Phase One of The Edge Ends; Resumes in Two Weeks
Thursday morning at The Edge conditioning program marked the end of phase one for high school athletes and the completion of The Edge for middle school athletes. After a two-week hiatus, The Edge for high school athletes only will resume on Monday, July 24. At the end of The Edge for high school athletes Thursday morning, Wildcats Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens told them they had a good first four weeks. He encouraged...
BGCT Executive Director to Speak at FBC Sunday
Dr. David Hardage, former Pastor of First Baptist Church and now Executive Director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, will be the guest speaker Sunday morning, July 9th, at First Baptist Church Sulphur Springs. Dr. Hardage will speak in both the 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. morning worship services. Dr. Hardage is the longest serving full-time pastor of First Baptist Church, Sulphur Springs. He and his wife, Kathleen, currently...
Lady Cats Volleyball Campers
Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Justin Maness recently (June 26-28) offered an SSISD summer girls volleyball camp in the main gym at Sulphur Springs High School that drew a nice group of campers. There was a morning session for girls entering the fourth through the seventh grade and an afternoon camp for girls entering eighth and ninth grade. Coach Maness was assisted by his wife Brittany, Lady Cats Assistant Coaches David Carrillo and...
Mother Arrested for Child Endangerment; Family Tested Positive for Meth
July 6, 2017 – Special Crimes Unit, working with Child Protective Services, arrested Dana Gandy-Haynsworth, 26, of Mt Vernon at CPS office Thursday afternoon. Gandy-Haynesworth was arrested for Child Endangerment, a State Jail Felony. CPS opened an investigation in June of this year testing Gandy-Haynesworth, her husband and their 4-year old child. The 4-year old child tested positive for Methamphetamine. Both the biological...
Chamber Connection July 6, 2017
Have you seen the beautiful Sulphur Springs montage prints that have begun circulating Hopkins County? An artist has depicted Sulphur Springs with businesses, events, and history by creating a huge montage drawing. They are the neatest things! I keep getting lost in them each time seeing something that I have not seen before. If you would like to see one or purchase one, stop by the Chamber! We have them for sale for $10 each....
Morris “Butch” Bolton
Morris (Butch) William Bolton, age 78, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend went to be with the Lord on July 6, 2017 at his home in Sulphur Springs, TX surrounded by his immediate family. Morris was born in Greenville, Texas on July 4, 1939 to Luther and Mary Lee Bolton and was quickly nicknamed ‘Butch’. His family and close friends called him Butch but his business colleagues and co-workers knew him as...
Bobby Dean Harrison
Funeral service for Bobby Dean Harrison, 55, of Quitman, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 7, 2017, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jimmy Cummings officiating. Graveside services will follow at 3:00, at Restland Cemetery in Dallas, TX with Terry Weatherly, Ronnie Braswell, Eric Weatherly, Todd Kelley, Michael Duplessis, and Robert Thompson serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.,...
Massachusetts Man Captured in Hopkins County Has Been Indicted for Murder in Home State
July 6, 2017 – A Haverhill, Massachusetts man accused of fleeing to Texas after killing a woman and shooting another man outside a Lawrence, Massachusetts nightclub Easter Sunday has been indicted by the Essex County grand jury, according to an article in the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. Luis Rodriguez, 24, was captured in Sulphur Springs, Texas by Hopkins County Deputies in April of this year. He was arrested just days after...
Thursday Forecast
20% chance of showers and thunderstorms; High: 90 with heat index values as high as 97; Low 73; Wind: South, southwest around 5 mph
