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The town of Prov idence Village plans to adopt the no-new rev enue tax rate s et by the changes in the property tax laws during the las t s tate legis lativ e s es s ion. The body of a Tioga man is found afterofficialssayhedrowned ina jets ki accident at R ay R oberts Lake. The Aubrey City Council adopts a res olution that us es the North Cen-tral Tex as Council of Gov ernment es -timation of its population hitting 5 ,380, which puts Aubrey abov e the thres hold for becoming a home-rule city. Tioga I SD board members unani-mous ly agree to deny new trans fer re-ques ts until Dec. 31. ThePilotPointCityCounciladjuststhe propos ed tax rate from the origi-nal 80.36 83 cents to 6 4.1228 cents per $ 100 v aluation along with an 8% in-creas e in water and s ewer rates and a $ 2 increas e on drainage rates .

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bilitation s elf-reports three res ident deaths caus ed by CO VI D-19 as of Aug. 18. A K rugerv ille man, K enneth W elch, dies on Aug. 17 after contracting CO -VI D-19 in late July. Northeas t Denton County receiv es 5 ½ inches of rain between 7 a.m. Sept. 1 and 7 a.m. Sept. 2. W ith the growth the area has s een, the Tex as Department of Trans por-tation plans to ex pand FM 1385 from U .S. 380 to FM 45 5 , and it’s looking to get public input on a v irtual meeting s tarting on Sept. 15 . The Pilot Point Police Department arres ts a Pilot Point man, 19 , on Aug. 26andconfiscatesacollectionofille-gal drugs , weapons and money near U.S.377,officialssay. W hile Friday night lights hav e al-ready returned for Tex as teams in Clas s 4A and lower, the U niv ers ity I n-ters cholas tic League as ks fans to more clos ely follow CO VI D-19 guide-lines at games . Gleaming v ehicles and rock-n-roll greet v is itors to the Pilot Point Square’s Chrome Fes t. Tioga I SD remains on track to be-gin in-pers on learning Sept. 14. W hitney Delcourt res igns from the Pilot Point City Council becaus e of an upcoming mov e out of the city.

A Pilot Point man, 28, is arres ted on Sept. 5 on a charge of aggrav ated s ex -ual as s ault of a child.

Crews from All-American Towing pull a pickup truck and boat trailer from the water at the Jordan Park boat ramp after it drifted into the water and be-came s ubmerged. Tex as Senate Dis trict 30 res idents hav e limited polling locations at which they can v ote for the s pecial election triggered by Pat Fallon res igning to be-come a U .S. congres s man. Des pite hav ing a cumulativ e total of 104 cas es , Pilot Point has around 10 activ e cas es of CO VI D-19 . The Pilot Point City Council adopts a tax rate of 6 1.9 7 17 cents per $ 100 valuationfortheupcomingfiscalyear,which begins O ct. 1. Aubrey I SD’s tax rate will de-creas e by about 6 cents for the upcom-ingfiscalyeartoacombinedtaxrateequal to $ 1.5 087 per $ 100 v aluation. PPI SD’s als o decreas es with the dis -trict adopting a rate of 1.2186 per $ 100 v aluation. The leaders hip of the Northeas t Police Department, the town of Cros s R oads and the city of K rugerv ille are looking into a potential land s wap of a 5 -acre s ite near the inters ection of U .S. 37 7 and FM 424 for the depart-ment’s propos ed new home. Starting Sept. 29 , Pilot Point s tu-dents , no matter their economic back-ground, will be able to hav e meals free of charge ev ery s chool day. Sev eral community members at-

tend the K rugerv ille City Council meet-ing Sept. 17 , with drainage being a big topic including flooding on propertiesalong Fairmeadow Circle. The Tioga I SD board unanimous ly adopts its 2020-21 tax rate of $ 1.349 8 per $ 100 v aluation, which is a 5 -cent decreas e from the prev ious year’s rate.

