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Welcome Teachers!

The Wylie Bulldogs Education Foundation welcomed 54 new teachers to Wylie during its annual New Teacher Luncheon sponsored by Hendrick Health Systems. The foundation presented the teachers with $100 gift cards to Mardel. Also at the luncheon, Wylie art teacher Alexis Hughes was honored with the foundation’s annual “Spirit of the Bulldog” award. The award […]

Wylie Students Win Annual Poster Contest

Wylie was well represented at the 2021 Middle Clear Fork Soil & Water Conservation District’s annual Awards Program at Wylie High School in March. Eleven Wylie students placed in the annual Poster Contest with three of those winning their age groups. Just to be entered into the contest is an honor, as Wylie students have […]

Flexible Seating Allows Students to Wiggle

Kathy Burnitt understands how hard it is for a fidgety student to sit still all day. A 2nd-grade teacher at Wylie West Elementary, Burnitt herself was diagnosed with adult ADHD. “I know what it’s like for me to have to sit through meetings and workshops in a chair all day,” she said. So when she […]

Thomas McIntire is right at home in a community where bulldogs own the place.

Thomas McIntire is right at home in a community where bulldogs own the place. Since 2011, the longtime canine breeder has focused solely on raising the same animal that is the Wylie school mascot. He retired in the late 2000s after raising chows, cocker spaniels, dachshunds and Pomeranians. Then two of his grandchildren, Dane and […]

Wylie 3-Year-Old Battling Goliath-Like Illness

  Miller Thweatt is only 3 years old, but he’s already had to go up against Goliath. Miller has a rare mitochondrial disease that doctors say always proves fatal, usually in two to three years. But Miller keeps slaying the giant-sized challenges in front of him. “He has done nothing but get stronger and healthier […]