September 2025

news@kaufmanherald.com Scurry-Rosser ISD will be hosting their Big PAWS kickoff event on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at Scurry-Rosser Elementary School.

Rachel Bowen, a middle school math teacher and volleyball, basketball and track coach at Warren Middle School in Forney, has been given the prestigious Honored National Teaching Award for September 2025.

Roy Wayne Ferrell died peacefully at home from Acute Myeloid Leukemia and entered heaven on August 31st, 2025, just one day shy of his 82nd birthday. Roy was a big fish in a small pond.

Seniors celebrate and show their school spirit during Kaufman's senior pep rally on Friday, Sept. 5.

In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on Sept. 11 of each year in memory of the victims killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

The Crandall City Council discussed a possible safety plan concerning traffic congestion and safety concerns on local roads in town at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 2.

The Kaufman Fire Department accepted a challenge to a wiffleball game by a local 10 and under youth team on Aug. 22. Captain Watson, Lt. Ballard, Firefighter Sprabary, Firefighter Kelsey, Firefighter Welch and Police Sergeant Huddle battled hard with the talented, young athletes. Additional photos on 2A.

news@kaufmanherald.com Kaufman ISD Board of Trustees member Brian Townsend was arrested by the Kaufman Aug. 24.

“ On the evening of September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush addressed a nation that earlier that day witnessed the deadliest terrorist attacks in world history.

Among the more indelible images to emerge on September 11, 2001 was the sight of two planes crashing into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. Still photos and video footage of those planes flying into the Twin Towers were the first images of the attacks many Americans saw, and no one who watched events unfold that morning will ever forget those images.