Football Friday Night Destination: Bearcat Stadium
Plan to attend the Friday September 4th Football game between our Sulphur Springs Wildcats and the Sherman Bearcats. It all goes down at Bearcat stadium. Game starts at 7:30 PM. Google Map Directions to Bearcat...
Hospital Board Questions Additional Surgery Center; Negotiations with CHRISTUS Continue
At Monday night’s meeting of the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board, a figurative curtain was pulled back at one point revealing what negotiations may be like as the board and CHRISTUS Health attempt to hammer out an partnership agreement. CHRISTUS, affiliated with the Catholic Church, recently raised an ethical and religious directives question because of sterilization surgeries such as tubal ligations and vasectomies done...
Hopkins County Stew Site Renewal Underway
The Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce has mailed out letters to last year’s record number of stew cooks encouraging them to renew their stew sites for this year’s 46th annual contest on Saturday, October 24. Some cooks have already turned in their paperwork. Stew cooks have until September 18 to renew their sites. Those not renewed in time will be available to anyone on Monday, September 21 at 8 a.m. More than 150...
Hawks Outscore Wildcats 43-17 at Prim Friday Night
The Wildcats’ football team hung with Rockwall-Heath for half of the season opener Friday night at Prim Stadium. The score at the half was Rockwall-Heath 22 and Sulphur Springs 17. Then the Hawks dominated the second half on both sides of the ball to take a 43-17 win. Wildcat back Jaylon Hawkins scored two rushing touchdowns for the Wildcats including a 57-yarder. He had a 66-yard TD run wiped out by a holding penalty. In the...
Sheriff Adams Tours New Jail
Thursday morning Hopkins County Sheriff Butch Adams gave KSST and Channel 18 TV a tour of the new county jail under construction. Sheriff Adams says he expects construction to be finished by mid to late October. He says construction crews are making up for rain days. The sheriff says cracks found in ornamental stones at the bottom of the building are not foundation related and are fixable. Jail capacity will be 192 including a big...
Winnsboro Prepares to Host 57th Annual Autumn Trails
2015 marks the 57th annual Autumn Trails Festival of Events in beautiful Winnsboro, Texas. This big, bold tradition spans the entire month of October. This year, the festivities will kick off with a Grand Parade through downtown, On October 2, featuring local businesses, local celebrities, school groups and a Best Dressed Jeep Contest, sponsored by Elliot Auto Group. A Best Dressed Pet Contest will follow with three trophies for...
County Firefighters Busy Tuesday
Firefighters from several communities joined forces to fight two structure fires Tuesday morning. The first fire was reported just after 6:45 a.m. Tuesday at a single wide mobile home located on County Road 1159 in the Arbala community. First arriving units reported seeing heavy smoke and fire venting through the roof of the home. A quick aggressive interior attack resulted in the fire being put out quickly. A Unit from County Central...
Mequite Man’s Solicitation Results in Local Arrest
Jeffery Thomas Miller, 45, of Mesquite is in Hopkins County Jail on a $50,000 bond Tuesday morning. Miller, who posted an ad soliciting sex, received a response from one whom he thought to be a minor—a 16-year old female. He began talking to her and arranged to meet for her in Sulphur Springs for the purpose of sexual acts, according to local law enforcement. Miller, a maintenance man by profession arrived at a League Street location...
School Starts, School Zone Laws Enforced
The first day of classes for the Sulphur Springs ISD schools is Tuesday. Sulphur Springs Police Patrol Captain Jason Ricketson has some advice that should keep those flashing police lights from coming up behind the vehicle you’re driving. Ricketson said stay off cellphones (texting or talking) inside school zones unless you are stopped or have a hands free device. He also encourages all to watch for school buses stopped. He said...
KSST Livestream Survey
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