Excelsior House Hotel in Jefferson, Texas, Courtesy Excelsior Hotel Do you have a penchant for the peculiar and perhaps haunted happenings? If so, plan a special trip this fall and visit some spooky hotels in Texas towns to get you in the Halloween spirit. Let’s...
“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...
Visitors to the Military Heritage Collection of North Texas will come away pleasantly surprised and planning their next visit when they see the scope of artifacts displayed in four nondescript buildings, or if they take the opportunity to drive an armored vehicle. The...
A luncheon full of lounging took place Saturday, Feb. 23 as the Farmersville Historical Society’s annual style show and luncheon took place. During the style show, historic women’s loungewear from Henson-Kickernick, a Greenville based family-owned company was...
The date of April 2, 2009 is seared into Karen Schrah’s brain, as it would be for any parent who underwent what she did that day. That afternoon, her son, Zachary, a sophomore at Clark High School, was taking part in spring football practice at Plano East, where he...
