Around Town

Randy Bryan Bigham, correspondent for The Ennis News, is providing historical consultation for a forthcoming Canadian children’s book about the early 1900s dress designer Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) of whom Bigham is an authority, having prev

The Ennis Public Library is excited to announce its participation in September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed the World, a downloadable educational exhibition that presents the history of 9/11, its origins, and its ongoing implications through the

Community activist and volunteer Charlie Mae Presley, widely known in Ennis and throughout Ellis County for her work with many local charities and service organizations, has been mourned by her family and friends since her death at age 93 on Jan.

A man who tried to save a valuable part of Ennis history is being mourned by locals.

Interest in the Cerf mansion, profiled on this page at various times, knows no end. The passing of Bill Snodgrass who helmed the Heritage Foundation to rescue the old place from demolition has put it back in the local spotlight.

*The individuals listed above are persons booked in Ellis County by local authorities. An arrest is not an indication of guilt.  Wesley Deon Greer, 47, Ennis. Driving while intoxicated/open alcohol container. Booked on 08/25/2021 by Ennis PD.

Life-long Ennis resident Shellie Smiley-York has been in real estate since 2009. Judging her success and people-skills, she has fit the vocation as natural as the sun rises in the morning.

The Ennis Garden Club announced that the opening of the Bluebonnet Trail would coincide with Easter Week in the spring of 1955. A freeze, however, damaged some crops and the opening was delayed.

The heat was so intense in the late summer of 1956 that few sunbathers and swimmers were turning up at the Ennis Community Center.

The Union Pacific Railroad’s famed “Big Boy” steam locomotive, built in 1940, chugged triumphantly into Ennis last weekend on its whistle stop tour of 10 states and a new Ennisarea resident was there with her grandchildren to see the excitement.