Like It or Not, Daylight Savings Time Begins Sunday, March 13
For some, it is the day most dreaded. No, not April 15 and the deadline for income tax returns, this one is even worse. It’s Daylight Savings Time and it begins Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2 a.m. It is officially the hour in which time will “spring forward” and without proper planning you will lose an hour of sleep. Why Daylight Savings Time? The original answer was to save energy costs and to have more daylight for activities during...
Weatherization Program Available to Qualified Residents
The Weatherization Program returns to Sulphur Springs this year and th Ark-Tex Council of Governments seeks to add to the number of homes that will become more energy efficient and provide utility cost savings to the resident. According to Sulphur Springs Mayor Kayla Price, 17 homes were weatherized last year. That number has changed in the past four months. This year, the goal for the program is 50 homes and according to Hank Byrd...
Tira News
By Jan Vaughn Jackson Dailey spent the weekend in College Station at the Student Government Association’s (SGA) conference for all the Texas A&M branches. Jackson will be ending his term as SGA president for the A&M system, as well as the president of the TAMU-C branch, as he will graduate in May. Morgan Joslin flew to Smithville, just south of Bastrop, with another Civil Air Patrol (CAP) cadet, Joe Korona, on the weekend of...
Miller Grove News
By Brandon Darrow This week Kevin and Michelle Tipps welcomed their son, Jacob Floyd-Scott Tipps, into this world Saturday, March 5. He was born at 5:38 am and weighed 5 lbs, 11 oz, and was 18 inches long. After a stay in Children’s Medical City of Dallas, from all reports baby, parents, and sister Rebecca are all doing well. Grandparents with Miller Grove connections are Stevie & Cheri Tipps; great-grandparents Faye and the...
Business History Month: IdziBitsy Bakery
IdziBitsy Bakery is a hometown, “Hopkins County owned, Hopkins County grown” custom bakery in downtown Sulphur Springs, Texas owned by Michelle Idzi. Michelle Idzi’s great great uncle owned a bakery in Louisiana and when he decided to retire in the early 1980s, her grandmother then bought the business deeming her grandmother a second generation baker. While Michelle’s mom was in school full-time her youngest...
South Sulphur River Flood Warning Continues Through Friday Morning
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a Flood Warning until Friday morning or until the warning is cancelled for the South Sulphur River affecting Delta and Hopkins Counties. At 3:15 p.m. Thursday, the river stage was at 16.76 feet. Flood stage is 16 feet. A few rural roads will begin to flood when the stage is over 16 feet. Farm and ranch land adjacent to the river will also flood. Minor flooding is occurring and is...
Hearts of Life Presents Diego for Adoption
Wednesday afternoon, Hearts of Life Animal Shelter gave Diego a quick trip to KSST Channel 18 Studios so that he could be presented to the community for adoption. Diego has had surgery to repair his...
Lady Cats Delay District Game Until Monday
Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo said Thursday that the Marshall district game originally planned for Lady Cat Park will now be played Monday afternoon in Marshall. A JV game is set for 1 p.m. with the Varsity game to follow at 2:30 p.m. Both schools have spring break next week. Coach Carrillo said Marshall’s field is currently covered with a tarp. He said if rain ended over the weekend, it wouldn’t have the field...
Wildcats Open Season at Texas High Tuesday; No Tourney Due to Rain
For the second year in a row, the Texarkana baseball tournament has been rained out but things look different to Wildcats Coach Jerrod Hammack this year. Last year he had a senior-laden team that started district play off strongly despite losing the tournament games. This year’s team has only one returning starter and is loaded with underclassmen. Coach Hammack said he still had decisions to make and he could have used four more...
