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“Unknown,” by Keith Spurgin was released earlier this year. It is available through major retailers and online platforms or visit keithspurgin.net. After years of working with leaders locally and around the world, Keith Spurgin kept hearing the same thing: people were...
City Council recognized Farmersville EDC for the 2025 Excellence in Economic Development Gold Award for fire suppression grants. Farmersville City Council members voiced concerns at the Monday, Oct. 20 regular meeting over purchasing 111 N. Johnson St. as a potential...
Farmersville Police Chief Marsha Phillips and her team walk College Street, stopping at homes and visiting with local residents. Courtesy photo Farmersville’s 12-member police force is answering the call for greater community interaction with the men and women who...
Amare Warren and the Farmersville football team will play at Van Alstyne on Thursday. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Due to weather concerns, Friday's scheduled football game between Farmersville and Van Alstyne has been...
The Scare on the Square event in Farmersville always includes a host of creative costumes by attendees. Cooler evenings and the scent of fall in the air can only mean one thing — it’s time for a month full of pumpkins, costumes and family-friendly frights. Communities...
Sports
Farmersville senior linebacker Cade Ellis, left, signed a National Letter of Intent with Midland University on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Teammate Rylan Mitchell watches as Ellis signs his letter. Photo courtesy Andrew Navajo By David Wolman [email protected] Four...
The Farmers will look to snap a two-game losing streak this Thursday. Farmersville hosts Sanger at 7 p.m. at Farmers Stadium. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Due to the threat of severe weather, Farmersville and Sanger...
Farmersville senior Kenah Brown passes the ball over the net during Tuesday's Class 4A Division II bi-district match against Pleasant Grove. The Lady Farmers put up quite the battle in the third set, but were unable to overcome a rough start in a 3-0 loss at Sulphur...
Farmersville defenders Amare Warren (0) and Ra'Jun Wilkes (17) break up a pass attempt for Van Alstyne wide receiver Tim Moore in the end zone Friday, Oct. 25 from Farmers Stadium. The Panthers defeated the Farmers 42-35 in overtime. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S...
Farmersville sophomore Amare Warren runs past a Caddo Mills defender for a big gain in a 29-23 road win over Caddo Mills on Friday night. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Farmersville avenged last year's playoff loss to...
Education
Farmersville ISD residents will have the chance to give input on the district’s proposed budget and tax rate for the upcoming year. A public meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at Farmersville High School, at 499 Highway 78 North, to present the...
The Collin County Fire Marshal is requesting assistance from residents to solve an arson case. According to a Monday, June 6, Farmersville ISD news release, a fire occurred at the Ag Barn located at Farmersville Junior High School in the early morning hours June 6....
Farmersville Independent School District Superintendent Micheal French has offered a stern vow in the wake of the Uvalde school massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers two weeks ago. “We aren’t going to wait 80 minutes,” French declared in describing a scene...
Historical Society hosts unique 2-day event for students Farmersville Intermediate School fourth grade students traveled back to the 1900s last week thanks to a unique program offered by the Farmersville Historical Society. Following a two-year hiatus due to the...
How do two young women – who have been best friends since kindergarten — and who finished first and second in their high school graduating class feel about competing against each other for the honor of being named valedictorian? If you ask Kate Rich and Sabrina...
Life & Style
Each March, the Wylie Community Band takes the stage at Meyerson Symphony Center to perform their own concert, continuing a local tradition alongside separate performances by Wylie ISD school bands at the same venue. Now in its ninth year, the Wylie Community Band...
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...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore has never attempted to rough it in the mountains like Jeremiah Johnson did, but John has taken a picture of the mountains from inside the comfort of a tour bus. Courtesy John Moore Robert Redford was a movie star. At a time when movie stars...
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...
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....
If there was one thing Ashdown, Arkansas had when I was growing up, it was plenty for kids to do. During the summer months, activities included baseball, day trips to swim at the lake, visiting kinfolk, and spending the night at a friend’s house. And of course, lawn...
Forty-five years ago, my mother began collecting a series of antique canning jars. I can’t remember why this happened, but my best guess is that she came across one that was unique, she liked it, and she bought it. This purchase would start a chain reaction and a...
