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Quick Responses Create ‘Chain of Survival’
Less than 8% of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital survive.
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Artfully Public
Thanks to a city effort, finding art doesn’t have to mean a trip to the Arts District downtown — it can be as simple as looking around your neighborhood.
Can You Graduate From The School Board?
In 12 years as a trustee, former school board president Jim Hitzelberger helped see Highland Park ISD through two bond elections plus facilities overhauls, rezoning, the opening of a fifth elementary school, and a global pandemic.
Stumped: Neighbors Decry Removal of Trees
The removal of 13 trees lining Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church’s west parking lot facing Colgate Avenue has upset some nearby residents.
Forest Park Medical Defendants To Be Sentenced in March
A flurry of defendants who pleaded guilty to various fraud charges related to the now-defunct Forest Park Medical Center will be sentenced in mid-March, court documents show.
STAAR Must Be Taken in Person, State Says
Public school students will be required to come on campus to take the STAAR test this year, even if they’re learning virtually.
A Decade After Beer, Wine Propositions, What Did UP Get?
Back when University Park restaurants needed private club licenses to sell alcohol, the city’s annual take usually wouldn’t top $100,000 in taxes.
Election
Voters Approve Nuts and Bolts, But Not Luxuries, on Dallas ISD Bond Package
On the surface, two out of five might not seem like a big win for Dallas ISD. But when two of the five bond propositions on the November ballot equate to $3.54 billion of a $3.7 billion ask, the win becomes much clearer.
Coronavirus
Parents Clash Over COVID Protocols
Safety protocols at Highland Park ISD schools have been hotly debated since the start of the fall semester.
Coronavirus
Talking Health Care For Texas’ Sake
For years, Texans have known through difficult personal experience that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six months, those issues have hit home for millions more.
Election
Stealing Signs of The Times
It’s presidential election season, and with it can come some neighborhood political tensions.
Election
Read Local: How To Get A Neighborhood View Of The Election
A big Election Day is coming up, and our small-but-mighty staff has been preparing to cover it.
Crime
Plunderers Pilfer Particularly Pricey Part
When a half dozen readers reached out to us about being unceremoniously divested of their vehicle’s catalytic converter, and we found yet another instance where a NorthPark Center shopper was parted with the part in police reports, we had to ask: Why catalytic converters?
Coronavirus
A Boy’s Take on Masks: Be Nice
I am a fourth grader, but even fourth graders have opinions about things.
In Case You Missed It
Too Fast And The Neighbors Are Furious
Almost nightly in Preston Hollow, you can hear it. You can smell it. And if you’re unlucky enough to get caught in it, you can even see it.
Coronavirus
A Doctor’s Take on Getting Back Open
Want to get museums and performance venues going again? Keep those masks on and invest in better ventilation.
Coronavirus
Dallas Arts Organizations Lose Nearly $68M
Furloughs surpass 1,200 as leaders scratch up funding, explore new ways to reengage with their audiences.
Hundreds March in Highland Park, at SMU to Protest Racial Injustice
Hundreds of peaceful SMU students marched around the campus Sept. 5 in protest of police brutality and inequalities faced by Black people.
Eagle Scout Project Replaces Inlet Markers Around Highland Park
In the blazing heat for two days and a combined six hours, Beau Exall and his crew worked vigorously to replace each storm drain medallion around Highland Park in both Spanish and English.
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
The presentation at the community meeting on June 11 convinced me that the greening of Preston Center will begin with this project.