Wilmer Mayor Pro Tem named, council member resigns

WILMER – Wilmer City Council member Wally Leto’s resignation was accepted at last week’s Wilmer City Council meeting.Leto was serving a term that was not set to expire until May 2023.

CONG. JAKE ELLZEY ANNOUNCES SERVICE ACADEMY WINNERS

“One of my favorite duties as a Member of Congress is nominating outstanding young men and women to our nation’s service academies from the 6th Congressional District.

Waxahachie native serves at NATTC

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Petty Officer 1st Class Cecilia Rosas, a native of Waxahachie, Texas, serves the U.S. Navy at the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla.

Monkeypox infection: to fear or not to fear?

OMNS – In the current setting of the entire planet dealing with the COVID pandemic over the last two and a half years, fear is readily stoked that another pandemic with a virus that comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox could be poised to inflict widespread suffering and death.

Sparks will be flying in Wilmer July 1

WILMER – The sparks will be flying in the City of Wilmer on Friday, July 1 for the city’s second annual Fourth of July celebration.The event will take place at 4801 N I-45 and the main fireworks show will begin at 9:15 p.m.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer

On the night of June 6, 1944, President Roosevelt went on national radio to address the nation for the first time about the Normandy invasion.His speech took the form of a prayer.The date and timing of the Normandy invasion had been top secret.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (May 9, 2022)

OPINION: School shootings show our leaders, not Americans, are the moral failures

It’s a standard pattern.After a horror like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, pundits, journalists and politicians come forward to say that the event is evidence of some deep moral failure, a flaw in America’s soul.

OPINION: Exasperated Biden has only himself to blame as his poll numbers sink below Trump’s

Leaks from the White House suggest that Joe Biden is in a snit over his plummeting poll numbers, now that they’ve sunk below those of Donald Trump.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: The God of the mountain

Welcome, all, to the “front porch.”I was just thinking about how things are nowadays, and I realized something.Things and people are not that much different from way back years ago, as far back as the Old Testament days.