July is officially Parks & Recreation Month in Murphy, according to a proclamation by Mayor Scott Bradley. Flanked by Parks & Rec staff, Deputy Mayor pro tem Ken Oltmann read the proclamation at the Tuesday, June 16, meeting of the Murphy City Council. “In the...
The Arbor Day Foundation is making it easy for everyone to celebrate the arrival of spring by planting trees. Join the Arbor Day Foundation in March 2016 and receive 10 free white flowering dogwood trees. “White flowering dogwoods are versatile trees that will break...
From Staff Reports news@murphymonitor In a special called session last week, Murphy City Council members accepted the resignation of City Manager James Fisher and authorized a search for a permanent replacement. Named to serve as interim City Manager is Mark Lee, the...
By Joe Reavis Staff Writer [email protected] Area voters followed the pattern set across Texas last week, giving the nod to Sen. Ted Cruz in the Republican Presidential Primary and Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential Primary. The primary elections to...
Happy Texas Independence Day! By State Senator Van Taylor On March 2, one hundred and eighty years ago, fifty nine delegates met to draft and adopt the original Texas Declaration of Independence. This convention at Washington on the Brazos in 1836 harbored the...
Plano East's basketball season ended tonight with a 67-52 third-round loss to South Grand Prairie at Emmett Conrad High School. The Panthers finished the season 27-8 overall and won the District 6-6A title with a 14-2 record. They also beat Byron Nelson and Cedar Hill...
The Plano East boys' basketball team will face South Grand Prairie 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 in a Region I, Class 6A third-round game at Conrad High School in Dallas. The high school is at 7502 Fair Oaks Ave, Dallas, TX 75231. The Panthers made it to the third round...
By Greg Ford Sports Editor [email protected] Things haven’t been easy for the Plano East baseball program these past months. First, there was the tough 2015 season, which was followed by an offseason filled with controversy that resulted in multiple coaches,...
By Joe Reavis Staff Writer [email protected] Retired horse trainer Herman Benson lived with and broke through racial barriers in a career that took him from the tiny town of Jewett in East Texas to the ranches of the wealthy in Dallas. In spite of what...
