Wylie
A project to house the homeless in Collin County was put on pause due to rising construction costs, but officials with Jericho Village say their plan is back on track and they’ll break ground in April. And while the $9.6 million project drew some opposition in the small Wylie community when it was first announced,…
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School’s out for summer, and now that it’s been a couple of weeks, those two words every parent dreads are probably starting to come out of your kids’ mouths. “I’m booored.” And even if you aren’t one of those people that had your kid’s entire summer planned out to the minute sometime in January, you…
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The “Love and Death” tale of Candy Montgomery is the salacious news story that candysdirt.com readers can’t get enough of. Anyone who lived in North Texas in the early 1980s remembers the murder of Betty Gore, and the murder trial of Candace Montgomery, the woman who killed her with an ax. Then, as now, the…
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the best U.S. city for families, according to Fortune Magazine, but it’s the No. 2 spot — Collin County’s Wylie, Texas — that caught our eye and maybe even had us asking, “You sure about that?” People across the country have been conducting online searches of “Wylie, Texas” lately, in part…
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The Texas Education Agency issued its school district accountability ratings last week for the first time since 2019 — and we found some houses in top-ranked districts that make the grade. There’s something for every family in every price range, but what these homes have in common is close proximity to a district where students…
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