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Ennis News

Why the hate?

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Why some folks just can’t stand a group of people is as hard to understand as packing barbed wire in a paper bag or putting pantyhose on a porcupine.

Perhaps old cars have better attitudes

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When you travel alone, you notice different elements of the landscape.

Local, state incumbents rule primaries

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Incumbency revealed its advantages in Tuesday’s Texas Primaries as favorites prevailed. So did those whose campaign bore the benefits of a Donald Trump endorsement.

EISD seeks old high school historical items

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Bringing large-scale vitality back to the old high school campus at 501 N. Gaines St. in the form of Alamo Middle School, comes official news of the creation of a district museum onsite.

Where the South begins

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A number of years ago a Chicago high school student went to Nicaragua during his summer vacation to do volunteer work. He accompanied a medical team to a tiny mountain village. Life in the village was primitive. Most of the children had no clothes and were inadequately fed. The houses, built right on the ground, were made from old lumber and banana leaves. The medical team vaccinated the villagers against polio, measles, and DPT. Sometimes they had to turn children away because they had already gotten the disease. The high school boy found this especially heartbreaking.

March 2022 Monthly Health Article – Colorectal Cancer Awareness

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In the 1980s and 1990s, the NBC broadcast network began branding their primetime lineups to promote their sitcoms and dramas. One phrase in particular quickly entered the pop culture lexicon after it debuted in 1993. The phrase? Must See TV. If you were a teenager in the early ‘90s and remember trying to rush through your homework to watch that night’s Must-See TV lineup, it could be time for another “must” – a colonoscopy.

Early days in Ennis: Dateline 1881

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Thanks to a friend of this column, Margie Callum, I’m sharing with you this week, an early history of Ennis as recorded in a little volume called The Ellis County Illustrated Annual for 1881, published in 1880 by the Ennis Saturday Review, one of the city’s earliest newspapers. As Margie wrote in

Ennis football releases new schedule

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Fresh from the University Interscholastic League realignment and redistricting, Ennis football HC Sam Harrell has made public the Lions 2022 fall schedule.

Ennis band treks to Orlando

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A familiar far trek to central Florida awaits the All-State Ennis Marching Band next week, March 11-17, when they return to Orlando. It will be their first trip since 2019, when the national pandemic put a damper on travel.

White shifts from Austin to District Admin.

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After six years of exemplary service and leadership at Stephen F. Austin Elementary, Principal Bobby White, 55, is transitioning to a new administrative position at the downtown EISD offices. The change takes place following the spring semester.