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Band students use talents during holidays Courtesy photo Five Krum High School students camped out by one of the Salvation Army's red kettles to play holiday music earlier this month.

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Workers at a Fort Worth Starbucks said Friday they have joined an effort launched in 2004 to unionize the nation's largest coffee company.

Members of the Sheppard Military Affairs Committee voiced concerns Tuesday about possible 850-mile long electric transmission line routes proposed by Oncor.

City leaders agreed Saturday to pay $310,000 in damages to two sets of Old Town landowners after losing a pair of inverse condemnation lawsuits in April.

Dave Richards is a member of UNT's One O'Clock Lab Band, which received the two nominations.

Krum school district officials expect to distribute letters to parents of middle and high school students following the Christmas break on its decision to offer a medical-based human sexuality course.

Share + Dec 9, 2009 10:30 pm US/Central Melissa Newton KRUM Sex education is coming soon in one Denton County school district.

Krum school board members are expected to consider and possibly vote tonight on offering a medical-based human sexuality curriculum to middle and high school students.

"Pearl Harbor Day is Monday, Dec. 7, writes Archie Peers, now a resident of Krum, Texas, "and may I reminisce of that point and time 68 years ago with those in the Rush City area who remember." He sent along photos taken in April 1943, in the yard of the Poly Prim Cafe.

Conway Smith, 7, left, Cali Marquis, 8, and Cailtlin Marquis talk to Santa during the Krum Christmas Festival on Saturday.

The Bayless-Selby House Museum in Denton will welcome Rebekah McCormick, a 10th-grade flutist from Krum High School for a free holiday performance December 12 from 10:30 - 11:30. The Bayless-Selby House Museum is located at 317 West Mulberry, Denton.

The Krum school district was able to increase the amount of its fund balance by $205,161 during the 2008-09 fiscal year, even while opening three district facilities and purchasing land, according to an audit report released to board trustees recently.

Three days after getting back from Austin, I've still got a good post-festival buzz.

By HOWARD GARRETT / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Howard Garrett's Organic Answers column appears every Thursday in The Dallas Morning News.

For competitive eaters, the thrill of victory might precede the agony of indigestion.

Denton County officials engaged in a fact-finding discussion with members of the public to debate the fate of the Jackson Road railroad crossing south of Krum.

The winner of the seventh annual corny-dog eating contest at the State Fair of Texas was a familiar face.

Elementary and secondary school students who have not received the required shots to attend school have less than one week to do so before they face being turned away from classes.

Krum Middle School and Argyle High School ranked No. 18 and No. 12, respectively, on an organization's lists of the best public middle and high schools in North Texas.