AMBUS Team Returns; Presented Report to Hospital District Board Monday
Hopkins County EMS AMBUS and the six paramedics that were deployed to South Texas to assist in medical care and transport during Hurricane Harvey have returned. Monday night, Brent Smith and Jeff Sanderson presented a report of their activities to the Hopkins County Hospital District Board during their monthly meeting. The team served in Victoria, Rockport, and Beaumont. Deployed to the staging center in San Antonio, their work began...
Corrected Story: Love’s to Build Travel Center on West Side of Sulphur Springs
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores will establish a new location on State Highway 19/South Hillcrest Dr., across the street from the Pilot Travel Center. The 20-acre land transaction had hinged on an agreement regarding signage, according to sources. The Waite Family Trust, owner of the remaining 67 acres of Old Tyler Estate had the property rezoned about 15 years ago. The Trust will continue to manage the remaining 47 acres of...
“Birds of a Feather” Quilt Show’s Many Features Brings Pride to Sulphur Springs
Judge Robert Newsome, Mayor John Sellers and former Mayor Lydia Bryant will have a hand in this year’s Lone Star Heritage Quilt Guild’s annual Quilt Show by naming their choice of “Pride of County”, “Pride of Downtown”, and “Best Use of Color” from the over 120 quilts entered in the show. The quilts will be hung for display inside The Roc, 115 Putman Street, on Friday September 15 from...
Anna Mae Stephens
Anna Mae Stephens of Winnsboro Texas passed away September 9, 2017 in Mt Vernon Texas at the age of 92. The oldest of three, Anna Mae was born July 23, 1925 in Olathe, Kansas to the late Charles and Edith Radcliff. She was raised in Chillicothe, Missouri graduating from Chillicothe High School. Upon graduation, she went to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She married Cpl. Donald Vernon Stephens on February 27, 1945 in Our...
Local Man Arrested for Possession of “Dope”
When Kyle Dayne Belz, 23, of Sulphur Springs told the Hopkins County Deputy that his vehicle broke down at the 7-Star parking lot and that he was walking southbound on Highway 19 to get to Birthright, the deputy told Belz that he was walking in the wrong direction. The deputy knows Belz and asked if he had anything on his person that was illegal. Belz became nervous and began emptying his pockets without direction to do so. A small...
Bessie Justiss Cason
Bessie Justiss Cason was born at the cotton gin at Snow Hill, TX, on February 7, 1915. She graduated in the class of 1934 and was the oldest living alumni of Dangerfield High School. She attended Abilene Christian College (now Abilene Christian University) in Abilene, TX. She married Olin Eugene Cason on November 17, 1946, and they lived their entire married life in Dangerfield and Atlanta, TX. She loved being a homemaker and was a...
Beverly McWhorter
Beverly McWhorter, age 69, of Yantis, Texas passed away on Friday, September 8, 2017 at Rock Creek Health and Rehab. A Visitation was held on Sunday, September 10, 2017 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home, Sulphur Springs, Texas
