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.
Elvis “E. J” Clark
Funeral service for Elvis Joe Clark, age 90, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 A.M., Friday, January 20, 2017 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Rev. Larry Maynard officiating and Rev. Fred Lewis assisting. Interment with military honors will follow at Brashear Cemetery with Joe Bob Daniel, Michael Churchman, Chris Clark, Cephus Gregory, Abel Reyes, Dustin Churchman, Cason Churchman and Colton Clark serving as...
Moore’s Plea Garners Five Years in Prison
January 18, 2017 – Bradley Dale Moore pled guilty to Assault Family Violence with Previous Conviction Wednesday morning in Eighth Judicial District Court. He will serve five years in prison. He also pled true to a deadly weapon enhancement making him ineligible for parole until he has served at least 2.5 years day for day, according to Assistant District Attorney Clay Harrison. The State charged the Defendant with assaulting...
