Around Town

Husband and wife duo Floyd and Fay Casebolt first came to the EDN as editors in 1948, left briefly to launch a paper in New Mexico, and returned to the Bluebonnet City by the mid-1950s.

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE), Chapter 1191, will hold its monthly meeting in Waxahachie at the Asian King Buffet at 507 N.

Added to the influx of neighborhoods and multi-family facilities, Ennis is witnessing a growing number of restaurants and retail venues in the downtown sector and the I-45 corridor.

The move toward a more moral society was on such a roll that even newspaper cartoons caused controversy in Ennis’s early days.

After a period of comparative lawlessness in Ennis, the city was trying to clean up its act by the turn of the 20th century.

The Ennis City Jail was either unguarded or somebody was asleep on the job in 1914 when eight prisoners escaped by “prying off the door.” The incident made national news.

After a year off due to Covid, Blues on Main returned downtown for their 11th year.