An individual who tested positive for measles recently visited several public locations in Plano while infectious, prompting a warning from Collin County Health Care Services. The individual was in the area on April 10 and April 11 and visited three shopping venues...
Organizations dedicated to service often begin by setting goals, typically ones that are attainable but not necessarily easy to achieve. Rotary clubs are no exception to this time-honored principle. The Farmersville Rotary Club, led this year by President Robin...
City Manager Ben White, left, along with his wife Carol White, Misty Wiebold and Bryon Wiebold, traveled to Holtzwihr, France, Farmersville’s sister city, for a special celebration last month. Courtesy Bryon Wiebold Ben White and Bryon Wiebold recently returned from...
Kyle Bellue, new executive dean at the Collin College Farmersville campus, speaks to Rotarians at the Tuesday, Jan. 21 luncheon. How does one transition from a 28-year career as a U.S. Air Force meteorologist to becoming a higher education administrator? Kyle Bellue...
If you thought you needed an invitation to join a Rotary club, you would be mistaken. All that is required to join the Farmersville Rotary Club, for example, is for the applicant to know a member of the club. The member then becomes your sponsor, and you then go...
Collin County Commissioners Court on Monday approved a list of county residents who have been nominated by various taxing entities to serve on the Collin Central Appraisal District board of directors. An election is slated to occur no later than Dec. 15, at which time...
Farmersville and other Collin County communities face an emergency services conundrum. How does the city continue to pay for emergency services as its population continues to spread into unincorporated areas around the city corporate limits? For more on this story see...
Veterans visit several memorials on Honor Flights to Washington, D.C. including the gravesite of World War II veteran Audie Murphy. Courtesy photo Judy Heaps respects the service performed by our military veterans. Her respect, indeed, has placed her on numerous Honor...
Collin County Sheriff Skinner discusses jail expansion at a recent Farmersville Rotary meeting. Collin County is in the middle of a fight to the death over drugs and Sheriff Jim Skinner said he is not going to depend on the federal government to assist in that fight....
