Fall Decorating Contest For Sulphur Springs Businesses and Residents
Sulphur Springs Downtown Business Alliance is sponsoring a fall decorating contest for all businesses and residents within the Sulphur Springs city limits. You may enter by contacting Linda Galligher at 903-439-6713, Joy Wilson at 903-885-9966, or Billie Ruth Standbridge at 903-439-0862. The deadline to enter is October 3, 2016. Judging will begin at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 14th. A first and second place winner will be chosen for...
Yantis High Principal Now Acting Superintendent
Yantis High School Principal Jerry Brem was named Acting Superintendent during the Yantis School Board meeting Monday evening. Brem became Principal at Yantis High in July, 2015. Brem is a graduate of Sul Ross State University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology/Education and a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso with a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and Administration....
Paperwork Issues Result in County Jail Noncompliance
“It’s all in the paperwork. We are not in compliance,” lamented Hopkins County Sheriff Butch Adams Wednesday morning after reading Tuesday’s report on the inspection of Hopkins Count Jail. Adams stated the new jail building and grounds are in compliance. However, three areas in the paperwork are not in compliance. The level of noncompliance will not affect the jail house either local or out of county inmates. He stated this is not a...
Phone Call From Jail Adds to Charges
She is in jail on a $20,000 bond for a September 6th arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Penalty Group 1, more than 1-gram but less than 4-grams. However, more charges were generated when she spoke with her son by phone from the jail facility. Sharon Donice Simmons, 47, told her son in a phone call from the jail to destroy a black bag inside her residence on Wildcat Way in Sulphur Springs. Inside the bag was 3.6 grams of...
Three Arrested as Deputies Sought to Serve Warrant
Three individuals were arrested shortly after Hopkins County Deputies knocked on the door of a residence on FM 1870. Deputies went to the house in search of a wanted person. When the female resident answered the door, she stated that she had not seen the individual sought in over a week. Deputies searched the residence and found a locked door. She stated that the door should not be locked because no one was in the room. The wanted...
Lake Country Classics Car Club Makes An Appearance Downtown
Lake Country Car Club from Quitman, Texas made a stop in downtown Sulphur Springs Tuesday afternoon. The car club formerly held the largest car show in East Texas with 319 registrants in 2015. Several classics appeared on Gilmer Street while the club chatted with local car enthusiasts and made for a spontaneous, classic hometown event. If you missed the Lake County Classics, their next event is scheduled for September 29th, 2016 in...
Grand Jury Returns 53 Indictments in September
Fifty-three indictments were handed down by a Hopkins County Grand Jury on September 19, 2016. Indictments include Injury Child/Elderly/Disable with Intent Bodily Injury, Arson, Evading Arrest, and a number of drug charges. Not all names of those indicted were release. Those who have been arrested on their individual charges were released to the public. Holly Ann Allen was indicted on two counts of Injury Child/Elderly/Disable with...
4-H and FFA Validation Dates for Major and NETLA Show By Mario Villarino
4-H and FFA Validation dates for Major and NETLA show Texas is privileged to have the largest junior breeding heifer program in the nation. However, the sheer size of Texas, diversity in counties and beef breed associations has created some challenges for effectively and fairly managing the program. Because of numerous breed divisions offered, there are inconsistencies in how breed associations record purchase and transfer...
Walk to Remember Funds Terrific Tuesday
The Walk to Remember Season began Tuesday with the first of seven mini-walks leading up to the main event at The Gardens at CHRISTUS Mother Francis—Sulphur Springs Hospital on October 6 at 6 p.m. Terrific Tuesday hosted the first walk at 10 am. Tuesday, September 20th at First United Methodist Church. All proceeds from all the walks funds Terrific Tuesday. Mini-walks are set for Thursday, September 22 at 10 a.m. at Sulphur Springs...
