Verona Italian Restaurant of Dallas

Verona Italian Restaurant of Dallas

Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for an Original Food and Beverage Certificate, Mixed Beverage Late Hours Permit, Mixed Beverage Permit, by Verona Italian Restaurant of Dallas Inc dba Verona Italian Restaurant of Dallas Inc to be located at 9039 Garland Rd, Dallas, Tx 75218. Kujtim Lokaj President.  

National League is one team race

National League is one team race

By David Mullen A 60-game regular season. A DH in the National League. Still, just one winner will represent the NL in the World Series after winning two, or possibly three, playoff series. Getting to the playoff will be job one. Remember the Washington Nationals? They came out of nowhere in 2019, relegated to Wild […]

Oncken installed as Rotary president

Oncken installed as Rotary president

By Harriet P Gross Rotary International’s District Governor John Moser (left) came from Allen to JJs Restaurant to formally install Bill Oncken (standing, right) as President of White Rock Rotary for the coming Club year. Only a few members (including Roger Prior, at extreme right) were able to attend due to distancing requirements, and all […]

State Fair livestock shows revised

State Fair livestock shows revised

By Karissa Condoianis With agriculture as one of the foundational pillars of our organization, the State Fair of Texas is proud to announce a preliminary revised 2020 livestock market show schedule. Although the 2020 State Fair of Texas is canceled due to the current landscape related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fair is committed to […]

Sorry, Folks! No State Fair this year

Sorry, Folks! No State Fair this year

By Karissa Condoianis After extensive consideration of the current landscape related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the health and safety of all fairgoers, staff, business partners, and overall community, the State Fair of Texas Board of Directors has voted to cancel the 2020 State Fair of Texas. “This was an extremely tough decision. The health […]

Podcast delves into race relations, COVID-19

Podcast delves into race relations, COVID-19

By Becky Mayad A frank and personal conversation on race relations with Ambassador and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk and NBA Hall of Famer Spencer Haywood, plus the latest updates on the COVID-19 crisis from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and the County’s Public Health Director Philip Huang. These are just a sampling of the […]

Johnson joins mayors on the front lines

Johnson joins mayors on the front lines

By Tristan Hallman Mayor Eric Johnson on Tuesday was officially elected to serve on the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) Advisory Board. USCM is a nonpartisan organization that represents more than 1,400 cities that have populations of 30,000 or more. Each city is represented in the conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. […]

Dallas museums unite to stay closed

Dallas museums unite to stay closed

Given the spike in COVID-19 cases in Dallas County and the rollback of the State’s phased reopening, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum have decided to pause plans to reopen in early July. Though we have created rigorous guidelines and best practices to ensure that we […]

Future journalists benefit from Press Club awards

Future journalists benefit from Press Club awards

By Jo Ann Holt College scholarships have been awarded to five North Texas students majoring in communications by the Press Club of Dallas Foundation Scholarship Fund. The scholarships are for the academic school year 2020-21. The Fund is administered by Communities Foundation of Texas. A $3,500 scholarship was awarded to Arianna Vedia, a senior at […]

Deep Vellum to award 43 grants

Deep Vellum to award 43 grants

By Sara Balabanlilar In response to the economic crisis spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dallas-based nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum launched an emergency fund for Texas writers last month. Today, Deep Vellum announced that it plans to award 43 small grants to writers from around the state in order to help mitigate the devastating effects of […]