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Flower Mound Mayor Pro Tem Sandeep Sharma issued the following press release about his intentions to run for re-election on the Flower Mound Town Council:
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Lakeside Arts Foundation invites Lewisville ISD High School juniors and seniors, intending to major in any arts-related field, to participate in Scholarship Art Contest at Chalk This Way to earn one of three possible scholarships.
The Rowlett Citizen Corps Council will sponsor a two-day Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) class on Saturday, February 1 & 8, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. each of those days. Both days are required.
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On Jan. 21, JLL Capital Markets announced that it closed the sale of Marketplace at Towne Center, a 180,522-square-foot retail center in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite.
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The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) experienced a spill of domestic wastewater from its South Mesquite Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (Plant), located at 3500 Lawson Road in Mesquite. The spill was contained and treated within the plant site with no environmental impacts.
Commuters traveling north and south along the North Dallas Parkway north of US 380 will no longer have to share the access road on the east side of the planned extension of the North Dallas Tollway.
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Hava Johnston, a Frisco realtor, entrepreneur and lifelong Texan, has announced the launch of her campaign for Place 5 on the Frisco City Council.
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Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) has recognized Keep Corinth Beautiful (KCB) as a recipient of the 2019 Coca-Cola Public Space Recycling Grant.
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Proposed changes to how sales tax is collected are coming close to reality, but for many cities like Coppell, the new rule could have a significantly negative impact on revenues.
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For the second year, Metrocrest Services participated in the Point in Time (PIT) Count, an annual effort to count the number of unsheltered or homeless individuals in a certain area.
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The city of Corinth retained the Center for Public Safety Management LLC (CPSM) to evaluate the Lake Cities Fire Department (LCFD) and conduct an Operational and Administrative Analysis of the department.
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Some have called for a new recreation center in The Colony for years.
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Those who knew Tim Tittle said he gave everything he had to his passions in life.
Over 100 volunteers came together Thursday night to complete a Point-in-Time (PIT) count of people who are unsheltered in the city of Plano.
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A Mesquite educator was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.James Earle Cude, 55, pleaded guilty in August to receipt of child pornography. Cude previously served as North Mesquite Hig…
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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board voted Thursday to approve the University of North Texas creating a Frisco-based branch campus that would provide upper-level and graduate courses on 100 acres donated by the city of Frisco.
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At Tuesday night’s Rowlett City Council meeting the city recognized World War II Army veteran Billy Furgerson as part of the city’s veteran recognition program.
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During this month’s Mesquite ISD regular board of trustees meeting the board approved Liz Felton as the new principal of Henrie Elementary.
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More than 1,800 students representing all the high schools in Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties competed at the District 7 DECA career development conference at the Irving Convention Center. Twenty-nine students from Little Elm High School’s DECA club will be advancing to the state competi…
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Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) is reporting the 12th 13th and 14th flu-related deaths in Dallas County for the 2019-2020 season. Ages of the patients were 77, 62, and 37 years of age, all of whom had underlying medical conditions and were residents of Dallas County. For medi…
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The City of Mesquite has announced a new customer service platform called myMesquite to report street repair, code violations, public safety concerns and other types of issues. The myMesquite platform is accessible through a mobile app and on a desktop computer. More details are available at…
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Ten Garland ISD fourth- through eighth-graders were recognized with the Evidence of Excellence award for winning the nationwide I Write Short Stories by Kids for Kids publishing contest. These GISD students are among 100 student authors to be featured in this year’s anthology.
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Mesquite-based nonprofit Sharing Life Community Outreach recently announced it secured a site to open a warming center to serve the unsheltered when the weather gets dangerously cold, and they are currently seeking Weather Activated Refuge Mesquite (WARM) volunteers to assist.
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Frisco resident and community volunteer Sadaf Haq filed on Tuesday to run for Frisco City Council, Place 6.
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Founder of the BLEXIT Foundation and conservative commentator, Candace Owens, will be the featured speaker at the Denton County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner Feb. 15 at the Denton Embassy Suites Hotel. The gala banquet will again be emceed by Sen. Jane Nelson.
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From 8 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday, NorthGate Constructors will begin demolition of the northbound FM 2499 bridge as part of the I-635/SH 121 Interchange project.
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H-E-B recently announced that eight school districts and five early childhood facilities have been selected as finalists for the retailer’s 19th annual Excellence in Education Awards program, and Mesquite ISD is among them.
Public schools across Texas will hold the first Holocaust Remembrance Week starting Monday Jan. 27. Over the summer, Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 1828 into law after Texas Senator José Menéndez authored the bill during the 86th Legislative Session.
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Each year Garland ISD holds a greeting card contest for its fifth graders, and each campus selects a winner to compete at the district level. This year’s Stephens Elementary’s campus winner is 11-year-old Alyssa Prather. Her art teacher said the students were given a theme for the contest an…
Robin Bullock has been named as the Allen ISD superintendent of schools. The board voted unanimously to officially hire Bullock as Allen ISD’s leader on Wednesday following the state-required waiting period. She was named as the lone finalist for the position in December and was previously n…
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Local companies and organizations will have the chance to interview over 100 high school students this spring when Plano ISD’s Academy High School hosts its fourth annual Internship Fair from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. March 5.
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The Garland ISD District Affairs Committee received an early literacy action plan presentation during its Jan. 14 meeting from Melissa Hill, director of teaching and learning development.
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Two Mesquite ISD high school teachers joined the ranks of Apple Corps during this month’s regular MISD regular school board meeting: Jeffrey Blackwell of Poteet High and Carol Kruckenberg of Mesquite Academy.
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The Denton County Transportation Authority’s (DCTA) 19-mile A-train Rail Trail is now complete following years of construction. The final construction project phase connecting Highland Village/Lewisville Lake station to downtown Lewisville was complete at the end of December 2019.
H-E-B recently announced that eight school districts and five early childhood facilities have been selected as finalists for the retailer’s 19th annual Excellence in Education Awards program. For the sixth year in a row, H-E-B is also recognizing five public school boards to highlight the im…
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The closure of a nearby landfill will lead to a slightly higher waste collection bill for Little Elm residents.
