Anonymous Donor Makes Challenge to Help Meal-A-Day Program
December 14, 2023 – Someone who wishes to remain anonymous has gotten into the Christmas spirit in a big way and they are using their checkbook. Meal-A-Day director Amanda Dietlin was contacted earlier in the month of December from a donor issuing a challenge to spur donations to the program. Dietlin reports, “This benefactor wishes to donate up to $5,000 in matching donations made by anyone in the month of...
A Year in Review 2023 by Mario Villarino
2023 Livestock and Forage Education Hopkins County Dr. Mario Villarino| County Extension Agent- Agriculture and Natural Resources RELEVANCE Livestock and forage production are a 3.96 billion dollars industry in the Central Region . Livestock and forage enterprises are affected by climate and market variability. Hopkins County currently has more than 100,000 head of cattle with 27,000 head of dairy cattle....
Charitable Gift Made to the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center
December 13th, 2023 – WINNSBORO, TX – The Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center (NETCAC) today received the largest historical charitable gift made as a beneficiary of the Help-A-Child Benefit held annually in Hopkins County in October. This year’s gift totaled $48,250, an increase of more than $11,000 over the charitable donation made in 2022, and the largest in the organization’s history. “We are deeply humbled by the...
Hopkins County Records – November/December 2023
Land Deed Transactions 11/6/23 Thru 11/6/23 Andrea Adeyanju Also Known As Andrea Faye Adeyanju to Lee Cody and Lee Kelli; Tract in the J Ybarbo Survey Aaron Denine Malone to Raymond Paul Malone; Tract in the W B Merrell Survey Purvis T Welch and Theda J Welch to PTW Ranch LLC; Tract in the Alex O Wetmore Survey Bascum Lee Chapman Jr and Joseph Chapman to Bascum Lee Chapman III and Jaqlynn Rose Chapman; Tract in the Francis Hopkins...
Cedar Fever Season Begins in Texas
December 12, 2023 – COLLEGE STATION, Texas – It’s time for Texans to brace for cedar fever season once again, complete with runny noses, itchy eyes and general misery. Cedar fever is an allergic reaction to the pollen released by mountain cedar trees, and unfortunately, you don’t have to be allergic to the pollen for it to affect you. In Texas, the predominant species of mountain cedar is Ashe juniper, making cedar fever...
Paris Junior College Offers Many Options for a New Years Resolution Such as Welding
SETTING UP Welding Lab Facilitator Karl Jansson is setting up equipment for the welding students at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center welding shop for a recent class. Lab Asst Karl Jansson weld
Sulphur Springs Corvette Club Donates to Meal-A-Day Program
December 12, 2023 – The Sulphur Springs Corvette Club made a substantial donation of $1000 to the local Meal-A-Day program in an effort to enhance the meals prepared by the hard working volunteer staff five days a week. Corvette Club President Tim Gee noted, “the rising cost of food has not only hampered the efforts of the Meal-A-Day volunteers to turn out the over 600 meals a week, it has also made those meals even more...
Special Rangers Lengthy Investigation Finally Pays Off With Jail Time For Lindale Man
December 12, 2023 – Former Sulphur Springs Police officer Bo Fox along with Larry Hand and Darrell Bobbitt who are all Special Rangers with the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) began an investigation of cattle theft back in December of 2021. That investigation proved to be lengthy as the three investigators were contacted by an absentee landowner in Smith County who noticed “irregularities”...
Hopkins County Accepting Applications for County Court at Law Judge
December 12, 2023 – As the current County Court at Law Judge Clay Harrison has announced he will be stepping down January 1, 2024, it will be up to the Hopkins County Commissioner’s Court to fill the vacany. Appllications are now being accepted to appoint the next person to fill that vacancy. Qualification specifics for applicants of the postition will follow the State of Texas Government Code Chapter 25: Statutory County...
Holiday Express Train Event 2023 in Pictures
December 12, 2023 – Thanks goes out to everyone who attended and donated during this holiday event. By the numbers, over 2700 attended and the Salvation Army received $564 in donations. The Hopkins County Community Chest also collected a significant amount of food for distribution. This special train makes an appearance almost every December in Sulphur Springs, TX.
