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HP LitFest Gearing UP for 27th Year
Highland Park High School is gearing up to celebrate all things language during the 27th-annual Highland Park Literary Festival “LitFest.”
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Girl Scouts Celebrate Black History Month, Cookie Season at Galleria Dallas
Galleria Dallas now features a new display titled Girl Scouts Celebrate Black History Month, which will be open until Feb. 27.
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Winter Storm Scene Around Highland Park Village
Schools, many roads, and businesses across Dallas-Fort Worth remain closed and covered with a glaze of sleet as of Wednesday, but the landscape makes for a picturesque winter scene.
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Blood Stem Cell Donor Needed for Campbell Fearing
Campbell Fearing, 22, the son of renowned chef Dean Fearing and restauranteur Lynae Fearing, was recently diagnosed with leukemia and is in need of a life-saving blood stem cell donor.
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How Might Kalita Humphreys Theater, Dean Park Project Be Funded?
The new proposal for restoring the Kalita Humphreys Theater and redeveloping Dean Park surrounding it could cost about $300 million, according to a new master plan for the project from the Dallas Theater Center.
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Love Field Community Meeting Set for Jan. 17
The next quarterly meeting of Dallas Love Field’s Good Neighbor program will be in person at 6 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Aviation Foxtronics building (3448 W. Mockingbird Lane).
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Friends of Bachman Lake Starts ‘Adopt-a-Shoreline’ Program
Bachman Lake is celebrating its 120th anniversary year with a new “Adopt-a-Shoreline” program.
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Da Vinci, Forrest Gump, Dick Clark, and Pierce Allman
Kirk Dooley: There’s never been another person like Pierce Allman.
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Favorites of 2022: Meet the Star of the Fourth of July Parade
Former longtime director of her namesake Highland Park ISD planetarium, Donna Pierce, went from starring in her final planetarium show when she retired in 2021 to starring as grand marshal in the Rotary Club of Park Cities’ Fourth of July parade this summer.
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Favorites of 2022: ‘Ukrainians Are Very Brave’ But Need Our Help
D Magazine senior digital editor (formerly People Newspapers digital editor) Bethany Erickson wrote about how the owner of Ukie Style in the Preston Valley Shopping Center marshaled resources for Ukraine this spring.
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Favorites of 2022: Summer Is For Stand-Up
What’s the deal with airline food, am I right? People Newspapers client relations coordinator Maddie Spera took an intro to stand-up comedy class at the Dallas Comedy Club to find out about this and other jokes and wrote about it in a column this summer.
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