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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....
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...
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...
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...
Multiple agencies were called to Gantt Street in Princeton around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 for a fully involved structure fire. Princeton, Melissa, Lowry Crossing, Branch, McKinney and Farmersville firefighters arrived on scene to fight the blaze however the...
Growth and development is the name of the game right now in Princeton and city council discussed several items regarding the expansion of town at the Monday, Aug. 21 council meeting. Council talked about a possible zoning change for the Princeton Crossroads project,...
Work is well underway on Monte Carlo Blvd. to give the Princeton Public Works Department a new home, one that is big enough to keep equipment out of the elements, house the staff and even provide employees with places to park off the street. The new facility is being...
Princeton ISD reports a very smooth first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 17. There were 4,198 students who reported to campuses across the district, which is an increase of 156 students over the first day of 2016. The high school campus grew from 1,108 on the first...
