More than 17% of registered Collin County voters turned out early for the March 3 primary elections, a higher percentage than early votes cast in the 2024 primaries when there were even fewer registered voters. There were 132,310 ballots cast during the 11 days...
Pay online, don’t stand in line. That’s the message from Collin County Tax Assessor-Collector Kenneth Maun, who reminds property owners that 2023 taxes are due Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. More than 450,000 tax notices mailed last October already included rate reductions...
It’s been a year since longtime Wylie resident, and former justice of the peace for nearly a decade, retired from public service. Jerry Shaffer, the namesake of the football stadium near Burnett Junior High School in Wylie, called it quits on his working life at 82...
North Texas’s freshman Republican congressman, Keith Self of McKinney, said he was voting enthusiastically in favor of the resolution calling for an inquiry into impeaching President Biden. Self, speaking on a telephone town hall Dec. 12, from his Washington, D.C.,...
Memories were shared and veterans were honored last week in a final end-of-year tribute that took place at the IOOF Cemetery in Farmersville and more than 4,700 cemeteries across the nation. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge 228 hosted its second...
The Dec. 11 filing deadline has passed for the March 5, 2024, Republican and Democratic primaries. The Secretary of State’s office publishes a list of candidates accepted by the parties, but the parties have five days to submit the list and it could be Dec. 19 before...
“Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve” is the FFA motto many have learned through their high school experience. Those words have never been truer as Farmersville FFA students performed for parents, administrators, school board members and...
Collin County’s chief law enforcement officer is seeking a third term behind the star. Sheriff Jim Skinner, first elected in November 2016, said he had filed as a Republican candidate in the March 5 primary. By Bob Wieland For more on this story see the December 7,...
Lone Star Search and Rescue Director Terry Benjamin often asks the question, “If not us, then who?” Search and rescue is learned by failing, he says, not being successful. By Jeremy Hallock For more on this story see the December 7, 2023 print, or digital edition of...
