News

Financial record-keeping and honor were key components when the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) awarded the City of Ennis the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. It encompasses the city’s comprehensive, annual financial report for the fiscal year ending September 2020.

Sugar Glaspy, a founding member of the Ennis Heritage Society, has written for the Memories page in honor of Women’s History Month a two-part history of a Navarro and Ellis County woman, Emily Middleton, who inspired her. Middleton, a late 19th century woman, was the subject of a recent talk that Glaspy presented to the Society. The first installment of her story on Middleton follows and will be concluded in next week’s edition of the Ennis News.

During a meeting at the EISD Administration building on Knox Street, the School Board made news the easy way. Superintendent Jay Tullos announced the deadline to enter the upcoming election as a candidate to oppose two current trustees whose term was expiring in May, had no one apply, thus negating the need for an election.

Searching through a stack of area applicants to land the next Ennis ISD Police Chief led to Michael Richardson, who was from nearby Ferris, just 15 miles north of town.

Ennis High School thespians took on the challenge of the Greek tragedy, The Bacchae, in a one-act play during a district competition. While their performance did not garner an advance in the University Interscholastic League event, Director Michael Jonson said reviews of their act were positive.

The current crisis in Ukraine has galvanized the world in support of the nation in its plight with Russia, including the people of Ennis.

Just months away from producing their hot commodity, fresh meat and vegetables, preservative free, refrigerated pet food, the Ennis FreshPet kitchen under construction at 4800 Sterilite Drive is nearing completion.

The performing arts in Ennis flourishes today with two popular theaters, Theatre Rocks and the Ennis Public Theatre, the latter founded in 2002. But community theatre is nothing new to Ennis. A local organization produced plays here in the 1970s, starring Ennis and Ellis County actors, including actress Dorothy Deavers. Women, in fact, were important to theater in Ennis earlier than that.

Nearly twenty teachers in the Rice Independent School District are receiving Teacher Incentive Allotment amounts for their work in the only fullyapproved TIA school district in Navarro County. Rice is 10.5 miles southeast of Ennis.

Gale Sayers, who played with the Chicago Bears back in the 1960’s, ranks among the greatest running backs in the history of professional football. Around his neck he always wore a gold medal about the size of a half-dollar. On it were inscribed three words: I Am Third.