Texas A&M Forest Service Presents $22,000 to Texas A&M University’s Association of Former Students
December 15, 2023 – COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M Forest Service presented a check for $22,389 to the Association of Former Students today. The funds are from timber sustainably managed and sold on the John Henry Kirby Memorial State Forest. The state forest, originally known as State Forest #4, was gifted to Texas A&M Forest Service in 1929 by lumber baron John Henry Kirby. As part of the property deed, Kirby...
Wreaths Across America – Saturday, December 16th
December 15, 2023 – Wreaths Across America has their scheduled ceremonies in Hopkins County this Saturday, December 16th. See the listing below for the participating cemeteries and the ceremony times. Sulphur Springs Cemetery 11am Melhaven Cemetery 11am Restlawn Cemetery 11am Old and New Saltillo 11am Old and New Pickton 11am Mahoney Cemetery 11am Winerfield Cemetery 11am Greenview Cemetery 11am Greenpond Cemetery 11am Brashear...
Report of Reckless Driver Earns Driver Multiple Charges for Drug Possession
Braydon Dean Law December 14, 2023 – Sulphur Springs Police responded to a report of a possible reckless driver on Interstate 30 Wednesday morning just after 8 am. An officer spotted the red Hyundai as it exited at the mile marker 122 exit headed eastbound. The vehicle then pulled into the parking lot of the 7Star Travel Center. An officer making contact with the driver could smell a strong oder of marijuana coming from the...
High Speed Chase Ends in Police Department Parking Lot
December 14, 2023 – What should have been a routine traffic stop escalated into a high speed pursuit as a Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a green Kia for failing to stop at a stop sign in Como. The attempted traffic stop occurred at the intersection of West Gate Street and Haygood Street but the vehicle proceeded towards Highway 11 East failing to come to a stop. The vehicle then turned onto Highway 69...
Anonymous Donor Makes Challenge to Help Meal-A-Day Program
December 14, 2023 – Someone who wishes to remain anonymous has gotten into the Christmas spirit in a big way and they are using their checkbook. Meal-A-Day director Amanda Dietlin was contacted earlier in the month of December from a donor issuing a challenge to spur donations to the program. Dietlin reports, “This benefactor wishes to donate up to $5,000 in matching donations made by anyone in the month of...
A Year in Review 2023 by Mario Villarino
2023 Livestock and Forage Education Hopkins County Dr. Mario Villarino| County Extension Agent- Agriculture and Natural Resources RELEVANCE Livestock and forage production are a 3.96 billion dollars industry in the Central Region . Livestock and forage enterprises are affected by climate and market variability. Hopkins County currently has more than 100,000 head of cattle with 27,000 head of dairy cattle....
Charitable Gift Made to the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center
December 13th, 2023 – WINNSBORO, TX – The Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center (NETCAC) today received the largest historical charitable gift made as a beneficiary of the Help-A-Child Benefit held annually in Hopkins County in October. This year’s gift totaled $48,250, an increase of more than $11,000 over the charitable donation made in 2022, and the largest in the organization’s history. “We are deeply humbled by the...
Hopkins County Records – November/December 2023
Land Deed Transactions 11/6/23 Thru 11/6/23 Andrea Adeyanju Also Known As Andrea Faye Adeyanju to Lee Cody and Lee Kelli; Tract in the J Ybarbo Survey Aaron Denine Malone to Raymond Paul Malone; Tract in the W B Merrell Survey Purvis T Welch and Theda J Welch to PTW Ranch LLC; Tract in the Alex O Wetmore Survey Bascum Lee Chapman Jr and Joseph Chapman to Bascum Lee Chapman III and Jaqlynn Rose Chapman; Tract in the Francis Hopkins...
Cedar Fever Season Begins in Texas
December 12, 2023 – COLLEGE STATION, Texas – It’s time for Texans to brace for cedar fever season once again, complete with runny noses, itchy eyes and general misery. Cedar fever is an allergic reaction to the pollen released by mountain cedar trees, and unfortunately, you don’t have to be allergic to the pollen for it to affect you. In Texas, the predominant species of mountain cedar is Ashe juniper, making cedar fever...
Paris Junior College Offers Many Options for a New Years Resolution Such as Welding
SETTING UP Welding Lab Facilitator Karl Jansson is setting up equipment for the welding students at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center welding shop for a recent class. Lab Asst Karl Jansson weld
