Arrest Made Due to City Code Violations
A well littered yard and other city code violations resulted in the arrest of a 42-year old Sulphur Springs woman over the weekend. The woman paid her fines and was released Monday morning. The code violations at her College Street address included Accumulation of Rubbish or Garbage, Accumulation of Trash, Carrion, Filth, etc, Dog at large, No Vaccination Against Rabies, three counts of Inoperative Vehicle on Premises. According to...
Floyd L. Payton
Funeral Service for Floyd L Payton, age 86, of Tira, will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at Tira Methodist Church with Andy Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Tira Cemetery with Clen Honzell, B.C. Honzell, Floyd Lawson, Brad Dodd, J.R. Durst and David Honzell serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at Tira Methodist Church. Floyd passed away March 5, 2017 at his...
Monday Forecast
20% chance of precipitation during the day increasing to 60% tonight; High: 76: Low: 57; Wind: South 15-20 mph, gusting to 25
Lady Cats Enter District Play Tuesday With 13-4 Season Record.
The Lady Cats’ softball team lost to Frisco Wakeland, 6-5 late Friday and then ended play in a Wylie tournament Saturday with wins over Wylie East, 7-5 and Mesquite Horn, 11-0. The Lady Cats season record is now 13-4. They will open district play Tuesday night at Greenville. Frisco Wakeland broke a 5-5 tie with a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to get a walk off win. Both teams had 7 hits and made 1 error. Bailey...
Wildcats Wrap Up Lindale Tourney; Grayson County Classic Next
The Wildcats’ baseball team wrapped up play in the Robbie Surratt Memorial Tournament in Lindale Saturday with a loss and a tie. The Wildcats lost to Van, 9-7 and then tied Lindale, 1-1 when rain fell in the bottom of the sixth inning. Against Van, the Wildcats got off to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Mason Buck walked, stole a base and scored on a Ryan Humphries’ single. Triston McCormick also singled....
Sunday Forecast
40% chance of showers with patchy fog after 7 p.m.; High: 62; Low: 59; Wind: Southeast 5-15, gusting to 20 mph
Malcolm S. King
Funeral service for Malcolm S. King, age 92, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Harvey Fails and Shane Carrington officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Lawn Cemetery with Kyle Goolsby, Corey Oldbury, Fred Kemp, Bill Wilkinson, Dustin Soeder and Brent Oldbury serving as pallbearers and Brad Oldbury, David Ford, Darrell Ford, Robert Morgan and George...
SSISD Board Meets Monday, March 6th
When the SSISD Board of Trustees meets Monday, March 6, 2017, at 6 p.m. in the Administration Building Board Room, the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class will be special guests for public forum. The board will hear a number of reports and take action on several items as well. Reports on Instructional Technology, football stadium project, and head start will be heard. Actions items include ordering a school board...
Sulphur Springs City Council Agenda for March 7th
Sulphur Springs City Council meets in regular session Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. in the council room, 201 North Davis Street. An executive session will precede the meeting at 6 p.m. The agenda for the meeting: AN EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 6:00 P.M. IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, TITLE 5, CHAPTER 551.074, PERSONNEL MATTERS, PERTAINING TO THE HIRING OF A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR; IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS...
Small Amount of Marijuana + Drug Free Zone = State Jail Felony
Not wearing a seat-belt was the cause for the stop within 260 feet of Sulphur Springs Elementary School. However when James Ethan-Indyana Jones, 25, of Sulphur Springs was stopped Friday at 11:28 a.m., he told the officer his driver’s license was suspended and he did not have insurance. During inventory of the vehicle, marijuana was located in the back seat floorboard. Jones is in Hopkins County Jail charged with Possession of...
