FHS students, from left, Gavin Dillon, Walker Liebert, Travis Lombard, Addison Adams, Liam McLaughlin and Mason Day, members of VEX Robotics Team 87490Z, “Men in Purple,” qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championship, set for April 21–24 in St. Louis, Missouri....
Baseball still remains America’s pastime, even in the midst of a pandemic. This rang true for four Princeton High School baseball players—Cade Hitt, Logan Turner, Matthew Delaney, and Reese Weaks. These four and their North Texas Pride baseball team, coached by...
Everybody needs a little help from their neighbor from time to time. Sometimes that help might require more than just a couple of neighbors. Terry Williams, a relative newcomer to the Farmersville community and newly elected council member, saw the need to offer some...
Sheriff Jim Skinner presented Life Saving Awards to Farmersville Police Officer Korey Redding, Collin County Deputy Travis Munk and Collin County resident Gye Kraemer July 22 for their heroic work in the rescue of five adults and one child in April. On April 29...
Farmersville ISD students will have four extra weeks of summer vacation. The Board of Trustees met Monday, July 27 – social distanced throughout the FHS cafeteria – to revise the 2020-21 calendar. Classes will start Tuesday, Sept. 8 for students, and teachers will...
COVID-19 turned aggressive to the point last week that the Department of Defense activated U.S. Army and U.S. Navy medical task force teams and assigned them to Texas at Gov. Greg Abbott’s request. Teams were deployed to support Houston and San Antonio hospitals and...
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) came out with a revised calendar and COVID-19 guidelines for the 2020-2021 school year on Tuesday. The new plan differs depending on the activity and conference. The changes are meant to follow the health situations across...
Texas families have through July 31 to enroll their newborns in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund® and pay this academic year’s rates for all or some future tuition and schoolwide required fees at Texas public colleges and universities, excluding medical and dental...
Council critiqued over boards A member of Farmersville’s Main Street Board of Directors sought to withdraw her resignation from the board, only to watch the city council get into a heated argument over a newly implemented selection process – and then cast a...
