Grand opening marks culmination of effort
The Brookshire’s grocery store on W. Ennis Avenue hosted a grand opening to much fanfare Wednesday morning, with city officials and local luminaries joining Brookshire’s executives to cut the ribbon.
The Brookshire’s grocery store on W. Ennis Avenue hosted a grand opening to much fanfare Wednesday morning, with city officials and local luminaries joining Brookshire’s executives to cut the ribbon.
Ennis High School will host a job fair targeting juniors and seniors next week.
Mayor Russell Thomas said he understands people’s fear and concerns that sirens never sounded in Ennis after an early morning tornado on Thursday damaged buildings across town.
The Ennis Economic Development Corporation considered this week how to poll residents in the area around the proposed golf course project off Country Club Road.
Law enforcement officials arrested one man who allegedly fled from a three-vehicle crash that briefly closed the Lake Bardwell bridge on Sunday.
Late tonight, the SPCA of Texas will transport approximately 70 dogs and cats from the Central Oklahoma Humane Society to the SPCA of Texas’ Russell H. Perry Animal Care Center in McKinney in the wake of Monday’s deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma. Transport vehicles are expected to arrive at the Russell H. Perry Animal Care Center between Midnight [...]
Ellis County Shift reports from Monday, May 20, 2013 Item: 13-06588, Found Property in the 3000 block of Farm to Market Road 878, Waxahachie. Item: 13-06589, Criminal Trespass in the 1500 block of McFarland Drive, Ovilla. Item: 13-06593, Theft in the 800 block of Link Street, Red Oak. Item: 13-06600, Recovered Stolen Vehicle in the [...]
City Manager Steve Howerton presented to City Commissioners on Monday the latest damage estimates from the EF-1 tornado that struck Thursday, showing roughly $4.6 million in commercial and residential damage.
As Ennis continues to get back to a level of normalcy after a weekend of severe weather, little league baseball continued Monday night at Bluebonnet Park.
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A mix of volunteers and first responders are combing through debris in an Oklahoma City suburb looking for survivors. The city of Moore, Okla., was hit by a mile-wide tornado on Monday afternoon. People wearing neon-green vests were joined by residents in the search through rubble. Neighborhoods are flattened and homes [...]
Date: 05-19-2013 Item: 13-06551; Loud Music Disturbance in the 4700 block of Highway 67, Midlothian. Item: 13-06581 and 13-06582; No Driver License at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 983 and Shelby Circle, Red Oak. W/M and W/M were arrested. SourceURL:news:Users:editor:Desktop:shiftreports:05-19-13%20Day%20Sheriff Item: 13-06553, Criminal Mischief in the 100 block of Barker Road, Ennis. Item: 13-06562, Accident [...]
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas firefighters have recovered the body of a comrade who reported by radio being trapped while battling a condominium complex blaze. A U.S. flag covered the firefighter’s body when it was removed from the rubble Monday morning. His name wasn’t immediately released. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says two firefighters were transported [...]
City Manager Steve Howerton reported the city completed building a hard perimeter of barricades and fences on Saturday in the potential collapse zone around five buildings in the 200 block of West Ennis Avenue and the 100 block of South Dallas. “These buildings are deemed to have suffered serious structural damage and are considered to [...]
Date: May 16, 2013 Item: 13-06363, Burglary to a Motor Vehicle in the 5600 block of Deerfield Lane, Midlothian. Item: 13-06365, Threat in the 900 block of Bluff Springs, Ferris. Item: 13-06367, Warrant Service in the 100 block of Tanners Farm Road, Ferris. M/W was arrested for a warrant out of Ellis [...]
After two days of assessing major structural damage and blocking access in parts of downtown Ennis, city officials have designated a potential collapse zone along Ennis Avenue and South Dallas.
Officials from the National Polka Planning Committee and Ennis Chamber of Commerce agreed, with consultation from the city of Ennis, that the parade that normally runs through downtown should stop just shy of the downtown damage due to a potential collapse zone near at the 200 block of West Ennis Avenue. The route now turns [...]
Staff Report Two years since it received an Academically Unacceptable rating from the state, Ennis High School’s juniors turned in high scores on the most recent state testing. Click here to sign up for our E-Edition and read the rest of the story!
Nick Todaro, n…@ennisdailynews.com Official confirmation from the National Weather Service classified the tornado that struck Ennis overnight as an EF-1, City Manager Steve Howerton said in a release this evening. An EF-1 classification on the Enhanced Fujita scale is assigned to tornadoes with sustained winds in the 86-110 mph range. Reports detail dozens of damaged [...]
Business owners along the storm’s path are only now seeing the full extent of the damage to their facilities today.
