Wildcat Football Welcomes Freshmen August 6th
Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens said football season began for some incoming ninth grade players this past Tuesday (July 31). Those incoming freshmen just completed a three-day camp designed just for them. Next week, the freshmen get to start football practice one week ahead of incoming sophomores, juniors and senior players. Coach Owens said the UIL is allowing schools that had spring football to bring in their incoming ninth...
Wildcat Basketball Shooting Guard Willis Receives Scholarship Offer from St. Edward’s University
Another member of the Wildcats’ basketball team has received a scholarship offer. Wednesday (August 1), St. Edward’s University, a private school in Austin, made an offer to Wildcats 6-foot-3 shooting guard Keaston Willis. Willis, an incoming senior, will be playing his fourth year on the varsity this season. In a recent interview, Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta said Drake, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin have...
Local Man Dies in Vehicle/Pedestrian Accident
A 41-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle at approximately 3 a.m. Thursday morning on East Shannon Road near College Street. Sulphur Springs Police are investigating the accident that led to the death of Kevin Wayne Plunkett of Sulphur Springs. Both Plunkett and the vehicle were headed east bound on Shannon Road. The driver of the vehicle did stop to render aide at the time of the accident. No other information was made...
Sulphur Springs Business Parks Experience Flurry of Activity
Sulphur Springs industrial parks are experiencing a flurry of activity as buildings are going up to house new industry locally. Load Trail, known world-wide for the manufacture of trailers and dump trailers, is about 120 days from opening their 160,000 square foot building in Heritage Business Park in Sulphur Springs. The $7.8-million building will house $10-million in equipment. The company sought no tax abatement. Roger Feagley,...
Tumbleweed Smith’s “Sounds of Texas” Radio Program Celebrates 50 Years
Tumbleweed Smith’s “Sounds of Texas” radio show is observing it’s 50th year on the air. It is syndicated across the state of Texas. KSST 1230 AM in Sulphur Springs joined the syndicate early on. Now with 13,000 archived programs, the first broadcast aired on August 1, 1969 in Big Spring, Texas, Tumbleweed’s hometown, where he was News Director at the radio station there. In a couple of months, he had...
Hearts of Life Animal Rescue Presents Sassy for Adoption
Sassy is still searching for her forever home! Sassy is ironically quite the opposite of her name. She is very shy at first, but once she gets to know you, she’s very eager to please you. She’s very quite, but she loves to play with her best friend and bonded mate Will! (They compliment each other very well and they need to be adopted together) Her adoption fee is $100.00 which includes all previous vetting, shots,...
Chamber Connection August 2, 2018
Tonight, is the night! The Chamber is hosting The Chamber Showcase, a night of networking that features Chamber members in Hopkins County, on Thursday, August 2nd at the Sulphur Springs Country Club from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. We are sold out of booths, but we encourage you attend the event for $10 and enjoy the opportunity to do it all in one night… just imagine food show + exhibit hall + speed networking! This will be a huge...
Lady Cat Volleyball Begins Two-A-Day Practice
The Lady Cats’ volleyball team began practice for this season with a two-a-day session Wednesday (August 1) in the Middle School Gym. The Lady Cats had a conditioning session from 8 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. and then a session on volleyball skills from 10 a.m. until noon. Head Volleyball Coach Justin Maness is in his third year. He said the Lady Cats had a team camp conducted by a coach outside the Lady Cats coaching staff Monday and...
Wildcat Football Season Ticket Sales Are Brisk
A Wildcat football season ticket holder showed up at Sulphur Springs High School at 1 a.m. Wednesday (August 1) hoping to be the first in line to get an upgrade. He was surprised to see a fan who arrived at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to start the line. Both went away happy. Season Ticket Coordinator Lynette King said there were about 25 people in line when doors were opened Wednesday. She said everybody got what they wanted. As of 11 a.m....
