News

Residents of Terrell’s Stallings Addition are expected to see a vast improvement to Temple Street and hopefully relief from 18-wheeler traffic under a plan discussed at a Tuesday afternoon City Council work session.

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas first learned they had been emancipated. The initial announcement to that effect was made by Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston on June 19, 1865.

Dozens ventured out into the heat on Tuesday, June 15 to celebrate the success of the Kaufman County vaccination program that resulted in giving more than 30,000 vaccinations to Kaufman County residents.

The Association of Breezy Hill Park will present its fifth annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 19 at 10 a.m. at the park, 351 New Hope St.

These volunteers helped out at Tuesday evening’s Hulsey Public Library’s Activities Fair and signed up kids of the Summer Reading Program. From left are Sarah Lavallee, Zoey Montoya, Joni Wallace and Joszelyn Fuentes. HANK MURPHY PHOTO

HANK MURPHY PHOTOS.

Kaufman County commissioners on Tuesday approved negotiating a contract with the Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT) for operation of the county’s animal adoption center. At more than 12,000 square feet, the Kaufman County Pet Adoption Center will have the capacity to shelter as many as 58 cats and 66 dogs.

Rockwall County Judge David Sweet was elected president of the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ (NCTCOG) Executive Board at NCTCOG’s 55th annual General Assembly on June 4. The executive board is the policy-making body of the Council of Governments, which serves the 16 North Central Texas counties of Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant and Wise.

Arrests: Nikedrick Deon Daniels, 27, Terrell, assault on a family or household member with previous conviction. Charles Flowers Jr., 30, Longview, theft of property.

A Kaufman-based white tiger exhibitor was ordered by the USDA to cease and desist exhibiting the animals after it was determined that she had no license to show the animals, a USDA inspection report shows.