North Hopkins Volunteer Fire Department Benefits from Forest Service Grant
With over 85 percent of Texas fire departments being operated by volunteers, funding for essential equipment and training can be hard to come by. The Texas Legislature allocates funding to Texas A&M Forest Service for pass-through grants to Texas volunteer fire departments in an effort to help them better protect lives and property. This year the agency received $24.3 million to distribute to volunteer fire departments through the...
PJC to Participate in AACC Pathways Project
Implementing guided academic and career pathways at scale – for all students – is the shared commitment of 30 colleges that will participate in the Pathways Project led by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Paris Junior College is among the institutions invited, through a highly competitive national selection process, to join in and contribute to the work. “This is a huge opportunity for Paris Junior College to be...
Sulphur Springs City Council Agenda for November
Sulphur Springs City Council meets in regular session Tuesday November 3, 2015 at 7 p.m. The regular meeting will be held in the Council Room at 201 North Davis Street. The following items will be discussed: Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag, Texas Flag, and invocation. Presentations, proclamations, and announcements. Manager’s report will include status report of capital improvements, wastewater treatment plant...
Bond Reduced for Mapps
Friday morning, 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt reduced bond for Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps, 21, from $1.5 million to $1 million for the charge of murder and reduced the total of $40,000 for two counts of tampering with evidence to $20,000. The bond reduction hearing was the next step Mapps trail through the court system until his trial for murder and tampering with evidence. Mapps was arraigned before Judge Northcutt on...
SSHS Athletic Director Warns Merchants Regarding Advertising Requests
A group is selling ads to local businesses that will in no way benefit the Sulphur Springs High School baseball program as they claim, according to SSHS Athletic Director Greg Owens. Owens states the group, Elite, is using crafty language when calling to request merchants to purchase an ad “to support our kids.” This is just one type of offers made to merchants that will not benefit the local school’s athletic program. “In our...
Carolyn Ethridge
Graveside Service for Carolyn Lynn Ethridge, age 69, of Sulphur Springs, TX, will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, November 1, 2015 at Brashear Cemetery with Rev. Charles Ethridge officiating. Pallbearers will be Andy Crouch, Mark Copeland, Will Ethridge, Ryan Stracener, Ron Poskey, John Elmore and Clay Randolph. Honorary pallbearers will be Aiden Ethridge, Wesley Mark Randolph, Roper Ray Elmore and Lewis “Dumpy” Potter. ...
Wade Bartley Seeks Commissioner Precinct #3 Re-election
I want to say thanks to the citizens of Hopkins County and Precinct #3 for allowing me to have served these past three years as Commissioner of Pct #3. It has been and is an honor to serve with the present Commissioners Court. I look forward to serving the citizens of Hopkins County another term, and would appreciate everyones support from Pct. #3. As a court we have strived to run the county government with the taxpayer and the...
20th Anniversary of Lights of Life Campaign Kick Off is November 3
Next Tuesday, November 3 at 10 a.m. there will be a kick off for the 20th anniversary for the Lights of Life campaign. Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Health Care Foundation Director Jackie Thornton and Lights of Life and Gala Tri-chairs Donna Rudzik, Polly Swatsell and Gloria Mitchell were guests on KSST’s Good Morning Show with Enola Gay Thursday morning....
Same Rate, Pick Up Dates, Different Color Truck; City Manager Talks Trash
Rates will remain the same. Pick up dates will remain the same. Only the color of the truck will change when the city of Sulphur Springs begins being served by a new sanitation company in January. Sulphur Springs City Manager Marc Maxwell literally talked trash Thursday morning with KSST News. Maxwell said a number of false rumors have been circulating in social media recently. He stated that residents can be assured service will...
