Dinner Bell Menu For April 10th, 2019
Menu: Water Oak Elementary School is the Community Sponsor Millionaire Spaghetti (it is oh so rich!) Bacon Infused Italian Cut Green Beans Super Special Salad Garlic Buttered French Bread Assorted Scratch Cookies The students from Water Oak Elementary School will serve the cookies to the guests at Dinner Bell. Same time (11:45 a.m.). Same place (Fellowship Hall of the First United Methodist Church). Please join us and allow the...
Easter Community-Wide Bash at Como Will Offer Games, Food and Music
L. to R. Bash Committee volunteer Lisa Lutrick and organizer Como Mayor Darla Henry Como resident Darla Henry became Mayor of Como in 2017. Her first major project was to begin upgrading the Wastewater Treatment facility, which will be an ongoing project. Unopposed when her two-year term was nearing it’s end, she took the green light to continue her long-term plans and projects for improvements to the infrastructure, and add...
Over A Dozen Personnel Changes Approved For SSISD
More than a dozen personnel changes which will impact at least six campuses were approved Monday for Sulphur Springs Independent School District. Overall, SSISD Board of Trustees, following an executive session at their regular meeting Monday, accepted administrators’ recommendations for eight new hires as well as five resignations, a employee swapping campuses, and professional employment contracts for teachers, counselors,...
New Laptops For High School, A Tax Overpayment Among Items Approved By SSISD Trustees Monday
Sulphur Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees approved funding for lease of laptops to replace the aging units at high school, a tax overpayment refund, extension of the district’s depository contract, and English language arts and reading instructional materials. Laptop lease SSISD Superintendent Michael Lamb discusses with trustees during their regular April meeting options for new laptop leases for high...
Wildcat Baseball Coach Looks For Solution
WILDCATS BASEBALL SHOWS SOME IMPROVEMENT IN FRIDAY LOSS TO LINDALE Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack said he shook up things a bit Friday at Lindale seeking different results. The Wildcats did show some signs of improvement. Still they lost to Lindale, 4-1. Coach Hammack moved catcher Kaden Argenbright to shortstop, Jace Burchfield took over at catcher. Jaxon Chaney also got his first district pitching start this season. Coach...
Commissioners Court Designates April 26-27 As County Cleanup Days
Hopkins County Commissioners Court announced two days county residents can get rid of certain unwanted items from their residences. The precinct barns will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 26, and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 27, for the annual County Cleanup Days. There are a few items considered hazardous waste that will not be accepted, including tires, shingles, chemicals and liquid paint. Dried paint in cans...
Lady Cat Softball Looks Ahead
LADY CATS SOFTBALL HAS BIG WEEK OFFENSIVELY LAST WEEK On KSST Radio and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coaches Show last Saturday, Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo talked about his team’s two ten-run-rule wins last week after an offensive power outage the Friday before. Back on March 29, the Lady Cats suffered their only district loss of this season losing 3-1 at Mount Pleasant. The Lady Cats got only three...
William “Bill” Melvin Sheaffer
William “Bill” Melvin Sheaffer, age 67, of Sulphur Springs, passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler. He was born on January 18, 1952 in Charleston, SC. He spent his youth on the lakes in Minnesota with his grandparents. He loved fishing, camping, and being outdoors. He could craft almost anything from wood. Bill graduated from Sulphur Springs High School in 1970 and from Southwest Missouri...
SSHS Tennis Has Bright Future
WILDCATS TENNIS PROGRAM HAS BRIGHT FUTURE Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez was on KSST Radio and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coaches Show last Saturday. Martinez is completing his fifth season here. He said he thought he could begin to turn the program around in three years. He said it began to happen in year five. Numbers used to be a problem for Coach Martinez. Now he said he’ll have 16 or 17 boys next year...
SSHS FCCLA Students Attend State
FIFTEEN SSHS FCCLA STUDENTS ATTEND STATE MEETING Fifteen Sulphur Springs High School FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) students attended the FCCLA State Meeting last week in Dallas. SSHS FCCLA Sponsor Debbie Stribling said the state meeting got under way Wednesday and wrapped up Saturday. She said senior Zoe Wilson placed fifth in state in Career Investigation. Sophomore Jayla Glenn took the Family Career...
