Steady Stream Of Football Season Ticket Owners Renew On First Day Of Season Ticket Week
Lynette King, part of the Wildcats football season ticket week effort, said a steady crowd of ticket holders showed up Monday morning to renew their seats. Monday and Tuesday are days for current season ticket holders to renew their tickets. Tickets not renewed after Tuesday will be available for others. Ms. King said out of about 1500 season tickets, only 43 went unsold last year. Wednesday season ticket holders who renew can seek...
My Perfect Pet Expanding Business To Sulphur Springs
Groundbreaking For Gourmet Pet Food Business Scheduled July 31 at 9 a.m. at Pioneer Business Park My Perfect Pet is expanding its gourmet pet food business to Sulphur Springs. Sulphur Springs will soon be home to My Perfect Pet, a gourmet pet food company. After nearly 2 ½ years of work, terms have been reached for the Poway, California company to expand its operation to Texas, according to Sulphur Springs-Hopkins County Economic...
Good Number of Campers Greets Lady Cats Volleyball Coach on First Day of Camp
Volleyball on Wood Floor Volleyball seems to be growing in popularity. New Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Bailey Dorner feels that is the case. She says girls find it fun to play and she is excited it’s gaining in popularity. Attendance on day one of Coach Dorner’s three day volleyball camp would seem to confirm that. Thirty-eight girls entering fourth through the seventh grade attended the early morning session Monday and...
SSISD Tennis Camp Opens Monday at Wildcat Tennis Center
Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez still remembers the coach that introduced him to tennis. Coach Martinez says he was four years old and the coach was Coach Avra. Coach Martinez says four is about the right age to begin to learn tennis. He adds Wimbeldon’s Roger Federer was about five when he began. Coach Martinez reflects on his tennis start after coaching kids four and six years old at his tennis camp Monday morning. The...
Access Physicals To Provide Telemedicine System, Services At County Jail
Hopkins County Commissioners Court approved three health-related items Monday: health insurance, an incentive program and telemedicine service for the county jail. Employee insurance, incentive program County employees who use the insurance made available through work shouldn’t expect any surprises this year in the rates offered. The plan is “the same thing that we already have right now, which is the same co-pay, same...
2 Texarkana Teens Arrested After Marijuana, THC Oil Found During Traffic Stop
Two Texarkana teens were arrested Sunday after a trooper found marijuana, paraphernalia and THC oil in their vehicle. Daniel Monroe Nichols Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Warren Williamson stopped a white Ford Mustang Sunday afternoon on Interstate 30 east at mile marker 136 for not having a front license plate. The driver was identified as 19-year-old Daniel Monroe Nichols of Texarkana, Texas. While talking with Nichols...
Shadow RenFest Increases Popularity, Attendance of Local Renaissance Event to Benefit Shadow Ranch TRC
In 2018, the Shadow Renaissance Festival, or Shadow RenFest was inaugurated as a local fundraising event for Shadow Ranch Therapeutic Riding Center, a Hopkins County therapeutic horseback riding facility which had been in existence for almost a decade. With over 3,500 persons attending that first year, the concept of a local Renaissance Festival was definitely a hit. So in July 2019, the second annual Shadow RenFest provided an...
4 Arrested For Theft At Walmart Over Weekend
Two Hopkins County women were arrested Saturday evening at Walmart for theft, including one whose charge was enhanced to a felony offense due to prior convictions. A Cumby pair was also arrested at the store Sunday for theft, according to police reports. Police were dispatched to the store to a report of people causing a disturbance. Upon arrival, asset protection staff alleged the pair selected items, concealed them and passed all...
Woman Arrested After Crashing Car Through Yards, Into Tree
A 24-year-old Sulphur Springs woman was arrested Saturday night for drunk driving after allegedly driving through two yards before crashing the Chrysler 300 she was driving into a tree on College Street. Sulphur Springs police were dispatched at 11:08 p.m. July 27 to what was reported as a vehicle crash in the 1200 block of College Street. Officers located the woman, who had reportedly been driving her car east on College Street,...
