See more, spend less with these road-ready travel ideas By Carrie Dunlea Summer travel is shaping up to be more expensive than ever, and for many Americans, that means rethinking long-haul flights and overseas adventures. Rising airfare and overall travel costs have...
The city of Farmersville has started its budget work and a tax rate decrease is in the works. Preliminarily, the city is discussing dropping the tax rate from 78 cents per $100 valuation to 75 cents per $100 valuation, a 3-cent decrease. Within this tax rate, 34 cents...
Farmersville Outreach Alliance Food Pantry is on the move during the month of August and will be temporarily relocated to the First United Methodist Church. Currently at the IOOF Lodge, the pantry has to be relocated due to the lodge becoming more active in the...
With an increase of school shootings, safety is a paramount concern as the upcoming school year is beginning. Farmersville Independent School District takes safety seriously and unlike many other districts has their own police department under the direction of newly...
Farmersville proved itself to be one of the top teams in Class 3A volleyball over the previous four seasons. They’ll look to do the same at the 4A level in the upcoming campaign. Like every other year, head coach Harold Davis has put together a tough non-district...
Farmersville Police Department and Farmersville Fire Department officers are excited to get to meet their neighbors and National Night Out offers a perfect time to do so. This year National Night Out is being held in downtown Farmersville from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m....
A special interim committee of state lawmakers met July 24 at the Texas Capitol to further explore what can be done to prevent mass shootings like the one that resulted in 10 deaths and 10 injuries in May at Santa Fe High School. Testimony before a hearing of the...
Psychological prevention and treatment for students is the best way to head off school violence, mental health professionals told a panel of state lawmakers on July 18. This was the third in a series of interim hearings for the Senate Select Committee on Violence in...
A severe accident was reported in the westbound lane of Hwy. 330 and the intersection of CR 559 with a tour bus rear-ending an overturned fuel tanker. 70 casualties are initially reported. Heavy fog in the area makes it impossible for drivers to see the crash and...
