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It's Saturday! Time for your weekend reads.
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Good morning!
It's Saturday, so here's what you need to know about what happened this week.
In your Report: From Latinos en Medicina camp to Go Skate Day, photojournalist Cristian ArguetaSoto brings you the diversity of events in Tarrant County through the best photos of the week.
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TxDOT’s 12-mile corridor study of I-30 West will allow the transportation department to consider potential express lanes and improve the frontage roads, ramps and cross streets on various interchanges.
• As Forest Park train sits idle, residents say city should keep tradition chugging along.
• Former employee Shanna Granger files suit against Tarrant Regional Water District over Oktoberfest permit.
• Lim-itless: Yunchan Lim is youngest pianist in Cliburn history to win gold.
• TCU and HSC medical school partnership formed cracks years before 2022 breakup, documents reveal.
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Best reads of the week
Here is a look back at key stories during the past week.
• Listen: How is Fort Worth handling short-term rental enforcement?
• Water district board stays silent on former employee lawsuit as activists continue push for greater transparency.
Meeting the needs of a school, as well as its parents, could be a way to introduce PTAs into more campuses across Fort Worth ISD, where four out of 10 schools have a PTA.
• Explainer: This Texas law hopes to turn around failing schools. How does it work in Fort Worth ISD?
• State Board of Education paves way for Academy of Visual and Performing Arts to come to Fort Worth.
• Trinity Pride to be held in person again after pandemic pause.
• Students get the opportunity to have their work read by professional actors with High School Playwriting Project.
ON TAP: Todd Camp, Chase Court resident, is the neighborhood's longest-residing resident and has seen the surrounding areas change over many years. In our latest Where I Live essay, Camp shares how Chase Court is a historic gem in Near Southside.
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Editor's note: 'What we're reading' is a feature designed to boost knowledge of Fort Worth and Tarrant County residents through collaboration with other area news organizations. Any views or opinions in the stories linked below are not representative of Fort Worth Report.
◾ Fort Worth Country Day breaks ground on $3.5 million state-of-the-art track and turf field improvement project(Press release) ◾ Fort Worth to host 2023 FEI Jumping and Dressage World Cup finals. (Press release) ◾ What happens next for abortion law in Texas. (Texas Tribune)
