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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.
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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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