The increased funding will allow the All Neighbors Coalition to sustain and expand the strategies that have been successful, President and CEO of Housing Forward Sarah Kahn said. Courtesy of Housing Forward The All Neighbors Coalition, a collective of over 140...
PISD develops plan for growth
Members of the Princeton Independent School District School Board were in for a shock as they were presented with information from long-range planning. Recently, the district started long-range planning for the next 10 years with a group of citizens. These citizens...
Residents help homeless at Christmas
Christmas spirit means different things to a variety of people but for Princeton citizens and residents helping others is at the top of the list. One way this spirit was shown during the holidays was a large event at VFW Post 9167 in conjunction with Our Helping...
What’s ahead: Home, away contests on schedule
Princeton girls basketball has a pair of predistrict contests on tap this week. They opened Tuesday, Dec. 18 with Canton and 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21 host Sunnyvale. “Canton, at 17-1, is a top, state ranked, very strong team. Their style of play and ours is very...
Opinion: I got an early Christmas present and it’s awesome
Does your family have a tradition of giving an early Christmas present? Maybe it’s on Christmas Eve in anticipation of Santa’s coming? Our family does have an early gift tradition, but this year I received one even earlier than I could have imagined. It was delivered...
Former Mayor J.M. Caldwell Sr. dies; services Monday
The community is in mourning after civic leader and former mayor J.M. Caldwell Sr., 95, died Wednesday, Dec. 12. Caldwell’s son, John-Mark Caldwell, currently holds the seat as Princeton’s mayor. J.M. was the mayor of Princeton from 1969 to 1971. In 2004, he was...
Downtown vision project results presented at meeting
A vision for downtown was the topic of conversation by city council at a recent meeting. An update about the project was presented at the Monday, Dec. 10 city council meeting from Kimley-Horn, the firm the city uses for planning and engineering. The downtown vision...
Veterans tax benefit bill support sought
Veterans and their support organizations are rallying behind a bill that will go before Texas legislators in January 2019. The bill will provide severely disabled Texas veterans a tax break on their home’s property taxes in an effort to prevent veteran homelessness....
Sixth graders fund Angel tree with Shark Tank projects
Some organizations get clever when it comes to finding ways to fund their charity. The pre-AP Huddleston math classes opened a store to raise money to adopt angels. Mark Cuban might be missing from this scenario, but everything else is in place for a full-blown Shark...