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Oh so close

Oh so close

Celina’s Noah Ross manages to elude the tackle from Princeton’s Dillon Moncier last Friday in the season opener at Bobcat Stadium. Celina came away with a 34-26 win. For the story and additional photos see this week’s Sports.

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Fall events around the corner

Fall events around the corner

Applications are being accepted to participate in a pair of Princeton events this fall, the Community Garage Sale and Fall Festival. The Community Garage Sale set for Saturday, Sept. 23, gives residents an opportunity to clear out their attics and garages while...

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Texting while driving ban starts today

Texting while driving ban starts today

Starting today it becomes illegal to text while driving in Texas. During the regular session of the 85th Texas Legislature, the use of handheld devices to read, write or send an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle became a misdemeanor offense. Gov. Greg...

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Princeton gas stations experience lines, shortage

Princeton gas stations experience lines, shortage

  In a throwback to the Arab Oil Embargo in 1974, lines are forming at gas stations as motorists top off their tanks and fuel distributors are running out of the commodity. Gas retailers throughout Princeton and around North Texas started experiencing shortages...

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Comprehensive Plan on tap

Comprehensive Plan on tap

Growth in Princeton has rendered its Comprehensive Plan obsolete, so city council members this week agreed to an update that will, among other things, coordinate various community improvement efforts currently underway. The council met in regular session Monday, Aug....

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Arson investigation continues after house fire

Arson investigation continues after house fire

An arson investigation is underway after a house fire took place Saturday, Aug. 26. Emergency services was dispatched to a fully involved structure on Gantt Street behind Lacy Elementary School around 11:30 a.m. The vacant structure was the former location of Rainbow...

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PISD to outfit all school buses with seatbelts

PISD to outfit all school buses with seatbelts

After action decided by the Princeton ISD school board, $600,000 will be spent on school safety in the form of seatbelts for school buses. At the Monday, Aug. 21 board meeting, school board members voted to spend the money on all buses in the district’s fleet to...

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Help heads to Rockport after hurricane, flooding

Help heads to Rockport after hurricane, flooding

Category 4 hurricane winds. More than 30 inches of rain. Catastrophic. Life threatening. The worst in more than 50 years. With Hurricane Harvey still creating chaos and rain off the coast of Texas displacing many of the state’s southern residents, local first...

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