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Murphy's Ashleigh Barna was selected to the USA Volleyball Future Select program that will train this summer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida July 14-17.  The program is the initial stage of the Olympic team pipeline to identify athletes who have the potential to move through the pipeline to the ultimate goal of representing their country on a national team and in the Olympics. All athletes were exposed to a rigorous tryout process that was conducted at different locations throughout the United States to identify the top players in the country born in 2000 or later.
Ashleigh is a 6th grade student at Murphy Middle School and plays volleyball for MadFrog Volleyball based in Plano. Her parents are Karin and Eric Barna. Photo by: Murphy-based DanReedPhotography.com
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Jon Lashbrook, Director of Education for the Murphy Chamber and President of the Murphy Chamber Scholarship Foundation, announced last week the names of the Chamber’s 2013 scholarship winners.
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As the dirt is being moved to create tangible reality from 2D imagery, Central Park through Council Member Scott Bradley’s glasses is getting clearer and clearer. Bradley provides a rearview mirror glance back as to why Murphy purchased the land that is Central Park and a futuristic jump forward as to what Central Park will become.
Having turned away about eight interested shoppers earlier that day, Run On!, located at 
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Nominated for the “Youth Visionary” award by the Cemetery Association of Murphy, Inc., Caleb Eichenberger-Gay was recognized at the recent Preservation Celebration & Awards Ceremony hosted by the Collin County Historical Commission and presented a framed certificate. 
The Boggess Elementary PTA hosted its 5th Annual Chess Tournament on May 2 in the school gym. Each of the 44 participants received a t-shirt, and the following chess kings took home the trophies (pictured left to right): Walt Mayfield-3rd Grade, Riley Roach-Kindergarten, Zain Khan-1st Grade, Jeffery Xu-2nd Grade, Abhiram Valisammaggari-4th Grade, and Scott Walker- 5th Grade. The grand prize winner was Jeffery Xu, and the runner up was Walt Mayfield. Also pictured (left to right) are Mrs. Patricia Powell, Assistant Principal; Mrs. Marilyn Carruthers, Principal; and Alpa Mehta, PTA Chess Chair and Tournament Director.
Still some four months away, the area’s premier family fun festival began accepting applications for market and food vendors, according to Recreation Supervisor Caitlyn Meehan.