ELLIS CO. ROAD WORK LANE CLOSURES

WAXAHACHIE – Both the cities of Waxahachie and Red Oak are seeing nightly lane closures on I-35 beginning last week and continuing this week as well.

City of Ovilla welcomes new finance director

OVILLA – The city of Ovilla welcomed a new finance director in early February after the retirement of longtime director Sharon Jungman.Edward Scott has more than 25 years of municipal government and private sector accounting and administration experience.

JERRY WATSON MEMORIAL PARK DEDICATION CEREMONY

Friends, family and co-workers gathered March 3 at 11 a.m. at the 300 block of Donna Drive in Ferris to honor the memory of Jerry Watson by dedicating a memorial park in his name.Back row: Robert Kent, Loujeanne Guye, Phillip Newsom, Cynthia Newsom.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Look beneath the narrative if you want the real story – and why do they want to ban Tik Tok again?

While it seems like folks in government are turning on each other like rats fleeing a sinking ship, I will admit my heart goes out to all humans who are about to be destroyed.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (March 9, 2023)

The Peter (Buttigieg) Principle

In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle.The informal way to describe it was this: In a business hierarchy, an employee does well and is promoted.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (March 9, 2023)

THE BIG LIES“Folks, families across the country are starting to breathe a little easier.” – Joe Biden“I’ve read [Marjorie Taylor Greene] was very specific recently, saying that … a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that – that I killed her sons.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) – part 2

Good week. Welcome to the “Front Porch.”I am sure I should begin this piece of history in the beginning of the summer of 1973.

OUT TO PASTOR: Who has been fiddling with my mind?

When it comes to music, I am an amateur in many regards.I signed up for a violin class in first grade and took lessons. After about a month, the teacher met with my parents and begged them to pull me from that class.He said, “Out of deep respect for music, this boy should not play the violin.

The dynamics of discipleship (part 45)

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” – I PETER 5:8The devil is a skilled hunter seeking an easy kill and just as a lion lurking in the weeds he looks for the weak, the young and the infirmed.