Twenty-one months after groundbreaking, H-E-B is opening its newest store at 6 a.m. Wednesday, July 22. Located on the southwest corner of FM 544 and McCreary Road in Murphy, the store will include a barbecue restaurant with a drive-thru window, deli, bakery,...
Murphy’s new city manager values her family time and will consider shortening the work week for municipal employees. Aretha Adams and husband Damien have five children, four girls and a boy, ranging in age from 25 to 2. For more on this story see the February 22, 2024...
The Murphy City Council has adopted new restrictions on short-term home rentals. The rules apply to both whole-house rentals for less than 30 days as well as room rentals. The city will also levy a hotel occupancy tax on the rentals.In other business, council voted to...
Parks & Recreation is shopping for a new spring festival after the Murphy City Council agreed to cancel this year’s Tunes, Tails & Ales craft beer and crawfish event because of a nearly two-thirds increase in price. Kayla McFarland, manager of recreation...
Oui, cher, the good times were rolling at the 2024 Murphy Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards gala. Mardi Gras was the theme of the Friday, Feb. 9 event and there were purple, green and gold beads galore for more than 70 chamber members and their guests. For more on...
The developer of a 100-acre tract between Parker and Murphy is threatening to build apartments and warehouses on the site instead of single-family homes -- unless Parker agrees to transport sewage from the site. That plea is being circulated online, in direct mail and...
Interim Police Chief Jeff Gibson spent just two months on the job before new City Manager Aretha Adams decided to make his position permanent. Gibson, a former chief in Bedford and Gunter, was hired in December as a temporary successor to Chief Chris Chandler, who...
The Murphy Community Center sparkled with glitter during the Eighth Annual Daddy Daughter Dance. “We sold out: 136 tickets,” said Kayla McFarland, manager of recreation services. For more on this story see the February 8, 2024 print, or digital edition of the Murphy...
Collin County voters may have new locations to cast ballots in November’s elections. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. A requirement for large counties to add polling places was an unintended consequence of a new law passed last year by the Texas Legislature,...
