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STAFFING DURING
COVID IS A PUZZLE
CHRIS ROARK ane ' 1 roles while trying to maintain favorable
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STAFF REPORT
Collin County District Attorney Greg
Willis announced that Joel Thomas
Dies, 36, was sentenced by a jury to 60
years in prison without the possibility
of parole for continuous sexual abuse
of a child.
“This predator can no longer hide
behind his manipulation because the
child had the courage to expose ‘their
secret’ and report his terrible abuse,”
Willis said after sentencing.
■ See CHILD. Page 3A
Kevin Rogers describes the efforts to
staff classrooms during the COVID-19 pan-
demic as a big puzzle.
The Lewisville ISD superinten- y
dent recently updated the Board of 2
Trustees on the different challeng- ■
es district leaders are facing when
it comes to assigning teachers to
classrooms and to virtual teaching sis
Jeannette Rivero teaches a Spanish cla
Kevin Roger:
, teacher-to-student ratios at the same
+ time.
“You’re just about ready to put that
f puzzle piece in and the whole puzzle shifts
again,” Rogers said.
Rogers provided several exam-
j ples of how the district is constantly
moving pieces to make it work,
u In kindergarten at one campus -
he didn’t name the campus - there
seise ■ See LISD, Page 4A
Motorcyclist dies
in crash
A motorcyclist was killed
Tuesday afternoon in
Lewisville following a crash
between the motorcycle
and another vehicle. The
crash occurred around
3:45 p.m. in the 1100 block
of Interstate 35E, near
the intersection of SH
121. The motorcycle and
the vehicle were heading
northbound on I-35E when
the motorcycle and vehicle
collided, throwing the
motorcyclist onto the road.
See story on Page 3A.
Middle School
COURTESY OF LISD
Details released on
Frisco train incident
Two pedestrians who had
been struck by a train in
Frisco had been doing
drugs before the crash
threw them into a brushy
ravine, according to an
incident report from the
Frisco Police Department.
See story on Page 2A.
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Police
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phone scam
CHRIS ROARK
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The Colony Police Department collected 537 pounds of unused medication Oct. 24.
CHRIS
ROARK
croark@star
localmedia.c
Drug drop off
The Colony Police De- did this it was pretty slow, probably because
partment just made the of COVID-19. But this time we did better.”
community safer and the The police department partners with Lew-
water a little cleaner. isville ISD for the planning of the event. The
a TCPD hosted its biannual Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) pays for ad-
■ medication take back day on vertising the initiative.
Oct. 24 at The Colony High TCPD hosts the event every April and Oc-
School. Officer Brian Lee tober.
said approximately 80 peo- “This is very important," Lee said. “The
ple came to the event, which problem is that when you have prescription
led to the collection of 537 pounds of unused drugs kids can get to it in the medicine cab-
medication. inet. Sometimes they’ll take it to school. The
“That’s good for us,” Lee said. “Last time we ■ See DRUGS, Page 3A
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That’s the situa- •
tion The Colony Police Department is warning
residents about.
Officer Brian Lee said police have received re-
ports from residents about spammers “spoofing”
TCPD’s non-emergency number (972-625-1887),
which is when they use a legitimate number to
show up on a caller ID in hopes of tricking the
resident.
When the resident answers the call, the caller
tells the person there is a warrant out for their
arrest and demands a payment.
Lee said a dispatcher told him about the in-
cident earlier in the week, and another one told
him of a separate incident Thursday.
■ See SCAM, Page 2A
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Roark, Chris. The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 1, 2020, newspaper, November 1, 2020; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1622555/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.