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The Farmersville Heritage Museum is participating in the Collin County Museum Patch Quest in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Courtesy photo Museums throughout Collin County are offering a unique way to celebrate America 250. The Collin County Museum Patch Quest...
Collin County residents who don’t live in cities will be asked whether the county should create an emergency services district (ESD) to provide fire protection, financed by taxes on their property. Following a Monday, July 28 hearing in McKinney, Collin County...
Farmersville alumna Bella Holland set the school record for most digs in a season with 507 and was named the District 13-4A utility player of the year in volleyball and the co-offensive player of the year in softball. Photo by David Wolman / C&S Media By David...
The 15th Texas Court of Appeals (COA) has thrown out injunctions that had blocked the Texas Education Agency from releasing school accountability ratings for the 2023-24 school year. The TEA is expected to release the ratings Aug. 15. “It is time for local courts to...
A groundbreaking ceremony, Friday, July 18 marks the start of work on the expansion of McKinney National Airport, known as TKI. The City of McKinney has broken ground on a $72 million expansion of McKinney National Airport that will allow commercial passenger service...
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...
With the Lady Farmers basketball team finishing the district season at 5-7, they'll play one game to make the playoffs. Farmersville will face off this Friday, Feb. 10, against Community at 6:15 p.m., with the game taking place at Greenville High School. The Lady...
Just one season removed from a winless soccer season, the Lady Farmers have made tremendous progress heading into district play. First-year head coach Arian May was excited for the season when she took the head coaching reigns but said the key has been the team’s...
The Farmersville High School basketball games originally scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 1, have been rescheduled because of the winter storm. Instead, the varsity boys and girls basketball teams will play against Caddo Mills this Saturday, Feb. 4 at Farmersville High...
The Farmersville softball program has been one of the best in the area over the last few years and is excited for another new season with plenty of returning talent. Coming off their third straight district championship, the Lady Farmers aren’t focused on goals for...
Education
Farmersville ISD administrators presented district and campus improvement plans at the Monday, Jan. 27, school board meeting, focusing on academics and attendance rates. Tatum Elementary Principal Cristi Uland reported the campus has grown to more than 600 students....
Have you ever wondered what teachers do during the summer? Many people focus on how students spend their break, forgetting perhaps the most important figures in the school district – teachers. Teachers, though, are just as affected when school is no longer in session....
Farmersville ISD employees will soon see an increase in their paychecks. At a meeting Monday, June 25, the school board voted unanimously to give a three percent salary increase to all FISD employees. This will go into effect during the 2018-’19 school year. According...
Kids of all ages have been enjoying Summer Reading Club at the library and VBS at area churches. For photos see the June 21 edition or subscribe online.
The Farmersville High School Class of 2018 graduation section was included in the May 31, 2018 edition of The Farmersville Times. If you would like extra copies they are available at the Wylie office located at 110 N. Ballard in downtown Wylie. Office hours are 8:30...
Life & Style
As New Year’s Day 2024 approached, millions of individuals were preparing to make changes they hoped would improve their fitness. In a Forbes Health/One Poll survey of 1,000 adults in the months leading up to the start of 2024, nearly half (48 percent) of respondents...
FHS graduate Ian Campbell who recently completed Marine Corps bootcamp returned home to celebrate his first Veterans’ Day as military personnel along with his mom and fellow Marine Corps. veteran Heather Campbell. For more FISD Veterans’ Day celebration photos see the...
Also inside this week's edition Never forgotten: VFW commander shares memories Farmersville VFW Post 7426 has one main mission in life: to make sure veterans and active duty personnel aren’t forgotten. This charge is currently being led by new Post Commander Brian...
Big Tex isn’t the only crowd favorite at the 2016 State Fair of Texas. On Tuesday, Oct 4, a new man on the fairgrounds stole the show. Jarren McTee, from Farmersville competed in the Youth Market Barrow Show and took home not only an eighth place ribbon, but the...
Mountains, weather and injuries failed to deter endurance bicyclist Danielle Girdano of Nevada from completing a 2,400-mile ride from Chicago, Ill., to Santa Monica, Calif.; she cut the world record for the route almost in half. Girdano made the ride, which follows...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore keeps an old rotary phone around. Just in case. Photo by John Moore There are many once-common aspects of the telephone that are now gone. Keep in mind that those born in the 1990s likely have never heard a dial tone, dialed a phone, or talked to...
Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.7 percent in November, remaining at the same 42-year low rate as in October, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Dec. 21. The Texas economy added 14,000 seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs in November and annual...
The vast majority of seniors have at least one chronic condition, and more than two thirds have two or more chronic conditions -- so choosing the right coverage is important. Fortunately, premium prices are expected to remain stable. But out-of-pocket pharmacy costs...
Does your family have a tradition of giving an early Christmas present? Maybe it’s on Christmas Eve in anticipation of Santa’s coming? Our family does have an early gift tradition, but this year I received one even earlier than I could have imagined. It was delivered...
Dear Rusty: Sometimes words used have different meaning to others, like your recent article on the Social Security “Trust Fund.” In a true trust fund, monies are only used for a specific purpose. Our so-called Social Security Trust Fund doesn’t work like that....
