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Covid-19: 1 New Death, Decreasing Active Cases Ends 48 Day Streak of Over 100

February 24, 2021 - The Texas DSHS Covid-19 Dashboard reports 96 active cases as of Wednesday, February 24, 2021 and one new death. Shelby County has reported active cases over 100 since January 7th which is a total of 48 days.

Over the past five days, of the 13 new active cases 4 were new confirmed cases and 9 were new probable cases. The dashboard also shows a total of 33 additional recoveries which continues to help lower the number of active cases.

SC Office of Emergency Management Encourages Reporting of Damage from Winter Storm

QR Code February 21, 2021 - Following the winter weather and ice storm, Shelby County Office of Emergency Management is encouraging all residents to report damages to their homes and/or businesses using the portal, web site, or toll free call center number be

SBA Stands Ready to Assist Texas Businesses, Residents Affected by the Severe Winter Storms (English & Spanish)

Virtual Recovery Centers Opened Tuesday, Feb. 23

February 24, 2021 - Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Texas businesses and residents as a result of President Biden’s major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration’s acting Administrator Tami L. Perriello announced.

The declaration covers 77 Texas counties as a result of the severe winter storms that began on Feb. 11, 2021. See below for the list of declared counties.

American Red Cross Distributing Water, MREs at 11am

February 24, 2021 - The American Red Cross will be distributing drinking water and MRE’s today, Wednesday, February 24th at the First Baptist Church, 5030 Hwy 87 S in Shelbyville. They will begin at 11:00am and distribute until all is gone.

DETEC Status Update: Lineman Accident Ends with Minor Injury

February 24, 2021 - Many have contacted the cooperative in regards to a lineman accident. Yesterday evening, while restoring power after the winter storm, a lineman was injured, but there was no electrocution. Lineman crews responded appropriately as trained and were able to overcome the incident with only a minor injury. We appreciate your care and concern. Please continue to keep these lineman and their families in your prayers.

Today, crews are focusing on the remaining outages and estimate to have all power restored today.

Fate of Timpson Timpson PD Remains Undetermined

February 23, 2021 - The Timpson City Council was holding a closed executive session meeting Tuesday, February 23, to discuss the fate of the city’s police department.

Council members were meeting with an attorney representing the city and the items listed on the agenda included:

The operation, budget, and potential closure of the City of Timpson Police Department. As well as possible action concerning a reduction in force of the remaining staff at the City of Timpson Police Department including the Chief of Police.

Tenaha City Council Revisits Jan. 25 Meeting in Early February; Chief, Police Captain Resign

February 22, 2021 - The Tenaha City Council held a meeting February 8, 2021 to revisit items previously discussed in the January 25, 2021 meeting as several items weren't appropriately voted on following council motions.

Both meetings included lengthy executive sessions. Following the February 8 executive session, the council voted to accept resignations of the Chief of Police Bobby Linder and Captain William Denison.

A motion carried to accept the resignations of both officers, and left the department with one officer, Chris Benton.

Joaquin VFD Has Cases of Water for Pickup Downtown

February 22, 2021 - The Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department has one pallet of water available at the central fire station downtown now while supplies last. One case per household.

Drinking Water Available for Huxley Community at Fire Dept.

February 22, 2021 - Huxley VFD has two pallets of water for distribution today February 22 available at the fire station, for the Huxley Community, starting at 2pm until gone.

Limit of one case per household.

DETEC Status Update as of 9am: Shelby Co. Has 3,300 Current Outages

February 22, 2021 - DETEC is currently reporting 6,567 outages remaining. Today, we expect to wrap up all repairs in Newton, Panola, Sabine and San Augustine Counties. Our larger impacted areas of Nacogdoches and Shelby County are estimated to be all restored by this Friday. Please keep in mind that these are estimates, ideally we hope to complete this worker sooner. We thank you for your patience and support as crews have worked as quickly as possible.

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