Grocery Supply Company donates $90,000 to Local Sulphur Springs Charities
On October 30, 2023, GSC Enterprises, Inc. held its 35th GSC Charity Golf Classic at Golf Clubs at the Tribute in The Colony, TX. The company presented $90,000.00 to six local and regional charities. These charities included Morgan’s Mercy Mansion, Court Appointed Special Advocates, Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center, Community Chest, SSISD Education Foundation, and the GSC Benevolence Fund. Grocery Supply Company donates $90,000...
Trego Family Pledges $400,000 to TAMUC Electrical Engineering
November 6, 2023 – COMMERCE, TX—Lion alumni Bruce and Barbara Trego have generously pledged $400,000 to benefit the Department of Engineering and Technology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The Trego Family Engineering and Technology Endowment makes history as one of the most substantial planned gifts from a private donor to the department. The endowment serves a dual purpose: providing scholarships to electrical...
Mary Taylor
Funeral services for Mary Ruth Taylor, age 92, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Sulphur Springs City Cemetery with Peter Waguespack, Paul Lane, Terry Perry, Jeremy Jenkins, Marc Mann and Lanny Holmes serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Myles Mann, Lance Taylor, Gene Anderson, and Ryan Izzo. Visitation will be held...
North Hopkins VolleyBall Team Continues to Advance
November 6, 2023 – You can catch the North Hopkins ISD Girls VolleyBall Team in action against Collinsville at a neutral court in Bonham, TX. This will be a Regional Quarterfinal Game. Game starts at 7PM on Tuesday November 7, 2023.
CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Welcomes Dr. Nivas Govindarajan to Sulphur Springs
(Sulphur Springs, Texas) – CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic, part of the well-established CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, is proud to announce the addition of Dr. Nivas Govindarajan to the highly trained family medicine team in Sulphur Springs. Dr. Nivas Govindarajan A New Jersey native, Govindarajan completed both his undergraduate and medical degrees at Drexel University in Philadelphia. “I took an interest in medicine...
Upshur County Sheriff’s Office Seeks Suspect in Double Murder
November 6, 2023 – The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office released a statement as they are looking for a suspect in a Double Murder in Gilmer over the weekend. Statement from Upshur County Sheriff’s Office: On November 4, 2023 at approximately 11:42 pm. Upshur County Deputies, along with Gilmer Police Officers and Texas State Troopers responded to a report of a shooting at a home in the 2800 block of U.S. Highway 271...
November 7th, 2023 Election Day Polling Locations
November 6, 2023 – Early voting is over with 2,683 voters taking advantage of the convenient option to early vote. That number is a little over ten percent of the 24,456 registered voters in Hopkins County. Polling locations will be open from 7am until 7pm on Tuesday November 7th for registered voters to cast their vote for 14 Texas Constitutional Amendments as well as election of Texas State Representative for District 2, which...
Ada Malone Sims
Funeral Services for Ada Malone Sims, age 92 of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 11, 2023 at Morning Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Ada Malone Sims Interment will follow at East Caney Cemetery with Corey Spigner, Vincent Sims, Marquise Ford, Azrow III, Kristopher Thomlinson, Kieron Sims serving as pallbearers. Honorary Pallbearers will be Azrow Moore, Jr., John C. Moore, Walter Roland, Darrell L....
Kimberlyn “Kim” Renae Kelley (Covey) Perrin
Kimberlyn “Kim” Renae Kelley (Covey) Perrin, 64, passed away in a Plano hospital on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Kim was born on May 23, 1959, in Ft. Worth, TX to Milton Ray Kelley and Pat Wafford Kelley. She graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1977 in the top ten of her class. She went on to graduate from the University of North Texas in 1989 with honors. On January 11, 1982, she married Tom Covey, and they later...
John Stuart Richey
Mr. John Stuart Richey, age 67 of Mt. Vernon, passed away on Friday, October 27, 2023 in Tyler. He was born on November 27, 1955 in Winnsboro, Texas to the late Charlie Weldon Richey and Winnie Mae Evers Richey.Stuart served in both the US Navy and Army with tours in both Vietnam and Desert Shield. After his distinguished military career of twenty-four years he received a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State...
