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From eight families to thousands

From eight families to thousands

Home Depot employees deliver pallets of boxed cereal to Amazing Grace Food Pantry. Courtesy Amazing Grace Food Pantry Wylie pantry celebrates 20 years of feeding neighbors What began in 2006 as a small community service effort has grown into a lifeline for thousands...

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Amazing Grace is growing

Amazing Grace is growing

Amazing Grace Food Pantry now has a new parking lot with lights and 73 parking spaces, more than doubling the number of spaces. Amazing Grace Food Pantry in North Wylie recently celebrated the culmination of an ambitious five-year goal: the completion of a...

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Council postpones road closure vote

Council postpones road closure vote

The Murphy Public Works Department is considering solutions to the repeated problem of motorists failing to stop where eastbound Renner Road dead-ends at Tall Tree Drive. There have been several accidents at that location over the past 18 years, including a car...

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Junior Police Academy is no joke

Junior Police Academy is no joke

Wylie ISD Junior Police Academy cadets on the first day of class, Monday, June 17 at Burnett Junior High. Wylie police have developed a world class Junior Police Academy program. Started in 2009, many other regional police departments have observed Wylie’s week-long...

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Emerald City Band rocks Murphy

Emerald City Band rocks Murphy

Emerald City Band rocks the house down in the final Sounds at Sundown concert, Friday, June 28. By 7:30 p.m., all the parking lots for Murphy Central Park were full, including PSA Murphy and City Hall. Drivers lucky enough to find a spot unloaded quickly, hauling lawn...

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Creekbed treated to prevent West Nile Virus

Creekbed treated to prevent West Nile Virus

Sam Green of All Pest Solutions wades upstream in Maxwell Creek to spray pellets for killing mosquito larva after several mosquitos tested positive for the West Nile Virus. Certified pest control applicators began mosquito abatement following the discovery of three...

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Balancing future infrastructure projects, challenges

Balancing future infrastructure projects, challenges

City Manager Aretha Adams wants to enhance Murphy’s infrastructure, parks and public amenities, but needs to balance those improvements with current challenges in staffing and funding. Mayor Scott Bradley opened a Wednesday, June 26, FY25 budget work session to...

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Ground spraying for mosquitos

Ground spraying for mosquitos

Ground spraying was scheduled in Murphy following the discovery of three mosquitos carrying the West Nile Virus.The city of Murphy and the Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed West Nile was confirmed in a mosquito trapped June 14 in the creek bed along...

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