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Ferris City Manager Brooks Williams goes over the street improvements projects.

Ferris’ strategic plan includes road construction

Wed, 12/02/2020 - 11:52am

FERRIS – In the next two weeks, road work on portions of nine streets in Ferris will begin.

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News Editor Rita Cook holds an AR-15 semi-automatice carbine for the first time at Texas Defensive Shooting Academy near Ferris.

Wondering when to get your license to carry – how about right now!

Wed, 12/02/2020 - 11:50am

ELLIS COUNTY – Ellis County resident Kay Wiggs decided to take a beginner’s handgun class this month as well as a class to pass her License to Carry certification.

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RED OAK MAN ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE MURDER COUNTS

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 11:55am

RED OAK – Police said the arrest of Jeremy Harris is a major break in a number of violent crimes that police were investigating involving a black Chevy Tahoe with black rims.

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Earlier this month, newly elected Ellis County Constable Curtis Polk Jr., 42, spoke out about being moved to a shared work space that was near a “Negroes” sign leftover from the segregation era. He was given the office space with two sheriff deputies in the courthouse basement. The move came after county commissioners voted on a relocation plan to make space for a new court. Photo courtesy The Dallas Morning News.

History continuing to change in Ellis County

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 11:52am

WAXAHACHIE – It is up to the Ellis County Historical Society to decide what to do with a seven-letter word painted on a basement archway that changed Ellis County history last week.