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Heads up parents, here’s something to keep on your radar the next time you want to make that errand run sans the kiddos:

The Creative Play Academy has just opened inside the Walnut Hill Recreation Center. The drop-in childcare program offers playtime every Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 1 … more

I’ve recently starting running, so now my heart skips a beat when I go to RunOn. I get just giddy thinking about the all those rows and rows of running shoes. I imagine that’s what it’ll be like for avid tennis players when Love Tennis opens at Snider Plaza this … more

The faculty and parents at E.D. Walker Middle School will host the annual "Welcome to Walker Night” this Tuesday from 6:30 to 8.

This will be chance for potential students and their parents to tour the school, chat with principal Brian Lusk, and learn about clubs and extracurricular activities that … more

Fifty-five DISD schools have been named to the National Center for Educational Achievement’s 2009 “Just for the Kids Higher Performing Schools” list. That’s up from 47 DISD schools that made the list last year.

Schools in our neighborhood to make that list are E. D. Walker Middle School, W. T. … more

I’m always dazzled by the hibachi chefs who can twirl knives like batons, and send chopped shrimp flying into the mouths of willing spectators. Then again, I tend to be easily amused.

But not even the showiest of hibachi chefs can top the guy in this stunt video I unearthed. … more

Frozen yogurt has been around for decades, but its popularity has exploded in the past couple years, especially in our neighborhood — something I still haven’t been able to totally wrap my brain around.

But it seems that yogurt hasn’t totally dominated the frozen treat market. The Paciugo at Preston … more

Earlier this week I told you where you can dine if you want to help raise money for the Haiti relief effort—and now, a couple more ways you can help in our neighborhood:

The WT White senior class is having a denim drive for “Teens for Jeans.” They hope to … more

If the rain stays at bay this weekend, you can take a picnic to the Valley House Sculpture Garden — and while you’re there checkout the current exhibition in the gallery, which includes works by local artist Valton Tyler as well as a collection of tribal sculptures from across the … more

DISD parents are invited to the Addison Athletic Club Thursday night at 7 for an update on the new George H.W. Bush Elementary School that’s being built on Spring Valley Road. Representatives from DISD and the Town of Addison will brief the group on the status of construction, and the … more

This summer I had the pleasure of spending some time with the JROTC kids at Marsh Middle School for a story I wrote about their new cadet academy — which they raised most of the money for, I might add. In fact, because these kids are in junior high, they … more