News

Despite an impressive 38-21 triumph over previously unbeaten Royse City, a team that was predicted to defeat Ennis according to the Dallas Morning News new-fangled technology, the Lions remain ranked No. 8 in the Class 5A DFW Metroplex rankings.

ROAD WORK

Texas Department of Transportation has begun a broadening project along State Highway 34, south of Kaufman and beyond Scurry-Rosser.

THEATRE

The Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein packed them in this weekend when the famous comedy-turnedmusical made its debut at the Ennis Public Theatre, 113 N. Dallas.

EXPANSION

After nearly two years of construction and amid weather delays, GAF’s new 250,000 squarefoot warehouse was opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday.

CRIME

Red Oak Police Department personnel were dispatched to the 200 block of Brook Court (west of I-35 near Oak Leaf) in regard to a disturbance involving a weapon and a dispute between a husband and a wife.

Many people are excited by the prospects of supporting causes they care about. Charitable donations are how millions of people across the globe express such support, and many charities would not be able to function without donors.

The railroad and cotton industries put Ennis on the map but a landmark baseball game that took place here in 1902 sure helped out, drawing national attention and remaining for many years a source of civic pride.

These snippets of old news items have been collected from the archives of the Ennis Daily News and other local newspapers.

Anglin for a Ford

Cancer claims the lives of millions of people across the globe every year. But the fight against cancer is anything but hopeless, as the World Health Organization notes that between