June 2022

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released spring 2022 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results for end-of-course (EOC) assessments June 16. The results include assessments in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S History.

I have had a lifelong love of catching catfish and… eating them! I guess my passion for catfish comes naturally, as a boy growing up on a poultry farm in Red River County; catching catfish was a way of life. Every nine weeks or so when the chickens sold, we would pack up the old 1950 International Pick Up with tarps, Coleman stoves, cast iron skillets, bedding, etc and head up to a little lake in southeast Oklahoma that was chock full of channel catfish. I would begin catching bait, small perch from our farm pond, the day before. Upon arriving at our fishing hotspot, the drill was to set up camp quickly, which was easy to do, we had no tent, just tarps or, as they were called back then ‘wagon sheets’. Tarps on the ground with a blanket served as bedding.

Economic Development Corporation President Ray Dunlap served as the guest speaker at the June 14 Terrell Kiwanis Club meeting. Dunlap provided a brief history of the EDC while also providing a look ahead at new and exciting projects slated to come to the Terrell community. Kiwanis Club officials added that the food, which included salad, chicken fried chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans and rolls, was catered by Hickory Roots of Terrell. Courtesy photo

Construction is underway on a brand new, rental community in Terrell, Texas, which will consist of almost 300, three-and four-bedroom, single-family homes. Woodlands Terrell is located just north of Interstate 20 at Rosehill Road, the amenity center will be located at 108 Fairmead Drive, Terrell, Texas 75160.

In early 2020, Joanne Zipay, founder of New York’s award-winning Judith Shakespeare Company, was preparing to direct a play in Fort Worth later that year. Into the Breeches! by George Brant tells the story of a (fictional) group of women who decide to keep their local theatre alive by taking on the men’s roles in The Henriad , an amalgamation of several of Shakespeare’s plays about wars. Set in Fort Worth in 1942, she needed to research what life was like on the home front during the war years. She heard an ad on local station KEOM-FM about an area veteran’s presentation at the BFTS Museum and came from her home in Plano to hear it.

A Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service webinar from 6-7 p.m. June 21 will cover how to identify and successfully manage various forms of algae found in ponds.

Winnie Moody of Terrell passed away peacefully on June 13, 2022. She was born August 15, 1932 in Wills Point and was raised in the Bright Star community, just north of Wills Point. She was joyfully met in Heaven by her Lord and Savior along with her parents John Calvin and Gladys Elizabeth Rushing, her sister, Jane Waddle, brother, Clifford Rushing and son-in-law, Ed Walton.

Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 9.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.65/g June 13, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 54.2 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.89/g higher than a year ago. The price of diesel has fallen 4.0 cents nationally in the past week and stands at $5.50 per gallon.