After months of hard work — voting, reviewing ballots and tallying results — the 2023 Best of results are in! This special section is one of my favorites because it is a celebration of local businesses and individuals who have been recognized by citizens for the hard...
More than 100 residents of McKinney and surrounding communities have raised questions about noise and traffic congestion that could result from expanding McKinney National Airport. McKinney City Council members voted Tuesday, Feb. 7, to put a $200 million bond...
Mayor Brianna Chacon points out traffic across Veterans Memorial Park to Councilman Bryan Washington, City Manager Derek Borg and DeShawyna Walker, EDC/CDC coordinator. Princeton officials have started getting serious about revitalizing the city’s downtown area. In...
By John Moore It saw a T-shirt that said, “I like a couple of my buddies, my dog, and that’s about it.” It substantiated what I had long felt, seldom said, and had heard from others. Many of us like our dogs better than most people. And I don’t think there’s anything...
Fifty teachers in the Princeton ISD will be getting thousands of dollars in bonus checks for the next five years under the Texas Incentive Allotment (TIA) approved by the Legislature in 2019, the PISD said. House Bill 3 created the TIA to recruit, support and...
New enrollment figures show PISD continues to add students as Princeton grows with more people moving into the district. “We’re still growing,” Superintendent Donald McIntyre said as he reported enrollment figures to trustees at the school board’s regular...
Fourteen women took part in Women’s Build Day 2023, helping to construct a new home for Amanda Martinez and her family in Princeton. Volunteers included employees of Benchmark Bank and Preston Trail Community Church, said Celeste Cox, CEO of Habitat for Humanity...
Joe Minissale, a candidate for Place 3 on the Collin College Board of Trustees running against incumbent Stacey Donald and challenger Cathie Alexander, said the two most pressing issues facing the board are county growth and meeting student’s educational needs....
Incumbent Fred Moses, who faces Megan Wallace in his re-election bid for Place 1 on the Collin College Board of Trustees, said he values what Collin College brings to the community. “It is an invaluable resource to our community,” Moses said. “I graduated from a...
