A man walks past the former Melissa Pierce School in Joppa on Thursday, July 8, 2021. Members of the Joppa community have been forced to fight too long and too hard for cleaner environmental ...

Not just Joppa. According to the study, Joppa ranks in the top 11% of bad air quality nationwide. The community has around 500 homes and a population of about 2,000.

Joppa residents want either Council Member Adam Bazaldua, who represents District 7, or city commissioners to call a hearing so they can voice their concerns over the permit. The asphalt plant's ...

JOPPA, Texas — In October 2023, monitors placed around the Dallas community of Joppa for a study showed that the area had more air pollution than most Dallas County. Since then, environmental ...

It’s exciting that Joppa, a neighborhood that has been historically neglected, will get a place that everyone in the community can use. Advertisement The new community center will be housed in a ...

Galimore is now the Joppa Neighborhood Association president and the CEO and founder of the Melissa Pierce Project, the nonprofit behind transforming the Melissa Pierce School into a community center.