By Mary Jane Farmer for The Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town NOTE: An indictment is a formal charge, and not proof of guilt. Van Alstyne Police Department’s charges against a sexual assault suspect have now increased through the Grayson County Grand Jury’s recent addition of four more indictments. Koby Ryan Rhoden, age 24 and […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News/Scene in Town Van Alstyne Police answered 1,072 calls for service between May 25 and June 8, reported Police Lt. Steve Hayslip. Of these, they made numerous arrests. Arrests May 16 — A woman and her former husband, both from Crowley, Texas, were driving south on U.S. […]
By Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town NOTE: Having been both a licensed foster care provider and a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children, this reporter has seen multiple horrifying cases of child abuse and how it affects the victims. This subject holds near and dear to my heart! This […]
By Mary Jane Farmer, from info provided by Van Alstyne Police and the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office Website. Names of suspects are not posted until or unless indicted by the Grand Jury. About 8:20 p.m. Sunday (May 14), police were on a routine traffic stop on southbound US Highway 75, when notified about an apparent […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip issued several words of caution about several scams which local residents have reported to them in the past few weeks. Virtual Kidnapping — Imagine getting a phone call and the caller saying, “Your daughter’s been kidnapped.” One […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town — Since March 9, Van Alstyne Police have received 1,838 calls for service, reported Police Lt. Steven Hayslip. Arrests March 24 — A pursuit from Van Alstyne in to Collin County resulted in the arrest of the driver, a Mansfield man. Hayslip said […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for The Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town NOTE: Names are not posted unless/until a suspect is indicted. On March 30 (2022), the Grayson County Grand Jury indicted the suspect who Van Alstyne police arrested in late January on several felony sexual charges. At the Grand Jury’s Wednesday (March 29, 2022) […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Van Alstyne’s own Cage Sawyers is opening a gymnasium, the newest in the Anytime Fitness franchise. The local born-and-raised man is a 2017 graduate of Van Alstyne High School and soon will be going to the University of Texas law school, he said. […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News/Scene in Town Van Alstyne Police answered 1,072 calls for service between May 25 and June 8, reported Police Lt. Steve Hayslip. Of these, they made numerous arrests. Arrests May 16 — A woman and her former husband, both from Crowley, Texas, were driving south on U.S. […]
April is Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month
By Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town NOTE: Having been both a licensed foster care provider and a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children, this reporter has seen multiple horrifying cases of child abuse and how it affects the victims. This subject holds near and dear to my heart! This […]
Scammers or Scamblers — They are out for your money!
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip issued several words of caution about several scams which local residents have reported to them in the past few weeks. Virtual Kidnapping — Imagine getting a phone call and the caller saying, “Your daughter’s been kidnapped.” One […]
This is a feature I wrote in 2007 and, crazily, found it on my My Space somehow. It also was printed on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s Website of the same name. Roy Head was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that year. I am excited to be able to include it now here […]
Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, Blog style, not reporting style. More photos on link at bottom, and more will be added on future Sunday drives, so please feel free to check back throughout October and November. Sundays are made for driving around, slowly, and looking at things one misses when moving so fast. […]
Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination
C\ Click here, on this link, to see a few more of my “challenge” photos. No. 2 — Photography requires imagination Each year, lately, I have gone on my own photographic journey, calling it my “Challenge.” I’ll pick a topic and do what I can to photograph items, people, […]
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