Jeff Avery with his 1969 C10 Chevrolet pickup, winner of the Truck of the Year, at the C10 Nationals. Courtesy photo Jeff Avery has a couple of pickup trucks parked at his Sachse home, though he doesn’t drive them much. Instead, he shows them at competitions where...
North Texans endure some steamy temperatures in the good ole summertime, especially these last several days. But people also are encountering something to match the temps of late - a hot market for real estate. Dawn Atkins, broker associate from Richard Parker Real...
Eno Benjamin enjoyed walking back into Wylie Stadium last week, remembering the great times he had with teammates playing football for the Wylie East Raiders. The former Wylie East football player wasn’t here on June 19 to play a football game, though. But he was...
Board members for civic and oversight organizations can come and go, but John Yeager stayed a long spell for the group he served. That duration was close to three decades. Yeager will retire from the Wylie Economic Development Corporation board at the end of June. A...
Brennen Lunsford and Garrett Scamperle have a thing or two in common - both Wylie Fire-Rescue employees are in their 20s and were inspired to seek their vocation by people who worked in the fire service. They have something else in common now, too: They both were...
Gretchen Tschetter found a way to help people and earn personal awards, too, by building and donating cabinets that hold food and other items. A rising senior at Wylie High School and St. Paul resident, Gretchen belongs to the American Heritage Girls organization,...
Soccer. It all comes back to soccer. Ask Elliott Janway about his activities at Wylie East, and the first to come to mind is the sport known as the “beautiful game.” The Wylie East senior played center-middle field for the Raiders soccer team. His efforts on the field...
All Wylie ISD personnel would receive a raise in the next school year, as the Wylie ISD board members consider the school budget at their meeting Monday, June 21, with the tax rate to be considered in August. The general fund budget (balanced) is expected to be...
Residents wanting another way to return to normalcy can find all sorts of fun at Wylie Jubilee Bluegrass on Ballard, the free annual event to be held June 26 in Wylie. The festival, canceled last year because of the pandemic, offers music, car show, chili cook-off and...
