Food Safety and Your Refrigerator
by Johanna Hicks, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Family & Consumer Sciences Chill Out This Spring! Do you have “mystery foods” hiding in the back of your refrigerator? Have you discovered something at the very back of the bottom shelf that you didn’t know you had? As the “home” for raw and cooked foods, the refrigerator is both a useful and vital appliance that must be kept clean to reduce the risk of foodborne illness,...
Business History Month: Northeast Texas Farmers Cooperative
In 1939, Farmers Cooperative Gin Association of Sulphur Springs was founded by the State of Texas. This local agricultural cooperative was charged by its founding members/patrons to serve the predominant Cotton Industry of Hopkins County and Northeast Texas. With a governance structure of a 5-man board of directors and a 100% local ownership, the “Co-op”, as it became generically known, assisted in the evolution of...
Sulphur Bluff Beta Club Fundraiser Planned
This group of Sulphur Bluff Bears have qualified to compete this June at National Convention in four different events. A fundraiser Stew is planned for Sunday March 20 at the school from 10:30am til 1:30pm or until the stew runs out! Everyone is invited to the eat-by-donation event that will assist the group to pay expenses for the trip.
Business History Month: Tire Town
Tire Town opened in 1981 with Sam and Pam Word. Their business had the goal of providing a place where customers can purchase tires at the best value available in Sulphur Springs. Four years later in 1985, Mike Gilmer, the current owner of Tire Town, joined the company and ran the retail portion of the business while Sam ran the wholesale business. With the two working together, the business quickly expanded beyond the City Limits....
Carter Blood Care Drive At SSHS Friday
Carter Blood Care held a blood drive at Sulphur Springs High School on Friday, March 11, 2016. Students and teachers that chose to gave blood participated from 8 a.m. until around 2:30 p.m.. Students had to be 16 with parental consent or 17 years of age and picture ID was to be provided. DSC_0647 DSC_0649 DSC_0652 DSC_0653 DSC_0655 DSC_0660...
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...
Sulphur Bluff Basketball All-District Awardees
All-District Basketball Award recipients: BOYS L – R Isaac Foley Honorable Mention, Turner South Honorable Mention, Jaden Goldsmith 2nd Team, Thomas Coberly Honorable Mention, Cody Vance Honorable Mention, Joe Forshee 2nd Team, Brennon Moore 1st Team. GIRLS All-District Award recipients: L – R Tori Dorner Honorable Mention, Skylar Evans 2nd Team, Kaitlyn White 1st Team, Makenna Morgan 2nd Team, Kiersten Brown...
Business History Month: Shoe Inn Etc.
The Shoe Inn began exactly where it is now: The Windsor Plaza. The Shoe Inn first opened it’s doors in February of 1986 as one of the first businesses in the plaza, offering the best location to be had in Sulphur Springs at that time. “Everything was new in our shopping center,” Owens said. “That created a lot of curiosity for people, and people just came to check us out and they’re still with us.”...
