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Nominate Your Favorite Stories for 2021 People’s Pick
Starting today, you can nominate a story (or stories) from 2021 that resonated with you, and next week we’ll provide a ballot for readers to vote on their favorites.
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Turkey Time
Each year, the day after Thanksgiving, I make a series of peeved pledges. I will not cook another Thanksgiving dinner, decorate a table, or wash dishes again.
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VolunteerNow Awarded $250,000 Matching Grant From Lyda Hill Philanthropies
VolunteerNow, a technology nonprofit, received a $250,000 challenge grant from Lyda Hill Philanthropies, in recognition of the organization’s 50th anniversary this year.
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Habitat Dallas Changes Lives
What’s Nekemia Brown’s favorite space in the Habitat for Humanity home she bought in 2020?
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Celebrate The Holidays At Knox Street
Knox Street is gearing up to celebrate the holidays with exclusive retail pop-up shops, live reindeer, and live music.
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Elm Thicket/Northpark Celebrates Hispanic Heritage, National Night Out
A busy few days of celebrations saw Elm Thicket/Northpark community residents observe Hispanic Heritage Month and National Night Out.
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Christmas Lights Celebration and Shopping Stroll Returns to Highland Park Village
After a hiatus last year because of the pandemic, Highland Park Village’s Christmas lights celebration and shopping stroll is coming back December 8.
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A Gingerbread Stroll Through Highland Park Village
Gingerbread houses are coming to Highland Park Village, but supporting Community Partners of Dallas makes the festive Gingerbread Stroll even sweeter.
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What Makes a Home?
D Magazine Partners CEO — and Highland Park resident — Christine Allison may publish D Home but says it’s not the grand houses that make the Park Cities home.
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She Was ‘Always Taking Care of People’
The family of Carol Wilson Watkins remembers a mother and grandmother who died early in pandemic in the first of our ongoing series, “Pandemic Made Personal.”
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Snider Plaza Tree Lighting Returning
The Rotary Club of Park Cities and city of University Park are gearing up to kick off the holiday season with the annual tree lighting in Snider Plaza.
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