Trinity Falls Crawfish Boil Nets $1,500+ for North Texas Food Bank
Trinity Falls’ recent Crawfish Boil on the Rue served up 2,200 pounds of crawfish to the approximately 1,500 attendees, but even more importantly, the annual food fest raised more than $1,500 for the North Texas Food Bank. Held March 9 after being postponed from a...
Anna Chamber awards a big hit
On February 23, the Greater Anna Area Chamber of Commerce held their Eleventh Annual Awards Banquet. Every year, the chamber recognizes the heavy hitters of the community by hosting a banquet filled with food, laughter, socializing and awards. This year was no...
Secondary teachers receive annual awards
Secondary education schoolteachers of the year were presented awards Monday, March 18 by the Princeton Independent School District. Each teacher was required to write an essay on why they are a teacher and the writings are engraved on plaques, which they received when...
Princeton ISD Pride Corps award winners announced
Elementary school teachers of the year were presented awards Monday, Feb. 25 by the Princeton Independent School District. Each teacher was required to write an essay on why they are a teacher and the writings are engraved on plaques, which the educators then received...
Prosper Missions win big at Collin County Classic
The Prosper Missions baseball club claimed three tournament championships at the recent Collin County Classic, a local baseball tournament made of teams from the community leagues of Prosper, Allen, Plano, Frisco and McKinney. Representing the Town of Prosper, the...
Folsom Elementary School student named a national finalist in Doodle for Google contest
Out of over 180,000 doodles submitted from 53 states and U.S. territories, Sia Srivastava, a Folsom Elementary School student, was selected as the Texas state winner, as well as one of the top five national finalists in the 10th annual Doodle for Google contest. After...
Piecing together the past: McKinney resident leads Celina cemetery restoration effort
The physics of finding hidden headstones is easy for Tim Montgomery. “A headstone will either fall forward or backwards from the base,” the retired eighth-grade science teacher said. “So if the base is there, all we do is take a shovel and shove it down into the...
Handmade, homemade, homegrown: Friday Night Markets on Celina’s Historic Square bring community together
When Michelle Baggett began organizing the Friday Night Markets on Celina’s Historic Square, she was sure she did not want a bounce house. “I wanted there to be rules and guidelines,” she said. “I want to be able to go and have a glass of wine and not see a bounce...
St. Mark to honor pastor with month long celebration
St. Mark Baptist Church will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of Senior Pastor Charles Samuel Wattley, who has been part of the church since childhood, with a month of special guests throughout September at the church, 1308 Wilcox St. in McKinney. Guests will...
Anna’s Tutson earns track gold, heads to state
COMMERCE – Anna senior Tamaya Tutson claimed the gold medal in the 400-meter dash on Saturday, April 28, at the Class 4A Region II Track and Field Championships at Texas A&M-Commerce, punching her ticket to the state meet in Austin, May 11-12. Tutson’s first-place...