Diane Reid Ballard passed away on September 5, 2026, at the age of 79 in Tyler, Texas. She was born in Jacksonville, TX, to Floyd and Ruby Merle Reid. She was married first to Donald W. Cox for 16 years, then later married Larry G. Ballard on June 6, 1986. They...
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...
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...
