Around Town

Sugar Glaspy, a founding member of The Ennis Historical Society (formerly the Ennis Heritage Society), has recently announced the 2021 reboot of the organization following the cancellation of last year’s events due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Theatre Rocks opened a hilarious new play this weekend, Big Boy, Miss Alice and the Colonial Encyclopedia Man, which runs for the next two weekends.

The Ennis News is proud to announce the winners of our July Coloring Contest sponsored by McDonald’s.

A scrapbook on the long-razed Cerf mansion, prepared the year the house was willed to the city of Ennis, is being conserved by interested parties with hopes of donating high-resolution color copies of the pages to the Ennis Heritage Society’s arch

Ennis native Martha Jane McBrierty was one good looking young lady. She was not only crowned Redbud Queen while a senior at Texas State College for Women (TSCW) in 1954 but she reigned as queen of Texas A&M’s Cotton Ball the previous year.

Vladimir Matskevich, minister of agriculture for the Soviet Union, visited farms in Ennis and surrounding communities in August 1955 during a tour of Texas in which he was studying cotton production.

Amusing comments from an editorial published in the Ennis Daily News in 1922 was syndicated in several other Texas and regional papers.

Radio was just starting to happen in the early 1920s and one fan of the new-fangled device was an Ennis man named N. Brunson who had developed a state of the art set with a signal that was strong enough to pick up international broadcasts.

Randy Bryan Bigham, a former news writer and columnist for the Ennis News who was furloughed when the Coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020, has been rehired as a correspondent by the News.

Donations of historical documents, photographs and, in some cases, clothing, continue to be made by Ennisites to the archive being assembled by local historian and Ennis News contributing writer Randy Bryan Bigham, recently re-hired as a correspon