April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
Petitions are signed, and the Lakewood Conservation District is one step closer to including two additional neighborhoods. Conservation districts, which have existed in Dallas since 1988, are designed to help communities protect certain neighborhood characteristics. Lakewood’s Historic Origins Developers Albert Dines and Lee R. Kraft bought 184 acres in the 1920s around what is now…
Building playhouses is a family affair for the Butschers, who are honoring their late mother at this year’s Dallas CASA Parade of Playhouses. Amy Butscher, senior presentation designer at TRG (The Richards Group) branding and advertising agency, has been contributing to the event for more than a decade. Dallas CASA’s Parade of Playhouses will be…
In the wake of a highly-criticized city permitting process and other serious issues, the Dallas City Council could fire City Manager T.C. Broadnax as early as Wednesday. The council is set to discuss the city manager’s job performance in closed session at the end of a regularly scheduled briefing at 9 a.m. June 15. Then…
School’s out for summer and it’s time to take the plunge and find the dream home. Our picks this week — DFW-area homes with open houses on June 11 and 12 — will lead you to a charming historic Dallas beauty near the city’s arts district, a spacious retreat on Lake Lavon, and a two-acre…
Stephen Chambers was just starting out decades ago as a young Dallas architect when he was approached by Candy and Pat Montgomery to design their perfect home. It would become “the best party house” in eastern Collin County — a prominent backdrop in Candy, the Hulu miniseries about a gruesome 1980 Dallas-area murder in the…
