The School Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) ensures public schools are held accountable for the quality of their financial management practices -- and that they improve these practices. According to the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the system...
The Princeton Independent School District will be allowed to sell $797 million in bonds to pay for eight new schools over the next decade. Unofficial final totals show voters in the Saturday, May 6, election approved the bond proposal by 66.41% to 33.59%, or 597 votes...
The Princeton Police Department placed Lacy Elementary School on a “soft lockdown” Friday, May 5, after getting a report of shots fired in 300 block of Bonnie View Drive shortly after 11:30 a.m.Officers searched the area and lifted the lockdown but issued an alert for...
A Pennsylvania teenager has been arrested on charges of making prank 911 “swatting” calls to six states, including Texas.Multiple agencies including law officers, firefighters and EMS personnel responded to an address on Meadow Creek Drive in Princeton after the...
Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner, right, with Sheriff Chris Swanson of Genesee County, Michigan. Swanson developed the IGNITE program for inmates in 2020. Sheriff Jim Skinner wants to reduce recidivism rates among Collin County jail inmates by offering a program...
Saturday, May 6, is V.I.P. day as VFW Bois D’Arc Post 9167, observes Veterans Impacting Princeton, a day of community in service of others. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold its second annual VFW Day of Service, an outgrowth of the organization’s...
By Bob Wieland | [email protected] Nearly 2 billion birds migrating through the United States in spring and fall pass through Texas. And many of them that fly by night can become confused by light pollution, slamming into buildings or other structures. To help...
In the city of Princeton, CCAD data shows a 23% increase in taxable value, from $2.45 billion to $3 billion. There was $385 million in value added because of new construction. PISD had a 22% increase in taxable value to $4 billion. Of the increase, $569 million was in...
Matthew DeLaney, 18, was shot by a stray bullet while at a game with Texas A&M-Texarkana Saturday, April 29. By Bob Wieland | [email protected] A former Princeton High School baseball player was hospitalized in stable condition but receiving intensive care...
