Gallagher Family Foundation Donates
Dec 29, 2023 – The Gallagher Family Foundation is once again sponsoring the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Gala. The Gallaghers are champions of quality rural healthcare and believe in the work of the Foundation. We are so excited to have their support! Get your tickets to the 18th annual Gala before it is too late! LOLGala2024.GiveSmart.com
Reunion Tower Might Be The Best Show in Texas on New Years Eve
DALLAS — Reunion Tower is an iconic place in Dallas and come New Year’s Eve, it will be surrounded by thousands of people viewing its fireworks and drone show. While the planning for the show starts at the beginning of the year, it’s these last few days of 2023 where the hard, physical work begins. Crews unload 15,000 pounds of fireworks off a couple of trucks, along with scaffolding to place the fireworks. There will also...
Recent New Texas Law Allows Murder Charges For Fentanyl Distribution
December 29, 2023 – House Bill 6 submitted during the 88th Texas Legislature was eventually signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in June of 2023 becoming enforceable September 1, 2023. This bill along with three others were touted by Abbott as “representing a significant step in the state’s fight against the deadly opioid that will prosecute fentanyl deaths as murder, ensure death certificates reflect when...
Hopkins County Records – December 2023
Land Deed Transactions 12/4/23 Thru 12/6/23 Areli Enriquez and Manuel Enriquez to Huantian Zhang; Tract in the Hodge Adams Survey John Dep Ruchanan, Admin, and Eddie Louis Buchanan Estate to Alfredo Estrada Lopez; Tract in the J Ybarbo Survey Angela Smith to Heather Marie White; Tract in the J W Hatchell Survey Mary Ann Morris to Tina Davenport; Tract in the Jesse K H Pace Survey R & R Ranchers LP to Gary...
Two Drug Dealers Charged With Murder in Wooten Overdose Death
December 28, 2023 – Two local suspects have been arrested and charged with supplying contraband to 21-year old Brayden Wooten who was found deceased on December 23rd. The suspects are identified as Xavier Hill and Bryson Lacy. Hopkins County Sheriff Lewis Tatum An investigation was conducted upon law enforcement finding pills containing Fentanyl and continuing with investigators tracking down two individuals suspected of being...
Foundation’s Gala Highlights Community’s Uniqueness
December 28, 2023 – Sulphur Springs, Texas – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation has hosted an annual Gala for eighteen years. It has changed and grown through the years with the Foundation finally settling on a program that suits the crowd. Yes, it is a fun night punctuated with amazing food, fine wines and beers, live music, games, and frivolity. It is also an important night of fundraising for the Foundation...
Lou Ella Maria Hollins
Born July 16, 1932 died December 27, 2023 at the age of 91. FUNERAL SERVICE – Saturday January 6, 2024 starting at 1:00 PM at West Oaks Funeral Home With our condolences.
Durwood “Pop” Smith
Funeral service for Durwood “Pop” Smith, age 84 of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 30, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with K.C. Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park with Ronnie Nix, Laverl Edwards, Dan Petty, Bryan Hawkins, Chris Penny, and Dustin Emerick serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Glenn Hamlin, Bailey Davis, Don Petty, and Brennan Rhoades....
Glyn Strickland, Jr.
Born March 13, 1956 died December 21, 2023 at the age of 67. MEMORIAL SERVICE will be Thursday January 4, 2024 starting at 2:00 PM at West Oaks Funeral Home With our condolences.
Did You Drink ‘Big Chief’ Soda?
December 28, 2023 – While clearing out part of my shop, I came across a collection of old soda bottles. Most of them were Pepsi bottles touting the 1972 Dallas Cowboys, but one was unique. It’s impossible to know what flavors of soda were inside this bottle, but one thing is clear, it’s a ‘Big Chief’. My bottle is from a bygone era when independent bottlers were almost as common as modern fast food...
