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Commissioners of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1 have held their second meeting as they prepare to oversee fire protection for county residents who live in rural areas outside of city limits. Meeting Monday, March 30, at the county’s Jack Hatchell...
Farmersville’s Alicia West runs up the first-base line and attempts to beat the throw from a Sunnyvale infielder. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] In their final game of the season, the Farmersville softball team created a...
Farmersville catcher Carlo Vanegas throws to first base to complete a strikeout during the Farmers’ 3-2 win over Sunnyvale on Tuesday, April 15. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] After starting District 13-4A play with a 1-5...
Goals for the historic Welford School, Farmersville’s last segregated Black school, include fundraising, setting a timeline and launching a public awareness campaign. Eventually, it will house a museum and meeting space for community organizations. Karen Haynes has...
As severe weather season nears, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is reminding residents that they can purchase certain emergency preparation supplies without paying sales tax during the state’s annual tax holiday, scheduled for April 26-28. The sales tax exemption begins...
Sports
Farmersville senior Mathew Salvador will look to help lead the Farmers to success under the direction of first-year head coach Kingsley Akinwole. File photo By David Wolman [email protected] Changing a team’s culture isn’t easy, especially for a squad that has...
All was going well for the Farmersville baseball team until a late-game stumble. Farmersville (3-2, 9-13) fell to Caddo Mills in game one of their two-game series at home with a 2-1 loss. Leading 1-0 early on, pitcher Cooper Strawn was rolling through the first four...
In one final meet before the district championships, the Farmersville track and field teams took to the track at the Farmer Joe relays on March 31. With weather conditions limiting some of the events to take place, the Lady Farmers took home first place out of eight...
Driving down Highway 78 in Farmersville, you’ll see a blur of light most Tuesday nights moving at about 93 miles per hour. It was nearly imperceptible for the Sunnyvale Raiders, who traveled to Farmersville on March 15 hoping to open the District 13-4A competition...
Halfway through district play, the Lady Farmers are looking like the team to beat in District 13-4A. Farmersville (6-0, 13-6) picked up their sixth and seventh straight wins, starting with a 15-3 victory over Caddo Mills on Friday, March 25. The team sits in first...
Education
The James G. “Shug” Stanford Multi-Purpose Facility was completed in October 2023 thanks to the 2021 bond. The tasks awaiting Farmersville Independent School District Superintendent Micheal French seemingly never end, French told the Farmersville Rotary Club, but he...
Students jumped all day during their PE times today for donations to Jump Rope for Heart/American Heart Association. For more photos see the March 16 edition of The Farmersville Times or click here for the e-Edition.
For the fourth consecutive year, Farmersville Masonic Lodge # 214, represented by Michael Cross, left, and Rhett North presented its Fantastic Teeth program on Wednesday, Feb. 22 by passing out 120 packets to Tatum Elementary first graders. The packets contain items...
Tooth Fairy Paula Coleman from Farmersville Dental talks about dental hygiene with Tatum Elementary School students. For more photos see the Feb. 23 edition of The Farmersville Times or click here for the e-Edition.
Dalmatians flood the hallways of Tatum Elementary School in celebration of the 101st day of school. For additional photos see the Feb. 16 edition of The Farmersville Times or click here for the e-Edition.
Life & Style
Plastic waste is polluting ecosystems, affecting health In the bustling urban landscape of modern America lies a problem that’s as pervasive as it is pernicious: plastic waste. And despite the concerted efforts to recycle paper, cardboard and metals, plastic continues...
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...
Many new and old favorites will be on display during this year’s Old Time Saturday festival Oct. 3. First, the annual street dance, which was revived several years ago has been moved back to the downtown square. The band, Short Fuse, will be set up on a flat bed...
By Wyndi Veigel News Editor [email protected] The Farmersville Historical Society has been quite busy as of late, both with meetings and special events. The society met Sept. 14 at the Carlisle Civic...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore has some milk bottles to return, but the milkman no longer stops by his home. Courtesy John Moore Social media, for all of its faults, every now and then offers something worthwhile. I’m a member of a group on Facebook called, “Dull Men.” The only...
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas sheriffs won’t receive grant funds from his Criminal Justice Division unless they comply with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement notification and detention requests. In a Nov. 4 letter, Abbott wrote to sheriffs: “Beginning now, all...
This Veterans Day, as we honor and thank the brave men and women who served in the United States military, the State Bar of Texas is keenly aware that more must be done to serve our veterans. Texas continues to have one of the nation’s largest veteran populations....
By Bob Moos/Southwest regional public affairs officer for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare has just begun publishing star ratings for home health care agencies to help consumers tell the good providers from the bad. Medicare pays for health...
Dear Editor, The reason we elect city officials to office is to represent us. That has not been the case concerning this new Muslim cemetery that town officials seem to be pushing for on the outskirts of town. At every town meeting our town officials have been met...
