September 2022

Students begin a new school year with hopes and dreams of better lives. Teachers and administrators similarly have high hopes for their students, trying to create classrooms and schools of the highest quality where these dreams can be nurtured and minds developed, as difficult as this sometimes is given the limits of budgets. Southern Methodist University in Dallas was created with such hopes but also with many obstacles. In the end, SMU was the result of a fight to relocate another college and the fate of a Dallas medical school that culminated in a world-class university.

Local dignitaries were on hand for the opening of the first Bank of America Financial Center in Midlothian at 2221 FM 663 last Wednesday morning. Bank of America’s new Midlothian Financial Center is reflective of the company’s high-tech and high-touch approach to meeting the banking, lending, and investing needs of its local clients.

A new facility in Ellis County will soon be providing support for combat veterans, first responders and their families. The Eagle Oak Retreat is an 11-acre tree-lined ranch in the countryside along U.S.

The Midlothian Police Department will kick off the 2022 National Night Out campaign at an organizational event on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Midlothian Community Park, 3601 S. 14th Street.

The bodies of eight people were recovered from the Rio Grande after dozens of migrants were swept downriver near Eagle Pass, in what appeared to be the deadliest mass drowning along the border in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday.

The State Board of Education narrowly voted Friday to delay updating the state’s social studies curriculum until 2025 after facing pressure from conservatives over proposed changes. Earlier this week, board members said they would push back the social studies review after hours of public comment.The board voted 8-7 Friday to delay the social studies overhaul.

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