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May
30
Dairy Festival Board President Highlights First Weekend of Dairy Festival Events
May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Dairy Festival Board President Patricia Chase discussed this year’s event on KSST’s Good Morning Show with Enola Gay Friday morning. Here are some tidbits with about three weeks until the event. 28 hot-air balloons are coming, you can still volunteer to be on their crew, the 5K Run returns to Coleman Park again this year, the Parade takes place at hour earlier at 10 a.m. on June 14, a Quilt Walk on North Davis Street returns and there are nine candidates vying to be the Queen of the Dairy Festival. Events begin June 13.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
30
Sulphur Springs Middle School Honors About One-Third of Student Body at Awards Assembly
May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Sulphur Springs Middle School had its Awards Assembly Thursday afternoon. Principal Glenn Wilson presided and noted that some 320 students, about a third of the student body, were receiving recognition. The academic top ten percent of the 8th grade were introduced. Irene Resendiz was the recipient of the Angelica Enriquez Award.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
29
Sulphur Springs ISD Goes to Plan B to Find a New Home for Programs Currently at Houston School
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Sulphur Springs School Superintendent Patsy Bolton has changed her mind about where to house programs that are currently at Houston School. Included are Alternative Learning, the Discipline program, Drop Out Prevention and the Behavioral program. Ms. Bolton says a plan to house them in a renovated gym behind the admin building didn’t pan out due to higher than expected costs. She says the district now hopes to put them on the second floor of the admin building in Even Start classrooms and in a renovated old school library area. Even Start’s funding is running out and replacement funds are not expected.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
29
Work on Prim Stadium This Summer to be Delayed by Late Arrival of Materials
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Thursday morning Sulphur Springs School Superintendent Patsy Bolton met with Director of Plant Operations Dale Guest about summer work projects. Ms. Bolton was disappointed to learn that materials to improve lighting and provide additional visitor seating at Gerald Prim Stadium had been delayed. The delay is expected to make work run right to the wire with a scrimmage and first home football game scheduled in August. Ms. Bolton says other summer projects include renovation of all Middle School bathrooms and adding a drop ceiling at Douglas Fifth Grade Center. Those projects are set to begin June 9.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
29
Superintendent Bolton Observes Optional Flexible Year Program at Texas High
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Wednesday Sulphur Springs School Superintendent Patsy Bolton visited Texas High to observe their Optional Flexible Year Program. Sulphur Springs will go to the program for some students next school year. Ms. Bolton says the program is geared toward students who have not completed their class work or who have not passed the TAKS Test. Ms. Bolton explains the program allows teachers to work with students individually to help them graduate and get a diploma. Texas High has had the program for 4 years now.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
29
Chamber of Commerce Honors Retiring President and CEO Bill Elliott
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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The Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity to honor retiring President and CEO Bill Elliott at a cookout Thursday. Elliott retires at the end of the month. Looking back at his 16 years at the helm, Elliott says he made just subtle changes at the Chamber and not dramatic changes. As he said often, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Elliott says he intends to enjoy the summer before considering options he has for the future. New Chamber President Meredith Caddell says she has Elliott’s phone number handy if she has questions. She hopes to talk him into some volunteer opportunities in the future.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
29
Sulphur Springs Man Fighting High Gasoline Prices Organizes Saturday Morning Protest Rally
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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John Cooper of Sulphur Springs continues to think of ways to get the government to do something to bring down the high cost of gasoline. Cooper has organized a rally Saturday morning at 10 a.m. on the Downtown Square in Sulphur Springs to protest high gas prices. Cooper is encouraging everyone to make a statement by not buying any gasoline from July 4-10. He’d like to see people bring an empty gas can to Saturday’s rally. Rally speakers are expected to explain what high gas prices are doing to the city of Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County and the Sulphur Springs ISD. Cooper also has petitions to sign and he predicts there may be recall elections for those elected officials not actively working to lower gasoline prices.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
28
County Commissioner Beth Wisenbaker Looks Forward to Comparing Plans for Solving Future County Office Space Needs
May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Precinct 1 Hopkins County Commissioner Beth Wisenbaker is pleased that the Commissioners Court has agreed to review a pair of plans for future county office space needs: District Judge Robert Newsom’s plan and a plan to renovate the Fidelity Express building. Ms. Wisenbaker, who was originally on board with the renovation plan says that plan stalled when projected renovation costs came in too high. She says then it was revealed that there is a business interested in purchasing the Fidelity Express building. In trade, the county would receive property around the current jail. Ms. Wisenbaker says if the Fidelity Express building is sold, it would mean the county would not have any money tied up. She says the newly acquired properties could be used to provide short-term solutions until a long-term solution can be developed.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
28
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The Texas Department of Transportation or TXDOT will soon begin work on a couple of projects in Hopkins County. R.K. Hall Construction from Paris has received a contract to reconstruct FM 499 from the Hunt County line east through Cumby to a point just west of the intersection with I-30. TXDOT Area Engineer Ernest Teague says FM 499 was originally Highway #1, part of an old east coast to west coast route used by early travelers. It later became US 67 but was renamed FM 499 after the building of I-30. Teague says the old roadway is one of the narrowest highways in our area. The current construction will widen the road. Work will begin in June and is slated for completion by the fall.
TXDOT will also be redoing the traffic signal and intersection at Broadway and Lee Streets in Sulphur Springs. With Walgreen’s under construction nearby, the developer has agreed to pay for a signal upgrade. The current set up does not have a set of lights facing east so traffic coming from the drug store’s parking lot would not have protection for entering traffic on Broadway. Durable Specialties from Duncanville has been awarded the contract. Work on the intersection is scheduled to begin next week and is expected to take until about mid-July.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
May
28
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Douglas Fifth Grade Center in Sulphur Springs had their third annual Science Fair Wednesday. Science and Social Studies Teacher Marvin Mitchell says students had six weeks to do their projects. Mitchell says the students had to answer a question of interest to them using scientific method. Lots of projects involved plants and how their growth may be affected by things like soil, light, water and even music. Soft rock killed one plant. Plants seem to like distilled water. Students made an electric generator, tested the strength of various tape, compared absorbency of paper towels, observed hamsters adapting to a new environment, noted how gears impact a bicycle’s speed, researched sugar and diabetes and determined that the air outside is cleaner than inside. Students had to keep a journal, write a report on their experiment and prepare a folder to illustrate their project. These were the things judges looked at.
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