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Tuesday night the Lady ‘Riders softball team saw several ups and downs, but in the long run the ups outweighed the downs the as Center beat Diboll 11-8.

Joe Morris of Huxley was joined by his two cousins, Rick Cook from Wisconsin and Rod Cook from California, as well as his brother-in-law, David Cockrell from White Oak as the four of them caught a 73 pound catfish at the end of March. The four of them took part in an annual fishing camp for the third year at Huxley Bay Marina.

Another page was written in the annals of Shelby County History on Friday, April 5, as Roughrider Stadium was the venue for a local Special Olympics Competition.
While these local competitions have been going on for more than 20 years and have been hosted all over East Texas, this is the first time that a local competition has been hosted in Center.
Athletes from Broaddus, Center, Lufkin, and Lufkin State School participated in the Track and Field portion of the competition.

Shelby Savings Bank held an Open House for their new expanded facility from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7. to the right of center, James Campbell prepares to cut the ribbon for the new expansion. SSB welcomed the large crowd attending with delicious refreshements catered by Endless Possibilities.

The Center Police Department dispatched officers to Sundowners located on San Augustine Street early Sunday, April 7 after a report of shots fired was received.
When officers arrived they located Buddy Fountain, 44, of Center having apparently been shot was slumped over the trunk of a vehicle. EMS was dispatched and ACE EMS transported Fountain to Shelby Regional Medical Center.
Fountain succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the hospital by Maxie Eaves, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1.

The Joaquin Rams battled the Douglass Indians Friday but came out on the losing end in a 5-4 final.

Will Vaughn pitched six innings for the Rams, throwing 138 pitches and 75 strikes.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call on March 29 regarding a incident that occurred at a residence on State Highway 87 South. Upon further investigation the Sheriff’s Department found evidence that an alleged sexual assault of child had taken place. A warrant was issued for the charge of sexual assault of a child (F-2) and Arthur Smith, 61, of Shelbyville was taken into custody at around 8 a.m.
Smith is currently in custody at the Shelby County Jail and his bond as been set at $100,000 per JP5 Jim Powers.

The Shelby County Children’s Advocacy Center will hold a “Butterfly Release” at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 13 at the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce 3rd Annual “Bloomin’ on the Square” event on the Center downtown historic square.
Last year the children were thrilled and awed by the tiny creatures and waited patiently for the butterflies, who had to rest and exercise their wings, to flutter away. The Butterfly Release is done to bring awareness to the continuing tragedy of child abuse.

Timpson Volunteer Firemen are seen in the above photo escorting Billy Hailey, Timpson Volunteer Fire Chief, to his final resting place at Corinth Cemetery north of Timpson on U.S. Highway 84 on Friday, March 29. Hailey passed away on Wednesday, March 26, and services were held at First Baptist Church Timpson. Fire departments that also attended the funeral include Center, Joaquin, Tenaha, West Shelby, Shelbyville, and Garrison.

A record number of vendors and a large number of attendees were on hand for the 6th Annual Health and Fitness Fair Thursday, March 28 at the Windham Civic Center.
Hosted by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce, the event was free to the public and the vendors gave away many door prizes during the hours of 9 a.m to 1 p.m., when the event closed.

This release is to confirm the arrest of Nick Morale, 56, of Terrell, Texas. Mr. Morale was arrested on April 2, 2013, by the Texas Rangers on one charge of Terroristic Threat (Texas Penal Code 22.07). Mr. Morale was arraigned this morning following his arrest and is being held in the Kaufman County Jail on $1,000,000 bond.

Center ISD is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for student, staff and visitors. In order to accomplish this, the District is implementing a visitor management system at all campuses beginning on Monday, April 1. This system, called Raptor, will replace paper-based logs and is capable of scanning IDs, producing visitor badges and checking all visitors against registered sex offender databases. The overall goal is to better control access to all CISD campuses thus providing enhanced safety for our students and staff.