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The Grascals, a Nashville-based bluegrass band, will headline Bluegrass on Ballard this year. Courtesy photo Downtown Wylie will once again fill with music, chrome and festival activity when Bluegrass on Ballard returns Saturday, May 30, for a full day of free...
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...
Sarah Hustwit of McKinney feeds a sample ballot into a DS 200 tabulating machine in a practice run for the Nov. 4 general election. The Tuesday, Nov. 4, general election ballot includes 17 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution and a countywide proposal to...
Texas voters will decide on 17 proposed constitutional amendments in the Nov. 4 general election. The Texas Constitution, written in 1876, has been amended more than 500 times. Amendments are frequent because the state’s charter restricts lawmakers from making many...
Collin County residents who don’t live in cities will decide Nov. 4 whether their property should be taxed to pay for an emergency services district (ESD). The Collin County Commissioners Court agreed in July to place a petition request on the general election ballot....
Sports
Farmersville senior Devin Swain Jr. goes up for a basket during a recent home game against Wills Point. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By Mark Saldana [email protected] NEVADA – The Farmers opened Friday night with strong energy but were unable to recover...
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
An evening of celebration for the Farmersville High School Class of 2025 was shared with family, friends and Farmersville ISD administrative staff last week. The commencement ceremony for the 174 graduating students was held Tuesday, May 20, at the Credit Union of...
After seeing an increase in students failing classes, Farmersville ISD said they are working toward helping accommodate students who are remote learning. “As is the case with districts across the state, Farmersville ISD has experienced a disparity...
The Farmersville Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a budget amendment Monday night that wipes out a projected fiscal deficit of $95,128 and results in a budget surplus of more than $500,000 in the current fiscal year. The amendment is the result...
Farmersville High School will host their own Pep Rally/Bonfire to celebrate the students, alumni and the community this year. The event will be held behind the FHS tennis courts Wednesday, Oct. 7. At the Bonfire/Pep rally, the High School will celebrate their fall...
The Farmersville Independent School District Board of Trustees, blazing through a meeting Monday night in 20 minutes, voted unanimously to submit a report to the Texas Education Agency outlining the district’s asynchronous learning plan, which is another way of...
Life & Style
Eastern screech owls are a frequent visitor to NTXWC with 45 admitted since Jan. 1, 2025. Courtesy Give Photography/North Texas Wildlife Center A rotating cast of injured or orphaned wildlife — from baby opossums and raccoons to skunks, armadillos, rabbits, squirrels,...
Farmersville Main Street Manager Reagan Rothenberger is no stranger to hurricanes. As a native of Beaumont he has been through three: Hurricanes Harvey, Ike and Rita. Looking back on the one year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, Rothenberger has had an up close...
In one week 32 amateur boxers will step into the ring for the first time before an estimated crowd of five thousand people at Allen Event Center. Friendly foes, DFW area firefighters and police officers, will face off against each other in the 17th annual Guns and...
A red English style telephone booth glinting in the sunlight has been attracting quite a bit of attention throughout the city. Located on the corner of Gaddy and Hwy. 78, the booth is not just a relic of a time gone by but rather a way to offer protection for a school...
Automobile enthusiasts will be able to have their fill of fancy cars as two car shows roll into town next weekend. The 50th anniversary of Bug Tussle Trek will be Saturday, Aug. 25 from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in downtown Farmersville. The event, hosted by Farmersville...
Opinion
If you wonder how open government laws affect you, think about these basics: The local taxes we pay. The roads we drive on. Even, sometimes, matters of life and death. Access to information through public meetings and records helps us know about the decisions elected...
I used to pay little attention to the world’s little idiosyncrasies, but now they seem ever present. And it’s more than slightly annoying. I can’t be the only one. When I was getting change back from the fast-food drive-thru recently, it all became clear. The world is...
Some days are just lucky ones. Such was the day I found a half-century old console stereo at an estate sale. It isn’t exactly like the one my parents had, but it’s sure close. Today, people stick in an earbud and listen to an endless supply of music on their phone via...
I am not sure what I expected our country to look like in 2021, but I certainly did not expect it to be so fractured and so bogged down in hate. My oldest son was a year old on September 11, 2001. The wave of patriotism following that day gave me hope for the America...
They say that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes. While those two certainties are undeniable, we need to make sure that family-owned businesses, including farms and ranches, aren’t taxed to death. Texas boasts more than 248,000 farming and ranching...
