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Buckle Up for Safety!

With so much attention ahead of Sunday’s big game, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is once again teaming up with NFL Alumni Health to encourage football fans to join us in the fight to save lives. The need is critical and the game plan simple: understand the dangers of fentanyl and synthetic drugs and use your voice to help spread life-saving information.

Funding from the Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) totaling $115,000 was transferred from account balance to finance the April Bluebonnet Trails Festival was approved by a 6-0 vote during the February 4 meeting of City Commissioners.

Since the announcement that Don Drake is the new Ennis Lions head football coach, the clock is ticking down on the next two critical hires for school district. The heir to Drake as Athletic Director and the successor to retiring and outgoing Superintendent, Jay Tullos, are expected in February, March or April.

Arrested by Texas DPS Troopers outside of Ennis City Hall on January 13, Eric Contreras, a city employee, was temporarily jailed at Wayne McCollum Detention Center in Waxahachie on one charge of theft. An investigation initiated by the city led to his arrest.

President Donald Trump’s first bill, the Laken Riley Act, was signed on Wednesday, Jan. 29. It aims to expand the federal government’s mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally, marking the first legislation in Trump›s second term.

As promised, newly-elected President Donald Trump took action on three high-level assassinations by signing executive orders to declassify all files connected to the murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.