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Saturday, April 9, 2016
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Denton, Texas
Ryan students try pilot bus program
Partnership seeks to
improve safety in area
that has no sidewalks
"When I would walk to school, there were a lot of
cars and we were so close to them. There are
reckless drivers out there and people not paying
attention, so we could get hit."
— Thomas Biggerstaff, a student at Ryan High School
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By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones@dentonrc.com
Thomas Biggerstaff sits next to his
friend Andre on the bus to school. He
greets his fellow Ryan High School stu-
dents as they hop on.
“Hey, Kayleigh.”
“What’s up, Dante?”
“I say hi to everyone,” the sophomore
told Andre.
A week ago, Biggerstaff was dodging
traffic along McKinney Street as he
made the mile-and-a-half walk from
his apartment complex to school. Now,
thanks to a partnership between the
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within 2 miles of Ryan High to ride
DCTAs Connect 3 route to and from
school at a discounted rate. The district
can’t send school buses to service those
within that radius because of state re-
strictions, and McKinney doesn’t have
sidewalks for students on which to
walk.
city, Denton ISD and the Denton Coun-
ty Transportation Authority, he sits
comfortably on a DCTA bus, safe from
passing cars.
‘When I would walk to school, there
were a lot of cars and we were so close to
them,” Biggerstaff said. “There are reck-
less drivers out there and people not
paying attention, so we could get hit.
My dad was worried, so he bought me a
pass.”
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The push for the pilot program came
after two students were hit by cars in re-
cent years. Corey West, a 16-year-old
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Ryan High School sophomore Thomas Biggerstaff stands Friday at the bus
stop near Ryan High School on McKinney Street.
This was the first week of the pilot
program that allows students who live
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Teen
arrested
in UT
killing
Pin wheel with a message
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Low: 53
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INTERNATIONAL
Homeless man faces
murder charge in death
student studying dance
By Will Weissert
Associated Press
AUSTIN — A homeless 17-year-old has
been arrested, and police said Friday he’ll
be charged with murder in the killing of a
University of Texas student majoring in
dance whose body was recovered in the
heart of the bustling
campus
one of the country’s best-
known schools.
Meechaiel
wasn’t believed to be a
university student and
hadn’t been living in
Austin long. Police Chief
Art Acevedo said Criner
could face additional charges in the slay-
ing of 18-year-old Oregon-native Haruka
Weiser.
We are very certain that the subject we
have in custody ... is responsible for the
death of this beautiful young woman,”
Acevedo said at a campus news confer-
ence.
In a sweeping document
on family life that opened
a door to divorced and
civilly remarried Catho-
lics, Pope Francis insisted
Friday that church doc-
trine cannot be the final
word in answering tricky
moral questions and that
Catholics must be guided
by their own informed
consciences.
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Cambden Lanzer plays with a pinwheel he received from the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Denton
County on Friday. The group marched from the Denton Civic Center to the downtown Square to pass out
pinwheels to help spread awareness of the effects of child abuse. April is National Child Abuse Prevention
Month.
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Frontier switch issues crop up
NATIONAL
with Frontier, said I ham Morrison, man-
ager of corporate communications for
Frontier.
“VOD content is now available and
we are continuing to add more titles
each day, including those movies and TV
shows previously purchased by custom-
ers,” he said in an email. “We are also re-
solving the outstanding issues some cus-
tomers are having related to Frontier ID
and accessing their account informa-
tion.”
had problems even though Internet was
transferred seamlessly. For Denton resi-
dent Becca Dickstein, the phone has been
down for days, and it probably won’t be
fixed until next week, she said.
‘All of our phone calls go to voicemail...
but we can’t use our landline,” she said.
“One person told us it would be fixed
Monday, then talked to somebody else
who said maybe they could get to it the
next day, but who knows.”
By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan @ dentonrc.com
The switch of all Verizon customers to
Frontier Communications happened
April \ but since then, there have been
complaints and interruptions of service.
While there have been no widespread
issues in the Denton area, some residents
reported their landlines stopped working
soon after the switch.
Several others are having issues with
video-on-demand content and registering
Weiser was last seen leaving the cam-
pus drama building Sunday night. Her
body was found Tuesday in a creek near
the alumni center and UT’s iconic football
stadium, an area that hums with activity
day and night.
The slaying shook a campus of about
50,000 students. University President
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SpaceX resumed station
deliveries for NASA on
Friday, and in a double
triumph, successfully
landed its booster rocket
on an ocean platform for
the first time.
However, some of the landlines have
See FRONTIER on 9A
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Nursery school gets
communications gift
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cable wiring in the walls and ceilings. The
wire will support an upgraded phone ac-
cess and paging system and a new data
and wireless network.
TRT Communications Inc., a Denton-
based telecommunications company, and
several other businesses are donating the
$20,000 worth of equipment, software
and services for the project.
More than a dozen phones are being
installed in classrooms and other rooms at
the day care. Technicians also are install-
ing three ceiling speakers throughout the
By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
btabor@ dentonrc.com
For years, Fred Moore Day Nursery
School in Southeast Denton has operated
off one phone line in the front office and a
wireless base unit.
If staff members need to communicate
with someone in another classroom or an-
other part of the building, the general
method is to walk to the room or yell down
the hall, executive director Wendy McGee
said with a laugh.
On Friday, technicians were at the day
care installing 3,000 feet of voice and data
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Tyler Eveleth, a technician for TRT Communications Inc., installs wires Friday in
the ceiling at Fred Moore Day Nursery School in Denton.
See FRED MOORE on 9A
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