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07/03/2009

DRC/Candace Carlisle

Aaron Thomas, an employee at Alamo Discount Fireworks, stocks up for the business’s two busiest days of the year at the stand just outside of Sanger on Thursday.

SANGER — Aaron Thomas is stocking up for what may be an explosive holiday. The employee of a shack-like fireworks store located near the Sanger city limits is making sure items such as the Texas Sky Rocket and the Fire Exporative — which he says are likely to sell out — are ready for blastoff this Fourth of July weekend.

Hospital’s cardiac wing receives certification
The Cardiac Rehabilitation Department at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton recently received a new certification.

06/29/2009

Madoff gets 150-year prison term for fraud
NEW YORK — A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff’s plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims. “They are trying to send a message about this type of criminal behavior,” said Bernard Weinstein, director of the Center for Economic and Development Research at the University of North Texas in Denton.

06/27/2009

High-powered access
The computing power in Denton will increase tenfold this August as the University of North Texas installs a new $2.2 million, high-powered computing facility.

Karina Ramírez: Local business owner creates portable folding chair
Frustrated with the inconvenience of heavy chairs, a Denton resident designed one of his own. Fred Hensley, president of Festino Corp. of Denton, said the idea emerged in 2007. “I’m partly disabled, I can’t walk or stand well and I have difficulty doing things outdoors, so I tried to find something I could do easily,” said Hensley, 49.

Business profile: Stephen Jon Sullivan

Eddie Baggs: Hot and dry again
It is hot and dry again. After some rains this spring, we are really beginning to dry out, and pasture grasses are starting to get short with slow regrowth. This will have some effect on livestock feeding and grazing management systems.

Scott Burns: There is such a thing as saving too much
Q: My husband thinks we should always save the maximum amount possible in his 401(k) so we can get the tax benefits. We’ve been doing this since we got married, and are now 42 and 45. Our retirement accounts currently have about $350,000 in them. About $25,000 of that is in Roth IRAs. My husband will get a pension if he stays with his company.

06/21/2009

Hotel deal in flux
It may be too soon to make a reservation at the proposed Denton hotel and convention center, as local leaders continue to weigh the feasibility of such a project. While University of North Texas and city officials have taken a look at a similar convention center project in San Marcos, nothing has been finalized on the local project. If plans move forward, the proposed hotel and conference center could open on the 10-acre former Radisson site off Interstate 35E near UNT.

Hotel construction booming in city of Denton
Despite rocky economic times and a saturated market, construction is under way at several hotel sites in Denton. But the market probably hasn’t influenced the increase of hotel construction, said Lisa Swain, an associate in the Richardson office of PKF Consulting, an independent consulting group that studies the regional hotel industry. “They must’ve broken [ground] at the end of 2008, and I think they were financed projects at this point,” Swain said. “There will be a lag behind in 2010 and 2011 for things not financed by 2008. It’s a tough time to hit the market.”

Aircraft enthusiasts converge on airport
A crashing wave of sound follows the F-18 as it skims clouds far above crowds at the Denton Air Fair and Airshow at the Denton Airport on Saturday. More than 10,000 attendees braved the sun and humidity to spend the afternoon with their eyes fixed on the sky. Small camps seeking shade huddled underneath the planes and wings dotting an auxiliary runway near the control tower.

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