News

STATE

As schools across Texas schedule “Fair Days,” such as the one Ennis ISD approved for students on Monday, parents, guardians and other visitors are learning of new rules being enforced at the State Fair of Texas’ Co

ACCIDENT

Friday night the Ennis Lions will play a football game 110 miles away in Sulphur Springs. The host Wildcats haven’t had much to cheer for this season, winning for just the first time last Friday at Forney.

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.

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