Reelected council members Coleman Strickland, Place 1, and Kristi Mondy, Place 3, were sworn in this week. Strickland is pictured with his wife, Paige, and their children, while Mondy is pictured with Mayor Craig Overstreet following the Monday, May 18, ceremony. ...
The Rev. Bart Barber is about to don a second hat while preaching to his congregation at First Baptist Church of Farmersville. That hat will identify the clergyman as the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant organization in the...
Audie Leon Murphy has been dead for more than 50 years, but his memory lives forever in the hearts of those who live in his adopted hometown of Farmersville, which this past weekend brought back its annual Audie Murphy Day celebration after a two-year hiatus caused by...
School is out for the summer, but Farmersville Independent School District is making sure the fun goes on while classrooms at its four campuses are closed for its annual break. Summer camps abound for students of all ages within the FISD and beyond, says the district...
The Farmersville Independent School District is ringing the breakfast and lunch bells for children who can get a free meal during the summer, said Candi Johnson, nutrition director at FISD. “We are going to serve meals at the Junior High School twice daily,” Johnson...
Farmersville Independent School District Superintendent Micheal French has offered a stern vow in the wake of the Uvalde school massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers two weeks ago. “We aren’t going to wait 80 minutes,” French declared in describing a scene...
Farmersville City Council denied a request for a zone change that would have led to a 231 single-family residential development that proponents said would signal a huge boost for the city’s downtown district. Instead, council members endorsed a recommendation at its...
North Texans who live in the unincorporated areas outside Farmersville and in some of the smaller towns in rural Collin County can expect the power to flicker on and off while the utility company that provides electricity continues work to bring the power grid up to a...
The Farmersville City Council, responding to what some of its members said are unreasonable increases in property valuation for some downtown businesses, on Saturday approved a resolution that is registering the council’s concern over those increases. Two...
