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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Buddy Macatee's 'Lonesome Pine' memoir touches hearts of Dallasites12:00 AM CST on Sunday, November 8, 2009By KIRK DOOLEY Kirk Dooley is a University Park writer. The results are in. Buddy Macatee's new book, Lonesome Pine, has touched a nerve with Park Cities and Dallas readers. Those with deep roots will especially appreciate Macatee's memoir, a collection of eight decades of wit, wisdom and philosophy,...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The deal to end a lawsuit over land at the was tossed aside today by a judge who said Southern Methodist University and its legal foe never had a clear agreement on the terms. After listening to arguments for more than an hour from SMU and Gary Vodicka, a former owner of condominiums near the library site, State District Judge John L. McCraw Jr. ruled that a July settlement agreement between the parties...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
As the band, made up of 350 students, practiced at Eagle-Mustang Stadium in Richardson, they were brought to attention by retired band director Vincent DiNino, who introduced Caldwell to them and dedicated the rehearsal to him. DiNino was involved with the Longhorn band for 30 years and was the director when Caldwell played trumpet in the mid-1970s. "One of the best trumpet players I ever had,"...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
For years, Peruna had the field to himself. Since 1932, the black Shetland pony has been the official mascot of Southern Methodist University's football team, the Mustangs. But when a couple of actual mustang horses debuted at Ford Stadium this month, they bucked tradition in a way that has unsettled SMU's hidebound football culture. Just this week, the Student Senate voted to adopt a resolution naming...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
After the meeting, the mayor said he believed council members were probably influenced by a proposed ordinance that circulated around Town Hall several weeks ago. It suggested creating a mechanism for some property owners to voluntarily seek historic designation for land they owned. And it would have left the Town Council as the final authority on property disputes.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Matthew and Amanda Johnson, who live in the 3600 block of Wentwood, built the treehouse in the front yard because they said their backyard didn't have a tree big enough for the above-ground playhouse.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
More students than usual transferred from private schools to the Highland Park school system this year, in what may be a sign of belt-tightening in the Park Cities. Also Online School officials say they have no other explanation for the surge in new students during the first six weeks of the school year. “It’s the economy,’’ said Highland Park school trustee Doug Smellage. Overall,...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
"My main motivation was a good education without having to pay private school prices," she told the paper. She added: "I know they want more desirable people. But this is what they are going to get until my kids graduate from high school."
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
They rode in from Oak Cliff or down the Katy Trail or along other routes. They stood beside their bicycles to hear City Council members and others talk about making Dallas friendly for more than internal combustion engines. "We are going to create streets that aren't just for cars – that move people," council member Angela Hunt told the helmeted crowd of 100 or so cyclists gathered...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Vodicka and Tafel owned units in the University Gardens condominiums, which SMU bought and later razed. The two former owners maintain that SMU fraudulently bought a controlling interest in the complex by not disclosing that it would be used as the site of the Bush library.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
After the hearing in open court, Judge McCraw and the lawyers met in chambers to set out a new schedule for various pending motions. A mediation session was scheduled later this month; a hearing on a now disputed settlement agreement between Vodicka and SMU was set for November. And a jury trial was set for February.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
It takes a village.Solving the mystery of the naming of Wentwood Drive in University Park has become a team effort and I think we have our answer.You'll recall that four friends – Lucy Johnson McDonald, Janet Taylor Mountz, Barbara Hunt Crow and Mitzi Vance Rudderow – wanted to know why all the streets in University Park north of Lovers Lane were named for colleges except for Caruth Boulevard...
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