Farmersville ISD trustees Monday night unanimously approved a tax rate of $1.2131 per $100 valuation for the 2026-27 fiscal year, slightly lower than last year’s rate of $1.215. The new rate includes 71.36 cents for maintenance and operations and 49.95 cents for...
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...
Farmersville’s J.W. Spain Complex concession stand, after months of work and a bit of angst, is “almost done,” City Manager Ben White informed city council, which moved quickly through its brief public agenda at its April 26 meeting. “The concession stand is being...
Early voting kicked off this week and Farmersville voters will decide not only on the mayoral election, reelecting Mayor Bryon Wiebold, or newcomer Denise Kelly, but how the city will be governed in the future. On the city election ballot is a proposed home rule...
Farmersville Independent School District Superintendent Micheal French delivered what he called “bad news” to the board of trustees Monday night, but then pledged that they have a plan to keep faith with the voters of the district. The news is that the bids for work...
