NETBIO Sale Largest So Far
Setting records has become a tradition for the NETBIO (Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization) Pre-conditioned Calf and Yearling sale — and the January sale was no different despite the rainy, wet and cold conditions. The sale, held Wednesday at the Sulphur Springs Livestock Commission, was the largest January sale in NETBIO’s nearly 20-year history, with producers selling 7,716 head of cattle. “It was a very good sale...
Chamber Connection January 19, 2017
SAVE THE DATE!!! It’s time for the 91st Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet! “An Evening in the Woods,” dinner and community awards will be held at the Hopkins County Civic Center on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 p.m. Awards including Citizen of the Year, Woman of the Year, Caregiver of the Year, Community Pride Award, Agriculturist of the Year, Large Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, and Educator of the Year will be...
SSISD Board Sets Public Hearing To Discuss the Annual Report of Educational Performance
In a news release, Rusty Harden, Director of Communications and Assistant Superintendent of Sulphur Springs Schools announced the Sulphur Springs Independent School District will hold a public hearing on Monday, February 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm for the purpose of discussing the Annual Report of Educational Performance and the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) for the 2015-2016 school year. The hearing will be held in conjunction...
Coaches Pleased With Continuing Improvement
WILDCATS BASKETBALL Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta saw lots of signs that his team used last Friday’s loss to Mt. Pleasant as a learning experience moving forward. He said the team hopefully either wins or learns from a loss. Tuesday night the Wildcats won at Greenville, 84-54. Coach Cipoletta said his team played really well on both sides of the ball. He said the Wildcats executed on offense a lot better Tuesday than...
Thursday Forecast
Areas of fog possible through 9 a.m.; High: 68; Low: 53; Wind: South 5-15, gusting to 20 mph
Benito Lopez, Jr
Benito Lopez, Jr., age 70 of Winnsboro, passed away on Monday, January 16th, 2017 in Tyler. He was born on May 10th, 1946 in Brownsville, TX to the late Benito Lopez, Sr. and Manuela Suarez Lopez. He was a retired steel worker and was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers; one sisters and one grandson, Albert Gerard Lopez, Jr. He is survived by, wife, Maria Luisa Lopez; sons, Benito Lopez III, Commander Robert John Lopez,...
SSHS BPA Students Qualify for State Competition
Ten Business Professionals of America, or BPA students from Sulphur Springs High School qualified for State Competition at a regional leadership conference held last Saturday. Qualifiers are Aubrey Benson, who took first place in individual Administrative Support, Dylan Joiner, who came in first in individual Economic Research Project, Lydia Burleson, who finished second in Advanced Word Processing, Mandy Eckhardt, a second place...
Alliance Bank Announces Promotions
Wednesday, January 18, 2017, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Sellers was pleased to announce that the Board of Directors for Alliance Bank have approved the promotions of Ruth Ann Crowson to Executive Vice President-Chief Risk Officer, Kevin Monk to Executive Vice President-Chief Operations Officer, Mike Jumper to Senior Vice President-Mortgage and Julie Degelia to Senior Vice President-Human Resource. “Ruth Ann...
A GoFundMe Account Raises Over $13,000 in First Hour for Homeless Sulphur Springs Man
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 saw over $13,000 has been raised in one hour for Anthony’s Village, a gofundme.com account established by Colleen Hoover for a 19-year old homeless man in Sulphur Springs. The original goal of $5,000 was increased to $20,000 as money began pouring into the account. Some 385 people or more gave in the first hour. Hoover described the campaign on GoFundMe: Anthony’s Village.
