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Place 4 contest advances to June 13 runoff

Place 4 contest advances to June 13 runoff

The race for Sachse City Council Place 4 will be decided in a runoff election after no candidate received a majority of votes in the May 2 general election, according to unofficial results. Gurvinder Singh and Tim Legh-Page have advanced to the June 13 runoff election...

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Collin College opening Wylie campus for fall

Collin College opening Wylie campus for fall

A dream of almost two decades to operate a Collin College campus in the southeastern part of the county becomes reality Aug. 24 when the recently completed Wylie campus opens for classes. The 340,000 square foot campus was built from the ground up on a Country Club...

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Preliminary budget presented at workshop

Preliminary budget presented at workshop

It’s once again budget season in Sachse. Since the city council is scheduled to adopt a budget on Sept. 8, they began workshopping one during their Monday, Aug. 3 Zoom meeting. Director of Finance Teresa Savage presented it to council before the regular session began,...

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COVID-19 delays fall sports seasons

COVID-19 delays fall sports seasons

Friday night lights will not start burn­ing in Wylie until the end of September under an athletics and band schedule announced last month by the University Interscholastic League. The delay, by about a month, in prac­tices and games was instituted because of the...

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Extreme Sandbox to roll into Sachse

Extreme Sandbox to roll into Sachse

Adventurers digging around for something to do won’t have to look far for much longer. Extreme Sandbox, based in Minnesota, will open a loca­tion in The Station in Sachse this September. The company gives people a chance to op­erate heavy machinery like excavators and...

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New property values expected this week

New property values expected this week

Property tax estimates that were to be released early this week for the Collin County portion of Sachse utilize a revised estimate of values this year to calculate tax rates because of delays created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sachse property owners in Col­lin County...

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GISD offers all-day Pre-K this year

GISD offers all-day Pre-K this year

Although Garland ISD stu­dents won’t be back in the classroom until Sept. 8, those in Wylie ISD will be on cam­pus this coming week. Online GISD classes begin Monday, Aug. 10, while both in-person and remote classes start Thursday, Aug. 13 in WISD. GISD students will...

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