SSES Students, Staff Explain Use, Impact Of Capturing Kids Hearts On Campus
Sulphur Springs Elementary students and staff Monday night demonstrated and explained to the school board the positive impact teachers’ training in and implementing of Capturing Kids Hearts program is having on that campus. Sulphur Springs Elementary School students and staff demonstrate how they begin their days, with positive greetings. Teachers Megan Wiggins and Whitney Vaughan asked the school board members and staff to...
First 2019 ‘Mini Walk’ Held Tuesday at Terrific Tuesdays
Director Tammy Reardon brings out the costumes for the Mini-Walk Where’s a better place to start? The annual fundraising campaign for the Terrific Tuesdays respite program began at today’s regular session. Participants and their ‘buddies’ gathered in the Family Life/Gym at First Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs to set the pattern for eight more walks during the month of September. The campaign will culminate...
North East Texas Children’s Museum Makes A Move!
Northeast Texas Childrens Museum Director Sharline Garrison Freeman Sharline Garrison Freeman, Director at the North East Texas Children’s Museum in Commerce for the past decade has strong Sulphur Springs ties and visited KSST to inform Good Morning Show listeners about the Museum’s move in the near future. “In just 13 days, we will close the present location’s seventeen-year home, just across from Texas A and...
Pay Increase Approved For Election Workers
Training Planned Sept. 23 For All Interested In Serving As Election Workers; Even Students Are Eligible Election workers will receive an additional $2 per hour this year in Hopkins County. Hopkins County Commissioners Court approved County Clerk Tracy Smith’s request that the pay for election workers be raised from $10 to $12 an hour this year. This matches a state change which raised the rate from $8 to $12 an hour for election...
Job Burnout: What is Going on?
Johanna Hicks, By Johanna Hicks, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Family & Community Health Agent We have probably all experienced job burnout at one time or another. Sometimes all it takes is time away from the workplace to refresh and rejuvenate. Job burnout is a special type of work-related stress — a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment, according to the Mayo Clinic....
2 Dallas Area Women Arrested In Sulphur Springs On Marijuana Charge
Two Dallas area women were arrested Saturday night in Sulphur Springs for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Sulphur Springs police reported stopping a Chevrolet Cobalt around 9:30 p.m. Sept. 7 on Oak Avenue at Hinnant Street for an equipment violation. On contact with the 25-year-old DeSoto woman driving and the 25-year-old Lewisville passenger, the officer alleged he could smell a marijuana odor emitting from the car. A search of the...
4th Annual “Fruit of the Spirit Awards Banquet” Brings Cowboys’ Everson Walls to Town as Speaker
Pastor C.J. Duffey of Colorblind Ministries invites the community to be present as nominees are honored during the Fruit of the Spirit Awards and Banquet set for Saturday September 14, 2019 at 3pm in the Sulphur Springs High School Cafeteria, 1200 Connally Street. Nominees in nine categories of public service and ministry in Hopkins County were compiled during 2019, and recipients were selected for recognition. The event will also...
Sam Tatum Family, Friends Celebrate his 80th Birthday
Sam Tatum (left) with brother Dub Tatum of Holdenville, Oklahoma during the 80th birthday observance with family and friends Sammy Lewis Lee Tatum was born in September 1939 in Chitra, Oklahoma, the second among five siblings. His 80th birthday was observed at Sulphur Springs City Hall on Sunday September 8, 2019 with pulled pork sandwiches and picnic sides served buffet-style to the many dozen friends who came to wish him well....
At Least 5 Arrested Over Weekend On DWI Charges
At least five people were booked into the county jail over the weekend on driving while intoxicated charges, including one man accused of felony DWI, one who ran into a ditch and two on warrants. Joe Daniel Adams Joe Daniel Adams, 33, of Marshal was arrested at 7:53 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 30 by troopers for a third or more driving while intoxicated offense. Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers Chris Sorley and Rebekah...
