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The “Downtown Ennis TX” organization put on a successful Ennis Freedom Fest event featuring Le Freak, the acclaimed “best disco band in the world,” on Saturday evening at Veteran’s Memorial Park.

Cherished Impressions Child Placing Agency, a Waxahachiebased nonprofit, will host a skeet shooting event and classic car show later this summer to help support local foster children. The event is set for 8 a.m.

Texas-based and privately held grocery chain H-E-B announced its 50th anniversary of its Ennis store. Several local management team members joined in the celebration of the “golden year” on Saturday at the store’s location at 101 South Clay St.

In the days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrats at rallies and protests in Texas said the November election is key for protecting reproductive rights.

Two organizations in the greater DFW area announced last week that they will receive support from Google for skilled-trade education and workforce development in the area. The Regional Black Contractors Association (RBCA) Community Development Corporation and the United Way Metropolitan Dallas-Southern Dallas Thrives’ Women in Construction Initiative will each receive funding to boost pre-apprenticeship programs offered by the organizations to North Texans.

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday.

Texas abortion providers are making a last-ditch effort to temporarily resume procedures by challenging a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban that has not been enforced for nearly a half-century, but that some abortion opponents argue could be enforced after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.