{"id":84510,"date":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","slug":"annual-holiday-festivities-kick-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84510\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual holiday festivities kick-off season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maddie King and Santa pose during the Pancakes with Santa fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 6, at the fire station.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Sachse kicked off the holiday season last week with its annual Christmas Extravaganza on Wednesday, Dec. 3, filling the municipal campus with a parade, tree lighting, performances and family activities at the Michael J. Felix Community Center.<\/p>\n<p>The parade kicked off at 6 p.m. from Miles Road and concluded at the Municipal Complex, where Sachse High School\u2019s choir and percussion ensemble performed, parade winners were announced and the city\u2019s Christmas tree was lit at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar &amp; Spice Soccer earned first place with its candy-themed float, while First at Firewheel Church took second with a nativity scene. Sewell Elementary and its PTA placed third with a Grinch-themed entry. Camp Gladiator received the Judges\u2019 Choice award for its decorated Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story see the December 11, 2025 print, or digital edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Sachse-News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sachse News. Subscribe<\/a> today and support local journalism in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maddie King and Santa pose during the Pancakes with Santa fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 6, at the fire station.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-84510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}