During the next 60 to 90 days, road rehabilitation projects budgeted for 2022 will take place throughout the City of Midlothian, beginning with Waterworks Road. During construction, streets will be open to through traffic, but some traffic interruption will occur. Traffic control signs and flaggers will be in place. The patience and cooperation of motorists is appreciated.
The Ellis County “Love Your Neighbor” (a/k/a “LYN”) initiative and campaign has slowly been gaining momentum since its inception in late 2019. The ministry concept brought about by the leadership of Pastor Bruce Zimmerman of Waxahachie Bible Church is a simple, biblical commandment – to Love Your Neighbor – and that means spreading love and kindness all around.
Texas State Technical College, along with charter schools, home schools and school districts across Texas, are wrapping up another year of dual enrollment. “I think it went very well,” said Kadie Svrcek, TSTC’s director of internal operations for dual enrollment.
This past week, I was out in the middle of Lake Ray Hubbard fishing with guide Brandon Sargent, Lead Slinger’s Guide service. We were dropping baits directly under the boat and staying busy hooking and placing on ice one white bass after the other. Catching was about as good as it gets for about 30 minutes and then the action suddenly ceased. About 75 yards out, on the dead calm surface of the water, a huge school of “whites” had pushed shad to the surface, the water was frothing!
Heritage High School held its graduation ceremony for the Class of 2022 on Sunday afternoon at the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts. Approximately 254 seniors received their diplomas. MIDLOTHIAN ISD
Except for hand watering or the use of drip/subsurface irrigation or properly working soaker hoses, residents in the city limits of Midlothian are required to refrain from irrigating their lawns or landscaping between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
For the last five years, an Ellis County nonprofit has been giving homeless or at-risk veterans a place to regroup as they try to get back on their feet. Serenity Veterans Village has provided transitional housing and various services for local veterans who need help.
ROANOKE, Va. – Quinton Cruse and April Ragan drank beer and sulked by a downtown Roanoke bridge the morning of May 5, dispirited by the difficulty of moving from the streets into Section 8 housing. • Years without housing had cost them – he the use of an arm, her a pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. A home would mean safety and not postponing dreams, like getting married. • They never got the apartment. But life did them one better. • Unknown to Cruse, three members of his family who hadn’t seen him in more than 20 years were driving toward the city to reunite at that hour. They learned his whereabouts from Roanoke Times coverage of homeless people camping downtown and from the reporter who wrote it last year. • As reported, Cruse, 58, and Ragan, 34, met last year at the Grey hound bus station and lived together in his tent near the Taubman Museum of Art. She became pregnant. He was shown in a photo with a black cast over a knife cut to his arm received in a fight. • For his part, Cruse would later say that he didn’t think his family wanted contact with him, citing “the way I’ve been living.” He lived on the streets of Roanoke or in a jail cell since his marriage ended in 2009, he said. Multiple drinking in public and trespassing charges appear on his online court record.• Ragan marked three years as a homeless person this year, an odyssey that began with the death of her grandmother with whom she shared a home, she said, and has been summoned to court on multiple alcohol-related charges, online records show. • Family members wondered before visiting Roanoke whether Cruse would welcome them after years of estrangement. They had no idea where he was, much less the knowledge that he was homeless, before discovering the mention of him in the newspaper.
Midlothian paramedics and patrol officers came together to reunite with 7- year-old Jesy DeFazio, who returned to meet the first responders who helped rescue her from the scene of a tragic automobile accident that took the life of her mother in January.
Residents on the southern edge of Midlothian may soon no longer have to wait for commercial and retail options in their part of town. A planned mixed-use development including five retail lots at the northeast corner of FM 663 and FM 875 was finally approved after an intense discussion during Tuesday night’s monthly meeting of the Midlothian City Council.