The city of Garland is continuing its award-winning tradition at state conferences. This year the Public & Media Relations Department and Visit Garland, the city’s Convention & Visitors Bureau, each earned several state awards. The two departments collaborated...
GFD announces 2020 award winners
The Garland Fire Department’s 2020 "Of the Year" award winners were recognized at a ceremony Aug. 4 at The Atrium at the Granville Arts Center. Congratulations to the following award recipients: Friend of the Fire Department: Gary Holcomb – City of Garland Purchasing...
Surprise announcement awards top district honors
Five Garland ISD employees received the surprise of a lifetime April 24. Superintendent Ricardo López announced the district’s Paraprofessionals and Teachers of the Year via Zoom. Chelsea Burch, Shannon Cunningham, Christi Davis, Brenda Martinez and Kiri Richardson...
GISD receives music education recognition
Garland ISD may be closed, but the district’s award-winning instruction continues. The district was recently received recognition as a 2020 Best Community for Music Education (BCME) by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation. This marks the...
Garland honored with recycling awards
The city of Garland was a triple honoree on Friday, Sept. 13, when the North Texas Corporate Recycling Association presented its gR3een Awards at the Dallas Arboretum. Go Green Garland was recognized for its Earth Day event with the association’s Innovative...
Garland earns communications awards
The city of Garland is recognized for excellence in communications, earning seven awards from the 2018 Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers Conference in early June. The video, The Hunt for the Orange Traffic Cones, earned a first-place TAMI...
Brandenburg Honors Band earns national award
The Classical Center at Brandenburg Middle School is receiving national attention for its music education. Last month, the campus’s Honors Band was named a winner in the 2017 Mark of Excellence/National Wind Band Honors project. More than 275 of the nation’s...
Students promote conservation
Getting creative to earn some cash, several Garland ISD students participated in the city of Garland’s 2015-16 Stormwater Management contest. This annual event invites third, fourth and fifth-graders to promote the conservation theme “I care about Garland’s creeks.”...
Five students named Terry Scholars
Five graduating seniors will attend college this fall with the help of a Texas-based nonprofit organization. Students from Garland, Lakeview Centennial and North Garland high schools were all named Terry Scholars, a title that gifts guidance, support and tuition funds...
Garland Fire Department earns Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award
The Garland Fire Department has achieved the 2015 Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Level Recognition Award from the American Heart Association. The award is based on care delivered in 2014, which highlighted Garland Fire Department’s EMS providers as the drivers of...
Fire captain receives esteemed certification
Garland Fire Captain David Gott recently earned Structural Collapse Level V certification as an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Specialist from the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) and the Texas A&M University System. This is no small...
City Wellness Program picks up awards
The city of Garland was recognized as an American Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksite for the sixth year in a row. The city received the highest honor, the Platinum Level Worksite award, during the AHA’s Fit-Friendly Symposium in February. The city of Garland Fire...