Customers of Atmos Energy will be paying more for natural gas, effective Oct. 1. The Princeton City Council has approved a rate settlement negotiated between Atmos and a committee of cities it serves. The gas company says the average residential customer’s...
The two dozen members of Princeton’s Home Rule Charter Review Committee have been diligently dissecting the document adopted by voters in November 2022. Texas law allows such charters to be amended, altered or repealed no more often than every two years, and no...
There’s no place like foam—especially on a hot, summer day as local youth showed up to celebrate the Back-to-School season with foam, bounce houses, yard games and more Wednesday, July 30 at Caldwell Park. Tina Lopez/The Princeton Herald Last-minute preparations are...
A former felon from Princeton is going back to prison for 19 years after entering guilty pleas in federal court.Larry Wayne Culverhouse, 39, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, felon in possession of a firearm and...
The Princeton City Council has agreed to extend rural fire service protection through the end of November. The vote at council’s regular Monday, July 28, meeting came hours after Collin County commissioners put a proposal to create a countywide Emergency Services...
New houses like these under construction in the Arbor South development will add to next year’s tax base for Collin County and the Princeton Independent School District. The project is not part of the city’s moratorium on residential construction. Bob...
Many houses outside the Princeton City Limits are taxed by Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs). MUD No. 2 incudes Bridgewater, Tillage Farms, The Hollow, The Haven, Cypress Creek, Alcove, Acorn North and Acorn South. Bob Wieland/Princeton Herald Collin County residents...
Two seats on the Princeton Independent School District Board of Trustees are on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.Filing for candidates began July 19 and will end Monday, Aug. 18.As of Tuesday morning, July 29, no candidates had filed for the election, said Amy Ivy,...
Collin County residents who don’t live in cities will be asked whether the county should create an emergency services district (ESD) to provide fire protection, financed by taxes on their property.Following a Monday, July 28, hearing in McKinney, Collin County...
