Posts Tagged ‘Police’
By Bruce Felps Old prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medications, for that matter — should be disposed of in a proper manner, which is not flushing down the toilet. The Ferguson Road initiative and officers from the Dallas police Northeast Division put together an event called Operation Take Back in which residents can drop off unused, unwanted, [...]
By Bruce Felps This year’s Kids’ Safety Fair, organized and presented by the officers of the Northeast Patrol Division, takes place one month from today. The fair, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., May 21, at division headquarters, includes face painting, super heroes, cool, a bike rodeo, helicopters, K-9 officers — who’s a good cop … you are, yes [...]
By Bruce Felps Friends of the Dallas Police Department aim to raise funds to augment officers’ insurance in case of an injury, accident, or illness that might hit an officer or family member. The second annual White Rock 5K, which takes off at 8 a.m., April 9, from the staring line at Winfrey Point, serves [...]
By Bruce Felps About 12,000 of our closest friends showed up for yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade after-party along Lower Greenville Avenue, according to police estimates. The partying crowd mostly stayed on its best behavior with police making six arrests for public intoxication and two for drunken driving, along with 21 citations issued for public [...]
By Bruce Felps Dallas city officials and heads of the police department want Lower Greenville Avenue residents, and guests, to know a few things pertaining to Saturday’s big St. Patrick’s Day after-parade street party. Greenville Avenue between Vanderbilt Avenue and Vickery Boulevard shuts down from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. to vehicular traffic. That stretch is the [...]
By Bruce Felps The annual St. Patrick’s Day after-parade party along Lower Greenville Avenue comes with a litany of rules and regulations such as the parking and no-parking zones and traffic flow map posted yesterday. Another important regulation to heed concerns the core element of most any St. Patrick’s Day celebration: alcohol. In the past, [...]
By Bruce Felps Saturday’s big St. Patrick’s Day Parade after-party along Greenville Avenue will attract a few thousand people. There is your understatement for the day. But a lot of those people will arrive by car, and, hmm, what to do with the car while roaming the green streets? Well, the city of Dallas, Dallas [...]
By Bruce Felps Tonight marks the inaugural Northeast Patrol Division’s awards banquet for community volunteers. The dinner and awards ceremony, open to the public, starts with registration at 6 p.m. — the dinner and acknowledgements start at 7 p.m. — at St. James Episcopal Church, Audelia and McCree roads.
By Bruce Felps Photographic contributor Lilia Estrada captured the damage to a Lower Greenville-area fence after a car crashed into it early this morning. The incident happened about 1:15 a.m. at the corner of La Vista Drive and Hubert Street, about three blocks east of Greenville Avenue. Estrada’s neighbor, who requested anonymity, said he heard [...]
By Bruce Felps Lights and noise from a police helicopter last night alerted a neighborhood resident and regular reader of this little community news site, and an item published to the Dallas Morning News website this morning explained the clamor. According to the report, two men sitting in a maroon Jaguar parked outside the Burger [...]
