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The Miss Wylie Juneteenth Scholarship Pageant will return later this month, offering local students an opportunity to compete for scholarships while developing leadership skills, confidence and community involvement. Hosted by the Juneteenth Organization of Wylie, the...
Balloting is officially underway for the Best of 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a long-standing C&S Media Publications annual tradition that recognizes the businesses, services and dining destinations readers value most across eastern Collin County. Each year,...
More than 30 new Texas laws took effect Jan. 1, ranging from immigration enforcement to evicting squatters, regulating technology, providing tax breaks and improving the state’s water infrastructure. About 800 other new laws passed this year by the Legislature took...
A Trader Joe's market store will be considered at a Jan. 6 meeting. The Wylie Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to consider a site plan for a proposed grocery store and retail development at its Jan. 6 meeting. Commissioners will review a request for Lot 6,...
Work began in July 2025 on the expansion of McKinney National Airport. A variety of news headlines affected Collin County residents during 2025, starting on January with a major measles outbreak that began in far West Texas. By the time the Texas Department of State...
Sports
Wylie senior forward Zach Alshali has been named to the Texas Association of Soccer Coaches Class 6A all-state honorable-mention team. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Players from the Wylie boys and girls soccer teams,...
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...
Jason Olford poses for a picture with his son, Jamal, a freshman defensive back for the James Madison University football team. Photo courtesy Jason Olford By David Wolman [email protected] Last Saturday’s weather forecast for Eugene, Ore., called for a reprieve...
Wylie East head track and field coach Jason Olford poses for a picture with his son, Jamal, a freshman for the James Madison University football team. Photo courtesy Jason Olford By David Wolman [email protected] Last Saturday’s weather forecast for Eugene,...
Wylie East senior Sidney Sanders and the Lady Raiders basketball team cruised to a 72-15 win over South Garland on Tuesday. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By Art Stricklin [email protected] GARLAND – Trailing 1-0 early in the first quarter against...
Education
WISD bus driver Julio Ospina, center, with Maritza Valentin, Liz Ospina, Jessie Murphy, Stephanie Meeks and Christie Hebert, received the 2025 Special Needs School Bus Driver of the Year award. Allison LaBrot / The Wylie News An act of care and quick thinking has...
Chloe Stovall, shown with Wylie High Theatre Director Polly Harrison and the school board, was recognized at last week’s meeting for being a Texas Thespian State finalist. Courtesy photo Superintendent David Vinson discussed an ambitious new effort at Wylie ISD’s...
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...
February is CTE Month, a national public awareness campaign that highlights the value and achievements of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. “It’s an opportunity to showcase our programs and to continue to educate the community about the things we are...
Boots ’N Barbecue, the largest fundraiser for the Wylie ISD Education Foundation, may be sold out, but there are still opportunities to get involved. The event, set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23, will happen at a new venue — the Plano Event Center— this year. Last...
Life & Style
Take an excursion aboard one of the many holiday trains with the kids or grandkids this season. Whether you’re young, old or somewhere in between and craving a memorable Christmas experience that doesn’t involve hours in the car searching for lights, gather your loved...
GSM announces 2020 season, new audition process In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, area theaters, along with theaters all over the world, are being forced to postpone or cancel auditions, rehearsals and productions. Because “The Show Must Go On,” the Garland Summer...
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...
COVID-19 has the public rethinking how they stay healthy -- both physically and mentally. Even those in good health can start to feel anxious and fearful when the words ‘pandemic’ and ‘social distancing’ are mentioned. But can you stay active and mentally healthy...
Members of the Farmersville Quilt Guild have been busy the last few weeks with a new sewing mission prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. The lack of masks currently available to those in the healthcare industry has not only affected hotspots across the country, but...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore grew up with just about everything coming from the Sears catalog. You can buy reprints of the old catalogs, such as the one pictured, which is available on Amazon. Photo: John Moore For much of the twentieth century, the Sears Roebuck catalog held...
Recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that six of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the United States from 2022 to 2023 were in Texas. According to the Texas Tribune, Kaufman County, just east of Dallas, led the list with a 7.6% increase in new...
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...
A wildfire in the Texas Panhandle has consumed more than 1 million acres and as of Sunday was just 15% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. It is the largest wildfire in Texas history. The Smokehouse Creek Fire is by far the most extensive of...
WASHINGTON DC, Feb 23 -- January Littlejohn is a stay-at-home mom and a licensed mental health counselor. In 2020, as Covid swept the nation, her 13-year-old daughter told her that “she no longer felt like a girl.” Her mom described it as a “devastating revelation” in...
