Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order (GA-34) lifting the mask mandate in Texas and increasing capacity of all businesses and facilities in the state to 100%. “With the medical advancements of vaccines and antibody therapeutic drugs, Texas now has the tools...

Farmersville residents can make the holidays a little brighter for less fortunate children by adopting a Christmas Angel and filling their wish list. Eighty angels out of the 300 who signed up, remain available for adoption.  This year, the initial amount of...

The Farmersville Quilt Guild is starting a Barn Quilt Trail. To celebrate this new ini­tiative, the guild invited Suzi Parron, author and speaker, to the city for two community events for members. Parron will speak about Barn Quilts on Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at...

Shutt’er Down Ranch, a 33- acre animal refuge in Farm­ersville, wants to establish a mobile veterinary clinic, ac­cording to the ranch’s execu­tive director, Kevin Becker. The refuge has taken a major step toward realizing that goal thanks to a $21,000 donation from a...

Voters head to the polls Tuesday, March 3, to cast their ballots in the Republican and Democratic presidential pri­mary elections. Ballots for each party prima­ry also include races to deter­mine nominees for U.S. Sen­ate, U.S. Representative seats, statewide offices...

 There are still six more months until next school year, but planning for it is already in motion. At their Monday, Feb. 24 school board meeting, trustees approved the 2020-21 calendar. For the full story, see the Feb. 27 issue or subscribe online. Morgan Howard...

Mayor, two council seats unopposed  The May 2 election was of­ficially cancelled Tuesday night by Farmersville city council. The mayor’s seat as well as council seats for Place 2 and 4 were up for election this year. Only one applicant filed for each seat...