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See more, spend less with these road-ready travel ideas By Carrie Dunlea Summer travel is shaping up to be more expensive than ever, and for many Americans, that means rethinking long-haul flights and overseas adventures. Rising airfare and overall travel costs have...
Farmersville sophomore Amare Warren won the triple jump at the 13-4A/14-4A area meet with a leap of 47-feet, 7.5-inches. He qualified for the Region II-4A meet in the triple jump, long jump and boys' 4x100 relay. Photo by Evan Grice / The Paris News By David Wolman...
Farmersville junior Natalie Taylor was recently named the District 11-4A utility player of the year. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media From Staff Reports The Farmersville boys' and girls' soccer teams were recently recognized for their play on the District 11-4A...
Farmersville senior pitcher Mason Erwin allowed one run on four hits with six strikeouts in last Friday's 2-1 home win over Community. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Fresh off allowing 11 runs to District 13-4A leader...
Farmersville sophomore Amare Warren broke the school record in the boys' triple jump at the District 13-4A track and field meet at Raider Stadium in Sunnyvale. Photo by David Wolman / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] This season has been one for...
Sports
Farmersville junior Peighton Purser motivates her teammates during a recent home match vs. Caddo Mills. Purser logged 21 kills and 16 digs in the Lady Farmers’ playoff loss to Pleasant Grove. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected]...
The Lady Farmers’ softball opened the regular season with three wins in a difficult Celina tournament as the team prepared for the long season ahead. Farmersville (3-2) began the regular season with a 5-2 victory over Valleyview on Feb. 12. Morgan Erwin...
The Farmersville baseball team got a taste of the playoffs last season and hopes to build towards even more in 2022. Finishing 2021, the Fightin’ Farmers went 8-4 in district play and reached the bi-district round of the playoffs. After a tough stretch in the...
The Farmersville Lady Farmers basketball team missed out on the playoffs with a 50-37 loss to Kaufman on Tuesday night. Farmersville (4-8, 9-18) lost their last five district play games, struggling with injuries and a limited roster. They fell behind 20-5 after the...
Farmersville High School is set to appeal the latest UIL realignment to move back into its original district. The UIL announced its latest alignments for football, volleyball and basketball last Thursday, Feb. 3. With the new districts, the football team was...
Education
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is funding a grant for Collin College to provide a variety of free services to adults seeking career advancement or to improve their basic skills. The TWC grant, $2.1 million for each of the next two years, will expand adult...
On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Farmers and Lions took “pride” in an “agricultural” community service project. Students from both Farmersville and Greenville High School Ag Departments teamed up with Farmersville Intermediate School (FIS) students to beautify the FIS Outdoor...
Thanks to the generosity of many volunteers, fifth grade students got a taste of what Farmersville was like in the 1900s as the annual history event surrounding the Bain-Honaker House took place for the 21st year. The program, which started in 1996, has been...
Farmersville High School recently implemented a students of the month selection. For the September students, see the Oct. 13 edition of The Farmersville Times or click here for the e-Edition.
A Farmersville icon was inducted into the FHS Ex-Students Association Hall of Fame over the weekend. Mary Jeanne Baker Cox was inducted posthumously Oct. 1. “If ever there was a citizen who embodied the spirit of this community, it is this year’s Hall of Fame...
Life & Style
Social activity helps seniors when it comes to exercise Overcoming the lack of motivation to exercise is a common challenge, affecting people of all ages, including seniors. Recent studies are a testament to that difficulty. In a 2021 survey from the global fitness...
Meditation is often trumped as a means to reducing stress and restoring healthy function in the body. While meditation might once have been considered a New Age treatment, in recent years it has developed into a mainstream practice supported by both traditional and...
Opinion
Most of us can cite a handful of times when we knew that we were witnessing history. Something unique. Something profound. A shift in the tectonic plates of society. So it was on January 20, 2025. There was a drawing for tickets to attend the presidential...
Dear Editor: Recently, discussion has begun on a Muslim Cemetery that is requesting to be built. I have heard arguments from both sides. To be quite frank, neither side has impressed me. I personally don't believe this is something I want in Farmersville. I don’t...
By Ed Sterling Gov. Greg Abbott on July 22 issued a statement regarding the arrest and death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old Illinois resident who had driven to Hempstead in response to a job offer from Prairie View A&M University. On July 10, Bland was pulled over...
By Bart Barber Pastor at First Baptist Church, Farmersville. These are turbulent days in Farmersville. Angry voices have rung out of some of our meetings. Our friends—our friends!—hunker down and avoid Facebook to keep their heads low during the next salvo. Dare I...
