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...
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,...
A rising senior at Wylie East High School died July 15 after suffering injuries from a dirt car racing accident July 10 at a track outside Greenville. Caleb Couch, 17, was taken from the track by CareFlite to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, where he died. The crash happened at the Superbowl Speedway, said Richard Hill, […]
Kunal Kapur’s Eagle Scout project took him to the Wylie Police Department. The 18-year-old from Lucas, who gradated this spring from Lovejoy High School, wanted to help children whose families faced a traumatic situation, so he decorated and provided furnishings for...
People wanting to help those who have been victimized by crime can do so now by donating items to the Wylie Police Department’s Evening of Empowerment. Evening of Empowerment is an event organized by various nonprofit organizations, crime victim advocates and...
A seven-person panel has recommended the design for artwork to be displayed in front of the new Wylie fire station. The panel selected the design of a fireman kneeling and the names of the 343 firefighters who perished during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
