Pro golfer Hunter Mahan of Preston Hollow won The Barclays on Sunday, the Dallas Morning News reports, and Jordan Spieth turned 21, making him eligible to play at the 21-and-up Preston Trail golf club — despite the fact that he ranked no. 7 in world by the time he was 20.
Yet another mosquito pool in 75230 tested positive for West Nile, the eighth time since the summer began — considerably more than any other zip code in Dallas. The area bound by Forest, Hillcrest, Central and Royal was scheduled to be sprayed earlier this week. Calls to code compliance have not been immediately returned to find out why the area has been hit so hard this year.
During the city council’s Quality of Life Committee meeting this week, parks and recreation director Willis Winters proposed a new idea for acquiring parkland in some of the city’s most barren areas (which include parts of North Dallas). He proposed an ordinance that would require developers to include green space in their plans or pay a fee that would go toward the parks department.
