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Health Care Foundation, CHRISTUS Hospital – Sulphur Springs Offer Free Mammogram Clinic
Sep14

Health Care Foundation, CHRISTUS Hospital – Sulphur Springs Offer Free Mammogram Clinic

Sulphur Springs, Texas – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation and CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs are partnering to offer a free mammogram clinic for uninsured women in Hopkins County. The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Free Mammography Clinic will be held at the Ruth & Jack Gillis Women’s Center, a part of the CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs. The clinic will run for two...

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Lady Cats Cross Country Places Second in Two Straight Competitions
Sep14

Lady Cats Cross Country Places Second in Two Straight Competitions

Coach Ross Hicks’s teams had another good outing last weekend. Saturday, Sept. 10 had both cross country teams returning to their old district course in Hallsville. The Lady Cats finished second as a team for the second straight competition. Haylee Schultz, fresh off winning the 4A and under division last week in Pittsburg, finished fifth at 13:44.10. Not even 30 seconds later followed Edith Martinez, cracking the top-10 in...

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Looking to the Future: Water In Hopkins County
Sep14

Looking to the Future: Water In Hopkins County

Mario Villarino By Mario Villarino, Texas AgriLife Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Hopkins County, [email protected] The importance of water cannot be overstated or overvalued. Though we often take it for granted, access to abundant, clean, safe, and affordable water affects our health, drives our economy, and adds to our quality of life. Unfortunately, millions of people around the world live in...

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Chamber Connection – Sept. 14
Sep14

Chamber Connection – Sept. 14

By Butch Burney, Chamber of Commerce President/CEO, [email protected] Past cooks have until Friday, Sept. 23, to register for the 53rd Annual Hopkins County StewFestival and retain their site from last year. A pot of Hopkins County Stew If you have cooked stew in the past or want to for the first time, now is the time to register for Stew Fest, presented by Alliance Bank. The Stew Festival is Saturday, Oct. 22, with Friday...

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Additional Charge Added For Man Jailed Monday For Evading Arrest
Sep14

Additional Charge Added For Man Jailed Monday For Evading Arrest

An additional charge was added Tuesday afternoon for a Sulphur Springs man jailed on an evading arrest charge Monday, according to arrest reports. Dequarian Terran Pitts A detective advised Sulphur Springs Police Sgt. Brandon Mayes that Dequarian Terran Pitts was scheduled to be at the police department for an interview, and that a felony warrant had been issued for the 22-year-old Sulphur Springs man’s arrest. Pitts was among...

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Sulphur Springs ISD Bond Election To Be Discussed At Town Hall Meeting
Sep14

Sulphur Springs ISD Bond Election To Be Discussed At Town Hall Meeting

The Sulphur Springs ISD Bond Election will be discussed at a special Town Hall Meeting scheduled at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in the Board Room inside SSISD Administration Building, 630 Connally St. SSISD Superintendent Michael Lamb will lead the discussion. The community is invited to attend to learn more about and ask any questions they may have related to the $81.5 million SSISD Bond Election called for facilities improvements...

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Methamphetamine Found In Fast Food Cup
Sep13

Methamphetamine Found In Fast Food Cup

More than 7 grams of methamphetamine was reportedly found in a fast food cup during an traffic stop late Monday night along I-30 in Hopkins County, according to arrest reports. John Adam McGinn Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office deputies reported stopping the driver of a white Ford F250 at 11:15 p.m. Sept. 12, 2022, on the south Interstate 30 service road at mile marker 135 for failure to maintain a single lane of traffic. Deputy...

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Shots Fired Call Results In Pursuit, At Least 3 Arrests
Sep13

Shots Fired Call Results In Pursuit, At Least 3 Arrests

A call reporting shots fired on Calvert Street in Sulphur Springs resulted in a pursuit and at least three arrests — a Malakoff woman on a felony charge, and Sulphur Springs and Commerce men on misdemeanor charges, according to arrest reports and officials. Brookelyn Robyn Purser Sulphur Springs Police Officers Robble Acosta responded at 7:19 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in the 700 block of Carter Street, where dispatchers were told...

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Information from the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Campus
Sep13

Information from the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Campus

Charle Fox, right, secretary at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center campus, helps new student Destiny Dee Carver of Sulphur Springs prepare to begin her first semester of college. Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Carver

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2022 NETBIO Seventh Annual Cattleman’s Classic And Ribeye Round Up
Sep13

2022 NETBIO Seventh Annual Cattleman’s Classic And Ribeye Round Up

Texas Heritage National Bank is proud to be the title sponsor for the 2022 Cattleman’s Classic And Ribeye Roundup (CCRR) to be held October 1, on Celebration Plaza. Thirty cooking teams are expected to be competing. With $7,200 in prize money, plus bragging rights, the competition is expected to be intense. Setting up for the 2017 Ribeye Roundup Brandon Bell with Potts Feed Store out of Emory, states, “Every year the teams get better...

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