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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BEDFORD– There’s a good kind of exhausted, and hundreds of people are feeling it right now. Thanks to over 700 volunteers offering dozens of hours of support over the last few weeks, we’ve been able to provide school supplies for 4,500 students in the Hurst Euless Bedford Independent School District. Starting at 7:30am on August…

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There’s an old proverb from Lao Tzu: “The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.” In most cases, we are quick to undertake that pilgrimage alone. But for Dannah Mahmoud, a 2015 graduate of Lawrence D Bell High School in Hurst, the journey began with thousands of single steps, all taken by men and women…

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ARLINGTON — noise abounds in the Student Center of the University of Texas at Arlington. I’m setting up cameras and checking angles in the corner of the upper-level computer lounge, but even here the parades of jovial children at language camp echo off the walls and banisters. College campuses are never still, even in the…

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