By Mark Saldañ[email protected] A discussion about vacant downtown buildings expanded into a broader debate over economic strategy, city policy and spending priorities during Monday night’s Farmersville City Council meeting. Several residents and property...
The extreme cold weather prediction for the Dallas/Fort Worth area has prompted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to issue a weather watch for Jan. 15-17. The weather watch, according to ERCOT, is a 3–5-day advance notification of “forecasted...
Students at Clark Middle School will get an extended holiday break because of construction delayed by a workplace accident. “This has been one hellacious mess but we’re getting it done,” said Asa Womack, Sr., one of the contractors. Regular Princeton ISD classes...
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...
