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Residents are invited to lace up their shoes, grab their bikes and head outdoors as Farmersville prepares to host National Celebrate Trails Day on Saturday, April 25, at the Chaparral Trail. Activities will begin at 9 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the...
The Thrille of the Ville performs during halftime show at the season opener. The marching band’s current five-movement show is titled “The Hidden Kingdom” and explores the theme of insects and their day-to-day lives. Band and Color Guard members will hopefully debut...
Finance Director John Lawrence updated council on the latest city budget revisions at the Tuesday, Sept. 2 Farmersville City Council meeting. Lawrence described the challenges of balancing a budget for a growing municipality and reviewed considerations for cutting the...
GoldStar Horse and Rescue Sanctuary is hoping to raise $5,000 during North Texas Giving Day to continue caring for abused, neglected and abandoned horses in Farmersville. Courtesy photo North Texas Giving Day returns Sept. 18, offering residents in Farmersville and...
Farmersville High FFA officers seeking sponsorships are, top row, Addison Adams, Garrett Williams and Paxstyn Adams, middle row, Carson Dillard and Brady Johnson, bottom row, Presley McIver, Piper Long and Addison Horton. Courtesy photo Farmersville FFA officers are...
Sports
Farmersville senior Alexia Hernandez, left, goes to the court to battle for possession. Hernandez scored 18 points in a 48-41 win for the Lady Farmers on Saturday. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Throughout the majority of...
COMMERCE – The Farmersville powerlifting teams took turns making their trips to Commerce last week for the opening meets of the season. While the girls took 10th last Thursday in the Tigers Raising the Bar Meet, the boys came out hot, finishing second on Saturday. For...
The Lady Farmers strong start to the new year continued last week. After picking up a pair of road wins in the opening week of January, they split their two games last week, defeating the Forney Jackrabbits 38-31 in a non-district match. The girls led for most of the...
Last week’s basketball action for the Farmers featured a pair of losses, as the guys remain winless in district play. After a lopsided loss to Quinlan Ford early in the week, Farmersville found themselves in an epic showdown with and the Caddo Mills Foxes on...
After starting the soccer season with a pair of December losses, the Farmersville Lady Farmers opened the new year on a much better note with two wins last week. Despite having multiple players out with the flu, the girls took down Quinlan Ford on Tuesday, Jan. 2,...
Education
Class of 2025 salutatorian Brycen Williams, left, and valedictorian Cooper Chambers will address their fellow classmates at the Farmersville High School graduation ceremony Tuesday, May 20. An academic year filled with challenges— and a shared commitment to “passing...
The Farmersville ISD board had a short meeting Monday evening - 11 minutes - with just a few items in a light agenda. No one spoke during open forum, and trustees approved the consent agenda before moving on to the business session, which had just three items. The...
Farmersville Independent School District trustees on Monday received a show of support along with an endorsement of the condition of the school system. It came from a group of about 25 parents and teachers who attended a brief FISD Board of Trustees meeting in the...
Select Farmersville High School band students participated in the UIL Region 25 Solo and Ensemble contests February 27 at Anna High School. The band, under the direction of Scott Cross, had 24 students perform a solo in the competition and 20 scored a first...
Texas children are living through a reality that many parents and school administrators never thought possible-learning the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, and more through videoconferencing. Today, the Texas Retired Teachers Foundation launches a new online...
Life & Style
Rangerettes, past and present, along with member of the Greenville High School Flaming Flashes, attended the May dedication ceremony honoring Gussie Nell Davis with a historical marker on the square in Farmersville. Courtesy photo On a warm spring afternoon in May,...
October is full of celebrations and commemorations including breast cancer awareness and fire prevention. The month is also a time for an educator’s celebration as it is National Principals Month. The Farmersville Times took the opportunity to sit down with a few...
When Lucas resident Diane Leigh went missing last May, the Collin County Sheriff’s Department and Lucas Fire Department conducted a search for hours with no luck. The 71-year-old woman was last seen helping her husband with yardwork, and when he went inside, she...
Here’s a sampling of new foods offered at the SFOT this year: CORN DOG ALE: Corn dog ale is an amber ale brewed with a blend of Pale 2-Row barleys, caramel malt, and smoked malt. They add a proprietary blend of eight herbs and spices to the brew kettle. The...
When Hurricane Florence made landfall last month, it gave local animal lovers the opportunity to help. Residents Marshall Furr and John NeeSmith are no stranger to orchestrating animal rescues in difficult situations. For Furr, the hurricane signified his second time...
Opinion
When you grow up in a Southern church, you learn how things are done. And how they’re not done. Some kids learn early. Some kids never get it. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church was a small, white frame structure. Like many churches of mid-20th Century America, it was...
My mother must’ve kept everything my sister and I ever made for Christmas. Some things were put together in school, but most were done in Sunday School. Same is true for anything we ever made, regardless of the time of year. Decades later at a Christmas gathering, if...
It was Flag Day 1987. I was opening the mic for the first time as a new announcer on KTBB AM 600. It was the early part of my radio journey, and I was excited to be moving up in the industry. KTBB was the second radio station to be licensed in Tyler, Texas. A station...
WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 18 -- “In terms of absolute strength – that is, without regard for body size, weight or composition – the average man tends to be considerably stronger than the average woman. Specifically, the absolute total-body strength of women has...
“Oh, waiter. There’s a bean in my chili.” So goes the encounter every Southerner dreads when he orders a bowl of red and is served chili with beans. There are certain missteps in the South that are unforgivable. Asking a girl out without clearing it first with her...
