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Registration is open for two weeklong Young Citizen’s Police Academy summer camps in Murphy. The free camps are Monday through Friday, July 20-24 and July 27-31. Each camp runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are open to Murphy students entering grades six to 10 in the...
Bluegrass Heritage Foundation founder, Alan Tompkins, left, can often be found playing the upright bass with the band Hillbilly Fever, or playing banjo with Bobby Giles and the Texas Gales. Bluegrass music returns to Olde City Park this month for a beloved Wylie...
Seven Texas cities, including four from Collin County, lead the nation in percentage of population growth, according to U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 data released Thursday, May 15. The Census Bureau said Princeton ranked No. 1 with a 30.6% growth rate, up from...
Plano East softball team players walk off the field after falling to Flower Mound 8-4 in Game 2 of the Region I-6A Final last Friday at L.D. Bell High School. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] HURST – When the Plano East...
Plano East freshman Mubarak Mohagany (10) jumps in the air to make an interception against freshman Samuel Hammond. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] After seeing the formations for the last five weeks, and with the...
Sports
Plano East senior point guard Jayden Parker dribbles the ball past two Rowlett defenders on Nov. 25. Photo by Andy Redmond / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Plano East pulled away late to earn a 51-46 win over Rowlett at McMillen High School on...
The Plano East Panthers are confident heading into District 6-6A competition. Getting healthy on their bye week after their first win in two years, Plano East (1-2) travels to Hebron (0-3) on Sept. 24. The Hawks are winless but played a competitive non-district...
Before the season, many of the Plano East seniors said they just wanted to get some wins under their belt.One of those seniors was Ismail Mahdi, who sat out his sophomore year with an injury and didn’t get a win last season. With an up-and-coming roster, the Panthers...
The Plano East Panthers are looking to get back to the basics. After a second consecutive loss to open the season, the Panthers (0-2) have a short ride to Wylie ISD Stadium to take on the Pirates. Wylie (0-2) has struggled out of the gate this season, losing two games...
The Plano East Panthers (0-2) gave Lake Highlands (2-0) all they could handle, but ultimately the Wildcats won out. Lake Highlands scored 31 points in the first half on the way to a 55-24 victory. Plano East, playing in Kimbrough Stadium for the first time this...
Education
Wylie ISD officials want to do something to better deal with student discipline, as there have been reports of 65 employees who have been physically hurt by students since the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, with 19 of these people requiring medical care for...
From Staff Reports [email protected] Hartman Elementary School reduced electricity consumption by 30 percent during the annual Energy Challenge Week in Wylie Independent School District, claiming the coveted Go Green Challenge Trophy. During the week,...
By David Jenkins Staff Writer [email protected] Plano East Senior High was well represented during the presentation of the sixth annual Dallas Summer Musicals High School Musical Theatre Awards held in the Music Hall at Fair Park. They won for Best...
Spiride, Chan lead PESH's 2017 graduates By David Jenkins Staff Writer [email protected] Thirteen years of hard work will come to a culmination in one short week for Plano East Senior High valedictorian Alex Spiride and salutatorian Colin Chan. They will lead a...
Life & Style
It was a fashionable affair for those in attendance at the Wylie Historical Society’s first Vintage Fashion Show fundraiser. The event was held Saturday, Jan. 27, at St. Anthony Catholic Church and included a catered box lunch. Attendees from as far away as Wichita...
Meditation is often trumped as a means to reducing stress and restoring healthy function in the body. While meditation might once have been considered a New Age treatment, in recent years it has developed into a mainstream practice supported by both traditional and...
By Dixie Dickson Hope everyone had a safe and happy Independence Day! We are so blessed to live in a country of the brave and the free. We had Fun Night on the third and enjoyed the parade and fireworks from inside our center away from the mosquitos and heat. It was a...
By Mignon Morse Summer Reading Club continues through July 30. It’s not too late to sign up and read. We have programs for children, teens and adults this year. You can sign-up anytime and join the fun. If you read 25 hours, you get your name in the hat for a drawing...
Looking for ways to beat the heat with the kids? Come visit the library and cool down with some great reads and activities. Here is a listing of events for the remainder of July: July 16 - Villians vs. Heroes Game Day - Join in for various group games and activities...
Opinion
In the movie “The Big Chill,” a group of old friends gather for the funeral of one of their own, and it turns into a reunion. Recently, a group of my old friends gathered for a reunion, and it turned into a gathering for a funeral. I got the call on the way to the...
By Bob Moos, Southwest public affairs officer for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services If you plan to work past 65 and keep the health insurance you’ve had from your job, you’re likely to wonder what, if anything, you need to do about enrolling in...
By Lee H. Hamilton I’ve seen a lot over my decades in politics, and not much alarms me. But I have to be blunt: Money is poisoning our political system. The people who matter most to a representative democracy — the ordinary voters in whose interests elected...
By Bob Moos Southwest public affairs officer for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The owner of a Houston area ambulance company receives a 97-month prison sentence for submitting $2.4 million in claims to Medicare for services that weren’t...
By Ed Sterling Four days before the June 1 end of the 84th regular session of the Texas Legislature, both houses finally agreed after months of deliberation on a state budget for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. A 10-member conference committee worked out differences...
