Krum News

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.

Betty Plunkett, a fifth-grade teacher at Dodd Intermediate School in Krum, presents two American flags that were flown over a mission in Iraq to the Krum school district and the Dodd campus.

College Fair for high school juniors, seniors and parents is slated for Tuesday, September 22, 2009, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the UNT Coliseum, located on the southeast corner North Texas Boulevard and Highland Street.

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Librarian Donna Pierce knows what the community needs. Volunteer Laura Klenke knows how to hunt down bargains.

Denton school officials this week reported an enrollment of 22,816 on Aug. 28 to close out the first week of school.

Reata Rehabilitation staff members use trained horses to achieve specific therapy goals for clients and are rewarded by plenty of smiles.

Blood drive set during church's open house The Carter Blood Center bloodmobile will be at First United Methodist Church Krum for donations during an open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Dr. George Hubbard of Krum will visit the Denton Senior Center, 509 N. Bell Ave., at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday to share stories about early Texas and Oklahoma.

School districts in Denton County will not broadcast President Obama's national address live in every class to schoolchildren on Tuesday, but officials have come up with various solutions to make the speech available to those students interesting in watching.

Texas health officials are giving students a little more time to get all their required vaccines.

A transmission tower in Krum is part of the 800-mile network of high-voltage power lines planned for the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone project.

By JOHN AUSTIN That's one more tower up, a few thousand more to go.On Tuesday, near the Denton County community of Krum, workers erected a 100-foot-tall steel tower, part of an 800-mile, 3,800-tower chain of high-voltage transmission lines designed to carry wind-generated electricity from West Texas to the Metroplex.

School officials in Krum are proposing a budget deficit of almost $356,000 and an 8-cent tax rate increase for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

School officials in Krum are proposing a budget deficit of almost $356,000 and an 8-cent tax rate increase for the 2009-10 fiscal year.