Heavy rains make for dangerous conditions: Photo by Danny Fulgencio
Fire and rescue officials say four Lake Highlands area kids are lucky to be OK after a dangerous brush with a rushing creek in the Jackson Branch area, which is near Richland College. So many stories over the years do not end this way, unfortunately. The raging waters following tons of rain, as we’ve seen in Dallas last week, are attractive to youngsters, who often don’t have the experience to know how powerful those overflowing creeks can be.
The wives of Paul Reyes and Adam McGough featured prominently in post-election coverage by the Dallas Morning News. Claire Reyes and Lacy McGough were photographed holding campaign signs outside Lake Highlands Elementary School Saturday — they face several more weeks on the campaign trail, and their husbands will face each other in a runoff election June 13. The same article addresses the effect of last week’s election on the Trinity Toll Road issue.
Lake Highlands High School graduate Annie Clark — also known as St. Vincent, also known as Grammy Winner, also known as Straight Up Awesome — is in town next week for a show with the Dallas Symphony. Guide Live features a Q&A with Clark and it features some interesting tidbits, like that Clark is working on arrangements for the show with David Campbell, also known as Beck’s Dad.
And in other neighborhoods around the world: A group of black Harvard students designed a social justice-focused urban design course, and they did this before things went so bad in Baltimore. You can read about it at CityLab.
