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If you’re the parents/guardians of elementary school-age children, the News is collecting Letters to Santa again this year. The letters will be printed in the December 21 edition of The Wylie News. Please print out the attached document, have your child write their...
The Wylie East basketball team just missed out on the playoffs last season but is ready to step up to the 6A level. Under first-year head coach Brent Kelley, Wylie East finished sixth in the district standings last season, but saw major strides taken from the season...
Wylie residents looking for some ho, ho, holiday fun this December should mark down the first weekend of December for events that even Santa himself won’t miss. The annual Wylie Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting will take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in downtown...
A newly implemented state requirement was the subject of a report during the most recent Wylie ISD Board of Trustees meeting. The districtwide intruder detection audit was presented by Assistant Superintendent of Student Services Scott Winn and Director of School and...
Local community leaders, businesspeople and nonprofit organizations gathered for a first-time breakfast to honor the contributions of a local food pantry. Wylie Christian Care Week typically takes place about a week before Thanksgiving and is a major fundraising...
Sports
It’s been a difficult start the season for the Wylie Pirates basketball team, but reinforcements are on the way as they prepare for a long district season. The Pirates finished second in District 9-6A last season with a 12-2 district record but hope to be able to...
The Wylie East basketball team just missed out on the playoffs last season but is ready to step up to the 6A level. Under first-year head coach Brent Kelley, Wylie East finished sixth in the district standings last season, but saw major strides taken from the season...
Wylie East and Wylie finished first and second respectively in the District 9-6A standings and earned postseason accolades to show. Terrell Washington Jr led the way for the district champion Raiders, who won the 9-6A title in their first season in UIL's top...
The Wylie Pirates season came to an end Friday night at McKinney ISD Stadium, losing 41-0 to the Duncanville Panthers. The Panthers scored all 41 points in the first half as they held the Pirates to negative yardage over the first two quarters. Wylie quarterback...
It was a nail-biter until the end in Wylie East’s bi-district playoff matchup with the Rockwall-Heath Hawks. Neither team was able to gain much momentum offensively, but an experienced Heath team prevailed, giving the Raiders a first-round exit by a final score...
Education
Four Wylie ISD trustee positions were on the line today and the two incumbents and two former high school principals hold comfortable leads over their challengers. Collin County election results show 64 of 105 voting centers as of 11:12 p.m. this evening and over...
Two Wylie East AFJROTC cadets who attended the Youth Leadership Conference at Texas A&M University College Station in July had the opportunity to thank those who made it possible at a luncheon held in their honor recently. Senior Treyden Hallan and Junior...
Visitors to Wylie’s In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Educational Center will have a new and improved booth where they can find much-needed information thanks to the efforts of three local Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts from Troop 6541, Kaitlyn Hodges, 14, Katie...
Jeffrey Keech — who is running for Place 2 on the Wylie ISD Board of Trustees — says two issues facing the school board are the budget and some of the curriculum in schools. He says the budget is growing at an “unsustainable rate,” having increased by 24% more than...
Place 5 candidate Kevin Brooks says he is seeking a trustee position to rebuild trust between constituents and the school board trustees. “Parents, teachers, students, staff, voters and administration will once again know they are not the adversaries, but we are their...
Life & Style
If you’re the parents/guardians of elementary school-age children, the News is collecting Letters to Santa again this year. The letters will be printed in the December 21 edition of The Wylie News. Please print out the attached document, have your child write their...
Long before Collin County residents headed to the polls for early voting in the Primary Election last month, volunteers belonging to a decades-old association logged many hours behind the scenes to ensure voters were registered and informed. When Texas women finally...
Donnette Smith will lead you on a path of crime, intrigue, romance and suspense in her latest novel, a fantasy/paranormal thriller set in Farmersville involving a fictional cop named Cole Rainwater and his former high school sweetheart — now psychic — Jenna Langely....
After a few years of growing the typical Texas flowers; pansies in the winter, impatiens in the summer in the normal front flowerbeds, homeowner Kori Hendrix realized she wanted more variety and more gardens at her Wylie home. There was ample opportunity to make...
Students and families faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift to remote learning and shortened school days, forced students to adapt to virtual school on the fly as parents adjusted to working from home full-time and managing their children’s...
Opinion
“Oh, waiter. There’s a bean in my chili.” So goes the encounter every Southerner dreads when he orders a bowl of red and is served chili with beans. There are certain missteps in the South that are unforgivable. Asking a girl out without clearing it first with her...
I write this from my chemo chair as I undergo another day or treatment in my cancer journey. I’m blessed by friends who drive me to treatment and rides back home. The treatment itself is lonely. I sit in the chair while they hang bag after bag of meds for infusion...
When I was a kid in the early 1970s, the Fouke Monster was around every corner. At least, that was how I saw things as a 10-year-old. For those who aren’t familiar with this Sasquatch-like creature, the Fouke Monster allegedly roamed (some say, still roams) the river...
I didn’t want to do it. It had been on my calendar awhile and as it got closer, I wanted to be part of it less and less. You know what that's like, don’t you? We only have so many open spaces on our calendar and when there is something on there that we don’t want to...
The old question, “Where would you go first if you had a time machine?” is an easy one to answer for me. I’d visit all of my favorite long-since-gone childhood cafes, diners, and restaurants. Not all, but one stop may soon be possible, without the help of H.G. Wells....
