Monday, April 1, is the deadline for graduating high school seniors living in Murphy to apply for one of eight $1,700 scholarships being awarded this year by the Murphy Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Foundation.Applicants need to live in Murphy but can be...
Indian dancers impress Spring Break library crowd
Tejas Dance students Shrujana Kumar and Mahi Devappa perform at Smith Library in Wylie Thursday, March 14. Jeremy Hallock/C&S Media Parents and children showed up at the Smith Public Library last week to watch and learn about classical Indian dance. ...
Community discusses disputed development
Volunteers of Communities & Creeks United hand out yard signs opposing a high density development between Parker and Murphy. Photos by Bob Wieland/Murphy Monitor There’s no longer any question as to who is building a densely packed housing community just west of...
NASA engineer from Wylie wins award
Nahum Alem received the Modern-Day Technology Leader Award at the 2024 BEYA STEM Digital Twin Experience (DTX) Conference held in Baltimore last month. Courtesy photo An aerospace engineer from Wylie has won one of the industry’s most important honors in science,...
Council funds Scout project
The Murphy City Council has approved a Community Enhancement Grant of $4,290 for 335 feet of black, 48-inch chain link fence along the north side of the Decatur/Maxwell/Murphy Cemetery, the oldest and largest cemetery in Murphy. The fence is the Eagle Scout project of...
Profiling report shows PD in compliance
Murphy police stopped male drivers more often than female drivers last year, according to an analysis of 6,343 traffic stops in 2023. Murphy’s population is split nearly evenly between male and female – with men holding just a one percentage point edge. But 65% of...
Getting ready for storm season
Now’s the time to prepare for the possibility of spring storms. The first step is to have a plan for where to shelter at home, in school or at work. Ready.gov has a wealth of information of how to prepare for a variety of emergency situations. For more on this story...
Experts discuss fentanyl, vaping at WISD event
Wylie ISD families and community members learned of the dangers of fentanyl, vaping and social media from a panel of experts last week at Burnett Junior High. The informative community event, “Fear, Dangers and Concerns: Fentanyl, Vaping and Social Media,” was hosted...
House members helped by governor
Three Texas House members from Collin County apparently survived Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to punish them for supporting his impeachment. Another has been forced into a GOP primary runoff with two Paxton-backed challengers. Paxton, who was acquitted by the...