Shelby County Today

March 2, 2023 - On this day, in 1836, during the siege of the Alamo, another handful of men met one hundred fifty miles to the east in a large unfinished blacksmith shop at Washington-on-the-Brazos. There, on his forty second birthday, Sam Houston with fifty eight other duly elected delegates to the Convention of 1836 met to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence, prepared by George C. Childress and his five man committee.

Among those signing were William Carroll Crawford and Sydney O. Pennington, representing what would become Shelby County. Most of the signers wished to be on the battlefield with their fellow Texans but Houston convinced the delegates that the declaration would give the emerging republic a basis of legality and would draw more help from the United States. Four days after the signing Houston departed the Convention as commander of all military forces of the new Republic and the Republic had a constitution and an ad interim government headed by David G. Burnet and Lorenzo de Zavala.

On this day, March 2, Texas Independence Day, fly your Texas flag proudly.

Daughters of the Republic of Texas
William Carroll Crawford Chapter

February 20, 2023 - The Piney Woods Photographic Society held the regular monthly meeting this past Saturday, February 18th with a workshop presented by Billie Jones on "Photographing Flight" and a February Challenge "Still-Life Minimalism" featuring photos submitted by members for voting and discussion.  

The Challenge results are as follows:

1st Place Favorite: "Simple in White" by Bobbie J. Wood

2nd Place Favorite: "Treasures of the Past" by Jan Carter

3rd Place Favorite (Tie): "What does the future hold" by Brandie Ferguson

3rd Place Favorite (Tie): "X's and O'x" by Anna Jones

3rd Place Favorite (Tie): "End of the Trail" by Donna Holt

February 5, 2023 — Ouachita Baptist University has named 382 students to its Fall 2022 President’s List.

To be named to the President’s List, a student must compile a grade point average of 4.0 and be classified as a full-time student, with a minimum of 12 academic hours and no incomplete or failing grade for the semester.

Ouachita Baptist University, a private liberal arts university, is in its 137th year as a Christ-centered learning community and is ranked nationally by U.S. News & World Report. Ouachita continues to break enrollment records, reporting its highest headcount in 56 years during the Fall 2022 semester. Learn more about the university’s highly personal approach to higher education, reflected in a student/faculty ratio of 13:1, at www.obu.edu.

The following Texas students are included in the President’s List and are listed in order of hometown:

Amarillo, Texas — Jacie Sellars, Peyton Stafford
Arlington, Texas — Emily Adams
Carrollton, Texas — Jeremiah Mainor, Keith Mathews
Celina, Texas — Jill Parsons, Ashlyn Vana
Center, Texas — Keelan Williams
Combine, Texas — Addyson Miller
Coppell, Texas — Jenae Wilson
Cypress, Texas — Hannah Smith
Dallas, Texas — James Savarese
De Kalb, Texas — Kaitlan Kinney, Hope Murphy
Denton, Texas — Hannah Hickman
Dripping Springs, Texas — Tiffani Chew
Euless, Texas — Alyssa Strauss, Andy Strauss
Forney, Texas — Elijah Christenson
Fort Stockton, Texas — Taylor Hansard
Fort Worth, Texas — Tyler Andruss, Braden Tucker, Hope Waid
Franklin, Texas — Ali May
Frisco, Texas — Genevieve Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Kate Ellis, Lauren Gaharan, Priscilla Leverett, Danielle Schager, Josh Watson, Brock Wollent
Garland, Texas — Emma Dennis, Jackson McCaleb, Joni Schneider
Georgetown, Texas — Chloe Jetton, Jackson Pickard
Gilmer, Texas — Joshua Ray
Hawkins, Texas — Isaac Edwards
Heath, Texas — Dawson Miller
Keller, Texas — Ava Dunagan
Kingwood, Texas — Garrett Richards
Lantana, Texas — Chad Gscheidle
Lindale, Texas — Sydni Watts
Longview, Texas — Izzi Breaux, Nathan Clark
Lumberton, Texas — Torrie Weems
Magnolia, Texas — Brendan Watson, Sarah Grace Wisener
Marshall, Texas — Jeff McCoy
Maud, Texas — Jaycie Anderson
McKinney, Texas — Abigail Dahl, Emilio Garcia, Cameron Marchant
Melissa, Texas — Bella Blankenship
Mesquite, Texas — Kyndall Fomby-Bell, Maddy Moore
Midlothian, Texas — Lindsay Hachat, Emily Shipman
Montgomery, Texas — Kaitlyn Montgomery, Kendall Wilson
Mount Pleasant, Texas — Olivia Nethercutt, Nathan Scolaro
Murphy, Texas — Brooke Steinman, Hayley Wolfe
Nacogdoches, Texas — Ellie Davis, Brooklyn Perkins, Abigail Powers, Anna Claire Powers
North Richland Hills, Texas — Finley Nipper
Oak Leaf, Texas — Connor Bjerke
Omaha, Texas — Heather Brown
Paris, Texas — Hannah Tullos
Pflugerville, Texas — James Jolly
Plano, Texas — Meghann Bledsoe, Holly Hatcher, Brock Wade
Ponder, Texas — Jillian Roberts
Powderly, Texas — Caroline Smallwood
Prosper, Texas — Taylor Bass, Maegan Royster
Red Oak, Texas — Colton Schrader
Richardson, Texas — Emily Pease
Rockport, Texas — Lorraine Soto
Rockwall, Texas — Tag Pacot
Round Rock, Texas — Jake Goltzman
Rowlett, Texas — Jacob Smith
Sherman, Texas — Jackson Lipscomb
Spring, Texas — Mary O'Sullivan, Lacy Ornelas
Texarkana, Texas — Tucker Anderson, Reganne Dumas, Ryan Pickelman, Lily Sewell
Troup, Texas — Emma Bynum
Wake Village, Texas — Ben DePriest
Wylie, Texas — Mikaila Fatheree

February 3, 2023 - The University of Texas at Tyler announced students who were named to the fall 2022 President's Honor Roll and two of those recognized are from Timpson, Texas.

To qualify for the President's Honor Roll, a student must have completed, in one semester, 12 or more semester hours of undergraduate college-level credit with an "A" in all courses. To be considered for this recognition, a student must qualify as a matriculated student pursuing a first bachelor's degree. This recognition is made in fall and spring semesters.

President's Honor Roll students from Timpson are Kamryn Courtney in the Soules College of Business and Mia Mahan in the School of Nursing.

With a mission to improve educational and healthcare outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. UT Tyler recently merged with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as The Health Science Center at UT Tyler). Through its alignment with The Health Science Center at UT Tyler (HSC) and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.