Lightning Chances Increase Saturday Evening
Dangerous lightning is possible in the Hopkins County area over the next three hours. At 7 p.m. Saturday evening a lightning strike occurred within 1.5 miles of KSST studios. It was just one of several within a 15 mile radius of our studios. The potential of thunderstorms is 20% tonight. Saturday afternoon around 6 p.m. a thunderstorm was making its way into the county traveling east to west from Titus to Franklin Counties and toward...
Commercial Growth in County Spurs Need to Find Answers for Roads
Lack of regulation in the county is one reason County Roads are becoming a big problem in Hopkins County according to Commissioner Precinct 1 Beth Wisenbaker. More people building houses, agricultural changes, and commercial operations opening such as open dirt pits, selling timber and dairy operations of 1,000 or more cattle, dairy’s that cut their own silage using heavy equipment and 18-wheeler trucks driven home full by residents...
Mary Francis Sartin
Graveside services for Mary Frances Sartin, age 86, of Sulphur Springs, are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Monday, June 20, 2016 at Arbala Cemetery with Aaron Huddleston and Adam Teer officiating. Pallbearers will be Dr. Danny Lawrence, Nicholas Floyd, Joe Freeman, Jimmy Pulver, Aaron Huddleston, and Adam Teer. There is no formal visitation. Mary Frances Sartin passed away Saturday morning, June 18, 2016 at Sulphur Springs Health and Rehab....
CM Healy Book Signing at The Bookworm Box
On Saturday, June 25th, a book signing at The Bookworm Box will be held by CM Healy. CM Healy writes stories and poems for children as well as young adult fiction. A few of his books include Before the After: Princess Lillian, If Mom Became an Octopus, The Lion & The Red Balloon and Other Silly Stories, and Missing Numbers. The signing will be held from 2 pm to 4:30 pm. The Bookworm Box is located at 204 Main St in downtown...
A & M University-Commerce Offers Middle School Females an Engineering Summer Program
COMMERCE, TX—Texas A&M University-Commerce Engineering Summer Program offers the opportunity for female middle school students who have demonstrated ability in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas to work in teams on several STEM projects ranging from programming robots to designing and creating model wood bridges. “This marks the eighth year that the Department of Engineering and Technology has offered a summer...
Tonight’s Movie On Celebration Plaza!
Tonight is movie night at Celebration Plaza! Tonight’s movie is a Fantasy/Mystery called Tomorrowland! Tomorrowland is about whenever Casey touches a lapel pin with the letter T on it, she finds herself transported to a place with robots and sleek building which is known as Tomorrowland. The gifted young woman recruits the help of scientist Frank, a previous visitor to Tomorrowland, who years ago made a startling discovery about...
RSVP 12th Annual Hopkins County Recognition Banquet
Volunteer of the Year and Station of the Year were named at the RSVP 12th Annual Hopkins County Recognition Banquet Thursday afternoon, June 16th at New Beginnings Fellowship Church in Sulphur Springs. Roughly 80 to 100 people attended, and the Banquet was catered by Murray’s BBQ. Tim Walsworth was master of Ceremonies. RSVP Director Kelly Hamill lead the Recognition of Guests and introduced Musician and Singer Enola Gay...
Girls Basketball Camp Registration Open
Lady Cats Basketball Coach Jeff Chapman will have his girls basketball camp next week, June 20-24. It will take place in the main high school gym Monday through Thursday. The camp for girls who will be entering the fourth through the ninth grades will take place from 9 a.m. until noon each day. Cost to attend is $40. Coach Chapman’s assistant coaches, Ashton Wells and Kevin Tanton, will be on hand to help at the camp....
DWI, PI, and Mischief Increase in Summer; Consequences Remain; Man Arrested for Felony 3 DWI
Public intoxication and drinking and driving are a bad mix and the mix has increased in Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County in the past few weeks according to offenses filed, arrests made, and the incarceration of several at the Hopkins County Jail. Among those charged with a 3rd degree felony, DWI 3rd Offense or More is Weldon David Jordan, 33. Sheriff-Elect Lewis Tatum and Sulphur Springs Police Chief Jay Sanders point to summer...
