Shelby Skrhak
Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.
The Texas Rangers visited Dallas City Hall on Wednesday to showcase their World Series Trophy to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and the City Council. The Arlington-based Texas Rangers won Major League Baseball’s World Series in November, defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games. This was the team’s first-ever championship. But at CandysDirt.com, our version of…
We often write about North Texas’ favorite vacation home getaways, where people from Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Westlake, and Fort Worth escape the urban jungle, but now we have a hot new spot that more than fulfills the second home checklist. It’s called Woodland Hills at Broken Bow. For the uninitiated, Broken Bow in Southeast…
The women of First Community Church on Gaston Avenue came calling in 1958, asking their congregation members if they’d open their home for a holiday tour themed, “Christmas All Through the Home.” The homeowner at 6882 Avalon Ave. — this week’s Highlight Home of the Week — was happy to oblige and offer his 1950s-built…
An hour west of Fort Worth, there’s a town you’ve heard of a thousand times, but probably know nothing about — Mineral Wells. It’s a town full of cute homes, amazing natural springs, and — “home to crazy.” Realtor Valarie Kerby, who you’ll typically find fluttering around in Historic Downtown McKinney, tipped us off to…
I’ve talked about how homes have lives just like people do: “A 100-year-old home may be the meaningful setting of a bridal shower or a funeral reception, someone’s first breath or their last, a gleeful war homecoming or a dreaded knock at the door.” Well, homes can see bad things happen, too. While it may…
