SSISD Summer Sports Camps–Football & Tennis Next Week
SSISD summer sports camps wrap up next week with football and tennis. The tennis camp, run by Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez, will take place Monday through Thursday at the Wildcats Tennis Complex. There will be two separate sessions. One for boys and girls entering kindergarten through the sixth grade is scheduled for 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. Another for youths entering seventh through the twelfth grade is set for 10:30 a.m. until...
Chamber Names High School Leadership Class; Seeks Sponsors
The 2017-2018 High School Leadership Class, sponsored by the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce, allows each student chosen for the program to begin a journey of practical knowledge with insight into local life beyond the classroom. This is the 24th year for the program locally. Students in the program are chosen from all county schools. The Chamber of Commerce has facilitated this program for our county’s outstanding high school...
Winter Grazing Program Set for August 24th in Overton
by Russell Adams, Texas A & M Agriculture OVERTON – Beef cattle producers hoping to cut costs and maximize winter grazing should attend an Aug. 24 program in Overton focused on reducing winter feeding with stockpiled forages and winter pasture, coordinators said. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program will be presented by Dr. Jason Banta, AgriLife Extension beef cattle specialist, and Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson,...
Lestene Sewell
Funeral services for Lestene Sewell, 82, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, July 29, 2017 at East Caney Baptist Church with Rev. M. Lavelle Hendricks and Rev. Troy L. Young officiating. Interment will follow at East Caney Cemetery with her grandchildren and nephews serving as pallbearers. There will be no formal visitation. Lestene passed away on Monday, July 24, 2017 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in...
Emma Ruth Mellore
Emma Ruth Mellore, age 98, of Sulphur Springs passed away on Monday, July 18, 2017 at Rock Creek Health and Rehab. She was born on February 24, 1919 in Oklahoma, the daughter of Bert S. and Emily Asbury Onley. She was a homemaker all her life. She was married to Morris Orville Mellore for 56 years. He preceded her in death. She is survived by daughter, Sharon Buti of Sulphur Springs, three sisters, twelve grandchildren, and several...
Wednesday Forecast
High: 96 with heat index values as high as 105; Low: 77; Wind: South 5-10 mph
Casillas Sentenced to 20 Years TDCJ For Child Pornography
Tuesday morning in Eighth Judicial District Court, Carlos Omar Casillas, 22, was sentenced to 20 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Child Pornography. Casillas had been arrested for money laundering but during an inventory of a cell phone belonging to Casillas, Sheriff’s investigators found child pornography. Casillas was charged with multiple counts of Possession of Child Pornography and has been in Hopkins County...
DPS to Begin Charging Local Law Enforcement Agencies for Lab Tests
Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that beginning September 1, 2017, they will begin charging all law enforcement entities that utilize their testing labs. According to Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom and Sheriff Lewis Tatum this sudden bit of budgeting news creates some issues for a budget that is near completion for the county and, specifically, the Sheriff’s Department. This also creates issues for the City of...
