Trading Post for Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Apr14

Trading Post for Tuesday, April 14, 2020

For Sale: pleated fabric facemasks. Asking $60.00 per dozen. If interested, or for more details, please call, or text, 903-348-4143. Needing: a piano tuner. If you can help this party out, please call 903-866-2476. For Sale: a dinning table and four chairs for $75.00. Also, for sale, a pub style table with four chairs for $50.00. And, a Serving buffet for $20.00. This party also has, for free, women’s clothes. The clothes are...

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Dinner Bell Menu for April 15, 2020
Apr14

Dinner Bell Menu for April 15, 2020

t is another Grab and Go through the covered driveway northeastern side of First United Methodist Church! City National Bank is the Community Partner Mexican Lasagna Pinto Beans Frito Corn Salad Assorted Cookies Drive through starts at 11:45 a.m. You may receive as many meals as are persons in the car. Covered Driveway where you can pickup your meal. Please take care of yourself. Stay six feet from people. Wash your hands often,...

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CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs Hosting Blood Drive April 15
Apr13

CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs Hosting Blood Drive April 15

Sulphur Springs, Texas, April 14, 2020 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Health Ministry of Jesus Christ. A special THANK YOU to all who have dropped off supplies, treats, meals, drinks, donated PPE and other equipment, make financial donations, etc. for our hospital and our associates. We are forever grateful! We are extremely proud of our associates on the frontline serving...

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Meal A Day Menu — April 13-17, 2020
Apr12

Meal A Day Menu — April 13-17, 2020

The Senior Citizens Center may be temporarily closed along with Sulphur Springs Public Library and city lobbies due to COVID-19, but the dedicated Meal A Day volunteers continue to work five days a week preparing and delivering meals to shut-ins in the community. The Meal A Day Menu for April 13-17, 2020 includes: Monday — Beef Spaghetti, English Peas, Garlic BreadTuesday — Sweet and Sour Chicken, Rice, Egg Roll, Oriental...

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Hopkins County COVID-19 Update: 4 Cases; 1 Recovery; 97 Negatives, 13 Pending Tests Results
Apr10

Hopkins County COVID-19 Update: 4 Cases; 1 Recovery; 97 Negatives, 13 Pending Tests Results

Hopkins County as of 11:25 a.m. Friday, April 10, had received no additional reports of confirmed positive cases of novel coronavirus 2019 have been reported for Hopkins County, but 32 additional test results have come back negative, according to Hopkins County Hospital District CCO/EMS Director Brent Smith in his regular Hopkins County COVID-19 update. Hopkins County Update Hopkins County has managed to weather the week a little...

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Trading Post for Friday, April 10, 2020
Apr10

Trading Post for Friday, April 10, 2020

Needing: someone to work some tasks. Such tasks include cleaning out flowerbeds, cutting trees off the fence line, and cleaning out some buildings and a garage. If interested, or for more info., please call 903-945-3202. The property is located in the Dike, TX area. For Sale: a trailer-mounted air compressor with a 10-hp Kohler engine. Has an electric start. It also has a Briggs N Stratton motor on it. “The unit is in good...

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Bob Evans Foods Helps Feed 2,400 Families Friday
Apr10

Bob Evans Foods Helps Feed 2,400 Families Friday

With the economic impact to many due to COVID-19 pandemic, Bob Evans Foods extended a neighborly hand Friday morning by donating boxes of egg and potato products to help some with food needs. Bob Evans HR Manager Andy Mendezona coordinates unloading of boxes, while Civic Center and Chamber of Commerce staff and other business employees and volunteers guide traffic and load boxes of free potato and egg products donated by Bob Evans...

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Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week
Apr10

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week

Sulphur Springs Animal Control Officers (standing) Barbi Blanch and Annie Patridge with SS Animal Shelter volunteers at a Pet Adoption Event Sulphur Springs Mayor John Sellers proclaimed the second week of April as Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week in Sulphur Springs. This a time to recognize the important role animal control officers have in law enforcement. Sulphur Springs Police Department Animal Control Officers Barbi...

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Sulphur Springs City Council Approves Curfew, Postpones Election
Apr10

Sulphur Springs City Council Approves Curfew, Postpones Election

The April meeting of Sulphur Springs City Council may have been delayed while technical kinks were worked out of the viewing and teleconferencing systems but, once under way, officials wasted no time Tuesday night making short order of the agenda. Due to the stay at home safe and social distancing parameters in place during the global COVID-19 pandemic, Sulphur Springs City Council members and city staff signed in for a Zoom...

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Tira News – April 9, 2020
Apr09

Tira News – April 9, 2020

By Jan Vaughn Tira resident Judy Moore, director of Hopkins County Community Chest, and her son, Gene, lost their house to fire on Tuesday, April 7. Their neighbor, Janie Lewis, reported that firefighters from Tira, North Hopkins, Sulphur Bluff, Dike, Klondike, Hopkins County, and Delta County fire departments came to fight the destructive fire. She adds that a lot of other people stopped by to help and shared that the Salvation Army...

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