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April 1, 2022 - The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality required the City of Tenaha public water system, 2100002, to issue a Boil Water Notice on March 30, 2022, to inform customers, individuals, or employees that due to conditions which occurred recently in the public water system, the water from this public water system was required to be boiled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
The public water system has taken the necessary corrective actions to restore the quality of the water distributed by this public water system used for drinking water or human consumption purposes and has provided TCEQ with laboratory test results that indicate that the water no longer requires boiling prior to use as of April 1, 2022.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact Alison Rhone at 936-332-4439.
March 30, 2022 - Due to a line break and reduced distribution system pressure, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the City of Tenaha public water system to notify all customers on Tennessee Road, Williams Road, Sugar Hill Road, Roberts Road, and More Drive. To boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc). Children, seniors, and persons with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to harmful bacteria, and all customers should follow these directions.
To ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking, and ice making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes. The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.
In lieu of boiling, individuals may purchase bottled water or obtain water from some other suitable source for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
When it is no longer necessary to boil the water, the public water system officials will notify customers that the water is safe for drinking water or human consumption purposes. Once the boil water notice is no longer in effect, the public water system will issue a notice to customers that rescinds the boil water notice in a manner similar to this notice.
Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact Alison Rhone at 936-332-4439.
April 1, 2022 - ATT reports there is an outage in the Center area.
"There's an internet outage in your area that has impacted your service. We're working as fast as we can to get you back online. We expect to have it fixed in 7-8 hours."
The above message was part of an email sent out to its customers, many of which have phone lines which operate over the internet and the outage has affected their phone service.
Also, be prepared to have cash if visiting a business, because they may not be able to process a credit card.
Business customers who phone lines have been impacted:
- Shelby County Today
- City of Center - City phone system is down. Temporary city hall #598-2615.
If you would like your business listed, email sctoday@att.net.
The water on N.E.W. WSC no longer requires boiling.
March 30, 2022 - On March 22, 2022, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality required the N.E.W. Water Supply, #2030034, to issue a Boil Water Notice to inform customers, individuals or employees that due to conditions which occurred recently in the public water system, the water from this public water system was required to be boiled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
N.E.W. Water Supply has taken the necessary corrective actions to restore the quality of the water distributed by this public water system used for drinking water or human consumption purposes. We have also provided TCEQ with laboratory test results that indicate that the water no longer requires boiling prior to use as of March 30, 2022.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact the office: 220 West Columbia Street, San Augustine, Texas or call 936-288-0489 or Charles Sharp 936-201-5001.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
If a customer, individual or employee wishes to contact the executive director, please call (512)239-4691.
March 23, 2022 - Due to a break in the line, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has required the N.E.W. Water Supply Corporation PWS #2030034 to notify all customers on FM 1279 (Hawthorne Road) to boil their water prior to consumption (eg., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc). Children, seniors and persons with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to harmful bacteria, and all customers should follow these directions.
To ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking and ice making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes. The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.
In lieu of boiling, individuals may purchase bottled water or obtain water from some other suitable source for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
When it is no longer necessary to boil the water, the public water system officials will notify customers that the water is safe for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
Once the boil water notice is no longer in effect, the public water system will issue a notice to customers that rescinds the boil water notice in a manner similar to this notice.
Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received the notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact N.E.W. Water Supply Corporation at 220 W. Columbia Street, San Augustine, Texas, 75972, or call 936-288-0489 or Charles Sharp at 936-201-5001.
March 31, 2022 - Officials with the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas, Angelina and Sabine National Forests, have advised a prescribed burn today.
Sabine N. F. – Compartments 15/16, Located South of Boles Field Highway FM 2694 and around Sample Cemetery off Forest Service Road 165, 3636 acres, Block C & D Only, with Helicopter Support and Winds are predicted from the Northwest at 6-16 MPH.
Please drive with caution. Also, we advised and long range drift SMOKE may affect some of the areas.
Updated: At 10:13am, the National Weather Service in Shreveport issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southwestern De Soto Parish in northwestern Louisiana... Southeastern Panola County in northeastern Texas... Southeastern Nacogdoches County in eastern Texas... Shelby County in eastern Texas... Northeastern Angelina County in eastern Texas... Northern San Augustine County in eastern Texas... and Northwestern Sabine County in eastern Texas.
The severe thunderstorm warning is until 11:00am.
At 10:12am, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 11 miles east of Carthage to near Tenaha to near Center to near Martinsville to 7 miles east of Melrose to Etoile, moving east at 55 mph.
