ELLIS COUNTY ARRESTS: September 23 – 30

Bragewitz, Charlie, 46, theft prop <$2500 2/more prev convictions, misdemeanor warrant, theft prop >=$100<$750, misdemeanor warrant, misdemeanor warrant, misdemeanor warrant, poss CS pg 1/1-b>=1g<4g Felony 3.Abiley, Tawanna, 31, felony warrant.

WILMER ARRESTS: September 22 – 29

Contreras, German, 35, warrant arrest other agency.King, April, 25, warrant arrest other agency.Thomas, Dequallian, 26, burglary of vehicles, resist arrest search or transport.Arreola, Luis, 31, apprehension by police officer without warrant.Badger, Marcus, 25, warrant arrest other agency.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) part 61

Mama, Corrina, and I had planned another ‘Fridays with Mama’ visit on what would have been the first or second Friday of July, not long before things took a turn for the worse.

OUT TO PASTOR: How can I get my sneeze back?

I’ve had a lot of health issues during this past year, and now that I seem to be over them, something else has taken their place. I have had a sneezing fit for the past two weeks that I’ve never experienced before. Every time I sneeze, it is in triplets.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (October 3, 2024)

OPINION: Law-abiding citizens can forget about fairness under Harris

From New York to Chicago and the Denver suburbs, migrant gangs are mugging, raping, robbing stores, running brothels next door to elementary schools, and threatening apartment dwellers with guns to take over residential buildings, all without fear of being deported.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Wars, rumors of wars, hurricanes, flooding and death, AND our lovely American government

I don’t show my anger very much in my column because usually I just figure what good does it do?My friends and readers always tell me people are not going to change their minds for reasons that I’ll never understand.

OPINION: Can we all get along? Yes, by letting the states decide

At the time of this writing, the outcome of the presidential race is pretty close to being a coin flip.So what I write is not in any way influenced by who will win in November, since that is unknowable.What is a virtual certainty is that on Nov.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (OCTOBER 3, 2024)

SHOULDN’T SHE BE ARRESTED?“How did we get here? Let’s extinguish [Trump] for good.” – Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo THAT EXPLAINS IT“As vice president, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that [Harris] couldn’t do.

PUBLIC NOTICE: CITY OF WILMER ORDINANCES PUBLISHED OCT. 3, 2024

Publish one time in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, October 3, 2024. CITY OF WILMER ORDINANCE NO. 2024-0718BAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WILMER, TEXAS, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 12.06.