PJC Sulphur Springs News
truck driving class offered at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center TRUCKING Instructor Bob Ashbreck, right, discusses some important aspects of driving and maintaining a truck during a recent truck driving class at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center campus. Listening closely to Ashbreck are students (from left) Marcus Hipp, Sheldon Hamilton in cab, and John Hargrove.
Hopkins County United Way Almost At Half Way Mark In Campaign To Raise $165,000
Hopkins County United Way campaign workers turned in $25,548 in pledges and donations over the last week. That brings to total collected as of the fourth campaign workers report meeting Tuesday morning, Oct. 22, to $71,361.26, about 43.25 percent of the overall $165,000 campaign goal. “We are so grateful for every bit,” said HCUW Executive Secretary Susan Berning. Campaign workers reported several of the packets turned in...
Hay Show and Sale Coming Up Friday Oct. 25, 11:30am
A Hopkins County agricultural tradition is continuing, and in 2019 being sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Services which, like Hopkins/Rains Farm Bureau, serves Hopkins and Rains Counties. The long-standing tradition is for hay growers to compare their product with others, with an eye to top nutrition in the hay they raise for forage for their animals. The 2019 deadline to enter hay samples was October 4, and according...
Sulphur Springs ISD Trustees Approve 6 Staff Changes
Sulphur Springs Independent School District administrators will be tasked with finding two teachers and a payroll coordinator in the near future. SSHS will need an auto tech teacher starting in the spring semester. Troy Emerson turned in his notice of resignation, effective at the end of the semester. High school will also be losing math and robotics teacher Ruston Pennington at the end of the school year. Pennington notified...
Sulphur Springs Man Allegedly Caught With Stolen Car
Sulphur Springs Police reportedly caught a 27-year-old Sulphur Springs man with a car that’d just been reported stolen early Tuesday morning, according to arrest reports. Trondamion Andrzhel Cleveland A Mitsubishi Galant was reported stolen from the 600 block of Ingram Street at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22. A short time later, Trondamion Andrzhel Cleveland was reportedly located in the 700 block of Calvert Street with the...
Kyle Man Jailed On Felony DWI Charge Following Crash
A 57-year-old Kyle, Texas man was arrested on a felony driving while intoxicated charge after allegedly driving his pickup in the ditch Monday evening. Emergency dispatchers were first alerted at 6:18 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, of a possible vehicle crash on State Highway 11 east. The caller reportedly heard a loud engine revving and stepped out of the garage to check it out. The resident reported seeing a truck in the ditch. The resident...
Beth Wisenbaker and Committee of SSHS Class of 1969 Plans 50th Reunion Celebration on October 26
Beth Brady Wisenbaker Beth Brady and 156 other Seniors graduated in May 1969 from Sulphur Springs High School, located back then on the site of today’s Sulphur Springs Elementary School and formerly Sulphur Springs Middle School. Plans for the 2019 reunion set for Saturday October 26 are twofold. There is a gathering for stew at 11am on the Hopkins County Stew Contest grounds under the Class of 1969 tent, set up across from...
Wildcats Football Second Half Woes Subject For Coach Owens on Saturday Morning Coach’s Show
An unusual thing is happening to the Wildcats this season. In several games, they go into halftime still very much in a game only to see things unravel in the second half. In started in game one versus Frisco Wakeland. A 17-17 halftime score ends up Wakeland 53, Wildcats 17. On Friday (October 18), the Wildcats trailed Corsicana on the road by only 21-14 at the half. The Tigers outscore the Wildcats 20-0 in the second half. Wildcats...
Lady Cats Volleyball Team Struggled on the Road Again Last Friday at Lindale
Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Bailey Dorner acknowledges that her team has struggled on the road during district play. She says it has been especially obvious on Fridays. The trend continued last Friday (October 18) as the Lady Cats lost at Lindale, 3-0 by the score of 25-19, 25-19 and 25-15. Coach Dorner says her team just did not show up adding they struggled all the way around, couldn’t get things going and couldn’t get...
