🌱 Possible Frisco Microbrewery + Place 5 Runoff Election

Happy Monday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy with a shower. High: 66 Low: 49.

Here are the top 3 stories today in McKinney-Frisco:

1. A Frisco development proposal seeks to bring a microbrewery to downtown. The city's Planning and Zoning Commission approved a rezoning item that would allow for a small craft brewery and additional parking space. The new rezoning item will now head to the Frisco City Council for approval. (Star Local Media)
2. Two Frisco City Council candidates head to a runoff in response to the special election on Saturday. Our community will once again vote to select a Place 5 City Council member since none of the candidates were able to garner fifty percent of the vote. Laura Rummel and Tracie Shipman will be on the runoff ballot. (Star Local Media)
3. A Frisco pastor and Denton County GOP Precinct Chair delivers a sermon threatening the Denton County Republican Chair. Pastor Brandon Burden has been known to deliver politically-motivated sermons to his congregation but this time he has called the County Party Chair Jayne Howell a 'Jezebel' and told his congregation they must challenge her. In the Bible, Jezebel was killed by an angry mob. Howell will not be seeking reelection. (Dallas Observer)

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• McKinney, Texas - Unique by Nature shares photos of a new McKinney park. (Facebook)
• McKinney Police Department celebrates the swearing-in of new McKinney Police Officers.: Welcome to our community Officers Palmer, Ramos, Prieto, Hibbs, and Rivas! (Facebook)
• McKinney CVB shares appreciation for our downtown's street lights in a beautiful photo. (Instagram)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.