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Hearing set for emergency district

Hearing set for emergency district

The Collin County Commissioners Court has scheduled a public hearing on a petition to create an emergency services district to provide fire and emergency medical service to the 60,000 county residents who don’t live in cities. Since October 2013, the county has paid...

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COVID-19 hospitalizations trigger capacity reduction

COVID-19 hospitalizations trigger capacity reduction

Trauma Service Area E (TSA E) reached seven consecutive days where the percentage of COVID-19 confirmed patients in regional hospitals, as a percentage of available hospital beds, exceeded 15%. According to Gov. Greg Abbott’s Executive Order GA-32, occupancy...

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Lights, more on tap for holidays

Lights, more on tap for holidays

After weeks of hard work, and a bit of grumbling from a Grinch or two, the much-an­ticipated holiday lights are of­ficially on every evening start­ing at dusk along Farmersville Parkway. Numerous volunteers, some councilmembers, along with Mayor Bryon Wiebold and his...

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Help needed for Sonja’s Angels

Help needed for Sonja’s Angels

 Tamera Jones-Davis doesn’t want certain people to be for­gotten at Christmas this year. Those people are folks who live in nursing homes, and Sonja’s Forgotten An­gels asks for the public’s help in making their Christmas brighter. People may go to...

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Shop safe, discourage porch pirates

Shop safe, discourage porch pirates

Farmersville PD offers package program again this year Online shopping has made holiday shopping easier than ever, and this year the increase in online revenue may be pro­nounced as people continue to avoid crowds to protect them­selves from COVID-19. Howev­er, on the...

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Detention officer dies from COVID-19

Detention officer dies from COVID-19

Collin County Detention Officer Joseph Quillen Jr. died in the early evening hours of Tuesday, Dec. 1 after contracting COVID-19. Quillen, who served six years in the Navy, worked as a detention officers for 19 years in Collin County, earning a Master Jailers...

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