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Garland coffee shop debuts ‘Office’-inspired drinks, including the Dwight Schrute beet latte Rosalind Coffee has introduced a new line of coffees and drinks inspired by the gang from the popular NBC sitcom. Steve Carell as Michael Scott stars in NBCs popular sitcom, "The Office."(Handout / MCT) If you’re one of the nearly 74 million Netflix subscribers around the country, you may have felt an ache in your heart when The Office was recently removed from the streaming service. (It is now e...

Want to learn self-defense? This Garland rec center offers jiu-jitsu classes The Bradfield Recreation Center will offer courses at $40 a month through the end of April. In this file image, Dylan Miller (top) practices a jiu-jitsu drill on Levi Mowles at Fitness Fight Factory in North Richland Hills, Texas.(Mark Francescutti) Garland’s Bradfield Recreation Center has got a new course that could help you get in shape and learn self-defense all at once. The Bradfield Recreation Center will offer...

Garland library system receives statewide award for service to the community For the 16th year in a row, Nicholson Memorial Library was given the Texas Achievement of Library Excellence Award. A digital board outside the Nicholson Memorial Library promotes the summer reading program at the library.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Garland’s Nicholson Memorial Library System has won a statewide award for consistent excellence and outstanding contributions to public library services within the...

Garland will continue giving COVID-19 vaccines at drive-through event this week The vaccination event will be held Thursday at Homer B. Johnson Stadium. Sally Pratt of Denton gets bandage after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine shot from Penny Mayo, LVN at a drive-through vaccination clinic at Texas Motor Speedway on Tuesday, February 2, 2021in Fort Worth. Denton County medical personnel plan to vaccinate 10,000 residents per day.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) Held at the Homer B. Johnson Sta...

Garland’s plans to improve city streets among subjects of mayor’s annual address Mayor Scott LeMay, who is up for re-election this year, is preparing a state of the city address. An exterior view of the William E. Dollar Municipal Building in downtown Garland, Texas, Friday, June 26, 2020. The building also houses City Hall.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Garland Mayor Scott LeMay will deliver the annual “state of the city” address on Feb. 9, according to the city’s website. During his...

Garland will hold another mass COVID-19 vaccination event on Thursday, Jan. 28, for people who are currently at the top of the wait list. The event was...

Charter school competition forced DISD to up its game in southern Dallas Two high schools headed to learning “desert.” Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa addresses reporters at a press conference Tuesday, July 14 while DISD trustee Maxie Johnson (foreground) looks on. DISD leaders opposed the placement of a charter high school on the campus of Paul Quinn College in southern Dallas then. Now theyre opening their own.(Ryan Sanders) According to Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hino...

Just days before a highly anticipated virtual celebration in Garland this weekend to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., members of the city’s...

Garland nature preserve hosting art exchange exhibit The trail in the Spring Creek Forest Preserve is now part of a project where you can collect art in exchange for some of your own artistic crafts. A Garland water tower in Garland, Texas, on Thursday, June 18, 2020.(Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer) Garland’s Spring Creek Forest Preserve has been turned into an art exhibit, with handmade crafts placed along a trail in the forest. The project, which is called “Collections from the F...