Mary Lange, commander of American Legion Hale-Combest Post 315, received the Texas Legionnaire of the Year award earlier this month. File Art A Wylie woman whose leadership helped bring “The Wall That Heals” to the community last year has received one of the Texas...
By Greg Ford Staff Writer [email protected] City officials will use more than $15 million in reserves to help pay for the utility fund capital projects in Fiscal 2018. Overall, Sachse anticipates spending nearly $43.2 million in general and utility expenditures; the...
By Greg Ford Staff Writer [email protected] Juveniles in Sachse better not be out at late without good reason. City council members agreed at their recent Aug. 7 meeting to renew a curfew ordinance for another three years, one that prohibits unaccompanied minors...
From Staff Reports [email protected] North Texas Municipal Water District and C&S Media have teamed up for a #PledgeToPlantSmart Photo Contest to encourage NTMWD customers to plant drought tolerant Texas native or adapted plants for water efficiency. “Our...
By Greg Ford Staff Writer [email protected] Society can offer a lot of assistance to senior citizens. One of the keys, though, is making sure they ‘re aware such help is available. That was the overall theme last Thursday during the first of what hopefully will be...
By Greg Ford Staff Writer [email protected] Garland ISD officials believe that regardless of how its students did on the STAAR tests, there’s always room for improvement. That means grade levels that didn’t do too well must get better, and those that equaled or...
By Greg Ford Staff Writer [email protected] There will be a couple of new faces leading a local pair of schools. The interesting thing is that each comes from the same place: Sachse High School. It was there, a year ago, that Brandy Schneider and Carmen Blakey were...
By David Jenkins Staff Writer [email protected] The start of the 2017-’18 school year is two weeks away and for those who haven’t stocked up on back-to-school essentials, the Sales Tax Holiday is scheduled for Aug. 11-13. According to information from the...
