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Victory Paint in Murphy owners, from left, Daina Hebert, Tricia Martinez Aiken, Jacob Magee and Carolyn Potter. File art As communities across the country celebrate Small Business Week, local entrepreneurs are being recognized not just for opening their doors, but for...
Four members of the Murphy City Council have apparently been re-elected, according to final unofficial returns from the Saturday, May 3, general election. Results are not official until canvassed by council. With results complete from all voting centers, Collin County...
Emerald City Band will be performing June 6. Emerald City Band is the first of four bands scheduled for free Friday night concerts in June. The Dallas-based band will take the amphitheater stage in Murphy Central Park on June 6. The Murphy Parks and Recreation...
Plano East senior forward Payten Cooper, left, was recently named to the Texas Association of Soccer Coaches All-Region I-6A second team. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] The Texas Association of Soccer Coaches recently...
Plano East freshman Chloe Lee and the Lady Panthers' softball team will face Euless Trinity in the regional semifinals this week. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] The Plano East softball team needed a seventh-inning rally to...
Sports
The Plano East volleyball team, pictured in previous action, is bound for the Region I-6A Division I final after defeating El Paso Eastlake in three sets on Friday at Lubbock Coronado High School. Photo by David Wolman / C&S Media By David Wolman...
Returning as the no. 1 receiver for the Plano East football team, Rushil Patel has made the strides this offseason. Gone are his teammates Jaydon Nava and Kaden Gardner, leaving inexperienced players at the depth positions for the Panthers offense. The change has...
The new baseball stadium in Arlington — Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers — opened last year. Globe Life Field was built to attract more fans during the long, hot days of summer in North Texas One local sports scribe said some time back that the team’s...
The Wylie Lady Pirates volleyball team had one of its best seasons ever last season. They finished the season 21-5 overall, 13-1 in the district, on the way to a championship and reached the UIL 6A Region II Finals before losing to Klein. That result put the Lady...
Collin College sophomore tennis player Rafal Bednarczuk is an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-American. The honor tops a strong season for Collin College’s men’s and women’s tennis teams, both of...
Education
With no meeting in July, Wylie ISD trustees took care of some required business and heard educational updates, including the current status of STAAR scores. Items on the Monday, Aug. 19, agenda included adopting a tax rate for maintenance and operations (M&O), as...
By David Jenkins Staff Writer [email protected] McMillen High School’s Natalie New beat out 25 fellow students to win the grand prize during the school’s Dec. 8 science fair. There were several projects in the fields of Behavior and Social Science,...
From Staff Reports [email protected] Plano ISD student’s held their own during the prestigious Siemens Science Competition. Plano East Senior High twins Adhya and Shriya Beesam, members of the IB World School, continued as regional finalists in one-of-six...
By Joe Reavis Staff Writer [email protected] A representative of the Engineer Your World educational program sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin pitched the program to Rockwall Independent School District representatives last week with...
By Greg Ford Sports Editor [email protected] A Wylie offensive lineman is being treated for a stroke that he suffered during last Friday’s playoff game at Southlake Carroll. Junior offensive lineman Parker Cusey is currently hospitalized at the Baylor...
Life & Style
Having a cold is not fun. A stuffy nose, sniffles, sore throat, and other symptoms make having a cold a generally unpleasant experience. According to data collected by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the average con-sumer shops for over-the counter...
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Opinion
The Beatles had a song called, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The line, “…It was 20 years ago today…” reminded me of something that happened not 20 years ago, but 50 years ago. My father dragging me outside to put a storage building together. It was...
By Ray Miranda Several years ago, my wife and I went on a trip to visit friends in Mexico City. Our friends had a pretty sweet set up there. To give you an idea how sweet - when I asked the husband how many restrooms they had...before counting under his breath, he...
By Ed Sterling Legislation approved by the House and Senate last week reveal widely differing views on how to bring about tax relief to Texans in fiscal years 2016 and 2017. Speaker Joe Straus lauded the preliminary approval of House Bill 31, legislation to reduce the...
By Ed Sterling Legislation approved by the House and Senate last week reveal widely differing views on how to bring about tax relief to Texans in fiscal years 2016 and 2017. Speaker Joe Straus lauded the preliminary approval of House Bill 31, legislation to reduce the...
