City Officials To Begin Process Of Rousting Buzzards From Trees In Town Monday
Sulphur Springs officials will begin working with the USDA biologists Monday evening to begin the process of rousting buzzards from their roosts in the area of Main and Connally streets between Fore and Water Oak Streets. Sulphur Springs resident Gene White asked Sulphur Springs City Council during the elected officials’ January meeting to consider intervening in the area, where what appeared to be buzzards have ensconced...
Information From a Poetry Class at the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Campus
POETIC Poetry is the topic of discussion during a recent English class conducted by Instructor Ken Haley at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center. For information about classes at the PJC campus, call 903-885-1232. Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Ken H Poetry class at the PJC Sulphur Springs campus
Information From the Sulphur Springs Paris Junior College Campus with Spanish Instructor Mayra Cummings
PJC-Sulphur Springs Center Spanish Instructor Mayra Cummings, right, spends time on the campus with online Spanish student Crystal Romero of Sulphur Springs. To inquire about on campus and online courses at the Sulphur Springs campus, call 903-885-1232. Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Spanish instructor Mayra Cummings
Friday Game Day Has Basketball, Baseball, and Soccer On Deck
Friday, Feb. 11 has four teams in action: both soccer teams, baseball, and men’s basketball hosting senior night. With golf, tennis, and track and field all beginning their seasons next week, today is the least busy Friday game day over the next month. Men’s baseball is scheduled to host Terrell on this Friday game day. Coach Jerrod Hammack and his squad take on the Tigers at Wildcats Park. That scrimmage tees off at 6 P.M. ...
13 Hopkins County COVID Deaths So Far In 2022, 166 Since March 2020
While many states and countries are lowering and, in some cases, even eliminating COVID-19 restrictions altogether, the virus has surged in other areas. After almost 2 full years, many have become weary of the extra precautions, whether required vaccinations, frequent testing, booster shots, masking, lockdowns, restricted gatherings or frequent sanitizing and extra cleansing with virus-killing substances. Health care and educational...
April Moran
On Wednesday, November 18, 1970, April Rochelle “Peaches” Harrison was born to Archer Ben Harrison and the late Carolyn De ‘Lois Walker Harrison, in Topeka, Kansas. After moving to Texas, she was educated in Sulphur Springs school district and was a graduate of the class of 1989. April also attended East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas. Pursuing her goals, she worked as a business analyst for Nestle Water, before moving into...
Gene “Red” George
Gene “Red” George Funeral services for Gene “Red” George, age 79, of Brashear will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 13, 2022, at Brashear Baptist Church with Bro. David Burns and Bro. Byron George officiating. Interment will follow at Brashear Cemetery with David Almon, Paul French, Aiden Ellis, Robert Dorsey, Ray Petty, and Clint George serving as pallbearers. Joshua George and Kale Ellis will serve as honorary pallbearers. A...
Obituary – James Elvis Tully
James (Jim) Elvis Tully Memorial service for Dr. James (Jim) Elvis Tully, age 92, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 12, 2022, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Jerry Savage of League Street Church of Christ officiating. There will be no formal visitation. Jim passed away on January 12, 2022, at his residence. Jim was born on March 8, 1929, in Dike, Texas, to Joseph Lee and Rosa Bell (Eades)...
4 Jailed in Hopkins County On Felony Warrants
Three men and a woman were jailed in Hopkins County on felony warrants Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 8-9, 2022, according to arrest and jail reports. Joe Don Dial turned himself in at Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office and was taken into custody at 11 p.m. Feb. 9, 2022. Deputy Isaac Foley escorted Dial from the department lobby into the jail, where the 42-year-old Winnsboro man was booked in on the warrant for violation of...
Man Jailed On New York Warrant
A 62-year-old Port Chester, New York man was jailed on a New York warrant Wednesday evening. Virgilio Orlando Tovar contacted Sulphur Springs Police Officer Edward Jaime at 7:23 p.m. Feb. 9, 2022 at the police station about documents he received from his probation officer that he needed signed by an officer. He provided his New York driver’s license, which SSPD used to conduct a records check. A communications operator reported the...
