Following several weeks of successful food drives in Ennis, the executive director of Helping Hands paid a visit to the Ennis Lions Club on Wednesday to share insights about the organization.
When road crews hit concrete and railroad ties underneath the street base on N. Dallas Street in October, the road modernization and upgrade program had inadvertently tripped over history.
Downtown Ennis at Dallas and Knox streets was bustling as the Ghosts and Goblins Halloween Trick-or-Treat event opened up Wednesday. See more photos of costumes and sights from Wednesday on the Ennis Daily News Facebook page.
Tonight’s scheduled mosquito spraying in Ennis is projected to be the last for a while.
In order to put faces on the volunteers that the community sees at the Book Sale and Summer Read programs, Friends of the Ennis Public Library will host a Coffee With Friends.
A crowd of government officials, business leaders and community luminaries gathered near the site of the future Brookshire’s on Thursday morning for its ceremonial groundbreaking.
Nick Todaro, n…@ennisdailynews.com Ennis saw its monthly sales tax revenue tally climb by more than 22 percent for September, a boost of more than $65,000. Ennis collected $361,000 in revenue for the period, up from $295,000 in the same month last year. That represents a growth of 22.39 percent, and Ennis stands now at $3.17 million [...]
A spokesman for Direct Energy declined to go into specifics about help for the 280 workers whose jobs were affected by the shutdown of the Ennis facility.
Vendors take note, the deadline to be a part of the Autumn Days in Ennis Fall Festival this year has been pushed back to Oct. 12.
The city is getting the word out about a telemarketing company that is looking at Ennis for a possible location here.
The 11th free annual Autumn Days in Ennis Fall Festival is set to breeze into downtown Oct. 20.
Sales tax totals for Ennis jumped by more than 11 percent year-over-year for August.
Groups gathered around Ennis on Tuesday to honor local heroes, helping turn a national day of mourning into a local day of thanks.
The Ennis Arts Commission is offering a chance to compete for annual arts project grant funds through Sept. 30.
Site plans for the incoming Brookshire’s Grocery Co. store in west Ennis are expected to go before the city Sept. 24.
Ennis commissioners OK’d the city’s tax rate and budget on first reading Monday.
Ennis will take its first vote on its 2012-13 tax rate and budget after public hearings on the subject tonight.
Nick Todaro, n…@ennisdailynews.com Mosquito spraying continues tonight in Ennis despite reports of no infections in town as Ellis County logged its 14th case of West Nile virus this week. Two possible Ennis-area cases of the virus —one in the Longbranch Circle area near Bardwell and one in the area of Rice — have yet to be [...]
Ennis has announced another large mosquito spraying event Thursday, and city officials are planning continued spraying events in the near future.
Ennis has announced further spraying for mosquitoes to combat growing concerns over the proliferation of West Nile virus this summer.
