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Officer Sawyer and Mac.

Officer Sawyer and Mac.

Wilmer gets K9 as newest PD member

News Staff
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 00:00
WILMER – The 17 full-time and three part-time sworn peace officers along with six civilian employees at the Wilmer PD will officially be adding a new addition soon. At the city council meeting this week Wilmer Police Chief Victor Kemp will swear in the newest member of the patrol team.

Four marks of a true man

News Staff
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 00:00
Esquire Magazine published the article, “How to be a Man.” The author wrote a series of proverbs on manliness. One stated, “A man knows how to lose an afternoon. Drinking, playing Grand Theft Auto, driving aimlessly, shooting pool.” Please, do not follow their advice!

OUT TO PASTOR: What is a day off, really?

News Staff
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 00:00
I’m not one who gets excited about holidays. If up to me there would be one holiday per month, and that’s it. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage loves holidays, no matter what it is. For her it is a time to have a “Day Off.” If anybody knows how to celebrate a day off it is her.

ANALYSIS: Growth causing severe drainage problems in county

News Staff
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 00:00
Ellis County is growing. What used to be rural, country living, is quickly shifting to suburbia, with more and more people moving to our county and joining our family. Every week, new building sites, commercial and residential, are going up along our highway corridors and farm to market roads.
Robert F. Sargent’s “Into the Jaws of Death,” a photograph he took of troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach from a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft (from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase) on D-Day.

Robert F. Sargent’s “Into the Jaws of Death,” a photograph he took of troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach from a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft (from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase) on D-Day.

D-DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY

Ellis123
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 13:07
D-DAY STATEMENT TO SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND AIRMEN OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, JUNE 1944    Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.