Sulphur Springs High School Kicks Off CTE Month With Proclamation From Mayor
Sulphur Springs High School began the month-long celebration of career and technical education programs with a proclamation delivered by Sulphur Springs Mayor John Sellers designating February as Career and Technical Education Month in the city. SSHS staff and students join schools from across the country in the observance of CTE Month. Sulphur Springs Mayor John Sellers Students from several of the school’s CTE classes joined...
Free Tax Preparation Offered at Wesley UMC
Trained volunteer tax preparers are ready to assist you this tax season. Bring the suggested documents with you when you come in! It is completely free of charge. You don’t have to be a Senior Citizen to use this free service!
UPDATE: TAMUC Campus Locked Down lifted
The precautionary shelter in place recommendations for Texas A&M University Commerce have been lifted, the school reports on their website. However, due to the ongoing investigation of three gunshot victims at Pride Rock Hall, the surrounding areas were still blocked off at 1:45 p.m., however. The Rayburn Student Center was made available for students who may be displaced by the ongoing investigation, the reported. Counselors are...
Seniors Center Becomes a Driving Classroom 2x Year
Several Seniors took advantage of the Affiliated Driving Class at the Senior Citizens Center on Thursday, January 3Oth, 2020. This class can give you a 10% Discount off of your Liability Insurance for 3 years. The Senior Citizens Center offers the class a couple of times a year. The class is also good for a Ticket Dismissal.
Cocaine, Methamphetamine Allegedly Found During Sulphur Springs Traffic Stop
A 39-year-old Sulphur Springs man and 37-year-old Alba man were reportedly arrested after cocaine and methamphetamine were found during a routine traffic stop at 6:05 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, on Putman Street, according to sheriff’s reports. Constantino Santiago-Perez Both the driver, Constantino Santiago-Perez of Alba, and passenger, Gerardo Berrones-Gamez of Sulphur Springs, were reported to show signs of nervousness, which...
Earl Nichols
Funeral service for Earl Nichols, age 85, of Como will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Bro. William Nathan Gaddis officiating and Mother Barbara Kelton officiating. Interment will follow at Union Cemetery with Bryan Nichols, Bo Dunlap,Richard Taylor, Mark Friddle, Brandon Woodard and Henry “Buck” Nichols serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 P.M. Tuesday...
Ruling On Deaths of Couple Found In Their SH 19 Home Friday Still Pending
The investigation into the deaths of Joe Dan and Melinda Edmonson is ongoing. The official ruling regarding the deaths of the pair found in their State Highway 19 home Friday evening with apparent gunshot wounds is still pending results of the initial autopsy, which officials were still waiting to receive Monday morning, according to Hopkins County Sheriff Lewis Tatum. Emergency officials were told at 6:27 p.m. Jan. 31 that the woman...
Teen Allegedly Caught With Ecstasy During Traffic Stop
A Hillcrest Drive traffic stop Saturday night resulted in location of marijuana and two baggies containing suspected Ecstasy in a vehicle, and one arrest, according to arrest reports. Dylan Cole Anderson Sulphur Springs Police Sgt. Joe Scott reported the passenger in the vehicle, stopped at 8:22 p.m. Feb. 1 because half of the license plate wasn’t visable due to the light being out, appeared “extremely nervous.”...
Dr. Lavelle Hendricks Honored at Appreciation Service at East Caney BC
Dr. Lavelle Hendricks has pastored East Caney Missionary Baptist Church for 30 years. In addition to that milestone, it was 30 years ago that he also founded a celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Hopkins County. It is for his love, courage, servanthood and commitment that he was honored in a special service on Sunday February 2, 2020. Pastor Hendricks was ushered into the sanctuary to the applause of 100 friends...
