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Early voting ends, election day June 13 in Frisco mayoral race

Frisco voters will elect a new mayor June 13. 

The runoff election’s early voting ran June 1-9. During that time, 25,427 registered voters cast a ballot at a Frisco polling location. 

What you need to know: Two candidates continue to vie for the mayoral seat in Frisco. Rod Vilhauer and Mark Hill topped a four-person race for mayor in May. They now face off in the runoff.

Zooming in: During early voting, voters can cast a ballot at any polling location in Collin or Denton counties. At all Collin County polling locations, 13,009 voters cast ballots in a runoff election. In Denton County, 12,418 voters cast ballots.

 
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Ally Medical Emergency Room now serving patients in Frisco

Ally Medical Emergency Room is now open in Frisco. 

What they offer: The emergency room treats a full range of emergency conditions including chest pain and cardiac concerns, severe allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, respiratory distress and breathing difficulties, abdominal pain and high fevers, broken bones and wound care.

  • 5600 Eldorado Parkway, Frisco

 

FOODIE FRIDAY
Check out these new restaurants and bars opening across the Dallas - Fort Worth area.

Everything Madeleine now offers pastries, coffee and matcha in Plano

The business specializes in madeleine pastries with a variety of flavors like pistachio raspberry, earl grey, dark chocolate and lemon. Customers can also accompany their pastries with drinks like coffee, the earl grey matcha or the strawberry matcha.

Business owner and pastry chef Seunghee Park studied in Seoul, South Korea, before traveling to Paris and New York.


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😋 Exotic Snack Guys now open at Allen Premium Outlets
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🐼 Panda Express to open new $2M Denton location off Randall Street
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🌯 Chipotle set to open Celina location next month
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🍕 New ownership takes over Amore’s Pasta and Pizza in Grapevine
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Elia Greek Tavern to serve Mediterranean seafood in Richardson

Elia Greek Tavern is set to open a new location in Richardson later this summer, a company representative confirmed.

The restaurant, which currently has one location in Bishop Arts, serves a Mediterranean seafood-focused menu, including branzino, seafood orzo and salmon skewers. The Richardson location is set to include new menu additions alongside customer favorites.


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More than 100K students have been awarded Texas Education Freedom Accounts. Here are the next steps.

As the 2026-27 school year nears, the number of people selected to participate in Texas’ education savings account program has topped 100,000.

The overview: To date, just over 102,000 students have been accepted into the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, which gives families state funds to send their children to private schools or homeschool them.

However, being awarded funds does not mean a student is guaranteed to be able to use that money at a participating private school this fall.

Zooming in: Over 2,600 private schools have been approved to accept TEFA funding, per the state comptroller's office. State law does not require schools participating in the program to accept all interested families.

Next steps: Families accepted into the program have until July 15 to do one of the following:

  • Confirm enrollment at a private school involved in the program
  • Notify the state of their homeschooling plans
  • Opt out of the program

Once families confirm their plans, state funds will be deposited into their TEFA accounts as soon as July.

 

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