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...
Newly elected Officials Receive Oath of Office
New Year’s Day, January 1, 2019, nine (9) newly elected Hopkins County officials received the Oath of Office at 10 a.m. in the District Courtroom of the Historic Hopkins County Courthouse. The courtroom was filled with family, friends, and officials for the formal, yet festive, mode that is a part of the event. Several first-time-elected officials were sworn –in. Among them: County Court at Law Judge Clay Harrison, left, received...
W. Grace Berger
Mrs. W. Grace Berger, age 87 of Mt. Vernon, passed away on Sunday, December 30th, 2018 at her home in Mt. Vernon. She was born on April 17th, 1931 in Baytown, Texas to the late Bowman Messer and Edmae Garvin Messer. She Housewife and member of MVT Oasis Fellowship. Grace was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Loretta McDaniel and one brother, Robert “Bob” Messer. She is survived by her husband of almost 70...
