Columnist John Moore spent most Saturday nights of his childhood watching the adults play cards and drink lots of coffee. Photo John Moore By John Moore | TheCountryWriter.com In 868 A.D., according to Chinese historical records, a princess was said to have...
It has been said that women can do anything that men can do and Farmersville Firefighter Angie Rios has embodied that spirit wholeheartedly. She has been named as 2016 Firefighter of the Year and is the first female in the department’s history to receive the award....
Farmersville boys basketball continued its early season success at home and on the road. They placed second in a tournament at Fruitvale and opened the week with a 49-39 non-district loss to visiting Paris Chisum. At Fruitvale, Scurry-Rosser came away with the 70-44...
The annual Farmersville Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade of Lights was full of fun and quite a bit of frost as cold temperatures made the parade especially Christmas-like. “It was cold so we didn’t have a few entries show up,” Chamber Executive Administrator Lisa...
Deborah Cooper, 61, co-owner and employee of Hinton Home, Inc., has been indicted by the Collin County Grand Jury involving elderly abuse. Cooper was indicted in November by the Grand Jury for injury to child/elderly/disabled individual serious bodily injury/mental,...
Farmersville police are investigating a chain of events that led to an armed vehicle robbery over the weekend. At about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, Farmersville PD Officer William Redding was dispatched to a robbery that just occurred, and subsequently it was...
Tatum Elementary School students enjoyed a field trip downtown where they hung ornaments, had cookies and hot cocoa and took photos by the town’s Christmas tree, courtesy of the Farmersville Main Street Program. For more photos see the Dec. 8 edition of The...
After a slight delay due to the football playoffs, Farmers basketball tipped off the season hosting a tournament. Farmersville finished third after beating Eustace 62-48 at the high school. In earlier action they defeated Fruitvale 69-25, Eustace 69-57 and Harvest...
