All certified and non-certified Princeton ISD teachers will be getting a $2,000 per year pay raise, following a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees. The board emerged from a three-hour executive session and quickly approved the teacher raise, a 60 cent per hour...
Princeton city council adopted the 2018 property tax rate, a levy that is equal to the rollback rate along with the city’s budget at the Monday, Sept. 10 council meeting. Council approved the tax rate of 68.88 cents per $100 valuation, compared to last year’s rate of...
A fire that caused minor smoke damage to Princeton Flowers and Gifts and Rod’s Barber Shop is under investigation by the Collin County Fire Marshal’s Office. “This one just doesn’t make sense,” Collin County Fire Marshal Jason Browning said. Around 7:45 p.m. Monday,...
Thanks to a teacher grant from Princeton ISD, students in Kyle Lamothe’s AP class at PHS were able to measure their actual motions as they learned complex physics concepts. Lamothe’s students utilized the new live-streaming motion sensors and watched the information...
Princeton football’s home opener didn’t go quite as planned last Friday. After a near two-hour rain delay Red Oak came away with the 19-7 win. “We were disappointed to lose the game. Having that two-hour delay made things hard. It was good to get the game in though,”...
A slew of fall events will shortly be heralded in for the city and Princeton residents are invited to attend. The city of Princeton’s Lois Nelson Library Movie in the Park event will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 at the J.M. Caldwell Sr. Community Park. The...
It’s quite simple, really. We Texans have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are spent. It’s our money. We, the people, choose our government. Our elected public officials represent us. They manage and spend our tax money. But we, the people, get to decide...
It was a monumental feat. Climbing 110 flights of stairs in honor of those first responders who climbed their way to the top of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 after the towers were struck by terrorists. 343 firefighters, 70 police officers and eight EMS died...
Princeton firefighters, police officers and citizens gathered in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Sept. 11 to pay tribute and remember the fallen that were killed as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This includes the 343 firefighters, 60 police officers and...
