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. ...
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...
Farmersville City Manager Ben White has dropped a heaping plate of questions and issues for city council to consider as the community continues to chart a path toward a future dominated by exploding growth. The questions involve the proposed installation of a...
How do two young women – who have been best friends since kindergarten — and who finished first and second in their high school graduating class feel about competing against each other for the honor of being named valedictorian? If you ask Kate Rich and Sabrina...
Farmersville voters, apparently believing it is time for their city to take the next step toward municipal adulthood, said “yes” to a request on Saturday to create a home rule charter that City Hall will use to govern its affairs while also endorsing the re-election...
One day – and Texas transportation planners can’t yet say when that will occur – motorists traveling between Denton and Greenville will be able to avoid traffic lights, stop signs and other assorted hassles on U.S. Highway 380 by traveling along bypass routes around...
