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Six projects by Plano ISD students advanced this year to the 76th annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. Four projects captured category grand awards. One student placed first and...
Wylie Book Review Club hostesses, from left, Judy Janecek, Mary Lange, Carmela Torres, Karla Warborg and Gerri Washington, gather at the September meeting where members celebrated the club’s 60th anniversary. Courtesy photo What began in 1965 as an idea among friends...
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...
Wylie veterans Chuck Davis, left, and Don Bridges say goodbye to Dave Marshall, their guardian for Honor Flight #60, after arriving home at Dallas Love Field earlier this month. Courtesy photo Two longtime friends and fellow members of American Legion Post 315 in...
Local residents have another chance this year to discard expired or unwanted prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications. The fall Drug Take Back event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25, in the lobby of the Murphy Police Department, 206 N....
Sports
By David Wolman [email protected] The University Interscholastic League held its bi-annual realignment day Monday morning. For Plano East, big changes are on the way for at least the next two school years. Plano East will compete in District 7-6A with Coppell,...
The Plano East Panthers closed out the year with a record of 33-0, currently standing as the favorites to take home a title in Class 6A. That journey begins Monday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. against Rock Hill. Roosevelt Joubert/Murphy Monitor The Plano East boys basketball...
Francisco Comacho gets his nose doctored up after getting it bloody during the Battle of Plano. The Panthers have one meet left before the team competes in the District Meet on Saturday, Jan 27. Roosevelt Joubert/Murphy Monitor It was a busy week for the Plano East...
Megan Nguyen (1) had quite the year as one of Plano East’s primary setters on the team. For her efforts, she was given honorable mention on the Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association All-State Volleyball Team. File Photo While the volleyball season is well in the...
No. 1 Plano East continued its unbeaten run this season with another district win. This time, it was against their crosstown rivals, Plano, as the two sides came back from winter break. Plano and Plano East shared the District 6-6A championship last season, with...
Education
Plano East Senior High School Class of 2025 graduates toss their caps in the air Wednesday, May 28, at the conclusion of commencement exercises at The Star in Frisco. Leaders of the Plano East Senior High (PESH) School Class of 2025 challenged their classmates to stay...
With matching unweighted grade point averages, the designation of the Wylie High School valedictorian and salutatorian for 2020 was determined by the weighted GPA that takes college credit hours into account. After the more precise calculation, Mathew Varghese was...
One Wylie High freshman got the surprise of a lifetime last week. On Tuesday, April 21, Maggie Smith stepped out of her Murphy home to the sound of car horns honking and district officials calling her name. It was a “drive-by discipline referral,” a lighthearted...
Dallas Summer Musicals officials have nominated Plano East Senior High School for eight of their prestigious High School Awards. These awards celebrate the best in high school theatre across the DFW metroplex, this year including more than 60 schools. Plano East’s...
As daycares – deemed essential by local governments – continue operating as best as possible, employees and parents are navigating how to provide quality education while also preventing coronavirus. Numbers of children enrolled can vary from location to location....
Life & Style
Everyone needs a break now and then. Time off helps us recharge, gain perspective, and reconnect with ourselves and the people we care about. But instead of letting vacation days slip away unused—or spending them on trips that leave you needing a vacation from your...
Ask 10 parents how much added sugar their child consumes each day and there’s a good chance that at least 9 of them will have no clue or will underestimate it. In fact, research published in the International Journal of Obesity reported that 92 percent of the parents...
Everyday baby boomers increasingly take on the responsibility as primary caregivers for their parents. That role of caregiver is an important one. They need your help physically, emotionally and often legally. If Mom or Dad is living with Alzheimer’s or dementia, your...
Most people visit the rodeo for the high-octane excitement. From barrel racing to bull riding, there is surely plenty of suspense that happens in the ring. But it’s hard to imagine those death-defying acts being much fun to watch if it weren’t for the other man in the...
In one week 32 amateur boxers will step into the ring for the first time before an estimated crowd of five thousand people at Allen Event Center. Friendly foes, DFW area firefighters and police officers, will face off against each other in the 17th annual Guns and...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore snapped this photo of his back pasture. A place he now calls home, and wishes he'd called home it sooner. Courtesy John Moore I grew up in the far southwest corner of Arkansas. Nature drove the speed of life, and the towns breathed at an unhurried...
It cannot be denied that nursing homes and assisted living communities are on the frontline in the war against COVID-19. Nursing homes are enduring the greatest concentration of outbreaks, and deaths in Texas and across the nation. The numbers are heartbreaking. The...
The 50th anniversary of Earth Day was April 22, so let’s talk trash for a moment. The plastic kind. Bags, bottles, cutlery, straws, containers, razors, cosmetics, and so much more. Around the world, in our effort to package everything imaginable over the years, we are...
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on April 8 announced a partnership between the Texas Military Department and Prestige Ameritech to increase production of personal protective equipment for health care workers. Prestige Ameritech, with a 220,000-square-foot plant in North...
For Christian Americans celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Sunday, April 12, the timing could not be more appropriate. Citizens have been forewarned that the apex of this COVID-19 pandemic is about to hit the U.S. For some, that strikes a chord of fear, but...
