BEDFORD — As the scoreboard at Pennington Field ticked down to zero and the home side of the stadium roared its approval, everything seemed commonplace. The Trinity Trojan football team walked away from the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District’s annual rivalry game with another lopsided win, and Lawrence D. Bell High School went home with another…

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The Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District’s tagline is “Different By Design;” a fitting label for a group of schools sprawled across five cities and interacting with a wealth of cultures. Students in HEB represent over 100 nations, and their families speak more than 70 different dialects at home. Even though 54% of those students qualify for…

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In early October, we hosted the Black and Blue Food Drive, as per usual. The community responded with an outpouring of love and goodwill, as per usual. The Blue side of the metroplex won, with Bedford Jr High claiming an individual school award, as per usual. And they gave us the money back. As. Per. Usual. For three…

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High School rivalries are a strange phenomenon. They generate an intense semi-animosity between young men and women who are, by most accounts, the same. Students at Trinity and LD Bell, for instance, come from the same geographic and economic atmospheres. They frequent the same places, listen to the same music and play the same games. Ask…

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On July 12, 2015, a group of high school and college students from all across Texas arrived in Bedford with little fanfare. Representing NEXT Worldwide, a non-profit that believes in “Living the Mission,1” they came to help 6 Stones do just about everything we do. In the course of four days, they sorted and placed donations for the New Hope Center…

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