COVID-19: Get ready for 50% capacity again!

WAXAHACHIE – Ellis County residents returning from Thanksgiving break faced strict new coronavirus measures around the county Monday as health officials brace for a disastrous worsening of the nationwide surge because of holiday gatherings over the long weekend.

Ferris’ strategic plan includes road construction

FERRIS – In the next two weeks, road work on portions of nine streets in Ferris will begin. The repairing and rehabbing of Ash Street, Weatherford Street, Oak Street, Maple Street, Ennis Scott Street, AD Mosley Street, W.

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

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. Wiggs said, “It is time to take these classes.

DNA legislation continues solving crimes

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety announced House Bill 1399 assisted in the closure of more than 250 unsolved criminal investigations during its first year of implementation.

GET TESTED FOR COPD: YOUR LUNGS WILL THANK YOU

FAMILY FEATURES – If you’re often short of breath during everyday activities, your chest feels tight, or you cough a lot, you may be chalking it up to getting older, having allergies, or being a smoker (now or in the past). Fortunately, there’s a way to know whether something more may be at play.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (December 3, 2020)

OP-ED: Patriot’s dilemma: To vote or not to vote in a rigged system?

Georgia attorney Lin Wood, a Republican attorney investigating voter fraud in the 2020 election, has sparked controversy by suggesting Georgia Republicans should sit out the January 5 run-off elections for that state’s two U.S. senate seats.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Every day was Thanksgiving at Grandma’s

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.”   – November 2011 – We’ve all eaten enough turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce and pumpkin, pecan, and apple pies to last us ‘til Christmas.

OUT TO PASTOR: It’s all over but the lying

The one thing I don’t like is when somebody deliberately lies to me. Trust me; this has happened quite a few times in my life. Sometimes, by accident, they say something that isn’t true; they just got their facts mixed up. Other times, it’s a ploy to deceive me and get something from me.

IRS urges data protection for holidays, upcoming filing season

DALLAS – With the approach of the holidays and the upcoming tax filing season, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax industry are promoting the 5th annual National Tax Security Awareness Week from Nov. 30 through Dec.