Man Who Escaped From District Courtroom Wednesday Still Wore Handcuffs When Located
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office launched a search Wednesday morning for a 53-year-old Sulphur Springs man who managed to escape from the district court room after being placed into custody; the Sulphur Springs man still wore handcuffs when located shortly after midnight, according to sheriff’s and arrest reports. Daryl Christopher Simmons(HCSO jail photo) HCSO Sgt. Tanner Steward, in arrest reports, reported being notified...
National Drug ‘Take Back’ Day Collection Will Be Saturday October 23 at 223 Rosemont St. Parking Lot
In April 2020, local Posse members collected approximately 200 pounds of potentially dangerous controlled substances for disposal. Nationally, over 500 tons were collected and disposed of during 2020. PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL DRUG TAKE BACK DAY SATURDAY OCT. 23, 2021 Hopkins County Sheriff’s Posse/ DEANational Pharmaceutical Take Back On October 23, 2021, from 10am-2pm, in conjunction with the DEA, The...
District & Campus Improvement Plans, Policy Update, Personnel Recommendations Considered During Sulphur Springs SSISD Board Meeting
Fine Arts Letter Jacket Policy, Head Start Policies Discussed As Well Sulphur Springs ISD Board of Trustees worked their way through their regular October agenda this week rather quickly. Approved were campus and district improvement plans, several Head Start documents, a policy update, and 10 personnel recommendations. During public forum, a parent and grandmother asked the school board to review policy requirements for students to...
Lady Cats Volleyball Drops Four Game Set in Edgewood
Coach Bailey Dorner’s program was able to jump out to a 1-0 set lead, but lost three straight sets to drop a four game match to Edgewood. The Lady Cats volleyball team were originally set to have a bye on their schedule, but Coach Dorner added another game to the mix to make sure her team was prepared for the playoffs. After set one it looked like a good decision, with Sulphur Springs taking a tight first set 25-22 to take the...
John Michael Johnson
John Michael Johnson Graveside services for John Michael Johnson, age 74, or Sulphur Springs, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 2021, at Sulphur Springs City Cemetery with Brother Fred Lewis officiating. Visitation for friends and family with be from 1 to 2 p.m. at West Oaks Funeral Home. John passed away on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, with family by his side and daughter Julie holding his hand. John was born on December...
Wildcats Basketball 2021-22 Season Firmed Up
Wildcats football head coach and athletic director of SSISD Greg Owens released the Wildcats basketball schedule on Wednesday, Oct. 20. It will be the first year under new head coach Brandon Shaver, who previously coached at Pine Tree. The season gets underway in a few weeks on Saturday, Nov. 6 when they travel to the thick of the DFW metroplex to take on Irving MacAuthor. The Wildcats basketball...
Wildcats Middle School Football A and B Teams Stay Undefeated With Two Games Left
The Middle School Wildcat Football A and B team traveled to Pine Tree to face the Pirates and both teams came out victorious. This makes six straight wins for the Wildcats Middle School Football teams with only two games left in the season. A and B teams are 6-0 for the season. The eighth grade A Team won 35-26 versus the Pirates. On both offensive and defensive lines Juan Reyes, Justin Strickland, Aiden Godbolt, Jeffery Stevenson,...
Week 3: Hopkins County United Way At 40 Percent Of Goal
Hopkins County United Way marked the half-way point in the United Way campaign, after three full weeks of the campaign approximately 40 percent of the $150,000 campaign goal had been collected. Over the last week alone, HCUW campaign workers collected $27,786. When added to the 22 collected during the first two weeks of the campaign, that brings the total amount raised as of Oct. 19 to $60,554.15. That leaves three weeks to go in the...
Norma Jean Draper
November 1, 1939 ~ October 14, 2021 (age 81) Norma Jean Draper It was in Port Arthur, Texas, on November 1, 1939, that Thaxton and Thelma Mills welcomed their fourth baby, Norma Jean. Her brother and two sisters adored her, and she loved being the baby sister. Norma’s family moved to Mount Vernon, where she thrived thrashing peanuts, taking care of animals, and learning how to be a strong, resilient and capable lady. In school, she...
TAMUC Student To Receive Outstanding Grad Student- Specialist Level Award
COMMERCE, Texas — The Texas Association of School Psychologists’ (TASP) Awards and Honors committee recently selected Kelli Lahman—a graduate student in the Specialist in School Psychology program at Texas A&M University-Commerce — as the winner of the 2021 award for Outstanding Grad Student-Specialist Level. Lahman has received numerous scholarships and awards during her time at A&M-Commerce. She is the founder and past...
