Highland Park News

Andie Comini says she was dragged to operas and symphonies as a child in Highland Park when she really just wanted to play outside with her neighborhood chums.

By LORI STAHL / The Dallas Morning News lstahl@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News Holly Hacker contributed to this report.

Dallas' popular Katy Trail wasn't open yet when developers kicked off construction on the Travis residential tower.

Here's a daily list of recent activities drawing the attention of North Texas law enforcement.

From left: Isabelle Volfe, 4, and her mother, Daniele Volfe, along with Josie Lopez, 16, and her sister Amy Chalon, mourned the dissolution of their congregation at Munger Place United Methodist Church after 96 years of operation in Old East Dallas.

What's in a name? Shakespeare certainly knew the power of it. Real estate developers do, too.

While some see community association meetings as an opportunity to exchange snacks and gossip, a recent meeting of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association united passionate residents young and old.

A two-year old boy was killed in a single vehicle crash early this morning in Highland Park.

Some months ago, Abraham Salum faced a couple of moderately serious problems. Business slipped, first of all, as the recession began to squeeze diners - an issue that he might deal with to some extent if he addressed the second concern.

This week's heavy rains brought some yucky consequences in several cities throughout the area - sewage spills.

For preservationists, sometimes the best that can happen is nothing at all. Katherine Seale, director of Preservation Dallas, said the most striking change she has noticed recently in her North Dallas neighborhood has been the lack of change - the teardowns of nearby ranch-style houses has all but ceased.

Clark Griswold is alive and well and living in the Park Cities. Griswold, the character portrayed by Chevy Chase in the popular 1983 comedy, National Lampoon's Vacation , is the dad who drags his family along on a cross-country vacation in the family station wagon.

Severe storms that battered the Dallas-Fort Worth area this week overwhelmed several sewer mains, popping manhole covers and dumping sewage, including an estimated 1.1 million-gallon spill in Fort Worth.

Crews soon will begin removing asbestos from Highland Park Elementary School and installing artificial turf on the football field.

Tascosa High School returned to Newsweek's list of America's top high schools. Tascosa ranked 1,410 in this year's list of 1,500 high schools posted Tuesday on Newsweek.com . It was the only school in the Texas Panhandle to make the list.

The owner of Bob's Steak & Chop House has filed for bankruptcy protection, two months after the chain's founder was charged with felony theft.

DALLAS/FT. WORTH Historic Highland Park Village Sells for $164M By Sasha Pardy Highland Park Village, a 246,200-square-foot lifestyle center in Dallas, TX, was recently sold by Henry S. Miller to HP Village Partners, an entity owned by Highland Park natives Ray and Heather Washburne and Elisa and Stephen Summers.

After months of speculation, Henry S. Miller Interests has sold the 235,000-square-foot Highland Park Village to a local partnership.

The rules of the road for Texas drivers are veering toward change. Under proposals speeding through the Legislature this week, two things would have to change before the car even leaves the driveway: Back-seat passengers would have to buckle up, and most children younger than 8 would have to be strapped into safety seats.

By KIRK DOOLEY / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer.