The Beginning of the End for Houston School
The building known as Houston Elementary School on College St here in Sulphur Springs, TX has certainly seen better days. It opened as an elementary school with the 1938-1939 school year and served Sulphur Springs Independent School district until the Spring of 1999. Beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, the SSISD alternative classes were conducted there. Hopkins County leased a part of the building for the county clerk’s...
SENSELESS DEATHS ON THE RISE
AUSTIN — With more people dying senselessly on Texas roads due to distracted driving, the Texas Department of Transportation kicks off its annual “Talk, Text, Crash” campaign to urge drivers to give their full attention to the road. TxDOT’s campaign coincides with National Distracted Driving Awareness Month in April. “Nearly 1 in 5 traffic crashes in Texas is caused by a distracted driver,” said TxDOT Deputy Executive Director John...
Anita Treider – Pending
Funeral arrangements for Anita Treider, age 87 of Sulphur Springs are pending with Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home. Mrs. Treider passed away on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at Sulphur Springs Health and Rehab. The online register can be signed at: www.murrayorwosky.com
Miller Grove News – by Brandon Darrow
Saturday while working in the cemetery I noticed two people there that I had never seen. I walked up to them and introduced myself and turns out they were from Ohio and related to the Anderson family of Miller Grove. We talked for a while and they have recently moved to McKinney. They have heard their relatives speak of Miller Grove and their family buried there and they wanted to see for themselves. Their names were Ben and...
Don’t Give Up Until They Buckle Up! – Johanna Hicks
We all know everything is bigger in Texas! However, one number that we do not want to see bigger is the number of children ages 8-14 who are fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), from 2009-2012, a total of 188 children ages 8-14 were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Nationally, among children fatally injured in this age group , an average of 49% were...
BONNIE AND CLYDE APRIL 2, 2015 – Eddie Trapp
For ten or twelve years I have attended the Uncle Earl’s hog dog trials in Winnfield, Louisiana. Each time while traveling along Interstate 20, I pass the Gibsland, Louisiana exit and remember Bonnie and Clyde were killed in the area. One time Jean, some grand-kids, AND I were on the trip and we stopped at a Bonny and Clyde Museum in Gibsland. As luck would have it the museum was closed and we could barely see inside since it was so...
