City Missions volunteers fill bags with necessities to distribute directly to homeless individuals in Plano and surrounding cities. Courtesy City Missions Serving the community for more than five years, City Missions continues to provide essentials to individuals...
Once again, Murphy residents went all out when asked to chip in. While Murphy Fire Rescue held their annual toy drive benefitting Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County (CACCC), the social network group, MoMs (Moms of Murphy), collected financial donations...
Although “pivot” has been a well-used buzz word when making accommodations due to COVID-19, at Red Door Dance Academy in Wylie they have chosen to go beyond the pivot and pirouette their way toward keeping their dancers en pointe. “Like everything else in the world,...
Growing up in a home that always decorated for Christmas, Parker resident Ken Browne kept up the tradition by placing what he calls “big box store lights” on his home. However, about ten years ago, when he saw a coordinated light show for the first time, he had a...
Although a common pirate directive is, ‘Walk the plank’, Pirates taking construction classes at Wylie High School have chosen less dire, and more productive, plank activities. Jason Light, a 1999 graduate of WHS, has been a construction technology teacher and a...
Faithful volunteers help post, take down 100 flags on Veterans Day Veterans Day 2020 was not unlike many others, except perhaps a bit more private and personal, as public celebrations limited attendance to keep our veteran’s safe. In Murphy, a small army of volunteers...
There’s no doubt that the United States is a land of opportunity, especially for refugees coming from a place where equal opportunities are limited. Singer, songwriter Rehema Ilundu, a 2019 graduate of Plano East Senior High, was only five years old when she moved to...
Costumed children dangled their treat gathering receptacles from car windows at the inaugural Drive-Thru Trick-or-Treat event hosted by the city of Murphy. The long trail of cars snaked from north and south Murphy Road into the Murphy Municipal Complex then through...
Former New York Police Department officers Josiah Beck and Nathaniel Beck have found greener pastures, bigger skies and a slower, more affordable pace of life living and working in Texas. The brothers, 28 and 25 years old, cited multiple reasons why they resigned from...
