The CPKC Holiday Express will chug into town Monday, Dec. 9. It will be open for visit from 4-8 p.m. between W. Oak Street and West Marble Street. File art Rudy, the smiling CPKC Holiday Express, will pull its six cars of Christmas cheer into Historic Downtown Wylie...
Area arts and crafts vendors have through Friday, Oct. 30, to submit applications to participate in the annual Wylie Arts and Crafts Festival set for Saturday, Dec. 5. The city decided recently to proceed with the festival with some changes made to address health...
Wylie City Council members last week got a look at the architect’s vision of Wylie Fire-Rescue Station No. 4 and reviewed funding for the project that is slated to start in April 2021 and be completed in a year. Fire station discussion took place in a workshop...
On a split vote, Wylie City Council signed off on an agreement to settle a wholesale water rate case filed with the Public Utilities Commission in 2016 against North Texas Municipal Water District. The agreement would amend the way that wholesale water prices...
Early voting for the Nov. 3 General Election got off to a quick start last week in Wylie and throughout Collin County. The tally for the first day of early voting, Oct. 13, at the two voting centers in Wylie was 993 and for the entire county was 37,831. The...
Collin County residents should watch their mailboxes for 2020 property tax bills mailed this month from the office of county tax assessor. The county tax office each year prepares bills for 57 entities that assess property taxes, mailing more than 380,000...
Cooper Junior High School seventh grade student Zach Craft received a surprise last week when he was announced for submitting the name “Sentinel” for the newest Wylie Fire-Rescue truck. As part of the announcement Friday, Oct. 9, Craft was given a ride home in...
Scouts travel to ‘Land of the Midnight Sun’ Members of Boy Scout Troop 1776 headed north to Alaska during the summer for two weeks of hiking and camping amidst postcard picture scenery and wildlife. Members of the troop, chartered by Plano Rotary Club, are...
The annual fire prevention skit performed by the Wild Bunch acting troupe of Wylie Fire-Rescue changes this year from a live presentation at elementary schools to a video version because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming of the skit is tentatively set for...
