Courtesy Avelo Airlines, Boeing NG 737-800 Even as construction continues on McKinney National Airport’s new passenger terminal, Avelo Airlines has announced it will begin service on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Known since its start in the 1970s as general aviation airport...
Kyle Bellue, new executive dean at the Collin College Farmersville campus, speaks to Rotarians at the Tuesday, Jan. 21 luncheon. How does one transition from a 28-year career as a U.S. Air Force meteorologist to becoming a higher education administrator? Kyle Bellue...
If you thought you needed an invitation to join a Rotary club, you would be mistaken. All that is required to join the Farmersville Rotary Club, for example, is for the applicant to know a member of the club. The member then becomes your sponsor, and you then go...
Collin County Commissioners Court on Monday approved a list of county residents who have been nominated by various taxing entities to serve on the Collin Central Appraisal District board of directors. An election is slated to occur no later than Dec. 15, at which time...
Farmersville and other Collin County communities face an emergency services conundrum. How does the city continue to pay for emergency services as its population continues to spread into unincorporated areas around the city corporate limits? For more on this story see...
Veterans visit several memorials on Honor Flights to Washington, D.C. including the gravesite of World War II veteran Audie Murphy. Courtesy photo Judy Heaps respects the service performed by our military veterans. Her respect, indeed, has placed her on numerous Honor...
Collin County Sheriff Skinner discusses jail expansion at a recent Farmersville Rotary meeting. Collin County is in the middle of a fight to the death over drugs and Sheriff Jim Skinner said he is not going to depend on the federal government to assist in that fight....
Farmersville Mayor Craig Overstreet, acknowledging his plate as mayor is overflowing, is asking for a “little bit of grace” as he settles into the job to which he was elected this past May. “I have only been at this job for about 100 days,” Overstreet said in asking...
The James G. “Shug” Stanford Multi-Purpose Facility was completed in October 2023 thanks to the 2021 bond. The tasks awaiting Farmersville Independent School District Superintendent Micheal French seemingly never end, French told the Farmersville Rotary Club, but he...
