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Wylie Mayor Matthew Porter wants residents to know city leaders still deem the COVID-19 pandemic a serious matter and that they should follow guidelines on avoiding contracting the virus in their daily lives and at city buildings, even as the city repealed an...
Community ISD continues to grow - and it’s growing fast. Superintendent Roosevelt Nivens gave a state of the district recently at the Lavon Area Chamber of Commerce. “Since I’ve been here, we’ve added 1,000 kids,” said Nivens, who joined the district in 2015 in a...
A mural to beautify an area near downtown Wylie was rejected by Wylie City Council at its meeting in late February, although councilmembers were quick to applaud the effort and the artwork itself. Councilmembers balked at the design - an eyeball with a state of Texas...
Anyone paying attention to news of the coronavirus in the last year knows about the tremendous toll the virus has taken not only on the people fighting the vicious disease and their loved ones but also the people taking care of COVID-19 patients. Ashly Jarrett, a...
Kara Geller has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic firsthand, and she has seen how young people have reacted to the virus over the last year. Geller has been a nurse for 21 years and is in her 13th year with Wylie ISD. She is the campus nurse at Bush Elementary...
Public school students will take the STAAR test this year, and the Wylie ISD board approved a waiver at its Feb. 23 meeting to allow the process to go smoother regarding accommodating on-campus and remote learners. With the waiver, non-testing students will...
Charm and character and historic manner are the two top traits possessed by downtown Wylie, respondents said in a survey about downtown sanctioned by the North Central Texas Council of Governments. The respondents included both residents and stakeholders for...
Fire ripped through two homes in Wylie last week, including one that displaced 10 people. The other fire damaged a home of a family of four and their three cats. Wylie Fire Departments crews responded just before 8:45 p.m. Feb. 25 to the 400 block of Milford...
