Livestock Shows By Mario Villarino
Livestock Show Season Raising and exhibiting a livestock project is not only instructional, concerning raising livestock for show, but also serves as an excellent teaching tool to illustrate livestock production techniques and animal science principles. Participating in a livestock project promotes sound livestock production practices. To be successful, families need to start by learning the essentials. Some of the major areas...
Are You Crafty? We Need Your Talents! By Johanna Hicks
Are You Crafty? We Need Your Talents! Last week, I told you about the Hopkins County Fall Festival Creative Arts Contest, with promises to tell you about the Arts & Crafts Show this week. Each year, a major attraction for the Fall Festival is the Arts & Crafts Show. If you have not visited this event, make a point to go this year! The Arts & Crafts Show is for artisans of all kinds to sell their hand-crafted items. The...
Folds of Honor
Don Woods and His Nashville Band will headline the Saturday Evening, October 28th Concert by the Lake at The Links at Land’s End. Those present are invited to taste different food venues supplied by area restaurants. Tickets for the evening are $25 and only advanced tickets will be sold. The event will cap a two day event at Lake Fork, “Lunkers, Bunkers & Clays” that will include golf at The Links at Land’s...
Wood County Sheriff’s Report September 13-19, 2017
September 13th Deputies went out on an Arrest/Warrant Service to Parrish St. near Hawkins; at approximately 1:35 a.m. Deputies searched the area, but were unable to make contact with the individual. Deputies responded to a suspicious vehicle on CR 2263 near Mineola; at approximately 2:20 a.m. Deputies searched the area, but were unable to locate the vehicle. Deputies were dispatched to FM 17 near Alba, at approximately 2:21 a.m., in...
NETBIO September Sale Averaged Over $900 Per Head
Producers shipped a record number of pre-conditioned cattle to the Sulphur Springs Livestock Commission for the September Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization (NETBIO) sale held Wednesday. Producers consigned 6,955 head of calves and yearlings to the NETBIO sale that drew a big crowd of sellers, buyers and visitors. That number exceeded the previous September sale record by more than 1,000 head. “We had a lot of good cattle...
Late A&M-Commerce Professor’s Painting Donated to the University
By: Daniela Chamorro COMMERCE, TX—A painting by the late Dr. Michael Miller, professor and the director of the Studio Art Graduate Studies program, was donated to Texas A&M-Commerce by his sister Teresa Miller-Wiggins. Dr. Miller passed away in 2016 after an influential 23-year career. In February 2017, A&M Commerce’s art department displayed a gallery of Dr. Miller’s paintings to honor his legacy as both an artist and a...
LC Pruiett
LC Pruiett, age 83, of Winnsboro, formerly of Pickton, Sulphur Springs, Midland & Emory, passed away Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Winnsboro. LC was born on May 7, 1934, in Lamesa, TX to Walter Henry and Martha Madry Pruiett. LC was born during hard times, one of 15 children, who were all very close. They were raised during times when the children all had to pick cotton, or other...
Whitehouse Coach Expects to Lessons for District Play to Be Found in Friday Game Against Wildcats
Adam Cook is in his fifth year as the Head Football Coach of the Whitehouse Wildcats. He took over in 2013. Coach Cook joined the Whitehouse coaching staff in 2006 as a quarterback coach for then head coach Randy McFarlin. Whitehouse has started 2017 with 2 wins and a loss. After victories over Hallsville and Tyler Chapel Hill, Whitehouse ran into a buzz saw as they lost to Carthage, the #1 team in Class 4A, last week. Coach Cook says...
