It’s Game Day!
It’s another busy Tuesday game day. Lady Cats soccer at regional quarterfinal, softball hosting Marshall, Wildcats baseball hosting Marshall, Golf teams in the second day of district tournament, and tennis in first day of district play. The Lady Cats’ soccer team will play Mansfield Legacy in a regional quarterfinal match in Terrell at 6 p.m. today. The Lady Broncos of Mansfield Legacy were the district champions in their...
Lady Cats Place First; Wildcats Fourth at Mt Pleasant
The Lady Cats Track team finished first and the Wildcats’ track team finished fourth at a Mt. Pleasant meet last Friday. Both Wildcast and \ Lady Cats squad will compete in the district meet April 13-14 in Pine Tree. Coach Matt Young said 65 points was not too bad considering the quality of the competition there. In field events, Derrick Weeks was fourth in the discus with a throw a little shorter than his usual. Newcomer Josh...
SSHS UIL Takes 2nd Place At District Meet
Sulphur Springs High School competed in the District 15-5A UIL Academic competition on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd. Results are as follows: In Lincoln-Douglass Debate, Corban Philo placed fourth In Ready Writing, Patricia Parks placed first and Lydia Burleson placed third. In Computer Science, Trenton Brock placed first, Sean Allemang placed second, Tim Charlton placed third, and Mauro Basio placed fifth. The team...
Tony Holmes
Funeral services for Tony Holmes age 57 of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Rev. Doug Holt officiating. Interment will follow at Conner Cemetery with Todd Holmes, Mike Tucker, Steve Eppars, Jay Eppars, Rick Harrison, Robert Romans and Wynton Lewis serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearer is Tony Giles. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday,...
Winnsboro Police Department Report for March 29-April 3
Two arrests, an accident, 141 calls for service, 58 citations and 23 warnings written occupied the time of the Winnsboro Police Department March 28 – April 3. Kerry Bell, 40, of Winnsboro was arrested Wednesday, March 30th for driving while license invalid with a previous conviction. On Friday, April 1st, Thomas Lawrence, 47, of Winnsboro was arrested for a DWI. One minor accident involved a white GMC truck towing a boat in the 200...
Fourth Annual Tanner Higgins Warrior Run is Saturday
The 4th Annual Tanner Higgins Warrior Run is Saturday, April 9th at Cooper Lake State Park. The event was created to honor the memory of Sergeant Tanner Stone Higgins killed by enemy forces during a heavy firefight during combat operations in Logar Province, Afghanistan April 14, 2012. Sgt. Higgins, team leader assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was leading an assault against an enemy compound when he was...
Another Week to Wait
Although Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board set a called meeting for noon Monday, April 4, hoping to finalize the proposed partnership with CHRISTUS , they will meet again next Monday, April 11 with the same hope. In an executive meeting early last week, the local board addressed 11 questions to CHRISTUS. During a meeting last Thursday, nine of those 11 questions were answered but two remain (see story here). CHRISTUS had not...
Lady Cats Regional Quarterfinal Set for Tuesday
The Lady Cats’ soccer teams third round regional quarterfinal match with Mansfield Legacy has been firmed up. The Lady Cats will play the Lady Broncos at Terrell Tuesday night at 6 p.m. The Lady Cats are the visiting team this time. Lady Cats Coach Jesus DeLeon said Mansfield Legacy was the district champion. They are in the same district as Waxahachie, who finished fourth in the district. As you might expect, Coach DeLeon said...
Freshman Powerlifter Morales Has More State Meets In His Future
Wildcats freshman powerlifter Joe’ell Morales had a tough day at the State Powerlifting Meet in Abilene Saturday. Morales bombed out while lifting in his very first category, the squat, in the 123-pound weight class. Lifters are not allowed to continue after a bomb out. Wildcats Powerlifting Coach Jacob Alford predicted that Morales would return to the state meet, perhaps for three more years. He said Morales would return...
Theft of Trailer One of Three Arrests Over Weekend
A theft of a trailer with a ramp from Atwoods Sunday was a quick recovery for Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputies. A report of the trailer stolen and towed away by a Green Jeep Wrangler with a tan top was quickly followed with information that the vehicle was headed north on Gilmer towards the Oak Avenue split. Just so happened, a Hopkins County deputy was in the area of Oak Avenue. He spied a black trailer with no registration tag...
