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2 days ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
Camp planning can remind parents of the puzzle game Tetris. Sometimes, the pieces don’t fall together as easily as families would like. “We’re fortunate in Dallas to be really saturated with opportunities. But it’s so saturated that it can also be a bit chaotic and difficult to find what really is going to work for you and your family,” said Bluffview resident Jenn Zigler, who founded Edge Counseling & Consulting more than four years ago.
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4 days ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
SKULDUGGERY OF THE WEEK: FORGET SOMETHING? Reported at 10:12 a.m. on May 10: A reckless roadster did not stop at the intersection of Dartmouth Avenue and Abbott Avenue, but part of their bumper did. The piece was found near the damaged eastbound stop sign on Dartmouth Avenue. UNIVERSITY PARK5 MondayA 17-year-old girl was arrested on a warrant at about 9:55 a.m. on University Boulevard.
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4 days ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
Horns the candy-loving dragon and Snoopy, a monster with big orange ears who rolls instead of walks, only used to exist on paper. But they both went home with the kindergartners who imagined them on April 3 thanks to the Plushie Project, a collaboration between University Park Elementary and art students at Highland Park High School.
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6 days ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
The little lemonade stand with lofty goals is back this morning at the corner of Southwestern Boulevard and Hillcrest Road. The stand will be open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. today to raise funds for Tabitha Outreach Foundation Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of orphans, widows and the fatherless in southwest Kenya. Offerings will include lemonade, as well as flowers and cake pops in celebration of Mother’s Day.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
By Lexi Silverman/ContributorUniversity Park’s Director of Information Services Dale Harwell has retired after more than a decade of dedicated service to the city. Harwell, who began leading the Information Services department in 2014, retired after a distinguished career that spanned more than 20 years. During his tenure with the city, Harwell oversaw major advancements in IT infrastructure and data security while managing a $3 million annual budget and a talented team of IT professionals.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
The Highland Park High School Dads Club served up about 250 Goff’s burgers on May 2 during its spring staff appreciation lunch. The fun, tasty meal was one of many ways the club supports staff and furthers its mission of raising children in the Highland Park ISD community and beyond. Each HPISD campus has a chapter of the Dads Club.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
Ed Chao introduced himself to Highland Park students in the Moody Advanced Professional Studies Program as a “bootstrap entrepreneur.” “I fail at a lot of things,” Chao said, before walking students through the twists and turns that led him to co-found Cerebro Sports, a startup backed by billionaire Mark Cuban that aims to take the guesswork out of evaluating basketball talent. Cerebro, Chao explained, exists to fill a gap in basketball data.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
The award-winning immersive film Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul will have its first Dallas screening in the Digitarium at Pierce Planetarium at Highland Park High School on Thursday, May 8. The film combines the music of Emmy-nominated symphonic rock band The Polyphonic Spree with visual media to take viewers through floral kaleidoscopic skies, over deserts, and into outer space in an uplifting journey of resilience, hope, and renewal.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
SKULDUGGERY OF THE WEEK: BLOWBAG BURGLARA thief broke a window while trying to clean out a plumbing truck in the 4600 block of South Versailles Avenue, but ran away when the truck’s driver yelled at him at about 1:30 p.m. on April 30. UNIVERSITY PARK28 MondayReported at 4:55 p.m.: A mischief maker broke the side window of a 2020 Ford F-450 on Preston Road. 30 WednesdayOfficers seized drug paraphernalia after making a traffic stop of a 2011 Mitsubishi Eclipse at an undisclosed location.
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1 week ago | 
peoplenewspapers.com | Sarah Hodges
Young Highland Park ISD roboticists got a jumpstart on next season during their first in-house competition on May 2 at Highland Park Middle School/McCulloch Intermediate School. Fifth and sixth graders put their teamwork and programming skills to the test with VEX IQ robots, while seventh and eighth graders soared to new heights on an aerial drone obstacle course. Awards were given to first, second, and third place teams, but this contest was more about learning than winning.
