Business History Month: IdziBitsy Bakery
IdziBitsy Bakery is a hometown, “Hopkins County owned, Hopkins County grown” custom bakery in downtown Sulphur Springs, Texas owned by Michelle Idzi. Michelle Idzi’s great great uncle owned a bakery in Louisiana and when he decided to retire in the early 1980s, her grandmother then bought the business deeming her grandmother a second generation baker. While Michelle’s mom was in school full-time her youngest...
Sulphur Bluff Basketball All-District Awardees
All-District Basketball Award recipients: BOYS L – R Isaac Foley Honorable Mention, Turner South Honorable Mention, Jaden Goldsmith 2nd Team, Thomas Coberly Honorable Mention, Cody Vance Honorable Mention, Joe Forshee 2nd Team, Brennon Moore 1st Team. GIRLS All-District Award recipients: L – R Tori Dorner Honorable Mention, Skylar Evans 2nd Team, Kaitlyn White 1st Team, Makenna Morgan 2nd Team, Kiersten Brown...
South Sulphur River Flood Warning Continues Through Friday Morning
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a Flood Warning until Friday morning or until the warning is cancelled for the South Sulphur River affecting Delta and Hopkins Counties. At 3:15 p.m. Thursday, the river stage was at 16.76 feet. Flood stage is 16 feet. A few rural roads will begin to flood when the stage is over 16 feet. Farm and ranch land adjacent to the river will also flood. Minor flooding is occurring and is...
Hearts of Life Presents Diego for Adoption
Wednesday afternoon, Hearts of Life Animal Shelter gave Diego a quick trip to KSST Channel 18 Studios so that he could be presented to the community for adoption. Diego has had surgery to repair his...
Bobby E. Phillips
Bobby E. Phillips, age 80, of Emory, passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at Carriage House Manor in Sulphur Springs. Funeral service is scheduled for Saturday, March 12, 2016, 2:00 PM, at the Wilson-Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation is scheduled 1 hour prior to the service at 1:00 PM. Interment will follow in IOOF Cemetery in Quinlan. Bro. Jimmy Jarrett will officiate. Bobby was born on January 5, 1936, in Booneville, AR, to...
Bryant Sentenced to 15 Years; Oboyle to 5
Thursday morning, March 10, 2016, in Eighth Judicial District Court, Caleb James Bryant, 21, entered a guilty plea to engaging in organized crime and to retaliation. In the plea agreement, Brant also took responsibility for his activity in possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to 15 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On Monday, November 17, 2015, an undercover buy-bust created the necessity for the...
Teen Arrested For Assault Of A Family Member
Clayton Ryan Hanson, 18, of Sulphur Springs was arrested on Tuesday, March 8th after being involved in a dispute that resulted in assault of a family member. Cumby Police Chief Paul Robertson responded to a call of an assault in Cumby that occurred early Tuesday afternoon. Upon arrival, Hanson was found on the property located on the 300 block of Frisco Street in Cumby. Hanson was transported to the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital to...
Business History Month: Shoe Inn Etc.
The Shoe Inn began exactly where it is now: The Windsor Plaza. The Shoe Inn first opened it’s doors in February of 1986 as one of the first businesses in the plaza, offering the best location to be had in Sulphur Springs at that time. “Everything was new in our shopping center,” Owens said. “That created a lot of curiosity for people, and people just came to check us out and they’re still with us.”...
Dixon Changes Plea to Guilty; Sentenced to 40 Years Without Parole
March 9, 2016 – Hunter James Dixon, 21, will serve 40 years without possibility of parole according to a plea agreement between Dixon and the District Attorney’s office. Wednesday morning in Eighth Judicial District Court the prosecution played a video of Hunter James Dixon’s interview with Hopkins County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigators. Investigator Dennis Findley was on the witness stand. Having begun the day’s court...
