Casa Loma, Toronto, Canada, Courtesy Hector Vasquez People love to explore the uncanny and unexplained as Halloween draws near. One way to do so is by visiting some of the purportedly haunted places around the world that also happen to be spectacularly beautiful. Not...
Marylin Parsley is described by her daughter as a glittery person who wears a crown and sparkly jewelry every day and loves having her fingernails painted purple. On Mother’s Day, Lori Aden and her sister Sheila Parsley will visit their 77-year-old mom and bring her...
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the 1862 defeat of the French by the Mexican army at the Battle of Puebla. That battle occurred during the Franco-Mexican War, which was an invasion of Mexico launched by the French in 1861. The French invaded Mexico as a result of newly...
Library appreciation month may have been in April, bibliophiles throughout the Farmersville community show love for its local library every day of the week. Rike Public Library, located at 203 Orange Avenue, has changed in myriad ways over the years. In 2012, the...
“It’s just a drill.” “They don’t do drills for stuff like this, idiot.” For students at Farmersville High School, a lockdown drill is familiar territory as students participate in two lockdowns per semester. FHS Senior Savannah Phifer is directing her senior showcase...
A new Main Street Manager has been hired by the city of Farmersville. Dana Mingo officially took the helm of the Farmersville Main Street Program Monday, April 8. “Dana is a very talented individual with a wealth of varied experience and energy that I think will...
Bluebonnet season in Texas is in full swing and a bumper crop of the state flower can be found on Collin County roadways. “While there is no law against picking the state flower, laws do exist against damaging or destroying rights-of-way and government property,” DPS...
A Collin County family recently made quite the discovery, of a prehistoric nature, near Lake Lavon. Matthew Payne, of Wylie, along with his wife Tana Trent and her daughter Landry, 11, uncovered an 80-million year old mosasaur skeleton. Though the animal’s name may...
Sunshine Week, March 10-16 this year, is a time that news gatherers take annually to focus on successes and assaults on the laws governing the right to know what public officials are doing, and how they are spending tax money. The weeklong observance sharpens the...
