2023 Dairy Festival Milking Contest Results
Despite a delayed start of over an hour — the Junior Dairy Show ran over, the 2023 Hopkins County Dairy Festival Milking Contest Saturday progressed almost as smooth at butter, with only a few “surprises” — but certainly not enough to completely sour the fun. The 2023 Dairy Festival Milking Contest featured all of the 2023 pageant contestants, each assigned a cow to milk. Six heifers were used, with girls assigned numbers...
Heat Waves May Crash Texas Power Grid This Summer
June 14, 2023- The Electric Reliability Council of Texas anticipates record-breaking peak electricity demand of 82,739 megawatts this summer, according to the summer 2023 seasonal assessment that ERCOT published in May. With record temperatures right around the corner, several people are worried that the grid can’t handle the heat. Texans were asked to conserve energy after six power plants went offline amid a heat wave. In May...
Cupcake Day and Watercolor Painting Today At 3:30
June 14, 2023 – Head on over to the Senior Center today at 3:30 to celebrate National Cupcake day. While you are there grab a brush or two and practice your watercolor technique. Treats provided by Summer’s Sweets and Treats of Como, TX.
Gov. Abbott Signs In New “Athena Alert” Bill
June 14, 2023- Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law the new Bill that will lower the threshold for local missing child alerts. House Bill 3556 allows law enforcement in Texas to send out localized alerts- known as “Athena Alert”- within a 100-mile radius of where a child has gone missing and in adjacent counties. The law was inspired after the tragic death of 7-year-old Athena Strand in November. Strand was found dead...
Speight Returned to Hopkins County to Face Child Sex Abuse Charge
June 14, 2023 – JOHN LEWIS SPEIGHT, age 66, was released from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville on Tuesday this week. A Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy was waiting to transport him back to the Hopkins County Jail. JOHN LEWIS SPEIGHT, 2023 Speight is chanrged with: 1 21.02(B) SEX ABUSE OF CHILD CONTINUOUS: VICTIM UNDER 14 His bond has not been set. This is not the first time Speight has been in Hopkins County Jail....
De Kalb Man Stopped with a Pound of Marijuana
June 14, 2023 – A De Kalb, TX man was stopped on I-30 on Tuesday. Inside his vehicle was a pound of marijuana. FORTE, JOVAN MARQUIS, 2023 After a hit on a Licence Plate Reader, Deputies followed Forte’s vehicle along I-30 for several miles. When they neared mile marker 122, the driver began a more aggressive driving style. Forte began passing vehicles and started following a semi too closely. At that point, Deputies...
Dorothy Howell
Funeral service for Dorothy Howell, age 93 of Sulphur Springs, Texas will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, June 16, 2023 at First Baptist Church with Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Interment will follow at Greenview Cemetery with Andrew Howell, Matthew Howell, Phillip Troy Howell, Phillip Morgan, Kyle Prater, Seth Prater, Bradley Howell, and Kevin Prater serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Mrs....
Failure to Yield Lands Couple In Jail
June 14, 2023 – A Sulphur Springs couple, out for a drive at 1 AM Wednesday, are now in Hopkins County Jail. A Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy witnessed the couple’s car fail to yield to oncoming traffic. The couple pulled out in front of the Deputy’s patrol vehicle. A traffic stop was initiated near Helm Lane. The occupants, 42 year-old Nicole Rae Pritchard and 40 year-old Richard Otto Hall, Jr., showed signs...
Chamber Connection – June 14 By Butch Burney
We are gearing up for the 54th Annual Hopkins County Stew Festival, so be looking for sponsorship and registration forms which will be going out this week. The stew festival is set for Saturday, Oct. 28, at Buford Park, with the annual concert, appetizer contest and other activities starting on Friday, Oct. 27. Our sponsorship forms will be mailed out this week, and registration forms for stew cooks will be online later this week....
Stephen F. Austin University Cyber Attack
June 13, 2023- Stephen F. Austin State University’s online systems were apparently targeted by a cyberattack sometime between Saturday night and Monday morning, the university stated. The University released this in a post regarding the recent cyber attack: “SFA’s online systems appear to have been the target of a cyberattack, likely between Saturday evening and Monday morning. Upon discovery, we severed connection to the...
