News

This week’s selection of historical images include:(from left) the Gilmore home that stood on Preston Street in the early 1900s; the original Knights of Pythias building on Dallas Street as it looked about 1905(it burned in 1909); Raymond Raphael

The following snippets of past local news were taken from back issues of the Ennis Daily News and Waxahachie Daily Light:

Anglin for a Ford

BUSINESS

Bubba’s BBQ and Steakhouse was sold on Tuesday and it didn’t take the new management team long to take over. The next day, just twenty-four hours, they said.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Eleven years after 33 local WWII veterans set off for Washington, D.C. to view the monument built in honor of their fallen comrades, only one of them is still living.

PROGRAMS

Highly popular with young children, the notion that kangaroos are simply T-Rex deers is untrue, though a few have been known to box.

SCHOOLS

Ferris plans to dedicate an 8,000 square foot new wing of pre-kindergarten classes on August 1 at Hazel Ingram Elementary School at 600 S. Central St.

The sounds of summer are here: kids playing outside, crickets chirping and the ice cream truck’s familiar melody. But for a growing number of Texans these sounds are becoming more difficult, or impossible, to hear.

It’s essential that hydrangeas be protected from excessive heat, which means they aren’t always the best choice for Texas, even here in North Texas. Exposure to light from the northeast is best or else light from the north or the east.

Heat waves are an inevitable part of summer in many places across the globe.