Hopkins County Masonic Lodges Donate To Blue Santa
Hopkins County Masonic Lodges – made up of Sulphur Bluff, Sulphur Springs, and Cumby Lodges – made a donation of $1.000 to the Blue Santa program today. The funding from the Hopkins County Masonic Lodges would be utilized if there are any emergency Christmas toys needs, such as a family losing all of their belongings to a fire, this year. Otherwise, it will go into the account, used to pick up toys throughout the next year...
Sulphur Springs Man Jailed For Allegedly Assaulting His Father With Hedge Trimmers
A 32-year-old Sulphur Springs man was jailed Thursday afternoon for allegedly assaulting his father with hedge trimmers, according police reports. Brady Layne Mathews Sulphur Springs Police and emergency responders were initially dispatched at 10:31 a.m. Dec. 16, 2021, to the 600 block of Tate Street, to what was reported as a traumatic injury. Upon arrival, a man was indeed reported to have been injured, and determined an assault had...
Teen Jailed On Aggravated Sexual Assault Of Child Charge
A Sulphur Springs teen was jailed on an aggravated sexual assault of a child charge shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to arrest reports. Mark Douglas Kelly Sulphur Springs Police Sgt. Brandon Mayes located Mark Douglas Kelly at a Peach Street residence at 3:01 p.m. Dec. 15, 2021, and served him with the first-degree felony warrant. Mayes transported the 18-year-old to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked on the aggravated...
Active COVID Case Count Doubled Over The Last 2 1/2 Weeks In Hopkins County
3 COVID Deaths Confirmed For Hopkins County In Last 45 Days Although the number of active COVID cases Texas Department of State Health Services has reported this week are lower than those reported from August through November, the active case count for Hopkins County has more than doubled in the last 2 1/2 weeks. Three additional Hopkins County residents are also confirmed to have died from COVID over the last 45 days as well,...
Rickie Don Plunkett
Rickie Don Plunkett A graveside service for Rickie Don Plunkett, age (67), of Quinlan will be held at 2 p.m. Monday December 20, 2021, at Cumby Cemetery. A viewing will be held at Jones Walker and son Funeral Home the same day, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Rick as he was known to all, passed away on Thursday December 9, 2021, in Commerce Texas, after a brief illness. He was born on September 29, 1954, to Richard Lynn Plunkett and Betty Gene...
Joe B. Ardis
Joe B. Ardis Funeral services for Joe B. Ardis, age 84, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 18, 2021, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jerry Savage and Jose Martinez officiating. Interment will follow at Sulphur Springs City Cemetery with Bill Ardis, Mike Warren, Juan Enriquez, Johnny Enriquez, Mark Hill and Edgar Velasquez serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday,...
Obituary – Allene McKeown
Allene McKeown A graveside service for Allene McKeown, age 97, of Canton, Texas, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, December 16, 2021, at Roselawn Cemetery in Mineola, Texas. There will be no formal visitation. Mrs. McKeown passed away on December 13, 2021, at Country Place Assisted Livings. Allene was born on October 31, 1924, in Meadow, Texas, to Thomas Edwin and Jewel (Hines) Finley. She married J.D. McKeown. Allene had her master’s...
3 Jailed On Felony Warrants In Hopkins County
At least three men were jailed on felony warrants in Hopkins County over the past two days, according to arrest and jail reports. Gary Lee Gibson Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Terry Thompson took Gary Lee Gibson into custody at 1 p.m. Decd. 14, 2021. The 46-year-old Sulphur Springs man was booked into the county jail at 3:22 p.m. for bond forfeiture on an April 23, 2021 theft of property valued at less than $2,500. The...
Margaret Lane Ragan
Funeral services for Margaret Lane Ragan, age 81, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, December 17, 2021, at Brashear Baptist Church with Bro. David Burns officiating. Interment will follow at South Liberty Cemetery with Randy Millsap, Bart Millsap, Barry Smith, Blake Smith, and Brandon Darrow serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Patrick Dial, Jay Gaston, Kyle Crow, Patrick Dial III, and Caleb Daniels....
What Is A Winter Solstice?
The term “solstice” comes from the Latin words /sol (Sun) and /sistere/ (to stand still) because, during the solstice, the angle between the Sun’s rays and the plane of the Earth’s equator (called declination) appears to stand still. So what does that mean, exactly? On the arrival of the winter solstice, the Sun appears at its lowest in the sky, and its noontime elevation seems to stay the same for several days before and after this...
