Ellie Sue Walton
Funeral services for Ellie Sue Walton, infant daughter of Jason and Stefany Walton, of Cumby, will be held at 2:00 p.m., on Friday, June 7, 2019 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. David Burns officiating. Interment will follow at Sunny Point Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service time at 1:00 p.m., at West Oaks Funeral Home. Ellie passed away on June 2, 2019. She was born on March 9, 2019. In addition to...
Welding Shop At The PJC Sulphur Springs Campus
PJC SSpgs Weld DemonstrationParis Junior College Sulphur Springs Center welding shop instructor John Plemons, left, demonstrates an effective metal cutting process to structural welding students, from left, Brennon Newell, Colten Nolan and Jonathan Johnson. Paris Junior College — located in Paris, Texas, about 100 miles northeast of Dallas — has been a part of the Lamar County community since 1924. Paris Junior...
Paris Junior College Offering Dental Assistant Course
The Paris Junior College Workforce and Continuing Education Department is offering a Dental Assistant program that will be offered on the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center campus. Registration is now open for the course that will be taught from August 27 to November 26 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 6 to 9 p.m. To learn more about the program call 903-885-1232 or go by...
Nuisance Abatement Act, TCEQ Contract Approved by Commissioners Court; Update Given on NET Data
Hopkins County Commissioners Court during their regular session Monday renewed a Nuisance Abatement Act and a contract with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Commissioners also heard an update from company officials regarding i3 Vertical’s acquisition of NET Data. Citizen Comments Dave Graves updates Hopkins County Commissioners Court about NET Data following the company’s acquisition by i3 Verticals. During the...
June 9 Mahoney Homecoming is 70th Annual Event
Jerry Voss, native of Mahoney, Texas Jerry Voss is a third-generation farming landowner in the Mahoney community of Hopkins County, and a member of the Mahoney Cemetery Association. He recounted a bit of history during a KSST Good Morning Show interview on Friday May 31, 2019. “The rural area became a community after Colonel Mahoney settled there in 1857 on ranching land. During it’s peak years, it boasted a school, two...
Wolfe City Man Jailed For Violating Terms Of Probation
Michael Wayne Putman, 45, of Wolfe City was taken into custody at 8:16 a.m. Monday at the adult probation office by Cpl. Todd Evans for violation of probation, which he was on for theft of property valued at $2,500 or more but less than $30,000. The charge is for an alleged “for report of community supervision violation,” the sheriff’s deputy wrote in Putman’s arrest report. According to jail reports, Putman is...
Failed Cooper Bank Could Cost FDIC Over $27 Million Dollars
Late Friday regulators closed the Enloe State Bank in Cooper, Texas. This is the first bank failure in Texas in over five years. The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) has sold the insured deposits and some of the assets of the bank to Legend Bank of Bowie, Texas. The FDIC has also stated that approximately $500,000 of the bank’s deposits exceeded the insured’s limits. Those customers who had accounts exceeding...
Deputies Find Wanted Man Hiding Behind Living Room Chair In Pickton Residence
A wanted man was found hiding behind a chair at his Pickton residence Monday afternoon. David Keith Harrison Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Baumann, aware the parole board had issued a warrant for 49-year-old David Keith Harrison, went to the man’s County Road 2400 residence. Baumann, in arrest reports, noted the property owner gave him permission to search the residence for Harrison. Harrison was found hiding...
Are You a Texas State Champion Ice Cream Maker? Enter the June 8 Contest, Enjoy Hot Air Balloons Too!
Josh Whitlock, Children’s Minister at Shannon Oaks is 2019 Contest Organizer This year’s Hopkins County Dairy Festival “ice cream” event will be hosted at Shannon Oaks Church at 5:30 pm on Saturday June 8, 2019. Besides being lots of delicious family fun, winning this contest will give you bragging rights as the Texas State Champ! From the seasoned to the beginner ice cream “chef”, you have a chance...
Reverend Billy Max Condrey
Reverend Billy Max Condrey, age 62, of Winnsboro, formerly of Mount Vernon, passed away while doing what he loved, working outside, in the late morning hours of Saturday, June 1, 2019 in Winnsboro, Texas. Billy was born on September 8, 1956 in Big Lake, Texas to Mary Ruth Raney Averrit and the late Joe Zane Condrey. Billy graduated from Mount Vernon High School. After being called to the ministry, Billy attended Southwestern Baptist...
