After Tuesday’s Denton City Council meeting that included an hour-long discussion on the Denton Community Market, founders Kati Trice and Vicki Oppenheim stepped out in the cool November air to check out two sites city officials presented as possible locations to relocate the market.
Fall color in North Texas is capricious and ephemeral. Often it’s too warm and too dry. Sometimes a strong storm sweeps all the leaves away. Or, a blue norther brings a hard freeze, leaving everything a lifeless brown.
The Denton Area Partnership for End-of-Life Care will host two free events Friday to offer information about advance directives and how to file for a medical power of attorney.
DALLAS — The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family’s attorney said Wednesday.
W.S. Ryan Elementary School is looking to achieve some steps needed to comply with the Texas Education Agency after failing to meet state accountability standards last summer.
The Colony police are seeking the public’s help after a stranger stopped a girl on her way to school Tuesday morning.
More than 600 volunteers picked up nearly 3 tons of trash, recyclables and old tires during the city’s annual “Stream Clean” event Saturday.
Sunset Advisory Commission hearings resumed in Austin Tuesday and will continue today on the Health and Human Services Commission, the Office of Inspector General and the Texas Education Agency.
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Jonathon Littman, a frequent attendee of the Denton County Veterans Day ceremony at the Courthouse on the Square, said he attends for a couple reasons. “Because I like being free, [and] I appreciate the fact I had an opportunity to serve,” Littman said, noting his time on the U.S.S. Turner Joy in Vietnam.
Construction crews will erect new power lines near Kings Row in northeastern Denton in the coming weeks, one part of a $350 million upgrade to the city’s electric grid that will nearly double its capacity and is expected to touch many parts of the city.
The old saying “cherish every moment with those you love” has new meaning for Ellen Johansen. The Flower Mound resident lost her husband of 39 years, Verland “Scott” Johansen, on Sept. 26 after he struggled for his life with a gunshot wound. Earlier that week he was on his way to a Frisco hotel, where he worked as a night manager, when he was shot while driving along Interstate 35E in Lewisville.
An altercation between a couple Monday morning resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old man. At 7:35 a.m. police were dispatched to a domestic disturbance in the 2300 block of North Elm Street.
BERLIN — How do you land a spacecraft on a comet that is streaking by at 41,000 mph? That’s a problem scientists have been grappling with for more than a decade as they prepare for one of the most audacious space adventures ever — the European Space Agency’s attempt to land a scientific probe on the giant ball of ice and dust known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
LewisvilleSuperintendent of Lewisville ISD to retireLewisville ISD Superintendent Stephen F. Waddell announced his retirement Tuesday evening.
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TROPHY CLUB — In the doorway of a two-story house in Trophy Club, an elderly man presents himself with silvery hair and a medium build.
After more than four months on the job, Carine Feyten, president and chancellor of Texas Woman’s University, was inaugurated Monday.
Time to pick the season’s last tomatoes and peppers and cover the spigots and the perennials. Something wintry this way comes.
FORT WORTH — Some of the old men approached the blue and yellow biplane in wheelchairs, others use walkers and a few are able to make it without any help.
A public hearing on Ryan Elementary School’s plans to improve its state accountability ratings will be conducted at the Denton school board meeting tonight.The board will meet at 6 p.m. at the Stephens...
Public intoxication and a broken door led to a man’s arrest Sunday evening, police reports state. Denton police received a call at about 6 p.m. from a woman who reported that someone was trying to break into her apartment.
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Fall in Denton County was once a time of year when fields of coastal hay, wheat and even peanuts lined U.S. Highway 380. Combines, tractors and truckloads of workers labored from sunup to sundown harvesting crops and taking them to market. Evenings were spent by the fire or on a neighbor’s front porch swapping tales until the Sandman arrived.
LAKE DALLAS — World War II veteran Paul Hudgins, 88, is sharing his memories through picture books he writes and illustrates for his grandchildren.
It will be a celebration of veterans from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday on the lawn of the Courthouse on the Square.
The Denton Senior Center will host special events this week, beginning with a Veterans Day singalong and culminating with it annual Blue Ribbon Bazaar on Saturday.
A 19-year-old man landed in jail Saturday evening after a drug-induced stroll through the Guyer High School parking lot led to the police’s arrival, according to a police report.
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Children of all ages were seen playing and having fun at W.S. Ryan Elementary, and it wasn’t even a school day.
When the Board of Regents named Carine Feyten the sole finalist for president and chancellor at Texas Woman’s University, she had never been to Denton.
Natalie Smith shows off her costume during the University of North Texas homecoming parade on Saturday in Denton.
Organizers of a group called Lewisville Helping Its Heroes are working to raise funds to incorporate as a registered nonprofit, tax-exempt group.
Officers are searching for a teenage boy after he reportedly escaped custody Friday evening.
A bell once used as a Denton family’s “alarm clock” is now rung daily at an elementary school bearing the family name to start the new school day.
Jay Prophet has voted in as many state, local and federal elections as he could over the years. But he wasn’t able to vote in Tuesday’s election. Prophet, 32, headed to the polls on Oct. 31, the last day of early voting, and waited in line nearly an hour — turnout was heavy at Sycamore Hall on the University of North Texas campus — with his Texas personal identification card at the ready.
DALLAS — Dallas calmly marked the end of its Ebola crisis on Friday when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus were to be cleared at midnight.
In the face of an improving bond market, Denton County officials have a chance to save some taxpayer dollars.
A man could not evade Denton police officers Wednesday night. Two Denton officers were on bike patrol in the 300 block of Fry Street when they noticed the odor of marijuana in the area. When the officers detained a man who was nearby, he became agitated and eventually ran. While on the run, the man tossed a small baggie that contained methamphetamine, according to a police report.
Dozens of shops and restaurants in downtown Denton are participating in a Holiday Open House event today and Sunday during business hours.
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In the emotionally charged run-up to their lopsided victory on Tuesday, political organizers for Frack Free Denton and their allies employed some weird weaponry against their well-financed oil and gas industry adversaries.
Fallout continued at the state level over the landslide vote Tuesday that banned hydraulic fracturing in Denton city limits. During a media event sponsored by the Texas Tribune on Thursday morning in Austin, Christi Craddick, chairwoman of the Texas Railroad Commission, called the vote a disappointment.
Former Denton County Sheriff’s Deputy Joshua G. Laningham was arrested Wednesday morning, charged with official oppression.
The Texas Water Development Board met Thursday in Austin and adopted final rules for the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas, which helps finance water projects such as Lake Ralph Hall, a proposed reservoir that will provide water to future generations in Denton County.
Savannah Elementary School students help break ground Thursday for Denton ISD’s new high school, which they’re slated to attend when it opens. Denton’s fourth comprehensive high school will be on Navo Road in eastern Denton County.
Mean Green pride will flood Denton streets when the annual homecoming celebration for the University of North Texas begins tonight.
It only took moments for a thief to make off with a Denton woman’s purse and diaper bag Wednesday. Denton police officers were called to the 2700 block of Hilcroft Avenue where the woman reported that the items were taken after she walked away from her vehicle for a few minutes.
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When she was 3 years old, Kay Goodman’s mom took her in a wagon from their home on Locust Street to the Little Chapel-in-the-Woods.
