Powerlifters Prepare for Upcoming Season
Wildcats’ powerlifting team members were working to get ready for their season Wednesday morning in the Multipurpose Building weight room. Wildcats Powerlifting Coach Casey Jeter said a good group turned out. He said lifters also showed up last Wednesday and Friday during the holiday break. Coach Jeter said this year’s Wildcats’ powerlifting team is a pretty young group. He said he graduated three of his big boys...
Marvin Ray Stubbs
Funeral Services for Marvin Ray Stubbs, age 93, of Sulphur Springs, formerly of Huntsville will be held at 2 p.m. on January 4, 2019, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Bailey officiating. Interment will follow at North Hopkins Cemetery with Bryan Moore, Blake Moore, Lance Pierce, Logan Pierce, Jonathan McGraw, and Preston Norris serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Mr. Stubbs passed...
Dorothy Maxine Bailey Willis
Dorothy Maxine Bailey Willis, age 85, passed away peacefully on December 31, 2018, surrounded by her loving family. Born on April 5, 1933, in Wise County, Texas, to Denton S. and Mary Opal Mosier Bailey, Maxine’s life was filled with love for the Lord, her family, her church, and her many friends. Preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Melton Lee Bailey, and her grandson, John Willis, Maxine is survived by her husband of...
Fort Worth Couple Arrested For Como Store Break In Wednesday
January 2, 2019 – Hopkins County Sheriff Lewis Tatum says he does not like thieves so he was pleased when a Fort Worth man and a woman were arrested shortly after a Como convenience store was burglarized early Wednesday morning. CARTER, HEVELYN Sheriff Tatum says it was the second time the store was targeted recently. He says after the first break in on December 28, deputies have been on the alert in the area. Sheriff Tatum says...
Ineta Noel
Ineta Noel, 89, of Mt. Vernon, TX passed away on December 28, 2018 in Irving, TX. She was born on November 4, 1929 in Mahoney, TX to the late Benjamin and Esther Reppond. Ms. Noel was a retired Beautician and enjoyed playing the guitar, bingo, dancing, fishing, playing solitaire, using facebook to check on family and friends, enjoyed all the neighbors and friends in Purley and watching western shows and soap operas. She is...
Attend FBC “Pass the Legacy” Grandparenting Conference on Evening of January 11
FBC’s Fred Lewis and Bruce Welch Fred Lewis, Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs, and Bruce Welch, Pastor of Education, are inviting grandparents and great-grandparents in the area to a conference designed especially for them. The conference will help those in a grandparenting role, many who are raising their grandchildren, to become better equipped to “pass the legacy”, a valuable resource of...
ATCOG Director Chris Brown to Speak to Hopkins-Rains Retired School Personnel
Chris Brown, Executive Director of Ark-Tex Council of Governments The Hopkins-Rains Retired School Personnel invites all retired education personnel in the area to attend a meeting on Tuesday, January 8 at 10:00 am at The Oaks Bed & Breakfast, 516 Oak Avenue in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Chris Brown, Executive Director of Ark-Tex Council of Governments, will present a program about services for seniors offered through ATCOG, and...
Spring Registration Underway at PJC-Sulphur Springs
The Paris Junior College-Sulphur Springs Center campus has reopened following the winter/Christmas break and personnel are available to assist students with registration for the spring semester. On-campus registration will take place from January 3 through January 14, according to President Dr. Pamela Anglin. Advisors and counselors will be in their offices from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist students with...
