Nine residential buildings are nearing completion at Jericho Village, each designed to resemble a single-family home, with four apartments sharing a common front door and stairs. Jericho Village, Wylie’s first income-based urban housing village, is nearing completion...
Republic Services is still picking up brush from last month’s storms but has ended the two-week special collection that removed volume restrictions.A company official told the Monday, June 18, meeting of the Murphy City Council that Republic Services had picked up 386...
A group of Collin County residents has filed a motion with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to declare the petition for the creation of Collin County Municipal Utility District (MUD) No. 7 null and void. The petition was published Tuesday, June 11,...
Communities & Creeks United is protesting a development between Parker and Murphy that could include a wastewater treatment plant. The Parker City Council has refused a developer’s request to remove a 103-acre tract from the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction...
The Juneteenth Gospel Choir rehearsing at Heaven’s Journey Fellowship Church on Friday, June 7. Celebrate freedom, and its roots in Texas, at a community gathering in downtown Wylie. A showcase of culture and heritage, Wylie’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Celebration is 10...
Darin and Brooke Aldridge, a Billboard chart-topping act, are performing at Bluegrass on Ballard. Courtesy of Darin and Brooke Aldridge Bluegrass on Ballard, one of the biggest local annual events in Wylie, is back with something for everyone Saturday, June 29...
Mayor Scott Bradley proclaims May 31 as Barry Young Day in honor of his retirement as service area manager for Oncor Electric Delivery. He is joined from left, by Luke Trahan, Murphy Chamber of Commerce chair and Juli Richards, chamber executive director. Murphy’s new...
Vickey Keahey, founder and president of In-Sync Exotics, presents Tim Harrison a painting crafted by Lambert the lion at the Saturday, June 8 gala in Lavon. Harrison, a published author and documentary film star, was the keynote speaker. Courtesy Dave Smith It was a...
American GIs heading toward the shoreline of Omaha Beach around June 7, 1944. Courtesy of the National WWII Museum On the eve of Operation Overlord, Gen. Eisenhower told his troops: “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these...
