December 2021

State sales tax revenue totaled $3.6 billion in November

Body Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced Dec. 1 that state sales tax revenue totaled $3.56 billion in November, 19.4 percent more than in November 2020. The majority of November sales tax revenue is based on sales made in October and remitted to the agency in November.

West initiated into Omicron Delta Kappa

Body Brianna West, a native of Terrell, was recently initiated into the Stephen F. Austin State University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed more than 1,100 new initiates from 41 universities during November 2021.

Aleta Berry

Body Aleta Berry, of Terrell, passed away peacefully on Dec. 13, 2021, in Tyler. She was born October 4, 1936, in the Poetry Community to Clede and Faye Littleton Watkins and she was met in heaven by her parents and her husband G.E. Berry, Jr.
Aleta Berry