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Jul
31
Students Currently Registering for Fall Semester at PJC Sulphur Springs Center
July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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PJC Sulphur Springs Center Director Linda Bennett says the center’s staff is currently very busy registering students for the fall semester that gets underway August 25. Ms. Bennett is encouraging 
all new students to drop by the center now and register in person. Placement testing and financial aid inquiries can be done. Ms. Bennett says returning students can also register on-line. There will be a big arena registration day on August 20. Ms. Bennett explains department heads, deans and teachers from Paris will be on hand. This fall, the Sulphur Springs Center will offer core curriculum day and night classes in traditional classroom settings as well as on-line classes and ITV classes here that are linked to teachers’ classes in Paris. Students here can even communicate with the Paris instructor. Ms Bennett stresses that cost of attending a community college is much less than a four-year college or university.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
31
Main Street Theater’s Children’s Workshop Presents Pair of Fairy Tales This Week and Next Week
July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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For several weeks now, children in Sulphur Springs have been learning about theater at the Main Street Theater’s summer workshop. The children will present two fairy tale plays at the theater Thursday through Saturday this week and next at 8 p.m. each night. A Dragon in the Mix features not only a dragon but also fairies named Rumor, Gossip, Hearsay and Innuendo. Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale Detective has a gumshoe investigating a case of missing fairy tale props as he tries to clear Goldilocks name. Directors Megan Stewart and Andrea France discussed the plays on KSST’s Good Morning Show with Enola Gay Thursday morning.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
31
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Camp Maxey, located north of Paris, where thousands of troops trained for overseas duty during World War II is bustling with activity again. This week some 600 troops arrived at Maxey to begin training for a tour of duty overseas. The first contingent is elements of a field artillery unit of the Texas National Guard. At the end of World War II, Maxey was abandoned and its facilities were not maintained. D Company of the 147th Armored Infantry, once located in Sulphur Springs, conducted a few weekend drills at Maxey using the terrain but not the facilities. New quarters were constructed at the camp prior to the arrival of the troops this week. The Texas National Guard indicated that other units might move in for training after the current unit is deployed.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
31
It’s Official! No Rainfall in Sulphur Springs in July
July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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According to the official weather records, it rained a third of an inch on the last day of June this year but then did not rain during the entire month of July. A month without rain is rare and it’s almost always in a July. The last year we had a month without rain was in July of 2000. It also occurred in July of 1999, 1952, 1929 and 1927. 1928 had the rare distinction of having two months with no rainfall. Not in July that year but in January and September. Officially this July we had only one 100-degree day. That was on July 27. Average high temperature in July was 93, about 2-degrees below normal. Average low was 73-degrees, a degree and a half above normal. Despite the rainless July this year, we still remain over 3 inches of rain ahead of normal due to lots of rain earlier this year. Don’t look for much help in the rainfall department from August. August is usually the driest month of the year getting only about 2 and a third inches of rainfall on average.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
31
The headline is misleading. On Thursday July 31st 1889, repeat 1889 Alderman (that’s what they called City Councilmen then) J. M Pate told the City Council that the new fire bell had arrived. Mayor 
W. F. Henderson appointed Pate and fellow Alderman James Wellborn to hang the bell in the bell tower. The Bell Tower was on the roof of the combined Fire Station, City Hall, City Jail and Horse Stable. How Pate and Henderson wrestled it up there, history does not record. When it was later hung from the roof of the monument on the lawn of Fire Station One it was with much difficulty. When the Fire Department gave it to the Hopkins County Historical Commission in 1975, it took three firemen to wrestle it out of storage so KSST’s Channel 2 could take it’s picture. We think it’s solid brass. We don’t know what they paid for it. Four years earlier they had bought a new hook and ladder truck for 251 dollars and 25 cents. The first fire department “The Old Bucket Brigade” was organized in 1870. If there was a fire, men ran thru town yelling FIRE! and shooting guns. Marilyn Cowan wrote KSST that on a cool, still night, as a child in the Gafford Chapel Community, she could hear the bell and if it was a big fire, see the rosy red glare in the sky, but you had to wait till the next edition of the Echo to see what burned. bbradford@neto.com
Jul
30
Main Street Project’s Drainage Work Closes Davis Intersection For Several Days
July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Work on the Main Street Project in downtown Sulphur Springs has moved into the intersection of Davis at Main. City Manager Marc Maxwell says that intersection will be blocked for another day or two while the city crew makes drainage improvements. The improvements will allow rainwater to be taken underground on the project’s west end and then be funneled into the nearby creek. While digging the big holes necessary for the drainage, Maxwell says workers have discovered a couple more underground springs. Maxwell says street trees will be planted soon and streetlights should arrive by mid-August. The street bricks should show up the first week or two in September.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
30
This Year’s Lions’ Club Christmas Parade Will be at Night Featuring Lighted Floats and Prize Money for Top Entries
July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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A night parade, lighted floats and vehicles, a different route and prize money for best floats. The annual Christmas Parade in Sulphur Springs will be totally different this year. It is becoming the Lions’ 
Club First Annual Christmas Light Show. The new route will go from Buford Park to Connally, around the square, north on Church and then on Houston back to the park. Floats can be entered in commercial and non-profit categories and there will also be a band category. First place gets $2,000, second place $1,000 and third place $500. Best parade float will also pick up the Mayor’s Award Plaque. Lions’ Club President Matt Brown says registration forms will be available Friday at local banks. The parade is a joint effort of the Lions’ Club, the city, the chamber of commerce and the Downtown Business Alliance.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
30
Big Bluegrass Event is Coming to Cooper Lake Center Friday and Saturday
July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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After 28-years of hosting an August bluegrass festival, Hugo, Oklahoma officials have dropped the event to concentrate on one they do in March. Stepping into to fill the void is the South Sulphur Regional Development Association. They’re having their first annual Bluegrass and Jam Friday and Saturday evenings at Cooper Lake Center. Nine bands will play over the two nights. Bluegrass legend Bill Grant, the force behind Hugo’s success, will be emcee and will also perform. Tickets are $12 per day with free admission for children under 12. Event promoters Tom Stewart and Bud Swain discussed the event on KSST’s Good Morning Show with Enola Gay Wednesday morning.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
30
Texas A&M-Commerce Invites Community College Students to Apply for Scholarship Funds For This Fall
July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Texas A&M-Commerce has announced that students at four community colleges in North and Northeast Texas who want to attend the Commerce school starting this fall are eligible to apply for scholarship funds. The community colleges include Paris Junior College, Navarro County College, Trinity Valley Community College in Eastfield and Grayson County College. The $1,000 Rising to the Challenge scholarships are awarded based on financial need and are for the coming school year. The Greater Texas Foundation gave A&M-Commerce a $25,000 grant to fund the scholarships. Anyone interested in applying for a scholarship should call the A&M-Commerce Financial Aid Office at (903) 886-5096.
donjulian@ksstradio.net
Jul
30
Tela Mange, media relations DPS, is asking our cooperation in releasing video and still frames recorded by security cameras on the night of the Governor’s mansion arson, in the hope someone will be able to identify him/them. One frame is of a man with something under his arm, walking on a sidewalk near 
the mansion. The other shows the arsonist running on another sidewalk near the mansion immediately after the fire was started. Video of the act of starting the fire was not released. Investigators are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the arsonist. The first subject is a man wearing a baseball cap with a Longhorn logo, dark-colored short-sleeved shirt, dark colored pants. May be wearing glasses. Appears to be be between 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall. Among the telephone numbers anyone with information about the possible identity may call is the Crime Stoppers toll-free hot line 1-800-252-8477.  bbradford@neto.comÂ
