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Best of 2020: Love in the Time of Social Distancing
The pandemic canceled, postponed, or altered many a couple's wedding plans this year, and in May we introduced you to one couple who was faced with just that issue.
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Best of 2020: The Mask Making Neighbors
As the pandemic hit Dallas, a new endeavor began - making masks. In April, we introduced readers to some of their mask-making neighbors.
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Best of 2020: Patriot Pride
The last 18 months or so haven't been kind to Thomas Jefferson High School - an EF3 tornado struck the school in October 2019 and required a move to Thomas Edison Middle School, and then the pandemic hit and moved everything online last spring.
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Best of 2020: Remarkable Women
We started the year with a new goal - to feature a remarkable woman in every issue this year.
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Best of 2020: High School Students of Color Record Open Letter
The summer of 2020 brought a lot of discussion about racial equity, social justice, and race in general - and those discussions didn't skip the Park Cities.
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Best of 2020: ‘Everything Worthwhile Isn’t Easy’
As the nation reacted to the death of George Floyd during an encounter with police in Minneapolis, one Black mother took to the keyboard to discuss her feelings about helping her family navigate the world.
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Best of 2020: Conflict Over COVID Protocols
Responses to precautions taken by Highland Park ISD to avoid community spread of COVID-19 fell into two camps - those who felt they were appropriate, and those who felt they went too far.
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Best of 2020: Park Cities’ All-Girls Boy Scout Troop
Intern Dahlia Faheid talked to the girls who opted to join the Boy Scouts, now called Scouts BSA, after the organization began accepting girls in February 2019.
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Best of 2020: The Election
Starting with the primary season, our election coverage was spearheaded by two people - deputy editors Bethany Erickson and Rachel Snyder - and continued through Election Day and beyond.
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Best of 2020: Dreaming of The Charles
In May, restaurants had been relegated to curbside and take out service only, and the day when they would be able to welcome guests again seemed far off. It was a yearning to have dining be an experience, and not an impersonal pickup from your car so you could plate it at home that drove Kersten Rettig to write about The Charles.
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Best of 2020: Senior Returns to Much Different HPHS
Our fall high school intern, Shaye Wattson, couldn't have imagined that her senior year would begin with virtual school and then segue into a much different experience on campus as masking, social distancing, and other measures were enacted to help students and staff avoid exposure to COVID-19.
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Best of 2020: Highland Park Goes Hollywood
When we began talking with summer intern Morgan Pryor about a potential story featuring her cousin, it turned into a first-person narrative about a young Highland Park native who had just gotten her first lead role in Hollywood.
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Best of 2020: Civil Rights Teacher Detained on Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
In the summer of 2020, the only thing that overshadowed the ongoing pandemic was a larger, more widespread appeal for social justice after the death of George Floyd in custody in Minneapolis.
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Best of 2020: ‘Give Them a Little Bit of Hope’
The signs on Tibbs and Pemberton were a welcome surprise for the neighborhood, seemingly popping up overnight.
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Best of 2020: 75 Years of Ebby Halliday
The year 2020 was a milestone year for Ebby Halliday Companies as it celebrated its 75th anniversary, and we used our July Real Estate Quarterly section to take a look at the late founder of the eponymous company.
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Best of 2020: ‘She Loved Life’
"What emerged was a portrait of a woman who was always there for everyone she loved - and continued to be there, even after her death."
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Best of 2020: For the Love of Flying
Tom Rhodes promise to not take up smoking sent him high above the clouds, and the story our intern Tanika Turner wrote about how that came about is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Remembering Wick Allison
People Newspapers and the D Magazine empire lost both a mentor and a fearless leader when Wick Allison died in September.
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Best of 2020: Small Staff, Big COVID Coverage
On March 2, we posted our first story about COVID-19. There was only one case in the entire state. Local officials were watchful then, but didn't say what everyone was thinking - it would be in Dallas soon.
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Best of 2020: ‘Be Nice’
Fourth grade is usually when students start really learning the mechanics of writing, but it's no surprise that one particular fourth grader took to writing like it was genetic.