Joy Donovan
Joy Donovan is a contributing writer for CandysDirt.com covering the Midcities and Fort Worth.
Cutthroat. Ruthless. Creative. Gossipy. All that and a huge dose of the pretty people is what made the TV show “Million Dollar Listing” such a guilty pleasure. The Bravo television series featured both Los Angeles and New York versions of killer listings and the real estate agents who were trying to sell these properties in…
No monkeying around, Fort Worth gets to brag that it is the site of Texas’ oldest continuous zoo. Something to roar about, right? And even though it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Fort Worth Zoo recently made some headlines. Founded in 1909, the zoo was listed this year in U.S. News &…
Flag Day is June 14. Are you ready? It was 246 years ago on June 14, 1777, that the Continental Congress approved the first U.S. flag design. Then in 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 Flag Day, followed by U.S. President Harry Truman signing into law that the president must deliver an annual…
Happy birthday to Plano! Saturday, the North Texas suburb celebrated its 150th birthday … or maybe it was an anniversary. When the official celebration called for cupcakes, games, and balloons, it had all the signs of a real birthday party, of course. Those were the critical parts of last Saturday’s city festivities at Haggard Park.…
In our last installment of trees versus housing development, we left you with the Colleyville City Council dashing the hopes of WillowTree Custom Homes in its plan to develop 14 acres between Pool Road and Wilkes Drive into The Bluffs Colleyville. To catch up those who might not remember, Colleyville’s planning and zoning denied the…
