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Bearcats open playoffs against Zebras
After the dust settled on the District 5-3A-Division I race, the Whitesboro football team emerged as the league’s second-place seed. The reward: a bi-district matchup with perennial state power Grandview. The Bearcats and Zebras met Thursday night in Grand Prairie. Whitesboro (7-3) entered Thursday night’s contest coming off a...
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Talk of the Town: Choctaw Casino & Resorts’ Thanksgiving Special
DURANT, Okla. (KXII) - Choctaw chef Roman Hayes joined Caroline on Talk of the Town to discuss how to prepare the best turkey for your upcoming Thanksgiving gathering. To try the Choctaw Casino & Resorts’ Thanksgiving Special-- a sweet tea-brined turkey-- visit the Salt & Stone at Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant.
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A Choctaw Woman Warrior Reaches Out
DURANT, Okla. (KFOR) — The Warrior Theater inside the Choctaw Cultural Center feels more like a small chapel to Sandra Stroud who can look back at her own history and see warriors like those pictured in generations going back hundreds of years. “It’s my great-grandfathers that I see,” she notes as she sits down on […]
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Six Ineligible Players Just Blew Up a High School Program, and Nobody's Buying the Coach's Story
Nba logo on gradient background - Created by the Sports On Tap desk | Source : Sports On Tap (team logos property of their respective owners) Jason Russell, the head football coach and athletic director for Blue Ridge High School in North Texas, just got slapped with a two-year suspension, running all the way through […]
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Celina Approves $90 Million Retail Development With City's First Target
C elina is getting its first Target , and it's bringing an entire shopping center along with it. The retailer will anchor Celina Towne Crossing, a $90 million commercial development planned for the northeast corner of Preston Road and Outer Loop. Celina City Council approved an economic development agreement for the project Nov. 10. Spanning approximately 45 acres, the development will add 359,000 square feet of commercial space to one of the city's growing retail corridors. What's Coming To Celina Towne Crossing? The centerpiece will be a 145,000-square-foot Target, joined by three junior anchor stores, two full-service restaurants and four strip retail centers. Plans also include a detention pond that will be enhanced with landscaping and converted into a water feature, along with space for public art and monuments designed to create a gateway into the development. The project adds to Celina's expanding lineup of major retailers, following the arrival of the city's first Walmart Supercenter and Costco . A $90 Million Investment Under the agreement, Celina will waive approximately $7.5 million in building and impact fees in exchange for the developer investing at least $90 million in buildings and infrastructure. To qualify for the incentives, the Target and three
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Iraq War Veteran Gets Mortgage-Free Home in Anna, Texas, After Years in RVs
Branden Cason and his family were handed the keys to a new home in Anna, Texas, on Veterans Day, a fresh start for a veteran who was medically retired from the Army after sustaining a traumatic brain injury and other wounds in an improvised explosive device blast during a deployment to Iraq. The home came through Operation Homefront's Permanent Homes for Veterans program, with support from homebuilder Pulte, and the Cason family will own it outright, mortgage-free, once they complete the program.
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‘He had a heart for service’: Tom Bean ISD hosts annual day of service in honor of former school board president
TOM BEAN, Texas (KXII) - Students in Tom Bean spent Thursday on the annual day of service held in honor of Jesse Farrer, a former school board president. Instead of textbooks, tests and math problems, their assignment was to make a difference. “A gentleman by the name of Jesse Farrer...
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Inflatable turkeys take over McKinney historic district
If you were to take a stroll in McKinney's historic district, you are almost guaranteed to see a few inflatable turkeys hanging out in people's yards. Some of them are simply sitting there. Some are small. Some are 25 feet tall. Some have accessories. Some aren't even turkeys, but dinosaurs in disguise.
Allen American
Football Playoff Preview: Top storylines, teams, players as the postseason begins
The brackets are set, and the high school football playoffs are about to officially get underway. Thursday marks the beginning of the bi-district round, as teams throughout the area begin vying for the opportunity to compete for a state championship. It’s a feat that Frisco Lone Star nearly accomplished last season after making a run to the Class 5A Division I state championship game. Meanwhile, Allen and Celina finished out their respective campaigns as state semifinalists. With those programs and plenty others back in the postseason mix this time around, Star Local Media previews the local action ahead. Storylines Eagle eyes on the prize All season long, Allen has had the look of one of the very best teams in the state. The Eagles went unbeaten against an opening slate of Duncanville, DeSoto, Southlake Carroll and Prosper and did so by a collective score of 183-69. Allen hasn’t slowed since, running the table in 6-6A at 7-0 with an average margin of victory of 53.1 points. The Eagles did so despite replacing 40 seniors from last season and entrusting key roles to several underclassmen – a learning curve that sophomores like quarterback Ty Snell (1,781 passing yards, 30 total touchdowns),