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Graduating PESH seniors stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at the Thursday, May 28, commencement exercise in the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco. Andy Redmond/Murphy Monitor With the toss of a cap, a chapter ended for nearly 1,300 members of the Plano East Senior...
The 32nd Annual Wylie Champion Rodeo will be back next month with two nights of UPRA-sanctioned rodeo, food, vendor booths and more. The Wylie Championship Rodeo is back for its 32nd year with two nights of family fun on Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13. The...
From children’s tales to Broadway favorites, the Wylie High and Wylie East theatre departments are bringing a lineup of performances to local stages this season that promises something for every audience. Wylie East will open its season with the musical “Big Fish:...
The Murphy City Council will decide next month how much to raise water and wastewater rates after hearing wholesale costs are climbing at double-digit percentages. Consultant Chris Ekrut, chief financial officer of NewGen Strategies & Solutions, said at council’s...
The Murphy City Council has proposed a voter-approval property tax rate one-half penny lower than last year’s levy. Councilmembers have also considered proposals to raise water and sewer rates in October. Council set a proposed rate of $0.3575 per $100 of assessed...
Sports
Plano East senior Haley Reed and the Lady Panthers basketball team are 12-0 in District 6-6A. Photo by Andy Redmond / C&S Media By Seth Dowdle [email protected] McKINNEY – Three months ago, the Plano East girls basketball team embarked on a journey with an...
Plano East is looking everywhere on its roster to maximize talent, starting with its backfield. For the second season in a row, the Panthers had an injury to one of their top players at the running back position. Two years ago, it was Ishmail Mahdi after a 2-1 start...
Wylie, Sachse and Plano East sent athletes to the 6A UIL track and field championships in Austin Saturday, with one athlete bringing home silverware. Sachse High School’s Hannah Lowe took home third place in the 6A girls 100-meter dash. Battling through weather...
Plano East started the 2022 season 3-0, but a slew of untimely injuries left them undermanned for district play. With head coach Tony Benedetto now entering his second year as head coach of the Panther football program, it was a learning experience to evaluate the...
In the Region I-6A meet at UT Arlington on April 28-29, Plano East had several athletes competing for state. Leading the way for the Panthers was their 4x200 regional championship relay team. The team of Quincy Baggett, Ezra O’Neal III, Doryian Marshall and Jaylon...
Education
Wylie ISD students show rabbits at the Wylie ISD Show n’ Sale at the Birmingham Agricutural Center. The show started March 30 and concluded Saturday, April 5 with a Buyer’s Breakfast and more. Courtesy Wylie ISD The future of agriculture was on display at the 58th...
Wylie ISD honored 13 employees for outstanding work. Officials named Teachers and Employees of the Year at the annual Wylie Way Awards Gala Friday, May 3. The event was held at Southfork Ranch. All 20 campuses were represented, with more than 400 guests in attendance....
Seven WHS students were named as finalists, out of 1225 entries, and from 20 different schools, in the 48th Annual Collin County Poetry Society contest on Sunday, April 28, at the Church Street Auditorium in McKinney. The event was hosted by the Mockingbird Chapter of...
Journalism students at Plano East Senior High got a gold crown and more for their efforts this year. Newspaper staff won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Award in the hybrid news category, and the Dallas Morning News High School Journalism Best...
Wylie High School’s drama department is in the running for prestigious awards. They received several nominations from the Schmidt and Jones High School Musical Awards for their performance of the musical “Newsies.” Nominations include: Best Show; Best Orchestra; Best...
Life & Style
As New Year’s Day 2024 approached, millions of individuals were preparing to make changes they hoped would improve their fitness. In a Forbes Health/One Poll survey of 1,000 adults in the months leading up to the start of 2024, nearly half (48 percent) of respondents...
When summer comes around, a common favorite tradition is jumping in the car and hitting the open road for a vacation, whether it’s a weekend getaway or a longer excursion. For pet parents, that exhilarating idea isn’t always so simple. Instead of being forced...
Many families today are spread out across the country if not the globe. While some people may move away to attend college or further their careers, Children may separate from their parents to witness new travel experiences. Military service may call individuals...
The Outdoor Foundation reports that roughly 40 million Americans go camping in a given year. Typical campers go on five camping trips per year, traveling an average of 191 miles from their home to the campground. Campers include friends on their trips 70...
Spring and summer can be particularly difficult times of year for those with respiratory health challenges, when simple activities like gardening, walking the dog and reading a book on the patio can cause itching, wheezing, sneezing and trouble breathing. “It...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore misses the old chain stores, one of which, Gibson’s, still exists in Kerrville, Texas. Courtesy John Moore Online shopping has turned us into couch potatoes who buy more than we ever used to. Adding items to an imaginary cart and clicking, “Buy...
Dear Rusty: I have two questions. My wife passed away in May of 2015, and I never received any of her benefits. Should I have? Also, I am now 62, turning 63 next month. I am still working and probably won’t quit until age 75 or older. Should I start taking benefits...
Last Wednesday was a day of anxiety for a lot of people - at least, if what I heard on several radio and television stations was accurate. Facebook was down and what a vacuum this caused. OMG, or LOL? During the hours the social media giant was experiencing technical...
This is Sunshine Week, an annual media campaign that highlights the need — and right — to know what our elected officials are doing and how our tax dollars are being spent. The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said it best: “Publicity is justly commended...
It’s your money. You deserve to know how it was spent — and whether you got what was promised. Yet the Texas Supreme Court’s 2015 Boeing decision has been contorted to try to block taxpayers from seeing the details of hundreds of government arrangements with private...
