheld cell phones in school zones have become popular new laws across North Texas.

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Related Topix: Rowlett, TX, University Park, TX, Irving, TX, Highland Village, TX

Sun Jun 29, 2008

Dallas Morning News

Preston-Armstrong crosswalks coming in Highland Park

Walkers and joggers will have a safer path through Highland Park's most complex intersection next month.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Denton Record-Chronicle

Dallas officials hope GPS markers will make Katy Trail safer 9:41 Am CT

After a handful of attacks on Dallas' popular Katy Trail and pressure from the public to make the area safer, city officials this morning unveiled the trail's latest safety device - 911 markers.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Thu Jun 26, 2008

Dallas Morning News

More light headed to Katy Trail

Light poles were recently installed on the southern end of the Katy Trail near the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Tue Jun 24, 2008

KWTX

Former State Supreme Court Justice Dies

Services will be tomorrow in Highland Park for former Texas Supreme Court Justice James A. Baker of Dallas.

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Related Topix: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Sun Jun 22, 2008

Texas Gigs

UPDATED: Garland to host public hearing over cell phones in school zones

At its upcoming meeting at 7 p.m. on June 17, the Garland City Council will look into the following: Pegasus News staffer J. Alex Bentley was once caught talking on his phone in a banned school zone.

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Related Topix: University Park, TX, Garland, TX, Dallas Metro, Rowlett, TX

Fri Jun 20, 2008

Denton Record-Chronicle

Small streetcar shops on Dallas' most-endangered list

The space is now occupied by the Evans Grinding Co., where Walter Beaty, its owner and sole employee, sharpens knives and marvels that the structure has survived a surrounding building boom.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX

Wed Jun 18, 2008

WFAA-TV Dallas

Developer buys corner at Travis and Knox

A developer has bought a key Dallas corner at Travis and Knox streets with plans to build an office and retail building.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Earth Times

Severe Storm Hits Oncor's Service Area

The storm hit Oncor ' s system fast and hard with extremely high winds and heavy rain causing the outages.

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Related Topix: Weather, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Dallas County, TX, University Park, TX

Sun Jun 15, 2008

Earth Times

Harold's Stores, Inc. Announces Opening of Flagship and Dual-Concept...

DALLAS, June 13 TX-Harold's-Opening DALLAS , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harold's Stores, Inc.

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Related Topix: Retail, Apparel, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Fri Jun 13, 2008

Spatula City BBS!

'If you try to drive, I'll tax the street...'

There have been some stupid ideas come out of city governments lately.&#160 Every new smoking ordinance you see pop up in these parts is proof positive of that.

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Wed Jun 11, 2008

The Muckraker

TEXAS: Officials contemplate tolling neighborhood streets

By IAN McCANN and MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER, Dallas Morning News Highland Park's solution to unclogging traffic congestion on Mockingbird Lane : Make Dallas drivers pay for it.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

Mon Jun 09, 2008

Dallas Morning News

Highland Park's on wrong path with proposed Mockingbird tolls

The problem with trying to be funny is that the absolute absurdity of real life almost always trumps you.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Opinion

Sat Jun 07, 2008

TheNewspaper

Texas: Neighborhood Streets to Receive Tolls

Officials in Dallas County, Texas are pushing to use gas tax funds from taxpayers around the nation to add tolls to existing free neighborhood streets.

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Related Topix: Dallas County, TX

Thu Jun 05, 2008

Texas Gigs

Highland Park considering charging drivers on Mockingbird

If you weren't aware, there is traffic in Dallas, lots of it sometimes, and lots of it on Mockingbird Lane between Hillcrest and the Dallas North Tollway.

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Related Topix: Dallas, TX

Fri May 30, 2008

Old House Journal

Dallas Stars

Architect Clifford Hutsells own house is but one of many excellent examples of historic houses in Dallas.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, University Park, TX

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