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OUT TO PASTOR: When everything fails, it’s over

DR. JAMES L. SNYDER
Thu, 05/14/2020 - 10:57
During this time of seclusion, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly has spent some significant time binge-watching some of those Hallmark mystery movies.
Photo by Greg Chapman

Photo by Greg Chapman

A.Y. Mohundro celebrates 96th birthday on May 3

Ellis123
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:40
FERRIS – First responders from the City of Ferris in police cars and fire trucks, followed by an estimated 40-car string of sign and balloon decorated vehicles containing friends, family and neighbors, staged an epic neighborhood parade Sunday, May 3 to celebrate the birthday of beloved longtime...
Check-in sign at the Ellis County Jail in Waxahachie.

Check-in sign at the Ellis County Jail in Waxahachie.

Ellis County jail shows no signs of COVID-19

RITA COOK / News Editor
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:37
WAXAHACHIE - While it was recently reported that nearly 1300 inmates and 400 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in Texas prisons - and over 20 inmates have died, some local county jails where prisoners are taken after arrest are making sure their jails are pandemic free.

Waxahachie/Red Oak get new orders for pandemic

RITA COOK / News Editor
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:35
WAXAHACHIE – For residents in Waxahachie, that city has issued an updated Disaster Declaration Order in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The new order is effective immediately.
Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash

Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash

What’s happening to America’s civil liberties in the wake of COVID-19?

CLARK MERREFIELD / Journalist’s Resource
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:19
Can a nation in crisis strike a reasonable balance between protecting public health and defending individual freedoms? It’s a question we’re mulling as governments across the United States consider whether and how to ease various lockdown measures in the wake of COVID-19.
Council also voted 5-0 vote to allow Primary Media to congratulate the Ferris High School seniors class of 2020 on a billboard at Central and 6th Street. The billboard was ordered removed in November, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it will not be able to be removed until September.

Council also voted 5-0 vote to allow Primary Media to congratulate the Ferris High School seniors class of 2020 on a billboard at Central and 6th Street. The billboard was ordered removed in November, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it will not be able to be removed until September.

Ferris City Council votes not to renew city secretary’s contract

RITA COOK / News Editor
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:17
FERRIS – Streaming live on Facebook, the Ferris City Council voted in a 3-2 vote Monday night not to renew City Secretary Callie Green’s contract.

Time to hold China accountable for the virus

ROBERT ROMANO
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:14
China knew early on about the deadly coronavirus that has cost a quarter million lives thus far and shut down the global economy, but suppressed evidence when it might have proven crucial to containing the virus.

AOC supports Biden for reason she forgot to fact check

TOWNHALL: Courtney O’brien
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:14
Democrats are grasping in the dark for reasons to still support former Vice President Joe Biden for president. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have just grabbed on to the most farfetched one yet.