Grand Jury Issues New Indictments in June
Indictments were handed down Monday by a Hopkins County Grand Jury. Among the indictments was a need to re-indict all the cases from the last grand jury in order to fix a technical issue. Along with the re-indictment were a number of new indictments. The 41 new indictments not sealed include: Michael Lyle Gall, 29, was indicted for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. In April of this year, Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputies...
SSPD Reminder to Lock Your Vehicle
With summer comes the reminder from the Sulphur Springs Police Department to lock your vehicle and take your valuables into your residence when parking the vehicle for the night. Unlocked vehicles have produced the majority of car burglaries in recent weeks. Summer evenings are conducive to the burglary of unattended vehicles, even when they are parked in a driveway next to the house, according to Jason Ricketson, Patrol Captain for...
3 Queen’s Contestants on KSST Radio
TRIO OF DAIRY FESTIVAL CONTESTANTS LAUREN HELM, ALEXIS HOWARD AND SADIE EVANS As their busiest week of preparation got started, three young ladies competing for the title of Dairy Festival Queen appeared on the Good Morning Show with Enola Gay. Contestants # 1,2 and 3 talked about their experiences with float building, cow milking and riding in the Parade, as well as putting the final touches on their talent presentations. Sadie Evans...
Is The Bermuda Triangle Real?
The Bermuda Triangle is a large area of ocean between Florida and Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Over the past few centuries, it’s thought that dozens of ships and planes have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the area, earning it the nickname “The Devil’s Triangle.” Occurrences of such mysterious events like sudden disappearing of vessels and aircraft have left everyone puzzled. Mysterious disappearing of...
Dairy Classic Sale set for Thursday
The Dairy Classic Sale, sponsored by the Northeast Texas Livestock Association, will be held Thursday, June 16 at the 1:o p.m. at the Sulphur Springs Livestock and Dairy Auction. Funds raised from the Sale will be used to support local youth and future dairy farmers. The Sr. Dairy Show, which took place Saturday, saw Braden Lennon from Hopkins County 4-H win Grand Champion. Baylee Bowen from Como-Pickton FFA won Reserve Grand...
PJC Presents Awards at LVN, AS in Nursing Ceremonies
Paris Junior College vocational and associate degree nursing students received awards during pinning ceremonies held at the end of the spring semester. Louisa Kessel, St. Joseph’s Community Foundation Executive Director, congratulated the pinning candidates and presented them with a rose at both ceremonies for PJC’s surgical technology, medical records coding and vocational nursing programs held that day. In the vocational...
The Edge Conditioning Program Welcomses 230 Athletes for First Day
Wildcats Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens said 230 athletes turned out for the first day of The Edge conditioning program in the Multipurpose Building Monday morning. He said there were 125 high school boys, 30 high school girls and 75 middle school boys and girls. Coaches had no trouble putting the athletes through drills, exercise and weight lifting indoors while rain fell outside. Coach Owens called the turnout...
My First Cruise!
This summer started off right with a week-long Liberty Of The Seas Cruise! I was really excited to see in person how big the ship was. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole way to the ship, just waiting to see how huge and luxurious it really was. I was able to scope out the ship at least two miles away it was so huge. When we walked up to the ship my jaw dropped and I had a gigantic smile on my face. I never knew that a ship...
