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What do bikers, celebrities, fashion boutiques and underprivileged children who need school supplies have in common? They are all getting a lot of attention from Cloud 9 Charities, a Highland-Village, Flower Mound institution that is finding creative ways to raise funds, build awareness and inspire volunteers to have fun while making important contributions to local [...]
A former Denton County prosecutor who has won convictions in high profile cases is now working criminal defense as a partner at Jackson & Hagen in Denton. Rick Hagen of the firm expressed excitement about adding Cary Piel to his firm in an announcement released to the Highland Village Connectionthis week. “I just acquired [...]
Some allegations made in a civil discrimination lawsuit against Denton County were proved to be false and others were misleading, according to court documents obtained by the Denton Record-Chronicle. And the district attorney isn’t talking about the role those allegations played in his decision to force the resignations of four assistant district attorneys on June [...]
Combine food, drink, the chance to bid on special items and now live music and you have all the ingredients for a unique night to benefit the students and teachers of the Lewisville Independent School District. The LISD Education Foundation’s Evening for Education: A Culinary Experience will take place Sept. 8 from 6:30-midnight at the [...]
Denton County commissioners voted Tuesday to change the records management department again. Court members voted to rescind a previous order putting the department under the aide-to-the-court, Barbara Looper, and opted instead to move records management to technology services under Kevin Carr, the director of technology services, beginning Oct. 1 with the new fiscal year. “I [...]
Denton County officials took steps last Tuesday to shore up a compliance issue with their records management department. In a 3-2 vote, commissioners decided to put Barbara Looper, aide to the court, in charge of records management at the start of the fiscal year and have her report to the Commissioners Court as a whole. [...]
After living in Castle Hills for 8 years and running the Enchanted Artist for the past two and a half years, Nancy Scheuermann is leaving the neighborhood. News Editor, Joanie Saynor, recently sat down with Nancy to find out how the Enchanted Artist was started and what Nancy will miss most about our neighborhood. How [...]
Her name is Tonali and she is a bottle-nosed dolphin about seven years old. My family got to swim with her while we were on vacation in Puerto Vallarta in early July. We have a timeshare in Cabo San Lucas. But this year, instead of going to Cabo San Lucas, we decided to go to [...]
Until he read a recent newspaper article, Rick Turner had no idea who Travis Mills was or what had happened to him. During his third tour of duty with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan, Mills lost both his arms and legs April 10 when an improvised explosive device detonated underneath him. According to [...]
John Gauthier of Corinth figures electricity is everywhere; it’s just a matter of getting to it. That was part of the reason he decided to buy a Nissan Leaf, a fully electric-powered car, last year. “It costs you a lot less for your operation costs,” he said. Gauthier, of Richland Hills, usually buys a car [...]
My ribs were bruised; I had bloody gashes in my left knee and my ankles … oh my sore ankles. But I found myself there again, stretching out soreness on a park bench ready for another run. This wasn’t just any workout. I’d be running hills, some rough terrain and through some wooded areas. I’d [...]
Things, people and places change which impact industry and new trends are set. I’ve worked with newspapers since 1993, before computers were used to build pages. Copy was set with an exacto knife and paste around full page ads costing single advertisers as much as a new car for one press-run Businesses reaped a great return [...]
My first thought when I received the notice for the IRON MAN 3 screening was, “do we need another Iron Man movie?”. The first film was superb, the second one mediocre at best, plus we had a good dose of the suited, brilliant, billionaire, playboy Tony Stark in the Avengers film. My concern was not [...]
April has been an exciting month for our community as there are many high-quality projects that have been announced. On April 24, the much anticipated groundbreaking of Lakeside DFW was celebrated, which marks the beginning of construction on this historic project. The 150-acre development overlooks Grapevine Lake and will soon be transformed into a high-quality [...]
For the third time area residents have recognized DKH Academy for excellence in pre-school education, voting it Best of Denton County for 2012. The Highland Village preschool continues to innovate as it encourages children to learn through hands-on activities and interaction with nature. A special recent addition to the curriculum is “Handwriting without Tears” a [...]
Tooth Sensitivity is not a laughing matter It is 6 o’clock on a Saturday night and you have just sat down to dinner. You take [...]
Jaxxon Warren, 8, of Flower Mound won the Punt, Pass & Kick championship held at Dallas Cowboys Stadium on Dec. 2 and is advancing to the National Finals Saturday, Jan. 12 in Atlanta. Warren netted a punt of 87 feet and 7 inches, threw a pass for 77 feet and 1 inch, and his kick [...]
