Motorist Gripe about Frisco Gas Prices

FRISCO — Frisco City Council members say complaints are coming in about gas prices: They seem to be higher in this Dallas suburb than everywhere else.

For example, in neighboring Plano you can get a gallon of unleaded regular at the Sam's Club at Spring Creek Boulevard and Avenue K for $2.39.

in Frisco, at the Shell station at Preston and Lebanon, gas is going for $2.68 a gallon. Do the math — that's a difference of 29 cents, or nearly $6 for a 20-gallon fill-up.

"We don't have that kind of money," said Frisco motorist Louise Fischer. "We are just ordinary people, working and doing what we need to do for our family."


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Dallas Home Prices Drop

slide in U.S. home prices gained speed in August.

And home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth area dipped lower as well.

Home prices fell by a record 16.6 percent in Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller's monthly housing report.

In the D-FW area, prices fell 2.7 percent in August from a year ago in the benchmark home survey.

Out of the 20 markets Case-Shiller tracks, "13 of them had their annual returns worsen from last month's report," S&P's David M. Blitzer said in the survey. "As seen throughout 2008, the Sun Belt markets are being hit the most."

None of the cities Case-Shiller follows had an increase in home prices from last year.

The sharpest declines were in Las Vegas and Phoenix ­ down more than 30 percent.

The D-FW area had the smallest home price decline of all the cities in the report. But the annual dip in home values here grew slightly from July to August.



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PTA Fall Festival set for Saturday
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If you are a fan of games of chance, picking up ducks, old-fashioned cakewalks and so much more, then you are in luck this Saturday, as the Celina Primary PTA Fall Festival takes place from 5-8 p.m. at the Middle School gym.

There will be booths all across the gym, and promise to have something for everyone. Not only will there be plenty of booths providing all types of opportunities to win prizes, but additional booths will include those for foods, face painting and tattoos, safe for children.

Stephanie Roberts, Fall Festival Organizer is sure everyone will find something to enjoy.

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An Addison developer is building a $22 million shopping center at U.S. 380 and North Custer Road in Prosper, giving the fast-growing town its first big-box retail development.

Site work for the 355,000-square-foot Prosper Plaza is under way on the 40-acre site, northwest of the prime intersection. Construction is scheduled to finish in about six months.

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