Cecil Joe ‘C.J.’ Davis
Jan26

Cecil Joe ‘C.J.’ Davis

Funeral service for Cecil Joe ‘C.J.’ Davis, age 88, will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, January 27, 2022at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Chuck Davis officiating. Interment with military honors will followat Mahoney Cemetery with his nephews serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior tothe service. Mr. Davis passed away at his home on Saturday, January 22, 2022. Cecil ‘C.J.’ was born on November 26, 1933 in Mt....

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Lady Cats Basketball Drops Close One to Marshall, 48-41
Jan26

Lady Cats Basketball Drops Close One to Marshall, 48-41

Coach Erica Delley’s squad fought for four quarters to get their third district win, but Marshall completed a huge comeback to get the win at the SSHS Main Gym.  For a majority of the contest women’s basketball led the visiting Lady Mavs.  Sulphur Springs led 15-8 after one and 27-17 at the half, only for Marshall to outscore the Lady Cats 24-14 en route to a 48-41 win on Tuesday, Jan. 25.  The Lady Mavs outscored the women’s...

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Love And The Effects Of COVID
Jan26

Love And The Effects Of COVID

Johanna Hicks, Family & Community Health Extension Agent, Hopkins County By Johanna Hicks, Texas AgriLife Extension Family & Community Health Agent, Hopkins County, [email protected] Interesting articles and e-mails often cross my desk.  As a strong advocate for healthy marriages, a recent interview with Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project, University of Virginia, brought some interesting information to...

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Chamber Connection – Jan. 26, 2020
Jan26

Chamber Connection – Jan. 26, 2020

Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce logo Sulphur Springs Texas By Butch Burney If you need incentive to get into the 1980s mood for the 95th Annual Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Membership Banquet, then how about a couple of tickets to a Bon Jovi concert.Clayton Homes is sponsoring the prize for the best 1980s-dressed person at the banquet with a pair of tickets to see Bon Jovi in concert in April. The banquet, scheduled for...

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Evaluating The Effect Of Frost, Freeze On The Landscape
Jan25

Evaluating The Effect Of Frost, Freeze On The Landscape

Mario Villarino DVM, Ph.D., Hopkins County Extension Agent By Dr. Mario Villarino, Texas AgriLife Extension Agriculture/Natural Resources Agent, Hopkins County, [email protected]. As we move through our winter season, it is important to learn how to evaluate the effect of frost in the landscape. According to AgriLife Extension horticulturists, after a freeze or frost, the leaves of damaged herbaceous plants may immediately appear...

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Information from the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Welding Shop
Jan25

Information from the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Welding Shop

SIGNING IN New structural welding students at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center fill out their registration forms on the computer with the help of welding instructor John Plemons, standing. The students seated are Gage Blackburn, Trevor Davis and Johnathon Foster. Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs New structural welding students at the PJC Sulphur Springs Center

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COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Time Change, Shortage Of Testing Supplies Reported For CHRISTUS Facilities
Jan25

COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Time Change, Shortage Of Testing Supplies Reported For CHRISTUS Facilities

Holly Ragan, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected] COVID Testing at CHRISTUS Trinity Clinics | Urgent Care COVID Test Due to a shortage of COVID testing supplies, we unfortunately cannot guarantee that rapid tests will be available. If rapid tests are not available, we will be able to send out a COVID PCR test, which typically results in 2 days, but could take up...

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CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs And NETX Public Health District Partner To Offer Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines
Jan25

CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs And NETX Public Health District Partner To Offer Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines

Holly Ragan, Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected] Sulphur Springs, Texas, January 25, 2022 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs will be partnering with Northeast Texas Public Health District to provide COVID vaccinations for children ages 5 through 11. The vaccine clinic will be held in the MMU tent located in the parking lot north of the hospital...

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Velma Rawson
Jan25

Velma Rawson

Velma Rawson Funeral services for Velma (Short) Rawson, 95, of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 27, 2022, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Jerry Savage officiating. Graveside services will be at Restlawn Memorial Park with Bryan Heaps, Mason Rawson, Chad Rawson, Leslee Rawson, Troy Tutle and Caleb Denton serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be at West Oaks Funeral Home on Wednesday, January 26, 2022,...

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Margie Fletcher Newton
Jan25

Margie Fletcher Newton

Born 10/12/1926 in Colfax, LA, to Nat and Eula Fletcher. She married W.L. Newton and they raised 2 sons (Ron and Travis). She and W.L. traveled the Lower 48, Alaska and Canada. She lived 40+ years in Louisiana; 50 years in Texas; and three years in Baton Rouge, LA. Margie was a member of First Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs. Before dawn, Saturday, 1/22/2022, Margie died peacefully on her couch at home. She was preceded in death by...

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