Radar indicated 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include Center, Mansfield, San Augustine, Logansport, Tenaha, Joaquin, Patroon, Bland Lake, Neuville, Rosevine, Macune, Etoile, Shelbyville, Chireno, Huxley, South Mansfield, Keachi, Grand Cane, Longstreet and Stanley.
March 30, 2022 - The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southern Panola County in northeastern Texas... Southeastern Rusk County in northeastern Texas... Northeastern Nacogdoches County in eastern Texas... Western Shelby County in eastern Texas... and Northwestern San Augustine County in eastern Texas.
The severe thunderstorm warning is until 10:15am.
At 9:38am, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles southeast of Pinehill to Garrison to 10 miles southwest of Timpson to 7 miles northwest of Melrose to near Nacogdoches, moving east at 35 mph.
Radar indicated 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include Nacogdoches, Carthage, Center, Tenaha, Timpson, Garrison, Melrose, Martinsville, Appleby, Gary City, Jericho, Stockman, Lawsonville, Arcadia, Dotson, Woods and Paxton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1pm CDT for eastern and northeastern Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1pm CDT for eastern and northeastern Texas.
March 30, 2022 - National Weather Service has cancelled the tornado watch for Shelby County.
Tornado Watch 75 is in effect until 1pm CDT for the following locations.
Texas counties included are: Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Panola, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Titus, Upshur, and Wood.
March 28, 2022 - Over the week of March 21 to March 27 the Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department responded to two calls.
The first call came in on Thursday March 24 at 4:53pm. The Joaquin VFD received a dispatch of a pasture on fire on FM 139 near County Road 3565. Upon arriving on scene it was discovered that the fire was a control burn being monitored by the landowner. Before leaving the JVFD used a brush truck to wet down the edges of the fire to prevent any further spreading.
The next call came in on Sunday, March 27 at 7pm. It was dispatched as electrical wires on fire at the intersection of Highway 84 East and Preston Street. Responding units found a short stretch of power lines on fire due to a tree branch that had fallen on top of them. The Deep East Texas Electric Co-op had been notified and would have to arrive to cut the power before it could be put out. Once the power had been cut the JVFD extinguished the fire with a quick douse of water.
Fortunately, these calls were fairly mild and no one was harmed during either call. Nonetheless, the Joaquin Volunteer Fire Department wishes everyone a safe and fire-free week.
March 28, 2022 - As of 2:30am, power has been restored to many locations.
March 28, 2022 - Center Police Officers are investigating a crash that occurred sometime after 12-midnight March 28, 2022.
The vehicle appears to have been traveling westbound on Nacogdoches Street in Center when it first collided with a utility pole at the intersection with Wheeler Avenue, leaving the pole across the intersection.
After the initial collision, it appeared the vehicle continued at great speed colliding with yet another utility pole, and continuing into a yard beside a brick house at the corner of Nacogdoches Street and Sandel Street. There it appeared the vehicle became entangled in a guy wire beside another utility pole, which was snapped near its top during the incident.
Center Police Officers located the driver on the city square after abandoning the crash scene.
The Center Fire Department is assisting with traffic control and drivers are being redirected until the damage has been repaired. There is no reported restoration time as of 1:35am.
Resulting outages from the crash are known to have occurred on San Augustine Street, Shelbyville Street, Nacogdoches Street and Field Street.
Additional details will be updated as they’re made available.
March 24, 2022 - Hurst Street in Center was the scene of a three-vehicle crash Wednesday, March 23, 2022, in the vicinity of the Nacogdoches Street intersection.
While Center Police Department personnel assisted those involved and investigated the crash, Center Fire Department and Shelby County Sheriff's Department deputies assisted with traffic control.
According to Center Police Officer Brian Wright, at just before 2pm a grey 2017 Toyota Tundra driven by Shelby Holt, 26, of Joaquin with passenger Wendy Holt, 47, was exiting Brookshire Brothers parking lot attempting to turn left onto Hurst Street.
At that time a grey 2021 Dodge Durango driven by Mindy Chavez, 39, of Center was traveling northbound in the inside lane of Hurst Street when the Tundra failed to yield right of way to the Durango and struck the Durango in the right passenger side.
Subsequently, the Dodge continued forward motion into the southbound inside traffic lane where a white 2021 Ford F-250 driven by Lonnie Burns, 60, of Woodward, Ok. was unable to avoid colliding with the Durango and struck it on the front right quarter panel. Both vehicles came to rest in the outside southbound traffic lane.
Chavez was transported from the scene by ambulance to Nacogdoches Medical Center - Shelby Emergency Department for medical evaluation.
No citations were issued at the time of the crash.
March 24, 2022 - As a mark of respect for former Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright and her life of service to our Nation, the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff until sunset on March 27, 2022.
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