Villarino, Carpenter Recognized As Top Seniors In SSHS Class of 2022
Joel Villarino and Dawson Pace Carpenter were recognized as the top seniors in the Sulphur Springs High School Class of 2022. Villarino, son of Mario Villarino and Leah Larsen, is this year’s valedictorian. Carpenter, son of Rodney and Nikki Carpenter, earned salutatorian honors with a 4.43 weighted grade point average. The pair have been friends since second grader when they were in the same class at Bowie Primary School. While...
27 Seniors Ranked In Top 10 Percent Of SSHS Class Of 2021 Recognized At Honors Breakfast
Sulphur Springs High School honored the 27 highest ranking seniors Thursday morning with special breakfast prepared and organized exclusively by SSHS students. The Honors Breakfast is a long-standing tradition at SSHS, for students and their parents, as well as one teacher or education the honoree has selected to honor. Two of the 27 SSHS Senior Class of 2021 Honor Graduates were unable to attend the Honors Breakfast, but were still...
Hopkins County Records for Oct. 30, 2020
Applications for Marriage Licenses Randy Dean Galloway Jr. and Takara Daeanne Miles John Carlo Velasco and Brandi Leeann Frady Tyler Ernest Crump and Rachel Cheyenne Reed Martin Russell McQueen and Rebecca L. Maiello Damion Scott Shields and Amberly Reagan Jennings Kevin Odell Harrison and Camryn Noel Slaughter Kasmir Artest Phillips and Daia Alexandria Wade Bryan Scott James Lane to Cami Mariah Williams Records books at a...
Independent Sulphur Springs Team Places Second At Destination Imagination
An independent group of Sulphur Springs youth earned second place honors in the Destination Imagination contest held recently. While not officially an Sulphur Springs Independent School District team, all four students reportedly attend high school in SSISD. “These are high school kids who love DI so much that they formed their own team and their parents pay for it themselves,” reports SSMS teacher Brooke Howard. The team...
5 SSMS Teams Advancing To State Destination Imagination Contest
Sulphur Springs Middle School will be well represented at the State Destination Imagination Contest April 3-4. Overall, SSMS came home from the regional DI contest in Mesquite Feb. 22 with six teams earning first and second place honors, five of which qualify to compete at state, and four earned special recognition as well. “SSMS had a great weekend at the East Region Tournament in Mesquite. The Technical, Scientific, Fine...
Tira News
by Jan Vaughn The Tira City Council will meet on Tuesday, June 7, at 6:00 p.m. at the Tira Community Center. During the meeting, they will look into filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Mayor Floyd Payton, along with conducting regular business. The public is always welcome and encouraged to attend. Joyce Dodd was in Paris last Friday, to meet six of her former coworkers from Cooper ISD. They met at TaMolly’s for a late...
Tira News By Jan Vaughn
Floyd and Martha Payton enjoyed a visit with their daughter, Regina. She arrived on Wednesday evening before Easter. Martha says, “We caught up on some small problems with an i-Pad, made a trip to the library and had lunch in Sulphur Springs. Floyd hasn’t been feeling well lately, so we stayed close to home. Brad Payton from Keller came on Wednesday and visited with us until Saturday afternoon, also our grandson, Eric arrived...
Sulphur Springs Middle School Destination ImagiNation Regional Results
The Sulphur Springs Middle School’s Destination Imagination teams competed this last weekend at the areas regional meet. In the Technical Challenge, the team must build a vehicle that is able to carry at least one team member across the presentation site multiple times, change the vehicle propulsion system and vehicle movement method during the presentation, create and present a story about change that includes a change within a...