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Mentors Care founder describes childhood challenges, success stories in new book
Chris Roarkcroark@cherryroad.com Mentors Care founder describes childhood challenges, success stories in new book As Dena Petty talks about the success of Mentors Care, a nonprofit she founded in 2009, she can’t help but get excited. This year alone the Ellis County-based nonprofit has reached nearly 1,000 students in 22 high schools while recruiting approximately 900…
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Author to visit O’Brien’s Bookshop March 21
Come meet historical fiction author J.M Kirkley Saturday, March 21 from 2 to 4 p.m. at O’Brien’s Bookshop in downtown Midlothian. She’ll be signing and selling her spellbinding historical novel, “A Writing in the Sand.”A Writing in the Sand
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Texas History Minute: How Count Pulaski helped U.S. independence
As the nation prepares for the 250th anniversary of independence, Americans look with renewed interest to the lives of men and women from the Revolutionary Era.
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Ellis County Judge, Precinct 2 Commissioner seats go to runoff
The race for Ellis County Judge and one commissioners’ seat was looking to be headed for a May 26 runoff following early Republican Primary returns released by the Ellis County Elections Office on Tuesday evening.






