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Best of 2020: ‘How Am I Going to Feed People?’
"This pandemic crisis has brought out so many heroes - people who just saw a need and filled it," we said of this Best of 2020 pick.. "Get Shift Done is one of those efforts that was like capturing much-needed lightning in a very empty bottle, and a time when we needed the light the most."
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Best of 2020: Siblings Didn’t Want to Stay Treeless in Preston Hollow
Like most of Preston Hollow on Oct. 20, Brinley Smith and her brother, Preston, took cover with parents Brian and Crystal Smith as an EF3 tornado wound its way through their neighborhood.
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Best of 2020: United by a Scary Night
Anyone who was at Highlander Stadium for the 1974 Highland Park – Grand Prairie football game will never forget that night - which is why Kirk Dooley's recounting of the night was one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: A Year Since the Tornado
October marked a year since we took shelter in closets and bathrooms. A year since we climbed out that night and navigated damage – or found (to our relief) that our homes were left unscathed by the EF3 funnel of wind and debris that marched across Preston Hollow and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Best of 2020: Lifelong Methodist Waits For Her Denomination to Include Her
Julie Reeves’ mother had a simple wish for her daughter when she sat down to inscribe her daughter’s Bible 54 years ago.
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Best of 2020: Family Vacation to Spain Becomes Adventure in Virus Lockdown
What do you do when you're on vacation - a long planned one - and the whole world goes into lockdown? That's what our intern, Dahlia Faheid, was confronted with in March, and her first-person account is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Too Young To Vote, But Not Too Young to Help
High school intern Shaye Wattson filed this story as the election season wound to a close, about students who were too young to vote just yet, but who still volunteered to work the polls.
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Best of 2020: Perspectives From the Porch
When people began sheltering-in-place last March, milestones didn't stop their march across the calendar as weeks turned into months. But throughout the 290 days or so (so far), Erin Schreyer has been documenting families - from their front porches.
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Best of 2020: ‘It’s Not Safe For Anyone’
Can an employer forbid an employee from wearing a mask during a pandemic? It was a question that we hadn't ever really thought about until one night in May we got a message from a friend of employee from a local restaurant - who was doing just that.
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Best of 2020: ‘You Step Up, And You Serve’
Our conversation with Dallas city council member Jennifer Gates about the tornado, the Ebola crisis, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for her district was one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Images of Prayer, Love, and Support
As the pandemic hit and then began its march across Dallas, there was an outpouring of support for front-line medical workers, and even just neighbors as we all navigated very new terrain.
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Best of 2020: Park Cities People July 2020
The July 2020 issue looked at the Park Cities protests, which were remarkable if nothing else for the fact that the home-grown efforts happened there, explained Gillea Allison, president of D Magazine Partners, of her first pick for Best of 2020.
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Best of 2020: How Wrestling Gave MIS Fifth-Grader Much More Than a Gold Medal
Profiling Primo Pinson, then a McCulloch Intermediate School fifth-grader, was one of People Newspapers sports editor Todd Jorgenson's highlights of the year.
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Best of 2020: Hundreds Gather for Inclusive Vow Renewal Service
OK, so this story about a multi-denominational vow renewal service actually happened in the last days of 2019, but since it wasn't included in our Best of 2019, deputy editor Bethany Erickson wanted to include it as one of the highlights of her year.
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Best Of 2020: Nothing Comes Between Them and Christmas Market
This year's Chi Omega Christmas Market was a family affair, and the story behind the effort was one of People Newspapers editor William Taylor's favorite stories.
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Bumper Crop of Nominations for Best of 2020
Although our stories about the mastermind behind the Trains at NorthPark and a trip to the Lake Austin Spa were our readers' top picks, we'd be remiss if we didn't also point out some of the other work that was nominated.
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Best of 2020 People’s Pick: Breathtaking in Austin
Another overwhelming reader favorite in our Best of 2020 People's Pick choices was a piece by Kersten Rettig that waxed poetic about the Lake Austin Spa Resort.
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Best Of 2020 People’s Pick: Trains at NorthPark Mastermind Creates ‘Magical Little Worlds’
When we asked readers to nominate stories for the People's Pick portion of our look at the best, most intriguing, and/or biggest stories of 2020, this story was nominated four times.