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PUBLIC NOTICE: CITY OF BARDWELL PROPERTY SEALED BID

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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 13:31
Publish three times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 and Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 CITY OF BARDWELL PROPERTYSEALED BID MONDAY 10/7/2024BARDWELL CITY HALL100 PLANTER’S GIN RDBARDWELL, TX 75101 INVITATION TO BID CITY OF BARDWELL BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY SEALED...

This week was move-in day at the new Ellis County Central facility

RITA COOK / Freelance Writer
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 12:14
ELLIS COUNTY – County employees began moving in to the new Ellis County Central facility at 302 N. Monroe Street Monday.Overall, the building cost roughly $10 million in construction fees to Rogers O’Brien, and the construction management was headed by Tyler Koch of Kitchell.The new building will...
Ellis County Judge Todd Little talks with Russian Independent journalist Akexey Pivoparov at last week’s GOP meeting.

Ellis County Judge Todd Little talks with Russian Independent journalist Akexey Pivoparov at last week’s GOP meeting.

Retired deputy chief of US border patrol, independent Russian journalist guests at Ellis County GOP meeting

STAFF REPORT
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 12:03
ELLIS COUNTY – It was a rare opportunity to get a look at what is happening at the Texas border when retired Deputy Chief of the US Border Patrol and Ellis County resident Matthew Hudak spoke at last week’s Ellis County GOP meeting to a standing-room only crowd.Hudak offered a first-hand account of...
Photo by Michael Seiber / The Ellis County Press

Photo by Michael Seiber / The Ellis County Press

City of Ferris honors its two fallen officers

STAFF REPORT
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 11:58
FERRIS – On Sunday, Oct. 6, the City of Ferris honored its two fallen officers at the Fallen Officer Memorial with words from Jesus Mancillas, Director of the Department of Public Safety, Deputy City Manager John DeLeon and Jeff Aaron.Officer Harry Marvin Steinfeldt died in the line of service on...
State Representative Brian Harrison

State Representative Brian Harrison

Harrison receives national ‘Voice of the American Dream Award’

STAFF REPORT
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 11:49
MIDLOTHIAN – State Representative Brian Harrison was awarded the Voice of the American Dream Award by the national conservative organization the Club for Growth Foundation.The Foundation’s Voice of the American Dream Award honors an individual who has demonstrated an exceptional ability to...
Marvin Scales

Marvin Scales

Waxahachie youth pastor pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 4 minors

STAFF REPORT
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 17:07
WAXAHACHIE – Ellis County and District Attorney Ann Montgomery announced that Marvin Scales, 53, of Waxahachie, Texas, pled guilty to two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a young child, one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and one count of sexual assault of a child.Scales was...
K9 “Tex”. Photo courtesy Ellis County Sheriff’s Office.

K9 “Tex”. Photo courtesy Ellis County Sheriff’s Office.

Ellis County K9 “Tex” leads narcotics arrest

RITA COOK / Freelance Writer
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 17:01
ELLIS COUNTY –  Ellis County Sheriff’s deputies made a narcotics arrest last week with the helped of its well-trained K9 “Tex” and his deputy partner.The K9 team, according to a press release from the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department, “is dedicated to drug detection and criminal apprehension,”...