SS Public Library Summer Reading Program
The Sulphur Springs Public Library Summer Reading Program is coming up soon. Sulphur Springs Public Library Director, Hope Cain, says ” We look forward to summer every year and are pleased to be so well received. ” Please see the details about the 2019 Summer Reading Program below. Sulphur Springs Public Library Summer Reading Program 2019 Sulphur Springs Public Library Summer Reading Program 2019...
Kamber Hill, Ethan White Recognized As Saltillo’s Top 8th Graders
Kamber Hill Kamber Hill and Ethan White have been recognized as the top eighth graders at Saltillo ISD. Hill has earned the valedictorian honors with a 97.6 grade point average. She said her favorite subjects in school are math, science and writing. Hill competed in academic UIL, earning third place in oral reading in sixth grade and placed sixth in science in eighth grade. She was active in the Junior FFA. She includes among her...
Tira News for May 22, 2019
By Jan Vaughn The regular quarterly meeting of the Tira City Council is scheduled for Monday, June 3, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. The public is always welcome and encouraged to attend. Rick and Judy Petty were in College Station on May 11 th for Tyler Petty’s graduation from Texas A&M. His fiancée Caitlin Vally also graduated. On May 18 th they were in Cedar Park, Texas to attend Tyler and Caitlin’s wedding. Tyler is their grandson. His...
Sienna Collins, Lindsay Butler Named Saltillo High School Valedictorian, Salutatorian
Sienna Collins and Linday Butler were announced Tuesday night as Saltillo High School’s top seniors. Sienna Collins Collins, daughter of Mike and Debbie Collins, earned valedictorian honors with a 3.75 grade point average. She has been active in academic UIL, athletics and extracurricular activities while attending Saltillo High School. In academic UIL, Collins was the district runner-up and a regional qualifier in literary...
Saltillo High School’s Senior Class Awards, Recognition
May 22, 2019 – Academic and Sports achievements, graduating Seniors, top students, outstanding teachers and retiring staff were recognized during the Scholarship Banquet held in the Saltillo ISD Cafeteria on Tuesday May 21, 2019. Following a welcome from Superintendent David Stickles, coaches, teachers and sponsors took their turns in honoring individuals and groups of students. The twelve graduating seniors will cross the stage...
Meet Author Majel Redick, Contestant for Ms. Hopkins County Senior
Originally from Oklahoma, Majel Redick and her husband Roger have been residents of Sulphur Springs for many years. Having participated in the pageant previously, she returns this year. MAJEL REDICK Asked how she got the given name ‘Majel’, she replied that she was named for a Sioux woman who was a neighbor of her family. She was raised in Ripley, Oklahoma along the Cimarron River. One or two of her characters in her novels “Whimsy”...
Rickey Ray Morton
Funeral service for Rickey Ray Morton, age 60, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, May 24, 2019 at West Oaks Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Reilly Springs Cemetery with Joe Swinson, John McDonald, Steve Crawford, Morgan Anderson, Roy King, Glen Mattison, Leon Edwards, and Cameron Fatland serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, May 23, 2019 at West Oaks Funeral Home....
SCU: Wanted Man Spotted Walking Down Street
Jordan Lee Chaney While off-duty, Sulphur Springs Special Crimes Unit Detective Joe Scott reported seeing 23-year-old Jordan Lee Chaney of Sulphur Springs walking on Parkins Street. Scott, in arrest reports, said he recognized the man from an investigation he’d conducted and subsequently obtained a warrant for the man’s arrest on manufacture or delivery of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance. Scott...
Woman Arrested After Allegedly Swallowing Glass Container of Suspected THC
A Nevada, Texas woman was arrested after allegedly swallowing what was believed to be a small glass vial containing THC. Andrea Lynn Chapman Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Chaney stopped a Toyota Tundra at 9:27 p.m. Tuesday for an equipment violation. He contacted the driver, identified in arrest reports as 40-year-old Andrea Lynn Chapman, Chaney asked her if she had any criminal history. She reportedly admitted to being...
Police Investigating Early Morning Residential Robbery
Sulphur Springs Police are investigating a report of an early morning robbery at a Lee Street domicile. No one was hurt but a weapon was displayed and property stolen, according to Sulphur Springs Police Sgt. Detective Jason Reneau. Shortly before 3 a.m, two men allegedly kicked in the door of a storage building, located behind a house in the 600 block of Lee Street, that contained an apartment inside of it shortly before 3 a.m. Two...
