The big picture: Upgrades are slated for three wastewater pump stations in Allen following a contract with Halff Associates.

The Carter Court, Stacy Ridge, and Summerside Lift Station Rehabilitation Project includes replacement of equipment at each pump station. Allen City Council approved a $710,500 professional services contract with Halff Associates for the project at a Feb. 24 meeting.

Zoom in: Underground pipes and gravity transport most of the city’s sewage to the North Texas Municipal Water District for treatment, according to city documents. However there are some low-lying areas where the city relies on mechanical pumps to lift sewage to higher elevations and carry it to the treatment plant.

The Carter Court Lift Station, the Stacy Ridge Lift Station and the Summerside Lift Station were all constructed in the late '90s and early 2000s, per city documents. The equipment requires frequent repairs and maintenance, and replacement of the equipment is more cost effective, city documents state.

Bread Winners Cafe closed its Allen location in late February, Bread Winners Cafe representative Constance Crouch said.

The details: The restaurant served breakfast, lunch, cocktails, beer and wine, per its website. It also offered catering services. Bread Winners Cafe still has two Dallas locations, its website states.

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The Texas Education Agency must correct roughly 4,200 errors in its elementary and middle school curriculum, the State Board of Education ruled Feb. 25.

The overview: The changes to the Bluebonnet Learning materials, a set of state-developed textbooks, include replacing improperly licensed images, fixing formatting errors or typos and correcting factual errors.

The SBOE approved the Bluebonnet materials in November 2024. The curriculum, which became available to districts ahead of the 2025-26 school year, has been criticized for frequent biblical references in the reading materials, although proponents said the materials would help improve student outcomes.

Zooming in: Before approving the changes, several board members expressed concerns about the “unprecedented” number of issues with the state-developed textbooks, noting that Texas taxpayers will cover the costs of reprinting the updated materials, as they were developed with state funds.

“I’m very concerned that, as a board, we have set a precedent for sloppy publishing. Many times, even if it's a typo, it could become an error of fact,” SBOE member Pam Little, R-Fairview, said.