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In our high speed, age-segmented world, it sometimes seems everyone in Lake Highlands lives inside a personal bubble. If there is time left after our PTAs, churches or families, it is quickly absorbed by Web surfing, large-screen TVs, devotion to sports teams, or Wii-fit. After all that, it’s a wonder … more

Lake Highlands High School graduate Blake Richardson, son of Phil and Linda Richardson, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2009-2010. Blake, a 1999 grad, was a member of the Wildcat Marching Band and the LHHS Orchestra before attending the University of Texas where he received a degree in music. He earned … more

THIS MONTH, RUN OR VOLUNTEER …
… at the Dallas Running Club Half Marathon at 8 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 at Norbuck Park, Northwest Highway and Buckner. Choose to tackle the 13.1 miles over rolling White Rock area terrain, or e-mail volunteer@dallasrunningclub.com for a spot passing out race packets pre-race, … more

It’s a small-town phenomenon: Parents raising kids on the same block where they grew up, with grandma, aunts, siblings and cousins all right around the corner. And it has been that way in small towns just about as long as anyone can recall.

But it’s also common here, with some … more

Even the “Jason” mask was stolen.

Halloween was right around the corner, so maybe that explains why.
 
Scott Campbell is angry. A crook smashed the rear window of his Highland Village home while he was at work, and the thief made off with a television, video games, cash and … more

Americans love chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon.

Neighbor JOHN VISSER captured this impressive action shot of his TOBY — a 5-year-old rescued Golden Retriever with “a passion for chasing balls”— during a play day on the St. James Episcopal Church lawn. A congenital cataract caused Toby blindness in one eye, says M.G. VISSER, who sent in the … more

2 million tons
of waste taken in annually at the landfill

800,000 annual tons
of waste from single-family residents

6,000 tons of waste
left at the landfill each day on average

7 pounds of waste
thrown away daily by the average person in Texas (The national average is 5.4 pounds. … more

It doesn’t stink.

That’s the first thing that strikes visitors to Dallas’ 996-acre McCommas Bluff Landfill, a former gravel pit lying just south of the Trinity River near the intersection of I-45 and I-20. It would seem that a place that takes in nearly 5,000 tons of garbage a day … more