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A Plan 80 Years In the Making!
In 1943, Harland Bartholomew was hired to draft a master plan for the City. 80 years later, one area was clearly left out of the picture.

Andrew Matheny
Nov 13, 20233 min read
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What do elections have to do with parks? Everything.
Whom do you vote for when it comes time to do your civic duty? Start with questions about your parks. It could be very telling.

Friends of Bachman Lake
Feb 28, 20225 min read
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Friends of Bachman Lake Newsletter - January 2022
Despite another pandemic year, we at Friends of Bachman Lake were surprised by how much we did accomplish in 2021!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Jan 10, 20223 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - December 2021
Will we have a net green solution to the changes proposed around the Bachman Lake Area or just more cars?

Friends of Bachman Lake
Dec 10, 20213 min read
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Even a Zoom hack can't stop us!
There's some very important information about plans to transform areas around Bachman Lake that you need to be a part of!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Dec 3, 20216 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - September 2021
American Heart Association Heart Walk is coming. Be a great Friend to Bachman Lake Park on North Texas Giving Day. Lights Out for the birds!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Sep 6, 20212 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - August 2021
New members are now part of the Friends of Bachman Lake Board; we've got an update on the Bachman Lake Skate Park and the Bachman Area Plann

Friends of Bachman Lake
Aug 9, 20213 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - July 2021 Summer Series
“Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” — 14th century proverb The Internet for Dallas Coalition has published the 24 zip codes with poor...

Friends of Bachman Lake
Jul 7, 20213 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - June 2021 Summer Series
“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it” — Alice Walker And so...

Friends of Bachman Lake
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - May 2021
Elections, cleaning up Bachman, reporting the granular news that matters to you, and an interactive way to comment on the Bachman Area Plan.

Friends of Bachman Lake
May 6, 20216 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - April 2021
What are Friends groups for, anyway? Some changes to Northwest Highway could use your input; Community engagement & the political landscape.

Friends of Bachman Lake
Apr 7, 20217 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - March 2021
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right leg” — G.M. Trevelyan THE ESSENTIALS Snowmaggedon happened and we had to cancel our...

Friends of Bachman Lake
Mar 11, 20215 min read
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FoBL Newsletter - February 2021
Birds, skaters, planes, trains and big city pains. We've got it all in this issue of the Friends of Bachman Lake newsletter!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Feb 1, 20219 min read
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January 2021 Newsletter
2020 was surely different, but thanks to your commitment to Bachman Lake and the community, we managed to get quite a few things done!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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December Newsletter
Fighting bridges, contemplating tunnels and swimming upstream to add more green. What a year it's been. With your help, we'll get it done!

Friends of Bachman Lake
Dec 14, 20206 min read
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November Newsletter
There's a mobility plan for the Bachman Area in the works and we need community input! Trees: a priority for some but not all entities.

Friends of Bachman Lake
Nov 12, 20205 min read
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