The following weather-related closures, delays and schedule changes have been reported to KSST for the weekend of Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (To report a schedule change to KSST, send an email to [email protected].)
Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022
- Due to inclement weather, all Alliance Bank locations will close at 3 p.m. Thursday, February 3, 2022. Bank personnel are actively monitoring the weather and will post further updates regarding location hours on the bank’s social media pages.
- City National Bank will be closing at 3 p.m. Thursday and drive-thrus opening at 8 am on Friday.
Friday, Feb. 4, 2022
- CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital Sulphur Springs cancelled this week’s COVID vaccine clinic that was schedule for Friday, Feb. 4, from 9 to 11 a.m. Clinics will resume as usual on Friday, Feb. 11, from 9 to 11 a.m.
- City of Sulphur Springs offices will be closed on Friday due to weather, according to the city manager. This will again include City Hall (including the Municipal Court), City Utilities Office, Sulphur Springs Public Library, Municipal Airport and Senior Citizens Center closed Feb. 4, 2022. Sulphur Springs Fire Department and Police Department, utilities and public works personnel will still report for work Friday according to schedule.
- BINGO and Learning with Libby are cancelled on Friday, along with the Senior Citizens Center.
- Como-Pickton CISD will remain closed Friday. All varsity games will be rescheduled for make-up. Junior High and JV games will not. CPCISD will not have to make up Feb. 3-4. Classes will resume at normal time on Monday, Feb. 7.
- Cumby ISD will remain closed Friday, Feb. 4. Classes will resume Monday, Feb. 7, according to Mrs. Slaughter and the admin team.
- Hopkins County offices will remain closed Friday due to the weather and road conditions. The sheriff’s office, fire department and road crews will continue to report for work as assigned. All county officers at to re-open on Monday.
- Meal A Day will not be cooking or delivering lunches on Friday. Meal A Day driver delivered cans of soup and stew to all of the seniors citizens on the Meal A Day routes Wednesday to provide them with something they can eat the rest of the week.
- No school Friday at Miller Grove ISD. Feb. 4 is a regularly scheduled holiday.
- The NETX Public Health District will NOT be providing pediatric or adult COVID vaccines Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Sulphur Springs.
- North Hopkins ISD will remain closed on Friday, Feb. 4,2022. Scheduled activities are cancelled. Games/homecoming activities to be rescheduled for Wednesday, February 9; more information to be released. Classes will resume Tuesday, February 8, as Monday is a scheduled non-school day for NHISD
- Paris Junior College will continue to be closed Friday, Feb. 4, due to winter weather. Updates will be posted on PJD Dragon Alerts and on the PJC Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
- Saltillo ISD will have a 10 a.m. delayed start Friday, Feb. 4. In order to meet mandatory minutes required by TEA, Presidents Day will no longer be a school holiday. Saltillo ISD will have school Monday, Feb. 21
- Sulphur Bluff ISD will remain closed Friday. Basketball has been rescheduled for Saturday at 6 p.m.
- Sulphur Springs ISD will be closed on Friday, Feb. 4, due to inclement weather. No decisions have been made about extracurricular activities at this time.
- Due to continued hazardous conditions, closure of the Texas A&M University-Commerce main campus and Dallas site has been extended through Friday, February 4, 2022.
- Yantis ISD will be closed Friday due to the inclement weather. Classes will resume as usual on Monday.
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022
- Sulphur Bluff Basketball has been rescheduled for Saturday at 6 p.m.
For Additional Information
Those who have can are encouraged to stay home off the roads as the winter weather continues, with snow and sleet over a sheet of ice on roads, making some streets and highways slick as snot. At least one section of I-30 just east of Cumby was shut down as truckers had difficulties making it over the slick hill.
At 7:16 a.m. Thursday, HCSO reported road conditions had started to deteriorate, with trees and power lines down on the west side of Hopkins County. At 8:26 a.m., a tree had fallen across FM 275, North of Miller Grove.
Those who must be out on the roads can check current road conditions online at Texas Department of Transportation. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is also started posting updates Thursday morning on the department’s Facebook account of storm-related road issues.
Stay tuned to KSST Radio 1230 AM for updates on local weather conditions, or go online to the National Weather Service website.
