Stop signs and turn arrows are intended to prevent eastbound traffic on Renner Road from running into a house at Tall Tree Drive. Bob Wieland/Murphy Monitor After a series of car accidents where Renner Road dead-ends into the 600 block of Tall Tree Drive, the city of...
Murphy City Council members made a change to mask requirements at city buildings at their meeting on May 18. The council approved continuing the Mayor’s Declarations of Local Disaster until June 15 at 11:59 p.m., but city officials will no longer require hygiene...
Murphy City Councilmembers received a general overview of the budget and then heard reports from various department heads for budgets for the next fiscal year - from human resources to municipal court to police and fire department - at May 6 retreat. At the...
An event in her parents’ homeland triggered Diana Zoga’s path to her career as a television journalist. Zoga, a consumer affairs reporter at NBC5 (KXAS), graduated from Plano East High School in 1999 and then graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in...
Two teachers who instruct English in Wylie ISD were selected as the elementary and secondary teachers of the year award during the Wylie Way Awards Gala May 7 at Southfork Ranch. Priscilla Patterson of Draper Intermediate School was named Elementary School Teacher of...
Murphy residents will some day soon have a chance to chow down on a breakfast sandwich and then burn off those calories at a dance studio, as Panera Bread and the Kaiser Center for the Performing Arts have cleared some hurdles to open in the city. Murphy City...
Girls seem to lose interest in science and math and STEM jobs (science, technology, engineering and math) at some point in the academic careers, research shows. Michelle Foley theorized why she thinks this development occurs. “I think maybe it’s not fun to be smart...
Wylie ISD board members recently received a first look at the 2021-22 budget, which is in sound shape heading into the next school year, according to a school district official. Scott Roderick, assistant superintendent for finance and operations for the Wylie ISD,...
A new Panera Bread location and dance studio will be coming to Murphy. Murphy City Councilmembers on Tuesday approved a specific use permit to allow a restaurant with a drive-thru for a Panera Bread to be located at 103 W. FM 544, where a Walgreens used to...
