Softball Uses Big 5th Inning to Win Game 1 of Bi-District, 3-0
Lady Cats softball capitalized on a few timely hits to win game one of the Bi-District series with Whitehouse, 3-0. Coach David Carrillo’s team scored three runs off four hits in the 5th inning. Parris Pickett led off the bottom frame of the inning with a single. Followed immediately by a single from Kinz Smallwood, and an error allowing Nicole Higgins to reach base, and Sulphur Springs loaded the bases with no outs. C Anahi...
Sulphur Springs Man, Woman Jailed On Felony Warrants
A Sulphur Springs man and woman were jailed Tuesday on felony warrants, according to arrest reports. Christopher Scott Brown (HCSO jail photo) Christopher Scott Brown turned himself in to authorities at Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office at 11:30 a.m. April 26, 2022, on warrants. Deputy Aaron Chaney contacted the man and, after dispatchers confirmed he was indeed wanted for bond revocation on two charges, placed the 43-year-old...
SSHS Blue Blazes Spring Show, Blue & Gold Review, Will Be April 29-30
The Sulphur Springs High School Blue Blazes will perform the annual Spring Show at 7 p.m. nightly, Friday and Saturday, April 29-30, in the SSHS Auditorium. “We are having our Blue And Gold Review, as it was called in the past. We are bringing history back. We are repeating the last 60 years of the Blazes or as it was called then, the Blue And Gold Review. It’s our spring show that we do every single year,” said...
Hopkins-Rains Retired School Personnel Program Will Be About “Dolly Parton Imagination Library”
Hopkins-Rains Retired School Personnel will meet Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 10 a.m. at The ROC, 115 Putman St., Sulphur Springs. All retired school employees in the area are invited and encouraged to attend. Lyn Baldwin will present a program on “Dolly Parton Imagination Library Comes to Rains County!” Lyn Baldwin to present “Dolly Parton Imagination Library Comes to Rains County” during May 10, 2022,...
SSHS Principal Derek Driver Named Finalist For Position In Celina
After serving seven years as principal at Sulphur Springs High School, Derek Driver will soon be taking on the challenge of leading at high school in a district he’s told is the fastest growing district in the United States. Principal Derek Driver plans to leave SSHS to lead another school. He will remain at SSHS to see this group of seniors graduate, and complete the school year. His contract at Celina doesn’t begin until...
Lady Cats Softball Opens Postseason at Home on Wednesday Gameday
Coach David Carrillo’s squad begins their postseason on Wednesday, Apr. 27 hosting Whitehouse for game one of Bi-District. The best of three series has Sulphur Springs hosting games one and three, traveling to Whitehouse Friday for game two. Softball hopes for an even better run than last year, one which saw Sulphur Springs make it to the fourth round for the first time in Coach Carrillo’s tenure as softball coach for the...
Health Care Foundation 2022 Gala Meets Goal To Help Fund Purchase Of 4D Video Sonogram, Beds
The 2022 Hopkins County Health Care Foundation Gala not only provided an evening of fun and fine dining, but also raised the targeted goal to help purchase a 4D video sonogram machine and five state-of-the-art labor and delivery beds for CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, according to Shannon Barker, executive director, Hopkins County Healthcare Foundation. Barker offers a huge thank you to all the sponsors, donors, attendees and...
Wildcats Baseball Falls to Hallsville on Senior Night
Senior Night did not go as planned for Wildcats baseball. Hallsville cruised past Sulphur Springs 14-1 on Tuesday, Apr. 26. Coach Jerrod Hammack’s squad fell behind early to the Bobcats and could not recover, coughing up eight runs through the first two innings. Hallsville tacked on two more through the next two innings to lead big over Sulphur Springs 10-0. Another big inning in the 5th saw the Bobcats pour on four more. The...
CPHS Student Kara Tifft Named Junior Intern For Texas FFA Foundation Summer Leadership Team
Como-Pickton High School FFA Chapter Vice President Kara Tifft has been named a junior intern for the Texas FFA Foundation Leadership Team. Tifft and Texas A&M University students Nathan Barrett, who will be a senior intern, will assist the foundation’s leadership team in executing programs, activities, and providing service to Texas FFA members, advisors, sponsors, special guests and other stakeholders during the annual FFA...
Spring Brings Fresh Garden Produce
By Johanna Hicks, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Family & Community Health Agent, Hopkins County, [email protected] So Easy To Preserve, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service publication Many home gardens have been planted and questions have been received by our office on preserving the harvest. A great resource for home food preservation comes from my colleagues at the University of Georgia Cooperative...
