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Wylie Planning and Zoning approved two site plans and recommended a large-scale zoning change during its Tuesday, April 7 meeting. The projects are tied to roadway construction, retail growth and future industrial development. Commissioners approved a request...
Hope for the Cities set a $50,000 goal for North Texas Giving Day. The nonprofit provides financial assistance, food, housing support for families in crisis. North Texas Giving Day returns Sept. 18, offering residents in Wylie, Sachse, Murphy and surrounding...
Conroe ISD announced Wednesday, Aug. 27, that Wylie ISD Superintendent David Vinson has been named its lone finalist for the top leadership post, succeeding Curtis Null, who was hired by Lake Travis ISD. The news prompted Wylie ISD’s Board of Trustees to inform...
Former State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, who represented District 89 in the Texas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, has died, officials announced Monday, Sept. 1. Laubenberg, a Republican, represented a Collin County district that includes Allen, Fairview, Lavon,...
Vinson named lone finalist for Conroe ISD superintendent. Conroe ISD announced Wednesday, Aug. 27, that Wylie ISD Superintendent David Vinson has been named its lone finalist for the top leadership post. The news prompted Wylie ISD’s Board of Trustees to inform the...
Sports
Wylie junior Jonathan Kassa (9) scored a goal in the Pirates' 6-1 win over Duncanville in the area round of the Class 6A Division I playoffs Tuesday at Williams Stadium. Photo by Tina Lopez / C&S Media By Mark Saldana [email protected] GARLAND — The Wylie...
Wylie freshman Anabelle Angeles earned first place in the Clay Hinton Invitational with a time of 12 minutes, 51 seconds. Submitted photo By David Wolman [email protected] With the Wylie Pirates cross-country team deciding not to run several of its top varsity...
Wylie junior middle blocker Aubrey DeGrate (13) helped to lead her club team to a national title in the USA Junior Volleyball Nationals and last year was named the District 9-6A blocker of the year. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman...
Victor Expo secures the ball with both hands during Monday's practice. Photo by Oladipo Awowale / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] The Plano East, Sachse, Wylie and Wylie East football teams returned to the field Monday morning for the first day...
Wylie senior outside hitter Peyton Stade (7) helped to lead the Lady Pirates past the bi-district round of the playoffs last season for the first time in four years. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman [email protected] Last season proved...
Education
Student recognitions and new leadership appointments kicked off last week’s Wylie ISD board meeting, before trustees turned their attention to next year’s budget. The board welcomed Mary Zucha as the new principal of Cooper Junior High, following the promotion of...
When outlining their future goals, there is nothing abstract about the paths Wylie High School seniors Sydney Morrison and Riley Cook are following. Armed with the affirmation of art school scholarships, they are on the brink of discovering where their skills will...
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...
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...
Life & Style
In the past decade, backyards have evolved from simple spaces with patios or decks into extensions of our homes—versatile, tranquil sanctuaries designed for rest and renewal. Whether you're looking to boost your home's value or simply carve out a personal oasis,...
Did you know that the choices your local grocery store makes can have a global impact on the environment? From the types and brands of seafood sold to the way foods are packaged and carried out of the store, oceans worldwide are affected by the operations of grocers...
Wylie resident Shari Junqueira wanted to give her 14-year-old daughter, Gia, a vacation that went beyond beaches or cruises. She wanted to provide her daughter an experience that she would remember. An Asian elephant sanctuary in Hugo, Okla. proved to be just the...
Keep the excitement of the new school year going by finding fun ways to encourage learning at home. Consider introducing interactive and engaging books into your household that make STEAM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) more accessible....
Texas shoppers can save a little money the weekend of Aug. 10-12 when sales taxes are eliminated on most clothing and school supplies priced less than $100. Savings amount to about eight percent of the purchase price, sometimes a little more, during the annual Texas...
Opinion
Columnist John Moore recently pulled over to buy fruit from a roadside stand. It reminded him of home. Courtesy John Moore There’s a rhythm to the seasons that you can feel in your bones when you grow up in a place like southwest Arkansas. Long before supermarkets...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is battling back against seven top aides who accuse him of bribery and abuse of office. The aides delivered the accusations in a letter to the agency’s human resources director. The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV obtained and...
Texas’ first- and third-largest cities could be in daily commuting distance from each other via the high-speed Texas Central Railroad. Proponents of the proposed bullet train hailed two historic milestones last week: The Federal Railroad Administration released its...
Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic. For many school districts, this meant greatly expanding the technological resources of their students to...
A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week. To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial. The case was livestreamed on YouTube, and...
