Wylie ISD trustees approved staff raises, adopted legislative priorities and recognized dozens of students during their Monday, May 18 meeting held at the Montgomery Center at Wylie High School. The meeting began with recognitions for the parent-teacher associations...
Editor’s note: First in a two-part series looking at David Vinson’s first 10 years as Wylie ISD superintendent David Vinson said he has loved every job he’s had, including his position now as superintendent of Wylie ISD. He became the school chief 10 years ago, in...
Tim Shelby left his work in retail - a national grocery chain and two pharmacy stores - to enter the teaching ranks. But while new teachers in Wylie ISD fall normally in the Millennial and Generation Z demographic, Shelby, at 63, is easily a generation removed. For...
There’s still no such thing as a free lunch, even if students don’t have to pony up any money at the cafeteria this year. The United States Department of Agriculture has issued extended waivers that will allow schools to offer free meals — breakfast and lunch — to...
Stock cars sizzle the Texas Motor Speedway track at speeds clocking in at more than 200 miles per hour during races. Solar cars designed and built don’t travel nearly that fast at TMS, but they’re not built for speed. Jacob Price and Muhammad Murtaza spent mid-July...
Today’s young people grow up in a time when they can watch a movie on multiple platforms that can feature a gazillion special effects. Flash back to only 100 years ago when movies had images but no sound. And they were shot in black and white, not in living color....
Wylie ISD students will return to class on Aug. 12. Bands from Wylie East and Wylie high schools have returned to practice. See more pictures of The Pride of The East and That Wylie Band in the Aug. 4 edition of the News.
A proposed development with residential and commercial components in Wylie has been rejected by the Wylie City Council. At their Tuesday meeting, councilmembers denied with prejudice a zoning change request from Agricultural to Planned Development to allow for a...
Jett Baker went away from home in June and enjoyed what he deemed was an “out of body experience.” Baker and other Boy Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 1776 had no access to phones, television, games or the internet, and yet they “had the time of our lives,” said Baker,...