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Cros s R oads s ee a lower s peed limit after the Town Council v otes to drop it to 30 mph. The local elections originally s cheduled for the s pring will be in-cluded on the general election ballot for Nov . 3. After multiple cas es of CO VI D-19 , the Pilot Point High School campus clos es with ins truction s hifting online during the building clos ure. Former Pilot Point Athletic Director, R ob B es t, pas s es away O ct. 4 at the age of 7 1. Sitting Cros s R oads Mayor B ob Gorton faces a challenger for his s eat in his neighbor T. Lynn Tompkins Jr. The Pilot Point Police Department is looking for the pers on who allegedly committed aggrav ated robbery along U .S. 37 7 on Sept. 29 . A Prov idence Village man faces two counts of capital murder after he allegedly s hot and killed his girlfriend, 37 , and her s on, 18, on O ct. 14. Des pite plans to reopen O ct. 15 , the Pilot Point High School campus remains clos ed as a total of 15 high s chool s tudents and one s taff member tes t pos itiv e for CO VI D-19 . Voters from around the area make their way to the polling places to cas t their ballots early for the Nov . 3 elec-tion. Community members s urround the family of April R obins on and Don-av an Fielder, the two people murdered in Prov idence Village, for a candlelight v igil. Aubrey and northeas t Denton Countyofficialsareonhandforarib-bon cutting ev ent at the new B lue Dia-mond I ndus tries plant. CO VI D-19 concerns and the s tate of the football program are the top two topics at the regular monthly meeting of the Tioga I SD s chool board.

Multiple Cros s R oads res idents v oice their oppos ition to rez oning a town-owned parcel on Naylor R oad that has been the planned location for a public s afety building to hous e the Northeas t Police Department and to a res olution concerning the compos ition of boards , committees and commis -s ions . Agents of the B ureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex plos iv es ar-res t a Pilot Point man, 19 , on federal charges that s temmed from a Pilot Point Police Department arres t in Au-gus t. School dis tricts around the s tate hav e s een an increas e in failure rates with the s tudents who are us ing the dis tance learning format, including at Pilot Point, Aubrey and Tioga I SDs . K rugerv ille is mov ing forward with its drainage project, propelled by theCity Council s electing a contractor to startthefirstphaseofthework. The city of Pilot Point has s et up a new legal s erv ices agreement with the lawfirmofMesser,Fort McDonald,capping the city’s legal fees for general couns el at $ 7 5 ,000 for the year with prov is ions for other ex pens es .

N o v em ber Denton County has 35 3,135 early v oters and counting this year for the 2020 general election. The local election res ults are in, and all but one race has a clear win-nerbasedontheunofficialresultsre-leas ed Nov . 3— Pilot Point City Council Place 1. The v egetation is remov ed at the

inters ection of Fis htrap and Dr. Sand-ers roads in Prov idence Village for a dev elopment. Properties in downtown Pilot Point are going off the market to be res tored and prepared to be occupied. Cas es of CO VI D-19 continue to in-creas e, not only countywide but als o nationwide, with the cumulativ e num-berof lab-confirmedcasesat18,599for Denton County. Hero Park is dedicated in Prov i-dence Village, intended to be a place toreflectontheservicegivenbymili-tary members, first responders anduns ung heroes , after four years of work and planning. K indergartners at Pilot Point El-ementary take turns at their practice polls as they v ote for their choice for pres ident: Duck or the farmer. WendyHaunjoinsthecityofPilotPoint as Main Street director and Pilot Point Economic Dev elopment coordi-nator. WorkonnewAT Tfiberopticinter-net lines in Prov idence Village caus es damage to a waterline and dis rupts in-ternet s erv ice for hours at a time. Mary Pelz el-R awls and Eliz abeth Jones take their s eats on the Pilot Point City Council. Subs titute teachers in Aubrey I SD will s ee a bigger paycheck thanks to a temporary pay increas e the AI SD trus tees approv ed during their Nov em-ber meeting. Area officials gather at the Talley

R anch on Nov . 19 to break ground for the ex tens ion of the Dallas North Toll-way from FM 428 in Celina up to Pilot Point and on to the Denton-Grays on County line. An application for a was tewater treatment plant in the city of Aubrey’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, less thanhalf a mile from the inters ection of FM 29 31 and FM 428, has s urrounding property owners concerned. A Tx DO T meeting about improv e-ments to the s tretch of U .S. 380 from I -35 to the Collin County line goes on-line Dec. 2 and s et to clos e Dec. 17 .

