Rice, TX

Two more North Texas school districts are shortening their school week next school year. Beginning in August, Terrell and Anna ISD will slightly extend the school day and do away with Friday classes. Terrell Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock said the Kaufman district’s strategy should help recruit teachers with four-day school weeks.

The city of Wilmer, in Dallas County, is annexing a lot of properties without the permission of the owners. It’s a tax grab and most of the people don’t want it. Should they be allowed to do that?

An Amber Alert has been discontinued for a 3-month-old boy who was taken Wednesday night by his non-custodial mother from a domestic violence shelter in the Kaufman County city of Kemp, law enforcement officials say. According to Kemp Police, 23-year-old Abigail Margaret Williams and her son were located in North...

Baby Xyavier Calliste and his 23-year-old mother were found in about 1,100 miles away from their home in north Texas.

A City of Corsicana Town Hall Meeting has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21. The meeting will be located at the City of Corsicana Government Center Council Chambers, located at 200 N. Twelfth Street. (A quorum of the City of Corsicana City Council may be in attendance.) Please...

(WBAP/KLIF) – Two school districts on the outskirts of the metroplex are shortening their week next school year. Anna ISD and Terrell ISD will adjust their schedules beginning in August by extending the school day, and doing away with Friday classes. Terrell Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock told WBAP/KLIF News that...

FORNEY, Texas — The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Forney-area shooting incident on Thursday. Kaufman County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Scott Whitaker tells inForney.com there are no reported injuries and that damage from the gunfire is property related and involves at least one vehicle. Investigators had taped off...

KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter located over $270,000 in stolen property during aerial patrol last week, according to a statement from the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office. On January 17, 2023, a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter was on aerial patrol when it...

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David Worth, director of the George R. Brown Forensics Society — Rice’s competitive speech and debate team — said that his team has been described as fanatical. “It’s somewhere between a club and a [Division I] sport,” Worth said. “This weekend before last, we had 16 debates in three days.”

Publish one time in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of BETTY JANE TERRY, Deceased, were issued on 01-09-23, in Docket No. 22-E-2446, pending in the County Court of Ellis County, Texas, to:. Carla L. Stanley.

FERRIS – For Starbucks fans, or those who just want to get a good coffee in the morning, the City of Ferris has some good news. Ferris City Manager Brooks Williams said the city, which is off Interstate 45 and in the counties of both Dallas and Ellis, has been working for more than a year with a developer to bring Starbucks to Ferris.

ANNA, Texas - Students in more rural North Texas school districts will have Fridays off next year. The school board in Anna, which is north of Dallas in Collin County, approved the change last week. The district said results from a November survey showed parents and staff overwhelmingly supported a...

CANTON, Texas — One person was killed and another injured in a two-vehicle crash near Canton on Saturday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The crash occurred at approximately 6:50 p.m., on Saturday, January 21, 2023, on State Highway (SH) 243 five miles west of Canton, Texas.

Publish two times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 and Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Sealed bids will be received by City of Ferris for the construction of Downtown Pump Station Improvements at the meeting office of Velvin & Weeks Consulting Engineers, Inc. whose physical and mailing address is 930 E Corsicana St, Athens, Texas 75751 until February 9, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., where it will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Publish two times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 and Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by Go Store It Self-Storage at the following locations to satisfy a lien on February 09, 2023 at approx.12:00 PM at www.storagetreasures.com:

A Canton, Tx., woman was killed in a 2-vehilce accident on Highway 243 just west of Canton early Saturday evening, Texas Department of Public Safety said. Authorities said that 42-year-old Jennifer L. Johnson was killed in the wreck when headed west in a 2019 Nissan Sentra, colliding with another vehicle, a 2022 Dodge Ram 2500 driven by Jose E. Rincon Juarez, male, 37 YOA of Kaufman, Texas. A passenger in Johnson’s vehicle, Jose E. Rincon Juarez, male, 37 YOA of Kaufman, Texas was treated at a hospital with incapacitating injuries, a DPS spokesperson said.

Gun Barrel City Computers owner Charles Ligon (from left), Gun Barrel City Mayor David Skains and Cedar Creek Lake Area Chamber of Commerce GBC Chapter President Marty Mullins visit at the end of the breakfast meeting held Jan. 19 at Chicken Express. Mayor Skains was the featured speaker and Gun Barrel City Computers was the Spotlight business.

At the very first Editorial Board meeting of this school year, the seniors on our board got on our high horses to inform the Rice community of the way things used to be done vis-a-vis selling tickets to public parties. We’ve held our tongues since then, as we can appreciate that circumstances change and growth is good. But the time has come for us to speak again, this time in support of resurrecting the greatest of all pre-COVID traditions: Sunday brunch.