Looks like Highland Park Village is flying the Scots’ colors to honor a new class of graduating seniors. Congrats, all — and thanks, Hillary Artzt, for sending this photo! Now we just need a handsome gust of wind.

For any friends and family members making last-minute plans: the ceremony is ...read more

Photos by Christina Barany

The HPHS valedictorian is Tianen Li. The salutatorian is Cotty Kerridge. The Blanket Award winners ...read more

Tim Gunter, the new Highland Park High School band director, was the recipient of a surprise office redo. Can we get the guy a nanny cam?

Dear Band Family, As I told you from the very beginning ...read more

The staff of Park Cities People has been busy reporting on what happened at the Palladium Ballroom on Thursday night. I just wanted to clear up a few misconceptions from the earlier post.

1. We’ve spoken to the freshman girl’s mother. She said her daughter was released from Children’s Medical Center on Saturday and returned to school on Monday. ...read more

The June 4 edition of Park Cities Two will be dedicated to the Highland Park High School Class of 2010. We plan to have photos from graduation, the senior awards, etc. But I was negligent and did not assign a photographer to be at the Meyerson for yesterday’s baccalaureate.

But I was there, and I couldn’t help but notice the dozens ...read more

From left: Science team members Craig Yeh, Tianen Li, Kevin Yan, and Navin Pathak, with chemistry teacher Wenzen Chuang

Until I saw them being honored at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting along with the state champions from the boys ...read more

First piece of advice: Don’t smoke. Besides the obvious health reasons, you should know that you don’t look nearly as cool as you think you do. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found a woman ...read more

I run the risk of returning to nasty comment territory by bringing up the Bradfield Yearbook Fiasco of 2010, but I wanted to point out that said fiasco is the subject of a very funny column by Merritt Patterson in this week’s edition of Park Cities People.

As you know, we don’t ...read more

Well, the Morning News beat me to it–I searched high and low yesterday and, as far as I can tell, the lawsuit hasn’t actually been filed–but the parents of a former student are suing the school for, according to the article, “failing to protect their 16-year-old daughter from a sexual relationship with a teacher and expelling her ‘for ...read more

Aside from the countless hours spent by salaried employees, HPISD has incurred $8,250 in attorney fees dealing with the Bradfield yearbook matter. Helen Williams said that approximately $2,500 of the legal bill was for “reviewing the new book to make sure it did not infringe on any copyrights.”

In addition, there was a “rush charge” of $3,185.60 to get ...read more