Miller Grove FFA Monthly Spotlight
Miller Grove FFA students have been busy this Fall with welding, livestock and floral projects, Jackpot Show plans, Leadership competitions and community service. Spotlight photos and reports by MGHS Ag Sciences Advisor Kristin Fortenberry
Sights And Sounds Of The Season Are Focus Of Sulphur Springs ISD Fine Arts Students
Sulphur Springs ISD Fine Arts students over the next two weeks will provide holiday cheers as the program launches its annual Sights And Sounds of the Season tour across district campuses, including a number of night performances so they can share holiday cheer with the community as well. Some, like the Jazz Band, started their season early with a concert during Heritage in the Park. Students also performed during the 15th Annual...
First Known Case Of COVID-19 Omicron Variant In Texas Identified In Harris County
DSHS News Release – 6:59 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 The first known Texas case of the COVID-19 B.1.1.529 variant has been identified in a resident of Harris County. The adult female resident was recently diagnosed with COVID-19. Results of genetic sequencing this week showed that the infection was caused by the Omicron variant strain. The case is being investigated by Harris County Public Health and the Texas Department of State...
Chicago Man, Garland Woman Caught In A Stolen Car
A 21-year-old Chicago, Illinois man and 18-yarold Garland, Texas woman were caught in a stolen car Sunday night, according to arrest reports,. Allen Bernard Griffin IV (HCSO jail photo) Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Thomas Patterson reported stopping a Cadillac DTS shown in a records check at at 6:12 p.m. Dec. 5, 2021 to have been reported stolen in Garland. at mile marker 128 on Interstate 30 east. He took both the...
5 SSHS Choir Students Advance To TMEA Area Contest
Middle, High School Choral Music Students To Perform Concert Dec. 7 Sulphur Springs High School Choir students competed at Texas Music Educators Association Pre Area contest on Thursday, December 2, 2021. Five SSHS choir students, two freshmen and three sophomores, advanced to the TMEA Area competition. SSHS Area Choir Qualifiers Celeste McCoy, Axel Garcia, Lausen Ost, Colbie Glenn and Summer Patterson Students advancing from...
Sentence Reached For Cumby Man Accused Of Shooting His Pregnant Wife
A 43-year-old Cumby man accused of shooting his pregnant wife in August has been sentenced as part of a plea agreement, according to prosecutors and court reports. Jason Cory Sanders (HCSO jail photo) Jason Cory Sanders has remained in custody at Hopkins County jail since his arrest on Aug. 10, 2021, on a capital murder charge, according to jail reports. He was accused of shooting his wife, who was about 9-weeks pregnant, in the torso...
Obituary – James “J.E.” “Slick” Warren
James “J.E.” “Slick” Warren Celebration of life for James “J.E” “Slick” Warren, age 57 of Paris, Texas, will be held at a later date. Mr. Warren passed away on December 4, 2021, at Christus Mother Frances- Sulphur Springs. James was born on November 11, 1964, in Houston, Texas, to James Roy and Alice Arlene (Blankenship) Warren. He worked as a rock hauler at Cantera Transport. James married Sherrie Willhite. He was a member of the...
Cumby ISD Students Qualify For State TAFE Contest
Over the weekend, Cumby ISD students qualified for the state TAFE (Texas Association of Future Educators) Contest in three different areas. Members of the Cumby chapter of Texas Association of Future Educators at Region 8 Education Service Center. (Cumby ISD photo) The Cumby students participated in the 2021 TAFFE Area 6 Conference, hosted at Region 8 Education Service Center on Dec. 3, 2021. At lease five of those students are state...
Lillian Jean Hearne Thompson
Lillian Jean Hearne Thompson Lillian Jean Hearne Thompson, age 90, of Sulphur Springs, died peacefully on Friday morning, December 3, 2021, in Sulphur Springs after several years of Alzheimer’s disease. She was a resident of Wesley Oaks Memory Care in Sulphur Springs. She was born April 11, 1931, the daughter of Coy Winston Hearne and Lillian Eoline Walker Hearne. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas in 1948 and...
Wildcats Basketball Goes 3-2 in Mansfield Tournament
The Wildcats basketball team had a solid outing Mansfield, going 3-2 over three days in the tournament from Thursday through Saturday Dec. 3-5. Sulphur Springs went 1-1 on Thursday, Dec. 3, losing their first game in Mansfield to 6A Atascocita but rebounded by getting a big win over Arlington’s Seguin High School. Friday the team got two more wins, first in a rout of the Wilson Wildcats 80-56 then against College Station’s...