Story by Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News. Photos by Paige Boatman The City of Van Alstyne will soon have a sixth city park for its residents and visitors to use for their enjoyment.Monday (September 25), city and business leaders were joined by residents to break the ground for the Eula Umphress-Robert […]
Highway spans all of Texas from Arkansas to New Mexico Press Release from Texas Department of Transportation, Sept. 13, 2023 PARIS, Texas – The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is working to shape the future for one of the most important highways in the Paris area (Grayson County is in this Paris, Texas area), and […]
Press Release Coming on Sunday, September 24th, 5-7 pm D A N A . H U B B A R D !!! What Dana does with the guitar, using only his hands is amazing to watch and a joy to listen to. You hear the bass and the backbeat rhythm along with the melody and […]
Story by Mary Jane Farmer NOTE: An indictment is a formal charge and not an indication of guilt. The Grayson County Grand Jury , during it’s most recent seating, indicted Van Alstyne resident David Prikryl on three charges of Harrassment of Public Servant. Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said that on June 4 of […]
Article by Mary Jane Farmer, Van Alstyne News. Photo courtesy of Van Alstyne PD. Van Alstyne Police took more than 400 grams of illegal and dangerous narcotics out of circulation Saturday (Aug. 12) with the arrest of a Tulsa, Okla., man. Police Lt. Steven Hayslip reported that officers who were on routine patrol that evening […]
Fred Spears Has Made a Life of the Music Business
First published in the Texoma Farm and Home Magazine, April 2024 issue. Published by the Whitesboro News. Photos by Mary Jane Farmer unless otherwise noted. By Mary Jane Farmer When you sit in a Freddie Lee Spears’ audience, you quickly realize he’s as genuinely classic as the songs he sings. Freddie Lee, or ‘Fred’ as […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Note: An indictment is a formal charge, and not proof of guilt. Indictment A local woman Van Alstyne Police arrested February 15 went before the Grayson County Grand Jury Wednesday and that group indicted her on multiple counts of Sexual Assault of a […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town It blew into town like the winds that accompanied it, the Third Annual Van Alstyne Wine Festival. What didn’t blow in were the heavy rains and thunderstorms that preceded Saturday and which were predicted, although with less chance than the days before, to […]
“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.
Texas Nexus / Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. […]
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. […]
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