Texas is home to five of the nation’s fastest-growing counties by population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with Collin County ranked No. 2. From July of 2024 to July 2025, Collin County grew by 3.4%, adding 42,966 people for a total just under 1.3...
Wylie East's Kaiden Lubojacky swings through a knee high pitch against McKinney North last Wednesday in the opening game of the Class 5A Region II quarterfinals. Wylie won the opener 4-2 at John Paul II and finale 6-4 at Allen High School. For more photos, click here....
The town hall at St. Paul is undergoing a major facelift that will reorient the front of the building and reconfigure the interior to create separate offices for employees and a conference room. For the next five months, city business is to be transacted out of a...
Wylie Fire-Rescue firefighters team up with Muscular Dystrophy Association for the annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign June 5-7. Firefighters will be stationed at the intersections of S. Birmingham Street and Kirby Street; McCreary Road and Riverway Lane; and WA...
The result of years of tasting and tweaking to develop the perfect ice cream soon will be available to downtown Wylie visitors with the opening of OMG Creamery at 100 N. Ballard Ave. The ice cream parlor is the brainchild of longtime Wylie resident Ken Swayze whose...
Wylie youth honored their faith, families and veterans during a Performing Arts Showcase last month. Students from Wylie Preparatory Academy, a university-model school sprawled across 14 acres on Skyview Court, took the stage Friday, April 26, at Firewheel Bible...
Seven WHS students were named as finalists, out of 1225 entries, and from 20 different schools, in the 48th Annual Collin County Poetry Society contest on Sunday, April 28, at the Church Street Auditorium in McKinney. The event was hosted by the Mockingbird Chapter of...
One Wylie teenager is collecting donations for an often-overlooked area of life. Carrie Dobbs, 17, is in the process of completing her Gold Award project for Girl Scouts. She decided to partner with the organization I Support the Girls, a nonprofit dedicated to...
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of a dissolved marriage, Kari Clemmer of Murphy combined the positives of rearing three successful daughters with research to develop The Co-Parenting Workshop to teach others about parenting after divorce. The 4-hour workshop...
