Good kids know Santa Claus visits every Christmas. But Saint Nick makes a preliminary foray into Murphy just to make sure he can find every home when he returns with his nine reindeer and a sleigh full of presents. To help, Murphy Fire Rescue is giving Santa a...
Collin County commissioners last week approved a $385 million budget for fiscal year 2020-21 while holding the line on property taxes. Commissioners met in regular session Monday, Aug. 24, to approve a budget that increased a little more than $3 million adopted for...
Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic. For many school districts, this meant greatly expanding the technological resources of their students to...
In an offseason that has been full of changes, uncertainty and frustration, Plano East is moving forward. Last season was about building the team around a young core. Many of the starters were underclassmen, including quarterback Dylan Hayden, who had transferred...
With the complexities surrounding the start of school this year, reading a rhyming book about an itty- bitty sloth going to school might be just what is needed to provide a dose of silly to the altered back-to-school experience. Murphy author Lori Yarborough...
Collin County commissioners almost pulled down the web dashboard reporting daily COVID-19 numbers, but decided instead to post a disclaimer stating that they do not trust the data. The discussion over virus reporting came a few days after the state, which provides...
Murphy residents will get a next chance to comment on the upcoming municipal government tax rate Sept. 8, when city council conducts one of two public hearings on the fiscal year 2021 city budget. The council set the hearing at its Aug. 18 meeting, declaring that...
A Celebrate Freedom Week social studies assignment at Cooper Junior High School drew a rebuke from parents and the Fraternal Order of Police yesterday for its use of an editorial cartoon seen as presenting police officers in a bad light. The cartoon featured panels...
A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week. To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial. The case was livestreamed on YouTube, and...
