Wildcats’ Powerlifting Team Finished Third at Emory Rains Meet
The Wildcats’ powerlifting team finished third at a meet at Emory Rains Saturday. Wildcats Coach Casey Jeter said his team wanted to win the meet but he said it just shows you how competitive our area is in powerlifting. Still Coach Jeter said the Wildcats had a very good meet Saturday with some huge positives. Out of the Wildcats’ eleven team members, Coach Jeter said ten placed in the top five to score points. He said...
TxDOT Celebrates A Century of Service
AUSTIN – To honor the past while anticipating the future, the Texas Department of Transportation celebrates a century of service this year with a traveling exhibit and other events to highlight the agency’s ongoing mission of connecting Texans to what matters most – the people they love and the places they need to be. “Through 100 years of collaboration and leadership, TxDOT has helped connect communities to commerce and people to...
Lions, Lady Lions Stage Fourth Quarter Comeback Friday; Host Roxton Tuesday
Both the Saltillo Lions and the Saltillo Lady Lions basketball teams staged big fourth quarter comebacks to defeat Miller Grove on the road Friday night. The Lions trailed 26-19 going into the fourth quarter and then outscored the Hornets 22-11 in the last quarter to take a 41-37 win. Michael Simmons had a big game scoring 17 points for Saltillo. Other Lions’ scorers included Mathew Gurley with 8 points, Trevor Moore with 5,...
Monday Game Day: Baseball, Softball, Golf
Baseball and softball fans will have the opportunity to check out the Wildcats and Lady Cats in scrimmages on this Monday game day. Coach David Carrillo’s Lady Cats’ softball team will scrimmage Lindale at refurbished Lady Cat Park Monday evening. The Lady Cats JV team will play at 4 p.m. with the varsity to follow at around 5:30 p.m. It’s the third scrimmage for the Lady Cats. Meanwhile Coach Jerrod Hammack’s...
NETLA, a Hopkins County Youth SUPER-Event
Make plans to visit the youth exhibitors at this year’s Junior Market Livestock Show when, along with their animal projects, they will be competing inside the Civic Center arena in Sulphur Springs in the NETLA event. 4-H and FFA youth showing lambs and goats will have their contests on Thursday February 23 starting at 4pm. There are 100 lamb and goat entries this year. Youth who are showing the other 218 livestock entries, from...
Calvin “Butch” Shotwell
Funeral service for Calvin “Butch” Shotwell will be held 2:00 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 7. 2017, at Emory Baptist Church. Bro. Robert Burns will officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to service time. Interment will follow service in Emory City Cemetery. Butch passed away Friday evening, Feb. 3 at his residence. He was born Dec. 13, 1946, in Dallas, to Calvin Melburn and Billie Ruth Parker Shotwell. He served his country...
Disturbance Call Nets Sulphur Springs Man Wanted in Rains County
Kyle Alexander Frye, 17, of Sulphur Springs was wanted for Burglary of a Habitation in Rains County. He was at a residence on West Industrial Dr. in Sulphur Springs where Hopkins County deputies were called to a disturbance. The resident brought Frye to the door. Frye is in Hopkins County Jail awaiting transport to Rains County. He is being held for Rains County where he will be held on a $10,000 bond for Burglary of a...
Motorist Assist by HCSO Leads to Arrest
Joshua Logan Martin, 27 of Pittsburg and his white 1980 Corvette was sitting beside the road on State Highway 11E near the Precinct 2 County Barn between Como and Pickton at 2:56 a.m. Sunday morning when the Hopkins County Deputy stopped to assist the motorist. However Martin appeared extremely nervous. With consent to search the vehicle, the deputy found a clear plastic baggie with a crystal like substance believed to be...
Emory Man Wanted in Titus County Ran Cumby Stop Sign
Jeffery Scott Trieb, 45, of Emory failed to stop for a stop sign at the corner of Frisco Street and North Service Road in Cumby Saturday morning, February 4th. Trieb was stopped minutes later at 11:30 a.m. at the 109 mile marker on I-30 when the Cumby Police Officer caught up with him. That was just the beginning. In plain view in Trieb’s vehicle were multiple open containers of alcohol. A call to Hopkins County dispatch showed Trieb...
