University Park News

Reporter Lori Stahl covers the Park Cities and North Dallas. The community is encouraged to contribute by joining the conversation on this blog.

Southern Methodist University seems poised to acquire Potomac Park from the city of University Park.

By KIRK DOOLEY Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer. Ed Bernet and the Levee Singers have been playing music and entertaining Park Cities and Dallas audiences since 1961.

Students, faculty and staff at SMU were advised to remain inside Thursday morning after what's being described as a large natural gas leak on the southeast side of the 210-acre campus.

If your kids love Legos, SMU is the place for them. The university has a special summer Lego Camp where youngsters get to build cool projects on their own and in groups.

How would you decorate a house you were going to live in only a year? What if there was no pressure to choose the perfect long-term paint colors, or invest in a dignified new sofa that rivals the cost of your first car? Imagine being able to have a little fun with the process, experiment and break out of your comfort zone.

By KIRK DOOLEY Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer. He can be reached at kirk@texmexbook.com. Residents in the northwest corner of University Park are teaming up with their adjacent Dallas neighbors to try to slow traffic that sometimes comes screaming down their streets.

As some Texas legislators try to phase out the use of red light cameras, several North Texas cities are countering with new contracts that would have them using the technology for decades more.

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

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

This photo sent me down an interesting diversion that has taken an hour of my time this evening that could well have been spent doing something more useful.

Wednesday evening, officials for College Station Parks and Recreation hosted the grand opening for University Park.

Replace them with lovely poems and carry them wherever you go. Share them with your friends or read them to your children.

In a debate over hybrid or conventional cars in University Park, frugality won out over eco-chic. City officials couldn't justify higher purchase and maintenance costs to buy Toyota Priuses for their code enforcement officers.

Members of the University Park Undergraduate Association will see a more concrete plan of the greek loop at tonight's assembly meeting.

Park Cities Mom blogs about her two crazy full-time jobs: Mother to an eight year-old son and Advertising Executive for a monthly city magazine.

Technical challenges and disagreements among University Park property and business owners are slowing plans in the works for Snider Plaza.

Appraisers for University Park and Southern Methodist University are close to choosing properties to use in determining the value of city land the school is seeking to buy.

At least it wasn't fully grown. It took about 10 minutes for one University Park police officer, three SMU police officers and a group of students to catch a baby cow that had escaped from a children's petting zoo Sunday afternoon.

The University Park City Council unanimously passed a motion to postpone voting on an ordinance limiting curbside parking in Snider Plaza from two hours to one hour Tuesday evening.