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The Wylie ISD Board of Trustees has a new president, Jacob Day, following his being elected by acclamation at the regular meeting Monday, Nov. 13. The former WISD teacher was first elected to the board in 2018. Day is replacing Stacie Smith, who the board elected by...
Wylie Wisecrackers Toastmasters (WWT) is a mouthful, in more ways than one. “Our premise is helping people become more comfortable with public speaking,” WWT Vice President of Education and Public Relations Gary Moore said. Moore has been a member of Toastmasters...
A new planned development will bring several new dining options to Sachse in the next year. Construction on Bunker Hill Retail Center began this week and a groundbreaking ceremony held last week included several members of council including Mayor Jeff Bickerstaff. By...
Dozens of city employees, educators and sponsors showed up for the monthly Sachse Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week. Sponsored by Ariel Pointe Senior Living, the event at Chase Oaks Woodbridge Campus on Nov. 14 featured a speech from Wylie ISD Superintendent...
Rising food prices have led to more visitors at local food pantries and the holiday season will be one of the busiest times of the year. But those needing extra help have several nearby options for assistance. Located at 4401 Williford Road in Sachse, 5 Loaves is a...
Sports
Sachse’s Brendon Haygood (28) ran for 220 yards in the loss to Rockwall-Heath, including a 73-yard touchdown on the Mustangs’ first offensive snap. Photo by Austin Smith GARLAND – On a night where Sachse and Rockwall-Heath combined for 98 points,...
The Sachse Lady Mustangs had quite a run, beating Rockwall on Tuesday, then giving No. 1 Grand Oaks one of their toughest contests of the year. Photo by Austin Smith LUFKIN – The Sachse Lady Mustangs went toe-to-toe with Class 6A’s top-ranked team in...
Sachse will play Grand Oaks in the Regional Semifinals Friday, Nov. 10 in Lufkin. Photo by Austin Smith The Sachse Lady Mustangs took their revenge on Rockwall in Tuesday’s Regional Quarterfinal matchup at Richardson High School. While the Lady Yellowjackets took the...
The Sachse Lady Mustangs are Area champs after defeating Weiss last Friday to extend their season to the Regional Quarterfinals. The Sachse Lady Mustangs (31-12) continue to roll as they swept the Weiss Lady Wolves (28-9) in straight sets (25-15, 25-18, 25-16) on...
Brenden George (16) and the Mustangs are poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Photo by Oladipo Awowale The Sachse Mustangs (8-2, 8-0) wrapped up the regular season in style on Friday night with a 56-19 victory over North Garland (2-8, 2-6). Averaging a...
Education
The Wylie ISD Board of Trustees has a new president, Jacob Day, following his being elected by acclamation at the regular meeting Monday, Nov. 13. The former WISD teacher was first elected to the board in 2018. Day is replacing Stacie Smith, who the board elected by...
Dozens of city employees, educators and sponsors showed up for the monthly Sachse Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week. Sponsored by Ariel Pointe Senior Living, the event at Chase Oaks Woodbridge Campus on Nov. 14 featured a speech from Wylie ISD Superintendent...
Wylie ISD Education Foundation members and volunteers spent two days celebrating teachers last week. Members loaded into a “party bus” and made visits to schools across the district with pompoms, noisemakers, confetti, bells, whistles and oversized checks. By Jeremy...
Garland ISD students and faculty received accolades all around at last month’s trustee meeting. As one of eight high schools in GISD, Sachse High School was one of five of the district’s schools recognized for being named among the Best Public High Schools in the...
It was an early start for the 27 Wylie ISD construction students, two teachers and handful of city employees who met at City Hall on a gloomy Wednesday last week. The Manufacturing Day tour, “Anatomy of a Construction Project,” started at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25,...
Life & Style
A musical based on the popular 1988 MGM film, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” will take the stage at the Granville Arts Center July 21-30 in Garland Summer Musicals’ second — and final– production of the season. The show, directed by J. Alan Hanna and produced by Patty...
If you’re the parents/guardians of elementary school-age children, the News is collecting Letters to Santa again this year. The letters will be printed in the December 22 edition of The Sachse News. Please print out the attached document, have your child write their...
If you’re the parents/guardians of elementary school-age children, the News is collecting Letters to Santa again this year. The letters will be printed in the December 23 edition of The Sachse News. Please print out the attached PDF, have your child write their...
After a few years of growing the typical Texas flowers; pansies in the winter, impatiens in the summer in the normal front flowerbeds, homeowner Kori Hendrix realized she wanted more variety and more gardens at her Wylie home. There was ample opportunity to make...
Students and families faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift to remote learning and shortened school days, forced students to adapt to virtual school on the fly as parents adjusted to working from home full-time and managing their children’s...
Opinion
If you look at what’s missing from this great land, it’s, a barstool on which to sit, good home cookin’, and a counter on which to eat it. The diners of yesterday need a revival. By John Moore For more on this story see the November 23, 2023 print, or...
The late comedian Norm McDonald once joked about how just a century and a half ago, our great grandfather was lucky if he had one photo of himself. With the advent of cell phones, Norm pointed out that a century and a half from now, people would proudly offer to show...
The ownership we feel for places we have lived seems absolute. Any house we’ve called home was ours. No one else’s. Even if several others lived in it before or after we did. Such was the case of the house on Beech Street where my family lived in the 60s and early 70s...
As the cool breeze of autumn begins to sweep through the Lone Star State, there’s a particular charm that sets Texas apart during this time of year. Beyond the sprawling landscapes and bustling cities, Texas boasts a remarkable connection between fall...
We called it light bread. Others called it white bread. Regardless of what it was called, in my hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas and most of the rest of the South it was the foundation of the Southern food pyramid. And it was found aplenty at our home on Beech Street....