D ecem ber Three FFA teams at Pilot Point High School compete their way to the statelevel,havingtoadjusttoanonlineformat becaus e of CO VI D-19 . After Chanel Tyler and her fivechildren of Prov idence Village return home from Thanks giv ing meal s hop-ping, their v ehicle becomes engulfed in flames, causingextensive damageto the hous e, too. For the Aubrey High School band, the s how mus t go on, and the s chool dis trict’s adminis trators work on how to make that happen. CO VI D-19 activ e cas es in Den-ton County hav e gone up by more than 2,000 s ince December began, bas ed on data from Denton County Public Health. The Aubrey City Council hears a pres entation Dec. 1 on a 35 7 -acre de-

v elopment that could bring the city its own park and new homes for new fam-iliestojointheburgeoningcommunity. Mario Cis neros receiv es 6 1.1% of the v otes in a runoff election for the Pi-lot Point City Council. After taking no action following a two-hour-long ex ecutiv e s es s ion dur-ing which Town Adminis trator B ecky R os s ’ employment is dis cus s ed on Dec. 8, R os s is placed on adminis tra-tiv e leav e the following day. W hen the Pilot Point bands took to thefieldatMasseyStadiumonDec.8,the s chool community came together to incorporate a s pecial moment for B rad Nes bitt and his s ons becaus e he was deployed ov ers eas for the Sep-tember s enior night. R es idents throughout the Aubrey and Pilot Point area make their oppo-s ition to the propos ed concrete batch plant north of Aubrey in its ex traterri-torialjurisdictionalongU.S.377clear.R es idents near Aubrey als o s peak out agains t a was tewater treatment plant planned on Spring Hill R oad. Tioga ISDofficiallywillnotacceptany new trans fers during the s pring s e-mes ter. Santa Claus makes the rounds throughout Pilot Point to s ay hi to the kids and their families atop a Pilot Point Fire Department engine. After a Pilot Point City Council de-cis ion about whether to demolis h the hous e at 5 22 E. B urks St. res ults in a 3-3 tie, the council choos es to giv e the family another 30-day ex tens ion. Ten years ago, Nathaniel “ Nate” VanLinder was greeting his father, who s urpris ed his family by coming home for Chris tmas from activ e duty in the Army, but this year Nate got to come home between his training and being s tationed in Europe. Pilot Point Superintendent Todd Southard and s chool board members s urpris e teachers and s taff members of the Pilot Point I ndependent School Dis trict with env elopes containing $ 1,000 checks on Dec. 18 after the s tu-dents went home for the holidays . The Cros s R oads Town Council, in a v ote of four yes es and one abs ten-tion, agree to a s eparation agreement with Town Adminis trator B ecky R os s during the council meeting on Dec. 21. A mas s of young children get to s ee SantaonHopperRanchjustoffofU.S.37 7 in Aubrey on the Saturday before Chris tmas . O n Dec. 22, a note on the door at Pilot Point City Hall reads : “ Pilot Point City Hall is clos ed to the public un-til further notice due to a potential CO -VI D-19 ex pos ure.”

— K im F le m ing

2020 In Review

While confetti fi lls the air, Bearcat senior Troy Tincher got a hug from an adoring fan. Supporters of the football team came out to cheer the Bearcats during the send-off event before their playoff game against Clyde on Nov. 13.

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Connie Robinson, whose daughter April Robinson and grandson Donavan Fielder were murdered on Oct. 14, mourns them surrounded by family on Oct. 18.

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