KSST Listeners Receive a Holiday Gift from Sulphur Springs Community Players on Christmas Eve, Morning
KSST listeners will have two opportunities this holiday to hear an hour-long adaptation of Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol, performed by cast members of the Sulphur Springs Community Players. The play’s title is ‘A Christmas Carol: Adapted for Radio On Stage’ and it was first presented to local audiences from the stage of Main Street Theater earlier this month. Now, through a special arrangement with the...
Brashear Man Jailed On Controlled Substance Charge, Warrant
Bradley Cole Peek Hopkins County sheriff’s deputies responded at 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, to a complaint of a vehicle running, but sitting stationary, in the middle of County Road 1100; the driver in the vehicle appeared to the 911 caller to be passed out, according to sheriff’s reports. Deputies reported finding a 25-year-old Brashear man inside of a Ford F-250 pickup on CR 1100, west of County Road 1157. After a period...
Proposed Solar Projects In Dike, Pine Forest Receive County Officials' Approval
Hopkins County Commissioners Court Hopkins County Commissioners Court Monday unanimously approved 318 agreements granting tax incentives for solar projects in Dike and Pine Forest communities “They pay taxes and pay us a fee which is equal to a portion of their taxes, That way when we bring that money into the county’s coffers it doesn’t impact the property taxes,” Sulphur Springs/Hopkins County Economic...
Meet Dr. Thi Pham, Podiatrist with CHRISTUS in Sulphur Springs, Winnsboro
Originally from Vietnam, Thi Pham came to the United States in the 1980’s as a young teen. She completed public school in the Dallas area and earned an undergraduate college degree from UT Dallas. She then entered Temple University in Philadelphia and after four years, she graduated in 2005 with a Doctor of Podiatry degree, then spent four more years in residency at U.T. San Antonio. Her first years of practice were spent in...
SSISD Tables Decision On Reinvestment Zones For 2 Proposed Solar Farms
Sulphur Springs ISD Board of Trustees at their Dec. 19 meeting Sulphur Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees was poised Thursday evening to vote on an amended reinvestment zone for one proposed solar farm and a reinvestment zone and application for appraised value limitation on qualified property for school maintenance and operations taxes for another. However, after hearing concerns voiced by at least seven community...
Commissioners Court To Consider Property Purchase For Precinct 3, Subdivision Replat Request, 2 Solar Farm Proposals at Dec. 23 Meeting
Dike VFD To Be Recognized Monday Hopkins County Commissioners Court has a full agenda Monday, with several contracts, including for fire protection agreements with volunteer fire departments and for 2 solar farms, recognition of a volunteer fire department, a request for a subdivision replat and discontinued maintenance of two county roads among the items up for discussion and consideration. Dike Volunteer Fire Department is slated to...
Arkansas Woman Jailed On Hopkins County Warrant
Latrena Antoinette Gray A 28-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas woman was in custody in Pulaski County Detention Center in the other state on a felony Hopkins County warrant, Hopkins County sheriff’s officials were notified. HCSO Deputy Jason Poteet traveled Friday morning, Dec. 20 to Pulaski County, where he took Latrena Antionette Gray into custody at 9:51 a.m. on the outstanding warrant. Gray, who is also reported in jail reports...
2 Sulphur Springs Men Jailed Friday For DWI, Following Minor Vehicle Crashes
Two men were booked into Hopkins County jail Friday on driving while intoxicated charges following minor vehicle crashes; the youngest man was alleged to have been in possession of methamphetamine, according to arrest reports. A Marshall man was also reportedly picked up in another county on a Hopkins County warrant for violating probation on a DWI charge. Daniel A. Rosales-Banuelos Authorities reported finding a Chevrolet Silverado...
Winnsboro Man Jailed On Aggravated Assault With Deadly Weapon, 3 Other Felony Charges
Coy Wayne Wells A 53-year-old Winnsboro man is accused of driving through a pasture to avoid authorities, following involvement in a disturbance with weapons at a rural Hopkins County residence Friday morning, according to sheriff’s reports. Hopkins County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 9:24 a.m. Dec. 20 to a disturbance at a residence in the 100 block of County Road 2398. County 911 operators were told a...
