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Farmersville officials have selected Angela Smith as the city’s next city manager, filling the municipality’s top administrative position following action by the City Council during its Monday, June 15 meeting. Council approved Smith’s hiring following an executive...
With property values climbing and debt obligations in focus, Farmersville ISD will soon decide how much residents will pay in school taxes for the coming year. The district will host a public meeting at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Farmersville High School, 499 State Highway...
School zones can be hectic places with students hopping on and off buses or darting between cars to cross the street, and drivers may become distracted or impatient. So, crashes can -- and do -- happen. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, there were...
Texas Country Music Hall of Famer Clay Cooper took to the Wylie Opry stage Saturday, Aug. 2, along with his sons, Colt, left, and Caden. A Wylie native, Cooper started his career at the Opry at age 13. He now owns a venue in Branson, Missouri, where he performs...
Texas families could save $132 million this weekend in the annual back-to-school sales tax holiday, said acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock. The event runs Friday, Aug. 8, through midnight, Sunday, Aug. 10. “Back-to-school costs can add up fast,” Hancock said....
Sports
Farmersville’s Gael Mendoza attempts to kick the ball over the Sanger goalkeeper Saturday at Farmers Stadium. Photo by David Wolman / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] With Farmersville’s boys soccer team involved in a three-team battle with Celina...
Farmersville traveled to Sunnyvale last Wednesday and Thursday for the District 14-4A championship, earning several area qualifiers in the process. The top four in each varsity meet will head to Dallas next Thursday, April 20. For the teams, the Lady Farmers placed...
The Farmersville girls' track program has experienced a lot of success this season and hopes to send multiple girls to the state meet. This season, head coach Josh Howard said the turnout has been great for the Lady Farmers. They’ve won meets at every event they...
With first place and a potential district championship on the line, the Farmersville softball team came up clutch Thursday night. Hosting No. 2 Community, the Lady Farmers shut out the Lady Braves 6-0, regaining a tie in the district championship race. The win avenged...
Farmersville starting pitcher Jamie Varga is used to being doubted. Standing at just 4-foot-10, she’s heard it all on the softball diamond about her size, but she refuses to let it hold her back. After being cut from one of the 12U teams on Texas Glory, her club team,...
Education
Farmersville ISD will not hold an election on May 3 due to a lack of contested races. The four incumbents with expiring terms—Places 1, 2, 3, and 4—each filed for re-election and had no challengers. For more on this story see the February 27, 2025 print, or digital...
A group of kids recently had a chance to step back in time and experience life in Farmersville more than a century ago. For over 20 years the community has worked to produce Farmersville 1900, an annual event allowing fourth graders to spend two days immersed in their...
School board members voted on a set of goals for the new school year. At a meeting Monday, Sept. 24, the board approved S.M.A.R.T. goals. School district employees will work to achieve all objectives by the end of the 2018-19 school year. S.M.A.R.T. stands for...
Young civic supporters are now out in force selling tickets to help the library, civic center and senior citizens center as Old Time Saturday approaches. The Little Mr. and Miss Old Time Saturday competition has kicked off and this year the kids will be raffling a...
Bright colors, a variety of patterns and sounds of the season are on tap as marching band begins. Many parents, students and community members are excited as the band’s next journey begins. For the Fightin’ Farmers Marching Band, moving up to Class 4A in UIL...
Life & Style
Crafting is one of many hobbies you could consider. Hobbies allow individuals to explore their interests, meet new people and keep their brains sharp. But finding time to pursue hobbies— often after becoming empty nesters—can benefit individuals in many ways. And...
Put you business in front of customers who visit the most infamous restaurant in Wylie. Take advantage of advertising opportunities in the Ballard Street Café Menu. The Menu is published annually and is read on a daily basis by newcomers and faithful patrons to the...
Farmersville Historical Society members and their guests let their style swing at the annual luncheon and style show Saturday, Feb. 25. “Our proceeds were bigger than last year,” Farmersville Historical Society President Bertie Neu said. “We received a lot of good...
There are a couple new faces at the Collin County Fire Marshal’s Office and one of those is a species that happens to have fur, four paws and a nose worth noting. Recently joining the team is Deputy Fire Marshal Matt Jones and his K9 partner Sadie, an accelerant...
For local honey producers Kathleen and Blake Shook, participating in NBC’s Billion Dollar Buyer offered an opportunity to buzz about. The Shook’s, who own Desert Creek Honey located on CR 5010 in Blue Ridge, are well known in the beekeeping community. They are active...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore doesn’t recall ever seeing gloves in a glove box. Courtesy John Moore English is a language full of leftovers. It’s like the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Filled with things we just can’t seem to toss out. The difference of course is that at...
HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019, ‘facilitates fraud,’ say political experts, calling the proposed law ‘the on ramp for the road to socialism,’ says AMAC The passage of HR 1 in the House of Representatives on Friday “seems to be the on-ramp for the road to...
A few of the funding priorities expressed by the executive, legislative and judicial branches are not covered in Senate Bill 2, the state’s tentatively approved appropriations bill for fiscal years 2020 and 2021. So, on March 13, the Senate voted unanimously in favor...
This is Sunshine Week, an annual media campaign that highlights the need — and right — to know what our elected officials are doing and how our tax dollars are being spent. The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said it best: “Publicity is justly commended...
It’s your money. You deserve to know how it was spent — and whether you got what was promised. Yet the Texas Supreme Court’s 2015 Boeing decision has been contorted to try to block taxpayers from seeing the details of hundreds of government arrangements with private...
