November 26, 2025 - Shelby County Tax office and Motor Vehicle will be closing at 1pm today, Wednesday November 26th and will reopen Monday December 1, 2025 at 8am.

Payments for property tax can be made on-line at tax.shelbytaxpayment.com . November amount will be accepted on Monday due to the holiday.

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Debora Riley
Shelby County Tax Assessor-Collector

Update 6:35pm - The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a new Tornado Watch 639 which is in effect until 1am, Tuesday, November 25, 2025.

November 24, 2025 - The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK issued a Tornado Watch at 11:45am on Monday, November 24, 2025.

November 21, 2025 - A Shelby County Grand Jury delivered 18 indictments and one no-bill, on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. The grand jury was impaneled for the July 2025 term of the 123rd/273rd Judicial District Courts.

Trevon Dewayne Jackson was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, second degree felony. The indictment alleges, on April 14, 2025, Jackson threatened imminent bodily injury to Darya Onea Lashaun Eaden by threatening to kill her and did then and there use or exhibit a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm. (273rd Judicial District Court)

November 21, 2025 - The Shelby County Sheriff’s Department is seeking tractor that was reported missing sometime between November 18 and November 19.

According to the Sheriff's Department, a red Massey Ferguson tractor is missing from County Road 4801 in Timpson.

November 20, 2025 — Governor Greg Abbott named Cliff Todd as president of the Sabine River Authority Board of Directors and reappointed Richard “Blair” Abney, Joshua A. “Josh” McAdams, and Kevin M. Williams for terms to be determined as set forth by law. The purpose of the Sabine River Authority is to conserve, store, control, preserve, utilize, and distribute the storm and flood waters and the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries.