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Balloting is officially underway for the Best of 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a long-standing C&S Media Publications annual tradition that recognizes the businesses, services and dining destinations readers value most across eastern Collin County. Each year,...
With a couple of days left before the filing deadline, so far voters in Farmersville city limits have a contested mayoral race to decide on May 5. With the mayoral seat and Place 4 up for election, applications submitted as of Tuesday show the mayoral election will be...
This past weekend’s unexpected showers didn’t put a damper on the early Valentine’s Day celebrations in downtown Farmersville. The annual Chocolate Walk on Saturday, Feb. 10, invited the community to indulge in shopping, fudgy treats and contests. For more on this...
Collin County voters may have new locations to cast ballots in November’s elections. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. A requirement for large counties to add polling places was an unintended consequence of a new law passed last year by the Texas Legislature,...
Although voters rejected a $200 million bond proposal that would have allowed commercial airlines to serve McKinney National Airport, the facility continues to grow. More than 58% of McKinney voters rejected the plan in last May’s bond election. The proposal would...
Sports
Farmersville’s PJ Capetillo, left, and Sophia Ferretiz, right, have qualified for the THSWPA Class 4A small schools state powerlifting meet. Submitted photo By David Wolman [email protected] Farmersville will have two representatives at the Texas High School...
The life of a high school coaches son can be a tough one at times, filled with moving around from one school to another. Chase and Braxton Hacker did just that prior to the start of the 2013-’14 school year. Their father, Tracy Hacker, was hired as an assistant for...
One lasting image of Texas is a person on horseback, something one can still view throughout the state. However, in the 21st century, other forms of transportation are also being used by Texans to traverse the many pathways in the state, including those considered...
July is the month when America celebrates its founding, and one where folks break out the grills and attempt to demonstrate just what kind of backyard chefs they’re capable of being. This year, July is also National Parks and Recreation month, a time when folks and...
From Staff Reports [email protected] Farmersville's Kylee Davis played setter for the red squad in the Texas Girls Coaches Assocaition Class 1A-4A All-Star volleyball game on July 12 at the Delco Center in Austin. The red team fell 21-25, 26-24,...
Education
The Farmersville Independent School District Board of Trustees might soon be getting a report on plans to start spending the $65 million that FISD voters approved in a bond issue election in May 2021. The report might come at the board’s next regular meeting from...
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Life & Style
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...
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Opinion
We need more Archie Bunkers and Fred Sanfords today. One morning as I was watching TV, I tried to think of one television character we have today that has anywhere close to the same level of notoriety of any of the ones with which we grew up. I couldn’t think of one....
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