Beef Tips (From Beef Cattle Short Course in TAMU) By Mario Villarino
This week I got the chance of attend and participate at the TAMU Beef Short Course in College Station. This year, the program attracted more than 2200 attendees and must of the session I participate were very well attended. The major topics that attracted my interest were on the Animal Health track. For those who have not attended this yearly event, the set-up of the lectures is divided in topics of interest, and the sessions are...
Small Changes Can Have Big Lifetime Results By Johanna Hicks
Small Changes Can Have Big Lifetime Results During my recent Texas Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences state conference in Round Rock, our opening session speaker provided some great information that we, as Extension Family & Consumer Sciences agents, have been teaching. It’s always good to know that the same messages are being shared across the state. Roberta Anding, clinical and sports dietitian for Baylor...
Video Interview: A Shining Star: Amanda Thompson Brandenburg
Amanda Thompson Brandenburg admits she was bitten by the theater bug early in life, during a First Baptist Church children’s play where she sang publicly for the first time. During her growing-up years in Sulphur Springs, she was onstage as often as she could be in school productions, children’s summer workshops and local community theater. In college and away from home, she stayed close to her roots and in recent years...
Celebrity Movie Calendar Fundraiser Features Local Talent to Help Sr’s Center
Karon Weatherman displays the first copy of the Hopkins County Senior Celebrity Movie Calendar. This fundraising calendar was the idea of one of the seniors who attends the Center’s activities. It was created to help fund a new, larger Senior Citizen’s Center in Sulphur Springs. The full-color 24-month calendar for 2018/2019 includes twenty-four movie poster photos featuring local senior citizens you may know. Cost is $20...
Chamber Connection August 10,2017
I’m so excited about the upcoming 2nd Annual Chamber of Commerce Photography Contest! Let me review the basics. Anyone of any age can enter as we have a children’s category. The picture must be newer than January 1, 2015, and must have been taken in Hopkins County. The contest will be open from August 1st to August 31st. There are seven categories you may enter: Natural World, Travel, People, The Hopkins County Experience, Altered...
Former Escapee Ebey Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison in Plea Bargain Agreement
Barney Dwayne Ebey has been sentenced to 50 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice following a plea bargain agreement in Eighth Judicial District Court Thursday. Ebey had escaped from a work group at Hopkins County Civic Center in June of this year. Ebey was in court for a pretrial hearing for Engage in Organizied Criminal Activity, a Felony 2. Ebey escaped from a work group at Hopkins County Civic Center last week. He was...
A Sneak Peek at the New AMBUS
By Savannah Owens Brent Smith , EMS Director, and Jeff Sanderson, EMS team member, took KSST on a private tour of their new AMBUS, and KSST is sharing that with you! “The bus is owned by the state. There are 13 of them allocated to each location by the State.” Sanderson expressed excitement at this big honor. The bus can be used in any disaster-type situation such as “hurricane deployments, and the human trafficking...
Sulphur Springs Man Arrest for Burglary Leads to Narcotics Discovery
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigators and deputies served a search warrant for Burglary of a Building but found more than just items taken in the burglary that occurred on Highway 11W. The result of the search led to the arrested of Daren Lee Gibson, 48, of Sulphur Springs. Having obtained a search warrant for items taken in the property, Hopkins County Investigators and Deputies searched the Gibson residence off Bill Bradford Road...
