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UP Residents Can Resume Normal Water Use
Repairs to the booster pump station at Germany Park are complete, and University Park residents no longer need to limit their water use, the city of University Park wrote in an Aug. 20 email.
Communities Foundation of Texas Empowers Generosity
North Texas Giving Day, the annual online donation event, billed as the largest community-wide giving event in the nation, culminates on Thursday, Sept. 18, but there’s no need to wait.
HPISD Students Improve AP Test Scores
Students in Highland Park ISD are taking more advanced placement tests and performing better on the exams, the district’s board of trustees heard during an Aug. 12 meeting.
Hill Country Flood 2025
A River Runs Through It – A Reflection on a Beloved Place
As silent as the waters rising in the dark of the Hill Country night, there have been no words; only tear upon tear, grief upon grief.
Hill Country Flood 2025
Alumni Recall Camp Mystic Ideals
Over the past 99 years, Camp Mystic, the Christian girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, has hosted thousands of girls from 7 to 17 years old.
Hill Country Flood 2025
Volunteers Seek Healing Through Action
Neither donations nor prayer would be enough.
So, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church included service as a key component as the congregation gathered in response to the Texas Hill Country flooding disaster.
UP Residents Asked to Reduce Water Use
University Park residents have been asked to conserve water while crews make emergency repairs at the city’s booster pump station in Germany Park.
HPISD Teacher Pay Among Highest in North Texas
Highland Park ISD’s teacher salaries will be among the area’s highest in the 2025-26 school year, a massive change from just five years ago when the district ranked last out of 25 school districts in pay for educators without master’s degrees, and near rock bottom for those with graduate degrees.
September Is Library Card Sign-Up Month in Highland Park
August 19's brief Highland Park Town Council meeting opened with Mayor Will Beecherl making a proclamation recognizing September, 2025, as Library Card Sign-Up Month.
Events
Kips Bay Show House Returns to Turtle Creek Estate
Opening to the public on Friday, Nov. 7, the Show House will welcome guests for two weeks