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Vol. 112, No. 70 / 40 pages, 4 sections
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UNT fires McCarney
real confirmed the school’s decision to
Homecoming game is
record-breaking loss
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part ways with McCarney in a hastily
called press conference that took the
the largest margin of defeat ever for a place of the Mean Green’s regular post-
Football Bowl Subdivision team in a game interview session.
‘This football team has continued to
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By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito @ dentonrc.com
Dan McCarney was fired as the Uni-
versity of North Texas’ head football
coach Saturday night following a dev-
astating loss to Portland State Univer-
sity in the Mean Green’s homecoming
game against a team from the Football
Championship Subdivision.
The loss dropped UNT to 0-5 for the last three or four weeks,” Villarreal
the first time since the 2008 season said. “It started at the beginning of the
and continued a rapid downhill slide season. We are not in position where
following the Mean Green’s Heart of we are competitive really in any phase
Dallas Bowl win following the 2013 of the game.”
struggle more and more each week in
David Minton/DRC
UNT head football coach Dan McCarney, shown on the sidelines Saturday
at Apogee Stadium, was fired after the 66-7 loss to Portland State.
game.
season.
UNT athletic director Rick Villar- See McCARNEY on 8A
The Vikings hammered UNT 66-7,
Flipping
switch
made
sense
Horsemen argue gaming tech could save Texas horse racing
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Ken Carson,
general
manager of
Valor Farm
near Pilot
Point, re-
members
the Texas
horse in-
dustry’s
golden years
of the early
2000s. “Ev-
erybody in
the horse
business
thought that
horse racing
in Texas
would be
the greatest
thing to
happen,
something
even more
grand than
Kentucky,”
he says.
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
Denton Municipal Electric’s plans
to build a natural gas-fired power plant
while also buying more solar energy
veers from a path to renewables chart-
ed by other cities.
Critics of the natural gas industry
and DME’s new plans have pointed to
the recent move to 100 percent renew-
able energy by Georgetown, Texas, as a
better example for the city to follow.
DME officials said this week that their
proposal is the best mix for Denton for
competitive rates and reliability.
Georgetown
north of Austin — is among at least four
U.S. cities that recently announced a
move to 100 percent renewable energy,
which means mostly solar and wind
power. The other cities include Aspen,
Colorado; Burlington, Vermont; and
Greensburg, Kansas.
While those announcements have
grabbed headlines, dozens of other U.S.
cities systematically have increased
their use of renewables, too. Los Ange-
les, San Diego, Phoenix, Honolulu and
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FADING BREED
about 30 miles
first place in the M2 Technology La spread because of the sandy soil of the industry for more than 40 years, and
Senorita, a horse race for fillies. Better Eastern Cross Timbers. It soaks up both Dorothy and Clarence grew up
Than Magic took second place in El water from the spring and fall rain, around race horses. Dorothy’s father,
making northeastern Denton County Fred Turner Jr., won the 1959 Ken-
By Christian McPhate
Staff Writer
dmcphate @ dentonrc. com
PILOT POINT
breeds champion race horses, both
quarter horse and thoroughbred. Just bauer, both of whom are dead now, race horses because standing water in my Lee. In the late ’80s, Dorothy and
last weekend, two of its horses ran re- opened Valor Farm on FM455 just pastures is not good for their hooves, her daughter, Pam, captured the roses
ally well at Retama Park just north of west of Pilot Point in the early 1990s.
San Antonio. More Than Most won They picked the nearly 400-acre prominent family in the horse racing See RACING on 14A
Valor Farm Joven Stakes for colts and geldings.
Clarence and Dorothy Schar- the perfect place to breed and raise tucky Derby with a horse named To-
The Scharbauers have been a
See ENERGY on 8A
Making way for a new place to play
TODAY
IN DENTON
NATIONAL
Should college campuses
do more to prepare peo-
ple in case of violence?
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Denton retires beloved playground
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill @ dentonrc. com
n Saturday afternoon, Mayor Chris Watts
asked a crowd of more than 70 people to
raise their hands if they had used the 21-year-
old Eureka playground, and almost every hand shot
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Sunny and hot
High: 93
Low: 63
Three-day forecast, 2A
Authorities are stepping
up patrols at Texas South-
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up.
The volunteers who helped build the playground
in 1994, as well as the many Denton families who
have used it since, had the chance to say goodbye to
their wooden castle at the Eureka decommissioning
ceremony at South Lakes Park.
“There’s a lot of financial and emotional invest-
ment in this playground, and we’re trying to give
people some closure,” said Emerson Vorel, director of
the Denton Parks and Recreation Department.
Over the years, the wooden structure has become
visibly dilapidated and increasingly expensive to
maintain. The beams that were once hammered in
place by thousands of volunteers have been leaching
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Nearly 100 people were
killed in an attack on a
Turkish peace rally.
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Denton parks and recreation staff members lower the Eureka sign during the play-
ground’s decommissioning ceremony on Saturday.
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