Bluff Bears Plan Donkey Basketball
The Sulphur Bluff Class of 2016 is planning Donkey Basketball as a Senior Trip fundraiser on Thursday March 10, 2016. Games start at 6:30 pm in Bears Gym. Tickets are $8 at the gate.
Onstage at Main Street Theatre!
Veteran director David Woody and his cast will stage eight performances of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” at Main Street Theater March 10-20, 2016. Leah Connor plays the role of Amanda Wingfield who lives in the family home with her two adult children, Tom Wingfield (Ken Schroeder) and Laura Wingfield (Aldin Green). Denver Dodson plays Jim, Laura’s gentleman caller. Tom also narrates the play, and...
Betty Underwood Peugh
Funeral services for Betty Underwood Peugh, age 85 of Arlington, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 14, 2016 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Pastor Rick Higgins officiating. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park with sons and grandsons serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Betty passed away on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. She was born on March...
Maria Ana Diosdado
Funeral Mass of Christian Burial for Maria Ana Diosdado, age 61, of Sulphur Springs, TX, will be conducted at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 10, 2016 at St. James Catholic Church. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., with Rosary beginning at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at West Oaks Funeral Home. Mrs. Diosdado passed away on Thursday March 3, 2016 in Mexico. Arrangements are under the direction of West Oaks Funeral...
Annual Hay Clinic is March 30th
by Mario Villarino As our winter season starts dwindling into spring, our pastures and hay meadows must be getting for the spring and summer hay season. Depending on the farmer plan our hay schedules are mainly divided in a fall-winter cycle and a spring-summer cycle. The fall-winter cycle relies on winter crops, mainly rye grass and a short crop before or wheat and oats. The rye grass crop picks during February and March and must be...
Business History Month: Bright Star Floors
Mike Miller opened Bright Star Floors nine years ago in a great business location along Interstate 30 East in Sulphur Springs. Mike possessed three decades of experience in the flooring installation business when he opened his doors, and that experience lends a priceless value to the customer who is considering a flooring decision. Today’s new products are the best ever offered because the technology is constantly improving, yet...
Primary Runoff; Municipal Election On Horizon
One election has just ended and another will begin soon. In fact, more than one election is on tap. For the Sulphur Springs School Board and Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board, no election will be held. Those races were no race since only incumbents filed… except for one seat on the hospital board where on one filed. That place will be filled by law by appointment of the board. However, for the City of Sulphur Springs, there will...
Sulphur Springs Municipal Judge Rogers Retires
“The last 13 years have been a real eye-opener for me,” said Phyllis Rogers retiring Sulphur Springs Municipal Judge. Rogers said the work was totally different from any legal work she has ever done. Rogers will retire at the end of March when she and her husband will move to Nacogdoches to be geographically closer to family. Rogers’ court hears all Class-C misdemeanors in city arrests, indigent dockets, juvenile dockets, all traffic...
Dixon Jury Views Videos of CPS Forensic Interview
In what Assistant District Attorney Clay Harrison called a bit unusual, an agreement between the prosecution and the defense was reached to play the video of the Child Protective Services Forensic interview with the children who made an outcry that led to the arrest, indictment, and now trial of Hunter James Dixon in Eight Judicial District Court Tuesday. Most of the day was spent with the jury viewing the video and the questioning of...
Traffic Stop Leads To More Woes For Sulphur Springs Woman
Recently released from Hopkins County Jail after posting bail for multiple charges, Katelin Leann Gumpert, 24, was arrested Monday night as a result of yet another routine traffic stop. The stop occurred around the 300 block of Church Street shortly after 7 p.m. Monday when officers learned of two warrants out for Gumpert that were issued by the Special Crimes Unit. Gumpert was wanted for Possession of Controlled Substance greater...
