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Food pantries like City on a Hill and Farmersville Outreach Alliance offer assistance to families in the 75442 zip code. Donations are also needed. File art Families in need of assistance this summer have several options available, beginning with Farmersville ISD’s...
Work is scheduled to begin next month on a $72 million expansion of McKinney National Airport that will allow commercial passenger service to begin next year. “We are cleared for takeoff,” Mayor George Fuller said after the McKinney City Council approved $61 million...
Gussie Nell Davis, a Farmersville native and founder of the Kilgore Rangerettes, will be honored with a historical marker in downtown Saturday. Courtesy photo Gussie Nell Davis, a trailblazer who revolutionized American halftime entertainment and became known as the...
Recreational facilities on the shore of Lavon Lake are being evaluated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has held public hearings on a draft plan to improve park quality while addressing long-term maintenance and funding...
Farmersville High School seniors, from left, Michael Vasquez (UDA Soccer UK Chester), Kenah Brown (Weatherford College), Alexi Atchison (West Texas A&M University), PJ Capetillo (Louisiana Tech), Isabella Deluco (King’s College), Morgan Cobb (University of the...
Sports
Farmersville senior Devin Swain Jr. (4) flies through the air to score two of his 31 points in a 67-60 victory for the Farmers over Wills Point on Friday. Photo by Victor Tapia / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] During a recent four-game losing...
The Lady Farmers defeated Quinlan Ford 10-2 to give the team its 10th victory in district play. With just a 1-0 lead for the majority of the game, Farmersville broke the game open with five runs in the top of the fifth and four more in the sixth to seal the win....
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...
Education
A hearing is scheduled Monday, Aug. 26, in Austin on a lawsuit temporarily blocking the Texas Education Agency (TEA) from releasing its A-F accountability ratings for public schools, a move that prolongs the ongoing legal battle over the state’s educational assessment...
Laying the foundation for a successful transition to college begins in high school. Destination College’s final presentation of the year will focus on the steps every high school student can take to prepare themselves for higher education. “From High School to...
Collin College will honor the Class of 2016 with a commencement ceremony at 7 p.m., Friday, May 13 at the Allen Event Center, 200 E. Stacy Road in Allen. Phil Dyer, former mayor of Plano and retired president of Legacy Texas Bank will deliver the commencement address....
Farmersville Junior High is celebrating a hard earned victory as their counselor Brandi Moore received a high achievement with the CREST award. The Counselors Reinforcing Excellence for Students in Texas or CREST award is sponsored by the Texas School Counselor...
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...
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Opinion
It’s not about one person, it never was. I don’t care who that person is or was, it has always been of the people, for the people and by the people. It is what our founding fathers had in mind when they penned the Constitution. They knew then what we keep forgetting —...
I am always disappointed when I see the fine old Confederate flag being used as a symbol of the Ku Klux Clan. Many thousands of fine men fought and died for the Stars and Bars. It also hurts to see a part of our history being destroyed because misinformed groups fail...
Ruminations From An Old Goat By Ed Stuart Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part column. When last we saw Truman approaching Maidie Belle's humble abode, his old pickup was slowly rolling to a stop because he had subconsciously eased up on the accelerator...
By Lee H. Hamilton Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University The presidential election is 16 months away, but already we’re smack in the middle of the usual media scrum of campaign coverage, prognostication, and strategizing by many of us who have...
