A court fight is pending in Austin two years after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) granted a permit to build a wastewater treatment plant between Parker and Murphy. The plant, which could dump up to 200,000 gallons per day of treated effluent into...
About a dozen volunteers got an early start on Earth Day by helping to clean up the Timbers Nature Preserve Park in Murphy. Other residents disposed of unwanted drugs. Wearing orange vests and work gloves, the park cleanup volunteers used grabber tools to pick up and...
The Murphy Veterans Tribute is getting ready to move the dirt and raise the flags. But first they have to clear more brush and raise some bucks. Tribute President and Director Mary Pat Elledge staffed a booth at the Spring Fever event Saturday, April 29, after...
New turn lanes are open on North Murphy Road to help motorists enter Murphy Marketplace on the northeast corner of the FM 544 intersection and the Walmart Superstore on the northwest corner. The hooded lanes provide a small, curbed island shaped in the form of a...
The day dawned dark and chilly as more than 70 Murphy Chamber of Commerce members erected their tents, set up displays and unpacked their wares for the annual Spring Fever event, Saturday, April 29. But the threat of rain had evaporated, prompting hundreds of families...
An administrative law judge in Austin has recommended that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality deny an application for a permit to dump treated wastewater into Maxwell Creek in Parker and Murphy. Restore the Grasslands, LLC, and Harrington/Turner...
The Murphy Chamber of Commerce annual Spring Fever vendor fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 29, in Murphy’s Central Park. The free festival provides a fun way for residents to interact with the business community and will feature a variety of...
A new food and drink festival is coming to Murphy Marketplace later this year. The Murphy City Council approved plans for a one-time “Bites & Flights on The Corridor” to be held from 6-9 p.m., Saturday, November 4. A flight is a selection of alcoholic drinks...
Like dandelions in the spring, new speed signs are popping up around Murphy as the Police Department increases traffic enforcement. Chief Chris Chandler told the city council at its Tuesday, April 18, meeting that drivers got accustomed to less enforcement during the...
