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The Farmersville City Council has approved budgets for the city’s economic (4A) and community (4B) development commissions for the upcoming fiscal year that began on Oct. 1. Councilmembers voted unanimously on the budgets at their Sept. 27 regular meeting. The 4A...
Farmersville City Hall has set what amounts to a “drop dead” date on when it needs to hire someone to manage its accredited Main Street program. That date is Jan. 1, 2023. If the city doesn’t have someone hired and on the job by then, according to Mayor Bryon Wiebold,...
Farmersville Independent School District’s Board of Trustees, meeting Monday night in the high school cafeteria, spent next to no time disposing of a sparse agenda. The lengthiest discussion item on the agenda occurred at its beginning, during the constituent comment...
Farmersville does not have any hotels or motels doing business within its city limits, but it does have plenty of places that function as locations where people stay “for a day or so,” according to City Manager Ben White. Therefore, it became important for the city to...
With little fanfare or discussion, the Farmersville City Council has approved a budget for the next fiscal year that keeps the municipal tax rate the same as it was a year ago. The council voted unanimously on Sept. 13 to approve an ordinance setting the budget...
The Farmersville Independent School District Police Department had decided some time ago that it needed extra sets of eyes it could put on all the campuses within the school system, according to Police Chief Steve Wade. Then came the tragedy at Robb Elementary School...
Farmersville Police Lt. Marsha Phillips is about to take on two new titles, one of which she is acutely aware, the other of which she admits to bringing her just a touch of discomfort. Phillips will become chief of the Farmersville Police Department on Oct. 1. She...
Farmersville is slated to become home to a new light- and heavy-industrial project on the east side of the city, but the project has yet to take form, City Manager Ben White said in a presentation to city council. The city is working closely with the city’s Tax...
