Alliance Bank Announces Jason Thompson as Hopkins County Market President
February 20, 2025 – Alliance Bank proudly announces that Jason Thompson is the new Hopkins County Market President. Jason Thompson has been a vital part of Alliance Bank for almost 30 years now. Jason is from Sulphur Springs, Texas, and earned a double major in Agricultural Business and Economics Finance from East Texas State University while working at Alliance Bank. Jason Thompson serves on the board of the Northeast Texas...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, February 16, 2025
Hey friends!! I heard an analogy and it struck me so deeply. I want to share it with you all today. He was telling a story of a man who came across a mason who was chipping away at a brick. The building he was working on looked nearly complete. So the man walking by asked him what he was doing. He mason said, “do you see that spot way up there where there is a small opening? I am chipping away at this brick...
Paris Junior College Expands Community Input Opportunities
February 14, 2025 – Paris Junior College is committed to serving our community and is holding listening sessions to gather input on what that community thinks the College should be doing in the near future. In addition to two in-person listening sessions coming up Feb. 18 and 19, PJC has added two online sessions on Feb. 25 and 26. Full details are listed below: • Tuesday, February 18, 7:00 p.m., PJC – Sulphur...
CHRISTUS Heart Month Focus: Importance of Cardiac Rehab for Patients
February 10, 2025 – (EAST TEXAS) – February is American Heart Month, and CHRISTUS Health is focused on all matters of the heart, including the importance of cardiac rehabilitation following a cardiac eventor surgery, what it entails and how it benefits patients. People who participate in a 36-week rehab program have a 47% lower risk of death and 31%lower risk of heart attack than those who attend only one session, according One...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, February 9, 2025
Right now you might find yourself stuck between what if, what might, what could have, what never will. Friend, I just want to encourage you to just focus on what is. And let the Father lead you from here. All that kind of thinking, clouds our Vision and doesn’t allow for peace to settle in. It’s funny, life just has a way of continuing. Of moving forward. Even when our lives feel like they have fallen completely apart. And...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, February 2, 2025
Hey friends, do you ever feel like you’ve completely messed up and have destroyed Gods plan for your life? Let me speak to that spot. Let me remind you that God chose you in Christ to be holy and made right long before he even created the world! Let’s just talk about David the Shepherd Boy. Friends, it just hit me. It hit me that as Samuel was anointing David, the young Shepherd Boy, with oil to be...
Thank You Hopkins County for Helping the United Way Exceed Their Goal for 2024-2025
January 27, 2025 – Hopkins County United Way Executive Security Susan Berning contacted KSST with the following exciting news… ” It is with great excitement that I share with you our 2024-2025 Campaign year-end pledge total was $177,269.34. The 2024-2025 Campaign pledge total at our last report meeting on Nov. 6, 2024, was $160,121.77. We look forward to fully funding, as budgeted, the eighteen organizations this...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, January 26, 2025
Hey friends!! I just wanted to encourage those who are maybe going through some stuff. I just want to remind you that we learn the sufficiency of Gods grace through the times we need it most. The times we feel like we have failed or are failing. The times we are weak and broken. We learn in our INSUFFICIENCY that His grace is SUFFICIENT. The only way to get through the difficulties is to go through...
A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, January 19, 2025
Hey friends!!! Just a reminder!! Love you all and you ARE LOVED BY A MIGHTY GOD!! The God who sees you!! I felt like the Lord wanted some of you to know that He sees you! Right there in that situation you are in! Maybe you’re overwhelmed or maybe lonely or just feel like nobody truly sees you! No matter where you are or what you are feeling, God sees you...
Great Value Chicken Broth Sold at Walmart Recalled in 9 States Including Texas
January 14, 2025 – Around 2,000 cases of chicken broth sold at Walmart have been recalled due to a packaging issue that could lead to product spoilage, a Walmart spokesperson confirmed to the media. The Food and Drug Administration reports that the family-sized, 48-ounce cartons of Great Value Chicken Broth, are sold in aseptic paper cartons that could “compromise the sterility of the product, resulting in spoilage.” The...
