Game Day: Lady Cats, #4 Wildcats at Greenville
The Lady Cats and Wildcats’ varsity basketball teams will play back to back district games at Greenville on this Tuesday (January 29) game day. In Greenville games begin at 5 p.m. as the Wildcats JV will take on the Lions JV. The Lady Cats varsity plays Greenville at 6:15 p.m. and then the Wildcats varsity will play the Lions varsity at 7:30 p.m. The Lady Cats JV and Wildcats freshmen team will play in the Greenville Auxiliary...
AgriLife: Tomato Grafting Workshop Set for February 7, 2019
According to Purdue Extension, vegetable grafting has attracted tomato growers’ attention as an approach to control soilborne diseases and improve crop yield. By grafting scion plants that have desirable fruit characteristics onto rootstock plants that have disease resistance, stress tolerance, or vigorous root system characteristics, grafted plants combine beneficial traits from both the scion and rootstock plants. Many growers who...
A&M-Commerce College of Business Earns AACSB Reaccreditation
COMMERCE, TX— The College of Business at A&M-Commerce has received a five-year extension of accreditation from AACSB International, an association founded in 1916 to advance quality management education worldwide. The college has been AACSB accredited since 1976. “Reaffirmation of our long-held AACSB accreditation is a direct reflection of the outstanding work and transformational learning that occurs every day in the...
Gary Grimm
Private Memorial service for Gary Grimm, age 66, of Sulphur Springs will be held at a later date. There will be no formal visitation. Mr. Grimm passed away on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at Sunny Springs Health and Rehab. Gary was born on April 18, 1952 in Tulsa, OK to Edwin and Billie Lue Grimm. He married Wanda Kelley in Dallas Texas on July 12, 1975. Gary served in the US Army. He was the owner and operator of...
SSSA Online Soccer Registration is Open Until February 4
Online registration for Sulphur Springs Soccer Association is underway. The registration for Sulphur Springs Soccer Association Season ends February 4th. On February 2nd from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. there will be a walk up registration event at Hibbett Sports, located at 1402 Mockingbird Lane in Sulphur Springs. The Spring draft is February 16th, and games are set to start Saturday, March 16th. The Spring season is coed. The registrant...
Rachel Ellen Morgan
Funeral services for Rachel Ellen Morgan, age 82, of Yantis, TX will be conducted at 12 noon on Friday, February 1, 2019 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jeremy During officiating. Interment will follow at Yantis Cemetery with Darren Sutherland, Damon Yates, Mikey Corbell, Kemmy Bevill, Andrew Baldwin, Nick Posada and Michael Thompson serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Jason Meadors, J. W....
Yantis Man Arrested for Aggravated Assault, Possession of Meth
When deputies were called to an assault that had just occurred on Highway 11E near FM 1870, they found a female who said she had been thrown from a vehicle driven by Shawn Allen Long, 35, of Yantis. Long and the vehicle were not in the area. Deputies learned the possible locations where the subject could be located and set up at the locations awaiting Long’s arrival. Deputies set up at Motel 6 where the victim and Long had...
Man Arrested for Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon
KEARNEY, JOHNNY GLENN When Hopkins County Deputies arrived at a disturbance on County Road 3597, the wife of Johnny Glenn Kearney, 43, of Leesburg, said he had a handgun in his hand and had threatened to kill her. She said he had placed the handgun on the dash of their vehicle. Kearney told officers that he did have a gun but had thrown it in the ditch along the County Road. Deputies recovered the weapon. Kearney attempted to resist...
How to Get Free Flights on Southwest with Minimal Effort
One of the best ways to earn free travel points or miles, is by signing up for a new “branded” credit card. Currently Chase is offering a Southwest Credit Card that will give you 40,000 Rapid Rewards Points for just signing up for the card and spending $1,000 on the card on any purchases in the first three months. You also have to pay the annual fee for the credit card ($69) but these points are worth over $600 in free...
Avoid the Flu This Season: Tips from Infection Control at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital in Sulphur Springs
Ben Pegues is an RN at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital and works daily in the Infection Control department of the hospital. Not a bedside nurse, Ben and his colleagues in Infection Control are a team on the lookout for infection in every department of the hospital, from surgeries to ICU and of course, with infectious diseases like the Flu. During a KSST Morning Show interview, Ben gave some insight into where we stand locally this...
