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Texas is experiencing a significant decline in rental affordability, worsening faster than the national average, and Collin County led the state with the highest share of low-income households spending more than one-third of their income on rent. That’s according to...
Wylie senior guard TJ Leonard is fouled as he soars through the air for a layup attempt during a District 9-6A boys basketball game against Lakeview Centennial on Tuesday, Jan. 31 from the Montgomery Center. Photo by Oladipo Awowale / C&S Media By David Wolman...
Wylie East senior Parker Overstreet (12), pictured in previous action, helped to lead the Raiders to the consolation championship in the gold division of the 84th Annual Dallas ISD Holiday Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 28. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By David...
Wylie senior Zamorah Parker, pictured in previous action, helped to lead the Lady Pirates to a 3-1 record in the 84th Annual Dallas ISD Holiday Invitational. Photo by Oladipo Awowale / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] One day after Christmas, the...
Wylie High School Theatre Pirate Players received 10 nominations, including Best Show, for their January production of “Beauty and the Beast.” Courtesy of Wylie ISD Wylie Independent School District experienced a year marked by growth, achievements and...
Sports
Wylie East sophomore Brayden Doolan scored five points in last Friday’s 56-42 loss to Naaman Forest. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] The Wylie East boys basketball team was unable to build on an eight-point second half...
The Wylie softball team was eliminated from the postseason Saturday at Lake Belton High School. After going up 1-0 in their three-game series against Bridgeland, the Pirates lost their final two games on Friday and Saturday as the Lady Bears advanced to the regional...
BELTON - The Wylie Pirates softball team scored three runs in the seventh inning to defeat Bridgeland in game one of the regional semifinals 5-2. Sydney Murphy was hitless in her first three at-bats of the game with a strikeout but stepped up to the plate with two...
The Wylie Pirates enter their spring workout season with plenty of expectations. Of course, when you finish a year 8-4, win a playoff game and lose to the eventual state champions, it’s easy to get excited for what could lie ahead. The Pirates did not have a...
Wylie East’s first season at the 6A level was a monumental success on the gridiron. Projected as one of the lower seeds in District 9-6A before the season, the Raiders won the district title, winning their first nine games of the year. While the team dropped its final...
Education
Resident art lovers have a unique opportunity to attend two public art lectures and an exhibit at the Collin College Wylie Campus in March. The campus will host an artist lecture series titled “Street Art and Contemporary Culture,” from Art Historian G. James...
By Nancy Whitney Staff Writer [email protected] The Wylie High School Pirate Debate Team recently traveled to Boston, MA to compete in the annual Harvard Debate tournament alongside two other local schools—Melissa High School and Lovejoy High School. “The...
From Staff Reports [email protected] Preparations for the opening of George W. Bush Elementary School for the 2016-’17 school year don’t just include construction. Wylie ISD officials have been looking for administration and faculty for the new school and...
By Nancy Whitney Staff Writer [email protected] Local students shared their visions for the future at the 2015-’16 North Texas Future City Competition. The competition, a national event for students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, provokes students to ask...
By Joe Reavis [email protected] Wylie East High School hosted 18 Junior ROTC teams earlier this month in the Wylie East Raider Nation Invitational, an event showcasing military drills, inspection and physical fitness. The competition was held Saturday, Feb. 6....
Life & Style
Hundreds of locals are whipping up entertainment and learning that quarantine can sometimes be sweet. Emily Guynes, a culinary teacher at Wylie High School, has found it easy to transfer her classes online since most people have kitchens. Although she had planned to...
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Opinion
Saddened. Embarrassed. Determined. These three words evoke distinct feelings and emotions. In the context of an opinion piece we ran in the paper four and a half years ago, they described the aftermath of a community that lost its newspaper. After 130 years in...
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