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Wylie ISD trustees opened last week’s regular meeting with public comments centered on a controversy involving the distribution of religious materials at Wylie East High School. According to the district, women affiliated with the organization Why Islam, along with...
Wylie East players run out of the dugout to celebrate with senior Nash Aylor after he scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning in an 8-7 home win over Wylie on Monday, April 21. Photo by Elijah Kloepping / C&S Media By David Wolman...
An individual who tested positive for measles recently visited several public locations in Plano while infectious, prompting a warning from Collin County Health Care Services. The individual was in the area on April 10 and April 11 and visited three shopping venues...
McMillen Road was originally slated to be completed in May 2025. Chad Engbrock / The Wylie News McMillen Road construction delays cause frustration for home, business owners Attendance at last week’s Wylie City Council meeting was higher than usual, largely...
Authentic Unlimited will headline the event. Courtesy Photo Bluegrass on Ballard, the annual music and arts festival, is set to return to historic downtown Wylie on Saturday, May 31. This year’s event will feature a day of fun for the whole family, complete with live...
Sports
By David Wolman [email protected] The University Interscholastic League held realignment day Monday for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years. And for Wylie and Wylie East, hardly anything will change. Wylie and Wylie East will remain in District 9-6A with...
Coach David Cazabat calls out instruction as the football campers shuffle through a drill. Wylie East had a terrific turnout at last week’s youth football camp. (Austin Smith/The Wylie News) (More Photos) The Wylie East football program put on their annual youth...
Richard Hellewell and Carter Tadlock compete in an obstacle course during Wylie’s youth camp last week. To keep things fun and competitive, the kids all took part in the course that involved hurdles, throwing a ball into designated pockets in the net and a push sled....
Storms can’t halt excitement for young soccer campers Despite the weather, plenty of future soccer stars got to come to Wylie’s girls camp last week. There, the Wylie coaches put them through various drills to help sharpen their game. (Austin Smith/The Wylie...
Coach Heath Andrews demonstrates a drill during last week’s youth baseball camp. Coach Andrews had to get creative with after weather forced portions of the camp indoors last week. (Austin Smith/The Wylie News) (More Photos) While the kids are officially out for...
Education
Ray Jackson, center, wearing medal was celebrated as a Wylie Way award winner at the Monday, Nov. 18, board of trustees meeting. Courtesy Wylie ISD During the regular Board of Trustees meeting held on Nov. 18, 2024, the Wylie Independent School District (WISD)...
It’s not everyday someone from a small town like Wylie gets noticed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Freshman Christian Johnson was nominated to attend the National Academy of Future Science and Technology Congress, a membership organization chartered in 2014 to inspire...
A second Wylie Independent School District student, Aidan Gardiner, received word this month that he aced the ACT college admissions test with a perfect score of 36. Gardiner, 17, is a junior student at Wylie High School and the son of John and Heidi Gardiner of...
By achieving a perfect score on the ACT college admissions test, Wylie East High School junior student Jaxson Hill joined a select group of one-tenth of one percent of students who ace the test. A perfect score is 36 on a test that measures English, mathematics,...
Working steadily to improve their class standings paid off this spring as Segen Gilazgi and Victoria Bradley claimed the two top spots in the Class of 2018 at Wylie High School. Gilazgi posted a 5.698 grade point average as valedictorian and Bradley was close behind...
Life & Style
Having made it to their golden years, many seniors have the extra time to devote to recreational pursuits, but it often comes with a limited budget. Instead, seniors can arm themselves with their earned wisdom and discover the multiple travel perks that come with...
One great way to connect with a particular culture is to listen to the music that culture produces. Such is the case with Hispanic and Latin culture, which has made numerous contributions to the world’s musical landscape. Hispanic music is vast and nuanced. Certain...
Amazed By You is a wig and fashion boutique located at 113 W. Oak Street in Historic Downtown Wylie. Amazed By You opened March 18, 2011. Owner, Gail Parker, is a breast cancer survivor and will celebrate her eight-year cancer-free birthday March 2016. Gail has a part...
Courtesy Photo Clay Mobley performs with his Ballard Street Band. Country singing WEHS senior continues to search for his star Growing up in a musical family with a steady diet of watching performances definitely had an influence on Wylie East High School senior Clay...
Young entrepreneur Matt Morton builds on his life experiences to open his own business Flipping over a page of scratch paper, Matt Morton, owner of the Jimmy John’s located off of FM 544, sketches out a couple of randomly placed dots. “Have you ever heard the Steve...
Opinion
I hate pine needles. Growing up in Arkansas will do that to you. Pine trees are everywhere in Ashdown, Arkansas. They are pretty much everywhere throughout the Natural State. Pine trees brought the paper mills, which brought the paper mill employees, which...
By Ray Miranda Lead pastor, Story Church, Wylie As I sit at Starbucks, I’m remembering a TV show I love called Chuck (2007-2012, NBC). If you haven’t seen it, it’s a show about a young “computer geek” that downloads government secrets to his brain and two...
By Ed Sterling Member services director, Texas Press Association AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott as of June 4 had not signed Senate Bill 1, the 2018-2019 state budget finally approved by both houses of the 85th Texas Legislature on May 27. SB 1 appropriates $216.8...
By Keith Spurgin Lead pastor of New Hope Christian Church in Wylie Several years ago I was going through a difficult time. I was getting a ton of criticism publicly and privately. It was painful, disconcerting, and confusing. I was down and discouraged. In the...
By Ed Sterling Member services director for the Texas Press Association. His column is a weekly aggregation of news about the state's government. AUSTIN — State lawmakers worked through rapidly shrinking lists of bills as daily procedural deadlines took...
