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Kristi Mondy and Coleman Strickland have filed for Place 3 and Place 1, respectively. on the Farmersville City Council. Mondy was appointed to fill Place 3 in June 2025 and Strickland was elected to Place 1 in May 2023. If there is a contested race, voters will...
Texas A&M and Collin College have partnered to launch a new program that will benefit students and future employers across the state. Starting in Fall 2024, the first group of students will participate in the inaugural Texas A&M Engineering Academy at Collin...
A new state law has significantly increased punishment for human traffickers. Senate Bill 4 was approved by the state Legislature during the third special session in October 2023 and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in December. The new law, which went into effect Feb. 6,...
A new year often brings new leadership and that is the case for the Farmersville Chamber of Commerce. In early February, the chamber elected its 2024 board of directors. And leading the charge as president is Roy Homfeld, co-founder and owner of Tracy’s Custom Homes,...
During last week’s city council meeting, City Manager Ben White explained the need to amend the current year’s city budget, primarily for capital improvements. At the Feb. 13 regular meeting, White described the budget amendment of $145,000 as “a little larger than...
Sports
Farmersville sophomore Amare Warren won the triple jump at the 13-4A/14-4A area meet with a leap of 47-feet, 7.5-inches. He qualified for the Region II-4A meet in the triple jump, long jump and boys' 4x100 relay. Photo by Evan Grice / The Paris News By David Wolman...
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,...
Farmersville volleyball will square off against some old and new opponents in the 2017 season. They kick things off with a pair of scrimmages at Melissa (Aug. 4) and Royse City (Aug. 5). Non-district competition gets underway 6 p.m. Aug. 8 with Celina. Followed by at...
Farmersville’s 2017 football slate was recently released. They will face the same teams as last season, in predistrict and district, but the locations will change. They start things off with a pair of scrimmages versus Lone Oak (6 p.m. Aug. 18) and at Lone Oak (7 p.m....
Farmersville baseball enjoyed all that comes with winning district, with multiple 10-3A honors. Leading the way were Most Valuable Player Lyle Hibbitts and Defensive MVP Chase Hacker. Named to the second team were infielders Riley Durbin and Levi Dale, outfielder Kale...
Education
Farmersville Independent School District trustees, citing a continuing influx of top-quality educators into the district based on the structure of its academic calendar, on Monday night approved keeping the school system on a four-day week for the 2022-23 academic...
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Life & Style
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...
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Opinion
Auto tune. Ever heard of it? Neither had any of the singers and songwriters we grew up with. Today, technology has taken the place of many things. Including real talent. Auto tune is a device that can take someone who sings off key and tune them to where it sounds as...
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