Lake Highlands

815 Peavy Shows Like a Star

By Nikki Barringer / June 14, 2019 /

The Roman brick ranch at 815 Peavy Road is adorable. It’s a three-bedroom, two-bath home in Old Lake Highlands, feeds into Hexter Elementary, and is White Rock walkable. It also has a long, gated driveway and 10-foot privacy fence. It’s Pleasantville perfect and now is the perfect time to snatch it up – it is…

Traditional Lake Highlands Home Gets Modern Farmhouse Redo

By Bethany Erickson / February 7, 2019 /

We pride ourselves on finding the cutest remodels, the hottest new construction, the sexiest staging in North Texas. But we apparently missed this transformed Modern Farmhouse in Lake Highlands recently. Compass Realtor Svetlana Grujic threw down the gauntlet in our Realtor-friendly Facebook group, Getting the Dirt. “Cannot believe that CandysDirt.com did not “get the dirt”…

Lake Highlands’ “We Need a School” Speaks Out

By Bethany Erickson / October 31, 2016 /

After a round of norovirus bludgeoned our house, I am finally able to come back to my original story about White Rock Trail Elementary – or rather, the proposed site for it. In my previous two stories, I talked to a representative of “We Have a Voice,”  Lake Highlands neighbors who are heading the opposition…

A Little More on the Lake Highlands-Richardson ISD Debate

By Bethany Erickson / October 14, 2016 /

Just a few things, after a day and a night of comments have rolled in, and after a few Lake Highlands friends and I talked. Firstly, I’d like to congratulate most of you (save one, but we talked it out) for remaining civil. From what I understand, this issue is contentious and has even resulted…

Lake Highlands School Site Pits Neighborhood Against Richardson ISD

By Bethany Erickson / October 13, 2016 /

If you build a school, but most of the neighborhood is against it, will they come? That was the question I was left pondering after conversations on both sides of a debate over whether the proposed site for White Rock Valley Elementary. On one side, you have Richardson ISD, who insists that the site –…