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File Art The 59th Annual Wylie Show & Sale is scheduled for March 22–28, 2026, at the F.O. Birmingham Agricultural Center in Wylie. The weeklong event highlights the work of area youth exhibitors and features livestock shows, student shop projects, horticulture...
Briggs B. of Murphy was all smiles as he poses for his dad with one of his trophy-winning trout. Some dads brought tackle boxes and a handful of fishing poles, but it all came down to finding the right spot. The 11th Murphy Rainbow Trout Roundup began under sunny...
Plans are proceeding for a new spring event, with the city soliciting entries for the Backyard BBQ Competition. Director of Parks & Recreation Director Matt Foster told the Tuesday, Feb. 18, meeting of the Murphy City Council that barbecue cooking teams are being...
Plano East freshman Arianna Robinson jumps in the air to score two of her game-high 31 points in the Class 6A Division I state semifinals from Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center in Fort Worth on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Cedar Hill defeated Plano East 61-51. Photo by Tina...
The Plano East girls' basketball team celebrates their 49-45 win over North Crowley in the Class 6A Division I Region I final from W.G. Thomas Coliseum in Haltom City. The Lady Panthers have qualified for the state semifinals for the first time in program history....
Sports
Plano East senior Marisabelle Sias hits the ball around the block of two Allen defenders during a recent match. Photo by Andy Redmond / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] One week after losing a hard-fought five-set thriller to Allen, the Plano East...
Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, sent out a guidance letter to religious private schools. The letter announced that these schools “need not comply” with restrictions that would prohibit in-person learning. “As protected by the First Amendment and Texas law,...
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) came out with a revised calendar and COVID-19 for the 2020-2021 school year on Tuesday. The new plan differs depending on the activity and conference. The changes are meant to follow the health situations across the...
Plano East Senior High School senior student Meagan Winans claimed her third golf tournament win of the summer this month in an All American Tour event. The tourney for amateur golfers was played July 1-2 at Sherrill Park Golf Course in Richardson. For the full story,...
As high schools around the country gear up for the start of the 2020 season, there’s only one thing on their minds: have a better season than the last. For some, that means winning more games than the team did the previous year. For others, that means a deep playoff...
Education
It was a music-filled Saturday as Wylie ISD students and members of the Wylie Community Band performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Now in its fourth year, the event hosted by the Wylie Community Band and Jazz Band, offered Wylie junior high...
By Nancy Whitney Staff Writer [email protected] The sun will come out and hopefully a theater full of happy thespians for the musical “Annie Jr.” The show features a cast of over forty performers and crewmembers and is the first musical at the Wylie Acting...
By Nancy Whitney Staff Writer [email protected] Smith Public Library welcomed 13 sweet-toothed 4 – 6th graders during last week’s Sushi and Sidekicks event. The program ran in conjunction with the summer reading “hero” theme. Veronica McKay and Lindsay...
Local schools’ STAAR scores measure up well against district and state Brooke Vincent [email protected] During spring of the 2014-’15 school year, students in grades three through eight across Murphy sharpened number...
By Nancy Whitney Staff Writer [email protected] Plans for Bush Elementary are under way and school officials have been meeting with architects from PBK to discuss design, layout and much more. The new school will be located in the Inspiration subdivision...
Life & Style
Home gardener Catherine “Cathi” Banks has learned by trial and error how to get the most from the raised bed gardens that have lined her backyard in Murphy for the last six years. In fact, Banks’ has not only had good luck with her gardening adventure, she...
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Opinion
People use different ways to learn to read. Some folks use the vowels and consonants method. Others memorize how the words look. I used both, but I had a secret weapon many didn’t know about. Comic books. While most kids were having, “Fun with Dick...
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