December 2025

By Bodey Cooper editor@terrelltribune.com The Terrell Lady Tigers varsity basketball team dropped their district opener to the Red Oak Lady Hawks on Friday, Dec. 12.

The Terrell Tigers and Lady Tigers soccer teams started their Saturday riding along a float in the Christmas parade before ending their day with two alumni games on Memorial Stadium. .

The Terrell Volunteer Fire Department put in long hours over this past weekend, working multiple accidents and wrecks in and around the city limits. Things started with a late evening wreck on Friday, Dec. 12 on I-20 west of FM 148 with a two-vehicle crash. Terrell VFD was then on the scene of another wreck shortly after at FM 986 and FM 3486. The weekend ended with a two-vehicle crash and fire on Highway 34 near Westpoint Circle, closing the highway with CareFlite responding to the accident on Saturday, Dec. 13.

By Bodey Cooper editor@terrelltribune.com The Terrell Tigers varsity basketball team went 1-3 in the Anna tournament from Dec. 11-13.

Stanley Ballard Sr. Christmas Parade.

Two deceased people were found in the early morning hours of Dec. 15 by the Gun Barrel City Police Department (GBCPD), which was following up on a call for service at a residence in the Willowwood subdivision (which is located off Legendary Lane), according to GBCPD.

The Kaufman County Master Gardeners class made its way to Riter C. Hulsey Public Library in Terrell with Amy Barber giving demonstrations on plan propagation.

As an outdoors writer for the past 40 years and a lifelong outdoors person, I have more than my share of down right comical things that occurred while spending time hunting, fishing and kicking around the outdoors.

Terrell ISD Communications Director You’d never know when you meet Charleon Williams that he once struggled in school or found himself in trouble. Quiet and calm, he carries himself with confidence now—but getting here took hard work and growth.