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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
RICHARDSON – Poor turkeys, they don't get no respect. Sure, we admire them on Thanksgiving, but only for those few seconds when they're glistening and golden after being brined and seasoned and stuffed and roasted.Then we eat them.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Richardson and the Texas Department of Transportation are poised to begin a road project that was once opposed by nearby residents but is now seen as a potential plus for the area.The plan to extend Galatyn Parkway over Central Expressway's southbound service road will largely benefit a single company: ., which owns adjacent property.City officials say, however, that completing the crossing will help...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Capt. Michael Horak, assistant chief of police at Eastfield College, let me know of a party Pira sponsored for their Gateway to College program last Saturday. The program is for at-risk students from Garland and Mesquite school districts. It gives them the opportunity to earn a high school diploma while transitioning to college.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
People wanted to do something visible to show their support. The stickers that the high school team is wearing are one example. So are T-shirts that belong to every sixth-grader and staff member at Merriman Park. The messages – "Will Power" on the school T-shirts, "Will to Win" on the stickers – reflect the love and support for Will and his family.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A Dallas investment group has purchased a large Telecom Corridor office building out of foreclosure. TriGate Capital bought the 2350 Lakeside Boulevard tower in Richardson at this month’s foreclosure auction. The investor successfully bid for the property after Wachovia Bank went ahead with a foreclosure on the project. “We bought it on the courthouse steps,” TriGate’s Jeff...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Started in 1993, the popular bazaar will have close to 100 crafters with tables filled with one-of-a-kind homemade items. It is expected to draw more than 3,000 shoppers during its two-day run. This year's event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Richardson Senior Center, 820 W. Arapaho. Admission is free.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Abraham Zapruder used to be a household name. The Dallas dressmaker's home-movie camera produced the iconic film of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. OSCAR DURAND/DMNAlexandra Zapruder told a Holocaust forum in Richardson on Saturday that Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust is a reaction to hope, 'one of the most distorted themes of the Holocaust.' On Saturday, his granddaughter...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Like her grandfather’s film, her work deepens the collective understanding of how things unfolded at a specific point in history. The book, published in 2001, has developed a following in some education circles as a welcome supplement to high school history texts.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thousands of walkers created a sea of pink this morning in Plano that will stretch across North Texas over the weekend to promote breast cancer awareness. Also Online “This is what the end of breast cancer looks like,” said Jenne Fromm, national spokeswoman for the Dallas/Fort Worth Breast Cancer 3-Day. During the 7 a.m. opening ceremonies, a ring of cancer survivors joined hands in the...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As part of that campaign, MADD is giving out red-ribbon stickers for Dallas-Fort Worth residents to put on their vehicles as a reminder to think of alternative ways to get home before going out to drink. Dallas Fire-Rescue will also place the stickers on their emergency response vehicles.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Nearly a decade after beefing up code enforcement in neighborhoods and two years after toughening apartment standards, Richardson is considering tightening enforcement on commercial property. There is no timeline yet for consideration of a nonresidential code program, but City Council members this week expressed support for new commercial standards. "We've really put the burden on the individual...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Dallas police have arrested an acquaintance in the stabbing death of a 20-year-old Art Institute student whose body was discovered in her Lake Highlands apartment in September. Also Online Daniel Willyam, 26, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in the death of Samantha Michelle Nance, who was found slain in her bedroom on Sept. 11. Shortly after the discovery of her body, Dallas detectives searched...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Posey Leadership Award supports the Austin College mission to promote service and leadership in a global context. The award was created through the generosity of the late Lee Posey, a Dallas-area businessman and philanthropist who supported a number of educational causes.
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Former Dallas Mavericks player and current assistant coach Ronald Jerome "Popeye" Jones was arrested Sunday evening in Richardson and accused of drunken driving. Popeye Jones Jones, who played for the Mavericks from 1993 until 1996 and again in 2002-03, was bonded out of jail this morning at about 4 a.m., according to Richardson Police Department public information officer Jonathan Wakefield....
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Lynn Shaw wasn't my children's teacher. But she was one to me. I worked with Lynn on different stories over the years. She taught me by her example how to enjoy life. Lynn taught and directed theater for 25 years at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson ISD. She passed away from cancer last August. She left behind a legion of fans from students to her adoring public. One of my last conversations with...