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The Murphy City Council will schedule a public hearing next month to consider staff recommendations for a 6% budget increase for Fiscal Year 2026-27, funded in part by increasing the local property tax by less than half a penny. Councilmembers meeting on Tuesday, Aug....
More than 30 new Texas laws took effect Jan. 1, ranging from immigration enforcement to evicting squatters, regulating technology, providing tax breaks and improving the state’s water infrastructure. About 800 other new laws passed this year by the Legislature took...
Balloting is officially underway for the Best of 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a long-standing C&S Media Publications annual tradition that recognizes the businesses, services and dining destinations readers value most across eastern Collin County. Each year,...
Texas is experiencing a significant decline in rental affordability, worsening faster than the national average, and Collin County led the state with the highest share of low-income households spending more than one-third of their income on rent. That’s according to...
Plano ISD seniors Shriya Viswanathan, left, and Saura Agarwal, are holders of a new U.S. patent for an application to monitor exposure to ultraviolent sunlight exposure and issue alerts based on the user’s profile. Courtesy Plano ISD Two Plano ISD seniors have been...
Sports
Plano East senior quarterback Josh Gordon releases the ball on a passing attempt during the second half of last Friday's annual black-gold scrimmage at Tom Kimbrough Stadium. Photo by Andy Redmond / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] When a brief...
Plano East sophomore Grace Pinegar finished with double-digit kills in Monday's 3-0 bi-district playoff win over Lewisville from Hebron High School. Photo by Roosevelt Joubert / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Lewisville and Plano East had been...
The Murphy Middle School eighth-grade football team poses for pictures while roading on a float during a parade. Submitted photo By Mark Woodyard The Murphy Middle School football program is on the rise. This year, under the direction of head coach Mark Woodyard and...
Plano East junior Ja'ire Scott holds the ball up after recording one of his two takeaways during the first half of Friday's home game against McKinney. Photo by Roosevelt Joubert / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Plano East's playoff chances took...
Plano East junior Megan Nguyen sets up a Lady Panthers teammate for a hitting attempt during Tuesday's home match against Allen. The Lady Panthers shrugged off a tough end to the first set to defeat the Lady Eagles in four sets. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By...
Education
House Bill 1481 bans the use of personal cellphones at all grade levels. As students gather supplies for returning to class, there’s one item they won’t need in school: a cell phone. A new Texas law bans the use of personal telecommunication devices at all grade...
Making it to the top of the 2020 Plano East graduating class of 1,234 students takes hard work and dedication, something that Class of 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian, Rajiv Swamy and Sophia Li, know all about. Although Rajiv confessed he didn’t earn the title of...
Plano ISD altered its plans for the graduating class of 2020 once again. Plano East graduates will receive their diplomas in the high school gym and auditorium on June 9 or 10 at 10 a.m. or 7 p.m. Seniors and up to four guests will be invited to arrive at their...
Wylie ISD administrators have announced that Tiffany Doolan will take over as leader of Wylie East High School. Doolan, currently associate principal of the same school, will take over Mike Williams’ position. Williams has served as Wylie East’s principal since its...
Wylie High School Principal Virdie Montgomery has gained national attention for going the extra mile, or 800 miles, to remind his senior students they are in his thoughts. Montgomery, with wife Pam as chauffeur and navigator, drove 800 miles over 12 days to...
Life & Style
The Two Tickets to Paradise cottage in St. Thomas offers panoramic views of Hull Bay and the 2-acre property which includes a large deck with a pool, cabana, grill and bar, plus an assortment of cozy seating areas. It started with a fundraiser and a cottage called Two...
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...
Did you know that the choices your local grocery store makes can have a global impact on the environment? From the types and brands of seafood sold to the way foods are packaged and carried out of the store, oceans worldwide are affected by the operations of grocers...
Wylie resident Shari Junqueira wanted to give her 14-year-old daughter, Gia, a vacation that went beyond beaches or cruises. She wanted to provide her daughter an experience that she would remember. An Asian elephant sanctuary in Hugo, Okla. proved to be just the...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore likes the fall season the best. The temperature cools and the costumes come out. Courtesy John Moore One of my most vivid memories of fall happened during junior high. I was standing in the end zone prior to the start of a football game. I could...
Texans have been witnessing things that would have been unthinkable until now: Surge teams, testing of nursing homes for COVID-19 and the National Guard helping to disinfect nursing home facilities around the state. This is the time for the public to have access to...
The Wylie mayor’s gaffe two weeks ago made me curious if he’s still clowning around, but then again, limiting someone’s ability to lead prayer in a public meeting on the basis of gender is not funny at all. Somewhere along the way in his far-too-long time in office,...
For most Americans, today’s lockdowns and social distancing requirements are new. For my family, they’re what we do every flu season. That’s because our son, Hunter, has a rare condition known as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and any type of infection can quickly...
When you think back to that hill call Golgotha, the place of the skull, and you consider Christ’s crucifixion, you must ponder the question, “Who killed Jesus?” Was it Judas? Judas was one of the twelve disciples. He saw Jesus do everything from raise people from the...
