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The 2 Fishes Project is now accepting applications for families in need of Christmas gift assistance. Courtesy photo While many North Texans are planning Fourth of July cookouts and looking forward to fireworks, Danielle Girdano is already thinking about Christmas....
Farmersville ISD trustees approved a lower tax rate for the 2025-26 year at their Aug. 27 meeting while also opening extracurricular opportunities to homeschool students. The board set the total tax rate at $1.215 per $100 valuation, a decrease of 2.44 cents from the...
Farmersville EDC was announced as a winner of the 2025 Excellence in Economic Development Gold Award from the International Economic Development Council. Courtesy photo The Farmersville Economic Development Corporation has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence in...
The State Fair of Texas Midway beckons with all of its sights, smells, sounds and thrills. Courtesy Kevin Brown/State Fair of Texas® The State Fair of Texas will return to Dallas’ Fair Park this fall with 24 days of entertainment, agriculture, and community events,...
The 32nd Annual Wylie Champion Rodeo will be back next month with two nights of UPRA-sanctioned rodeo, food, vendor booths and more. The Wylie Championship Rodeo is back for its 32nd year with two nights of family fun on Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13. The...
Sports
Farmersville's Veronica Medrano hit a walk-off, RBI triple to lift the Lady Farmers to a 15-14 win over Sunnyvale last week. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] After scoring a total of five runs over its first four District...
In a one-game playoff, Farmersville put the ball in the hands of its senior Cooper Strawn. He delivered, pitching a no-hitter in Farmersville's 4-0 bi-district playoff win over Mabank Friday night in Royse City. 15 of the 21 outs were strikeouts, as Strawn walked just...
Farmersville baseball and softball both have important playoff games this weekend. The Farmers baseball team, fresh off an undefeated, district championship season, opens the bi-district round of the state playoffs. They face off against fourth-seeded Mabank, who...
Farmersville will see two track and field athletes heading to the state championship after competing in the Region II-4A finals. With the top two athletes in each event, plus the top third qualifier from across the four regions, all qualifying for state, the Lady...
Losing the first game Friday night while battling through poor conditions, the Farmersville softball team had to fight down 1-0 in the bi-district round. They showed their perseverance on Saturday, winning their final two games to take the series 2-1 over Kaufman and...
Education
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reports 94.35% of Texas kindergarteners were vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella as of the 2023-24 school year, with 93.31% of Collin County kids having received the vaccines. As of Monday, March 3, the...
Farmersville parents will have an added convenience for the 2018-’19 school year. The free and reduced lunch program application is now online. To apply online parents and guardians can go to www.farmersvilleisd.net, click on the departments tab, then the child...
Collin College trustees propose increasing the property tax rate by a fraction of a penny to help fund a proposed fiscal year 2018-‘19 budget of $285.7 million. The board of trustees will conduct the first of two meetings on the tax rate at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16...
With school starting Thursday, Aug. 16, driving safety is paramount especially where school zones and texting are concerned. “We will be working the school zones as school continues back,” Police Chief Mike Sullivan said. Though Farmersville Police Department is the...
With an increase of school shootings, safety is a paramount concern as the upcoming school year is beginning. Farmersville Independent School District takes safety seriously and unlike many other districts has their own police department under the direction of newly...
Life & Style
Discover the best St.. Patrick's Day celebrations in the U.S. Chicago dyes the Chicago River green each year for St. Patrick’s Day. As winter fades and March rolls in, cities across the United States prepare to turn green in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a...
More than 40 years of service as a deputy constable in Dallas and Collin counties prepared Gary Edwards for election last year to his first term as Collin County Constable, Precinct 2. Edwards had served as interim constable since early 2015 when he was appointed by...
Recently, the Farmersville Heritage Museum received a $2,000 donation from the Centennial, Inc., a nonprofit that helps support the library, the Civic Center and other community functions.
The Chamber of Commerce Board Members had a successful year in 2016. “We thank you, John Hickman for your hard work as Board President,” Chamber Executive Lisa Eastman said. “We also thank Clay Potter, Paula Jackson, Chris Nickell, Christi Houston and Jeff Adams for...
The annual Farmersville Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade of Lights was full of fun and quite a bit of frost as cold temperatures made the parade especially Christmas-like. “It was cold so we didn’t have a few entries show up,” Chamber Executive Administrator Lisa...
Opinion
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...
The Texas House Democratic Caucus on Feb. 21 announced its “Texas Kids First” education-funding package that would include all-day pre-kindergarten, teacher raises and retirement and property tax reform. “We hope to work with our colleagues to incorporate some of...
The oldest segments of the population are also the fastest growing segments of the American labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS reports that younger members of the workforce have a stable, lower level of participation but the numbers of...
Gov. Greg Abbott named as his emergency priorities education reform, teacher pay, school safety, property tax reform, mental health services and disaster response in his Feb. 5 «State of the State» address to a joint session of the Texas Legislature. The House and...
