Arlington seeks input, money for park for kids with disabilities
| |Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009
The city’s first playground for kids with disabilities is set to open next summer.Read more
Siblings given 25 years in Arlington robberies
| |Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
A brother and sister from Arlington have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to several robberies and burglaries -- two of which they committed together last year.Read more
Some computer equipment stolen from Arlington schools is recovered
| |Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
More than $5,000 worth of computer equipment stolen in the spring and summer at several campuses in Arlington and Grand Prairie has been recovered, school officials have announced.Read more
Salvation Army expanding 'cashless kettle' program to 82 sites
Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009
No cash? No problem.Read more
Breakaway Episcopalians holding their first convention
Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
The group that broke away from the Episcopal Church but still calls itself the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is having its first convention since realigning with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.Read more
Judge allows students to protest at Tarrant County College
| |Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
Students plan an "empty holster" protest at the Northeast Campus in Hurst next week.Read more
Briefs: Arlington school district asks Dalworthington Gardens to keep liquor stores away from schools
Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
City is asked to enact liquor store rules
ARLINGTON — School trustees adopted a resolution Thursday night asking Dalworthington Gardens officials to enact guidelines to keep liquor stores at least 1,000 feet from schools. Voters in Dalworthington Gardens, a municipality inside Arlington, approved a measure Tuesday to allow liquor sales for off-premises consumption. The Arlington district has one school in Dalworthington Gardens — Key Elementary, 3621 Roosevelt Drive. The Dalworthington Gardens City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a joint meeting Tuesday night to discuss establishing minimum distances from churches, schools and hospitals for alcoholic-beverage sales, according to the city’s Web site. — Traci ShurleyRead more
LULAC leader says new Arlington school should be named for Cesar Chavez
| |Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009
School trustees just got the voters' OK Tuesday for a $197.5 million bond issue, and by Thursday, one community organization was suggesting a name for the new elementary school included in the package.Read more
TCC Web site will let people voice opinions on new chancellor’s qualifications
Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009
If you want to register your thoughts about qualifications of the new Tarrant County College chancellor, the school has made it easier by creating a Web site for students, faculty and the public to voice their views.Read more
First-time home buyers living in foreclosed home thanks to stimulus program
| |Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009
The federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program is designed to reduce the number of foreclosed properties.Read more
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Former Cliburn head to play role in reviving once-prestigious Tchaikovsky competition
Just a few days before the April telephone call, Richard Rodzinski had read a lengthy profile of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
