Children's Advocacy Center Thanks Farmers Insurance for Donation

December 8, 2025 - Thank you to John Michael Burns and Farmers Insurance for your generous support of the Shelby County Children’s Advocacy Center!

VFW Post 8904 Remembers Pearl Harbor Day on 84th Anniversary

Pictured are (from left) Mary Roberts, Derrick Roberts, Joyce Johnson, and Larry "Dude" Jones.

Children's Advocacy Center's Annual Christmas Toy Drive

November 5, 2025 - The time is here. The Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center's (SCCAC) Annual Christmas Toy Drive runs now through December 12!

David's Daily Devotion for December 4

December 4, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, December 4.

The older we get, the more we worry about our legacy, about what we’ll leave behind, about how we’ll be remembered. Chester Greenwood was born on December 4, 1858, in Farmington, Maine, and he’s remembered as the guy who invented... ear muffs.

Shelby County JPs Attend School

(From left) Melba Rodgers, JP Precinct; Tracy Broadway, JP Precinct 4/5; and Donna Hughes, JP Precinct 1.

December 4, 2025 - Three Shelby County Justices of the Peace (JP) concluded state mandated yearly instruction in Galveston, December 1-3.

Community Celebrates Tree Lighting on Center Square

Center Garden Club Members Create Festive Christmas Urns Downtown

December 3, 2025 - On the recent chilly morning of December 2nd, Center Garden Club members turned out to create festive Christmas designs for the eight urns on the Center square. Each urn is now filled with a variety of East Texas fresh greenery such as pine, magnolia, yaupon, cedar, cypress, and arbor vitae which members had gathered from Shelby County's beautiful forests, lawns, and shrub gardens.

50 Women Impact Group Awards Timpson VAS $10,9000, Impact Hits $350,000

Center Garden Club Presents Community Beautification Gift to Local Business

Shannon Ramsey Shares Ramsey Family History with TAGHS

November 24, 2025 - Shannon Ramsey may have shared his family's history with the Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society last Wednesday, but when the Ramseys arrived here, there was no Timpson. Shannon's family came to the area in the mid 1850s, when Texas had been a state for only about a decade. “About 1995 or '96 I began a spreadsheet with genealogical information on my computer,” Ramsey began. “It covered only five families and after I had worked on it for a few years, the spreadsheet had grown to about 150 lines.

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