Wylie ISD Board of Trustees convened for its regular monthly meeting on Nov. 17, welcoming new staff members and receiving several departmental updates. The meeting opened with recognitions and introductions of new district leaders, including Dr. Jessica Branch as...
Unofficial final results from the Saturday, May 6, election show Tarrah Lantz ahead in the Place 4 seat on the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees with 50.52% or 11,915 votes of the 23,586 votes cast. Lydia Ortega garnered 40.67% or 9,593 votes and...
Unofficial final returns in the Saturday, May 6, election show voters favored Place 3 Murphy City Councilman Andrew Chase with 562 votes, 52.13% of 1,078 votes cast, compared with 516 votes, 47.87% for challenger W. Scott Smith. In Place 5, challenger Laura Deel...
The Murphy Police Department has charged a 28-year-old Dallas man with capital murder in last month’s fatal shooting of a couple at their home.Police Chief Chris Chandler said Cristian Andres Bocanegra had accompanied Vincent Cantu to the home of Cantu’s parents in...
On Election Day,Saturday, May 6, Murphy residents can vote 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Homer and Marie Adams rooms at the Murphy Community Center, 205 N. Murphy Road. Residents will vote on two contested city council seats and a proposal to re-authorize sales tax funding for...
Murphy Mayor Scott Bradley said the city was pleased an administrative law judge had recommended denial of a permit for a wastewater treatment plant between Parker and Murphy. Bradley commented after an executive session at city council’s Tuesday, May 2, meeting. The...
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...
