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It was announced on Thursday, June 10, that Ennis has hired a new Chief of Police. The Ennis News, briefed a day early, has trumpeted the decision and published an edited version of the press release, which tops today’s front page.

It amazes me when scientists discover something still exists that they have long held to be extinct. Their eyeballs must get as large as the hubcaps on a ’46 Buick and as shocked as Gomer Pyle shouting “shazam.”

At our local golf course, there is a cordoned-off area for a bird which annually nests on the grounds underneath the towering pine trees.

Knowing the truth is getting harder and harder.

Normally a creative or perhaps even funny, high school mascots have been the subject of several columns by this writer.

Most of my earliest memories of my Mother are black-and-white snippets of her standing before the kitchen sink washing dishes and wearing a blue apron with navy and red flowers, which tied in a bow in the back.

The commencement exercises at Lion Memorial Stadium were a near-perfect memory-maker for the Class of 2021.

I may not have graduated with honors, but I did know some of them personally. You don’t have to be blessed with cognitive skills to garner acceptance at Stanford, Yale or Rice, but horse sense comes in very handy in leadership.

As my cousin read aloud our Grandmother’s Brunswick Stew recipe, I enjoyed all the imagery it evoked, not to mention the aromatic recollection of that stew which was prepared with chicken, pork, tomatoes and corn in a turn-of-the-century kitchen t

Fifty-four years and counting, the tradition-rich Polka Festival is knocking on our doors.