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As Collin County continues to experience rapid growth, planning efforts are moving forward on a major transportation project intended to improve future mobility across the region. Collin County is advancing work on Segment 5 of the planned Collin County Outer Loop, a...
Members of Farmersville VFW Post 7426 raise the American flag during the annual Thompson Cemetery Memorial Service in Lavon Saturday, May 25. The post has participated in the event for 19 consecutive years, honoring fallen service members alongside local veterans and...
The Texas House and Senate have agreed to cut the amount of taxes paid by homeowners who live in their primary residence and declare it to be their homestead. Increases in the homestead exemption will be retroactive to this tax year if voters approve the changes...
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...
Farmersville senior first baseman/pitcher Mason Erwin was recently named to the District 13-4A first team. Photo by Oladipo Awowale / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Seven players from the Farmersville baseball team earned selections to the...
Sports
Farmersville’s Daniel Mendoza attempts to kick the ball around two Gainesville defenders last Saturday. Photo by David Wolman / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] When the Farmersville boys soccer team made the playoffs last season for the first...
Jamie Varga and Carleigh Deeds are trying to spread the game of softball to the Farmersville community. Along with being all-district players on the varsity team, they’ve now opened a fastpitch defense clinic, helping players hone their skills and become better...
Football can be a game won and lost in the trenches. Luckily for the Farmersville football team, they boast plenty of experience heading into the 2022 season. The Fightin’ Farmers had a tough go last season, starting four underclassmen on their offensive line. With a...
As Farmersville head football coach Zac Quinlan takes over the program, he’s beginning to fill out his coaching staff. The coach named Stephen Blassingame his defensive coordinator and Josh Howard his offensive coordinator – the position previously held by Quinlan....
Former Farmersville standout Callie Yellin stepped into the batter’s box in the bottom of the seventh inning as a pinch hitter. Competing for Rogers State University, Yellin found a pitch to hit in the 5-5 game and drove it over the right-centerfield fence to win game...
Education
Farmersville High School principal Dave Warren and student council leaders, Leslie Landaverde and Ethan Stone, are joined by members of the Gallagher Construction team as they cut the ceremonial ribbon in front of the high school Saturday, Oct. 19. The extensive...
Technology has been at the forefront of many educators’ minds within Farmersville ISD but recent advances have now been showcased on an international front. FISD Instructional Technology Facilitator and Gifted Program Coordinator Fran Mahaffey recently shared...
Boy Scout Brayden Bolch recently received the honor from the city of Farmersville as having a day dedicated to him for his service to the community. For the photo in print see the April 27 edition of The Farmersville Times or click here for the e-Edition.
Fourth and fifth grade students took a journey into the past Thursday, April 6 and Friday, April 7 with the Farmersville Historical Society’s Farmersville 1900s program. Though typically completed in October, society members took the opportunity to “catch up” some...
Farmersville ISD employees can look forward to a raise in pay for the next school year. Unanimously approved at the Monday, March 27 Farmersville ISD school board meeting, educators will receive a 3.5 percent raise within their step pay scale. The board approved for...
Life & Style
Two conservative Republicans are in a Tuesday, May 28, runoff for State Board of Education (SBOE) seat in North Central Texas. SBOE District 12 encompasses all of Bowie, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Grayson, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar and Red River counties; along with...
Glistening, orange jewels sit beside the highway, attracting drivers’ attention from near and far. Buyers stop, purchase and even chat with local farm owners Richard and Patsy Goodwin. The Goodwins, along with their son and daughter-in-law Jerry and Karen Mantooth,...
Farmersville City Manager Ben White climbs the ladder truck with the assistance of Farmersville FD Captain Barry Pollard.
Spooktacular events are right around the corner in Farmersville as the annual Trick It Up Bike Ride and Scare Around the Shed usher in the creepiest of seasons. The Farmersville Chamber of Commerce has two spookily delicious events with the Trick It Up Bike Ride and...
A showdown of epic proportions took place between the Farmersville Fire Department and the Farmersville Police Department. The battle featured not police cars and fire trucks, but rather, lawn mowers at the annual Lone Star Garden Tractor Pulling Association Tractor...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore loves pencils. Even pencils that cost $30. Courtesy John Moore They call it, “click bait.” It’s when you come across something online that sounds amazing, so you click on it to learn more. Click bait is something that turns out to be nothing as...
By Peter Hong Peter Hong is a contributing reporter at Americans for Limited Government. President Trump and the Republican majority in Congress have pledged to do something that hasn’t been done in over thirty years: comprehensively reform our badly broken tax code. ...
By Rick Wood Pastor, Pursuit Christian Fellowship This is a common question that roams the minds of many people…wondering if God could possibly use them. We live in a world that is fueled by self-worth; society teaches us to live for ourselves and to value our...
By Ed Sterling Member services director for the Texas Press Association. AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott as of June 4 had not signed Senate Bill 1, the 2018-2019 state budget finally approved by both houses of the 85th Texas Legislature on May 27. SB 1 appropriates...
By Ray Miranda As I sit at Starbucks, I’m remembering a TV show I love called Chuck (2007-2012, NBC). If you haven’t seen it, it’s a show about a young “computer geek” that downloads government secrets to his brain and two govenment agents are assinged to protect and...
