Sulphur Springs Officials Discuss City Tax Rate, Budget During Workshops
Reduction In Tax Rate, Small Increase In Utility Fees Proposed Sulphur Springs officials have been hard at work this summer shaping and tightening up a budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. After two special meetings with Sulphur Springs City Council, officials anticipated proposing a city tax rate that will be not quite 2 cents lower, while recommending a small increase to city utility fees to keep up with inflation and apply toward...
Lady Cats Volleyball Goes 2-1 in Day One of Garland Tournament
The Lady Cats volleyball team will have their hands full the next two weekends as they participate in not one but two tournaments over the course of this weekend and next. Today Coach Bailey Dorner, head Lady Cats volleyball coach and her squad travelled out to the DFW metroplex to take part in the Garland tournament. The Lady Cats were set for a long day of stiff competition, as they were set to play their first game at 9 A.M. versus...
SSHS Wildcat Theatre’s First Performance Of 2021-22 Planned Aug. 15
Donations Will Benefit Theatre Scholarship Fund The Sulphur Springs High School Wildcat Theatre’s first performance of the 2021-22 school year begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15, on the SSHS Auditorium stage at the Civic Center. The performance of K.T. Lee’s “On How to Accommodate Marlo’s Frying Pan” will be the conclusion of the students’ annual theater marathon. “For the marathon, students...
Officials Propose 4-Cent Reduction in County Tax Rate
Hopkins County Tax Assessor/Collect Debbie Pogue Mitchell Friday proposed setting the county tax rate at $0.584035 per $100 property valuation, a 4-cent tax reduction. Mitchell explained that the Comptroller requires that two rates be considered in establishing a county tax rate and made public: a no-new-revenue tax rate, the amount needed to raise the same amount of property tax revenue from the same properties in both the 2020 tax...
Sulphur Springs ISD Media Release for Seamless Summer Option Free Meals 2021-2022
Sulphur Springs ISD’s Child Nutrition Department announced its policy for this school year,healthy meals will be offered every school day to all students at no cost. Typically, a student’sapplication must meet income eligibility requirements to qualify for free or reduced-price meals.However, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a guidance that allowsschools to offer free meals to all students under the Seamless...
Wildcats Football Set for First Scrimmage Today at Liberty Eylau
The Wildcats football team, lead by head coach and athletic director Greg Owens, are prepped for their first scrimmage of the fall 2021 season when they travel out to Texarkana to play Liberty Eylau tonight. The match is set to kick-off tonight at 7 P.M. The scrimmage will take place at LESD’s Harris Field, home to the Leopards, and should be a good one between these two teams. After the Wildcats participate in their first...
Kiwanis Speaker Addresses Human Trafficking, Recruitment in NE Texas
L. to R. Hillary Evans and Julie Prettiman Julie Prettiman, wife of a Greenville pastor and adoptive parent of six, had been a stay-at-home mom until a member of her own family had a very close brush with human trafficking of a teen for the sex trade. That’s when Julie’s involvement with the non-profit Poiema Foundation headquarters in Rockwall, Texas proved to be life-saving. According to their mission statement,...
Man Accused Of Shooting A Woman With An Air Rifle
A 27-year-old Sulphur Springs man accused of shooting a woman with an air rifle was jailed Thursday evening on an assault charge, according to arrest and jail reports. Sulphur Springs Police reported responding at 9:50 p.m. Aug. 12, 2021, on South Moore Street to a disturbance in which a woman was alleged to have been shot in the leg with BB gun. The address was one in where officers on another shift were told an assault had occurred...
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones Our sweet Kimberly Konganmach Jones passed away on August 4, 2021, at the age of 36. Kim is survived by her husband, Justin Jones, and their daughter, Azalea Jones; Her father, Amnach “Tom” Konganmach; her brother, Nicholas Kongamnach; sister-in-law, Claudia Kongamnach; her nephews, Cameron and Ethan Konganmach; and many more dear relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother, Diana Kongamnach, and...
Susan Kay McGarity Burns
Susan Kay McGarity Burns On Tuesday August 10, 2021, Susan Kay McGarity Burns, loving sister, mother and Nana, went home to rest in the arms of Jesus at the age of 65. Susan was born to John and Virginia Sue McGarity on May 11, 1956, in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She had a passion for crafting, sewing and a servant’s heart. She was a nurse for over 30 years. Susan was of the Lutheran faith. A Celebration of Life will be held at a...
