Archer Named State Champion In Latino History, 3 Additional SSHS Students Among Top 5 In Essay Contests
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Archer Named State Champion In Latino History, 3 Additional SSHS Students Among Top 5 In Essay Contests

Sulphur Springs High School students brought home four awards, including a state title, following UIL’s announced April 30 of winners for UIL Essay contests. Harley Archer won the Latino Historical Essay Competition with her paper about Bea Salazar. (Screen Captures from the virutal UIL 2021 Essay Competition Awards) Junior Harley Archer was named the 2021 State Champion in the Latino History Essay Competition with her essay...

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Lynn Fisher
Apr30

Lynn Fisher

Funeral services for Lynn Fisher, age 41, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, May 3, 2021, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Yantis Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, May 2, 2021, at West Oaks Funeral Home. Lynn passed away on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Bonham. Arrangements are under the direction of West Oaks Funeral Home. www.westoaksfuneralhome.com With our...

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Hopkins County Records – April 30, 2021
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Hopkins County Records – April 30, 2021

Land Deed Transactions TTT Limited to Gene Burton and Julie Burton; tract in the Country Club EstatesTTT Limited to Saywer Sinclair; tract in the Country Club EstatesGary Lewis and Rachel H. Lewis to Nicole Lynn Zamora and Ryan Michael Zamora; tract in the Agaton Caro surveyLarry G. Newton and Sharon K. Newton to Jeffrey Gene NewtonKatelyn Beech to Andrew Dansby; tract in the E. Melton survey100 MPH+ Property Management LLC to Andre...

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SSHS Pole Vaulting Coach Clark Cipoletta Discusses Lady Cat Claire Bybee Who is Heading To State
Apr30

SSHS Pole Vaulting Coach Clark Cipoletta Discusses Lady Cat Claire Bybee Who is Heading To State

Sulphur Springs High School Pole Vaulting Coach Clark Cipoletta says he is just a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to coaching Lady Cats’ pole vaulter Claire Bybee, who qualified for the State Track Meet May 7-8 at UT Austin at the Region II Track Meet on April 24 at UTA. Coach Cipoletta says Bybee also gets good instruction from a private coach and from her father, who was a vaulter in college. He says Bybee is a hard...

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Lady Cats Softball Opens Bi-District Series Friday at Marshall, Weather Permitting
Apr30

Lady Cats Softball Opens Bi-District Series Friday at Marshall, Weather Permitting

Weather permitting, the Lady Cats Softball Team will open their bi-district series with Lufkin with a doubleheader at Marshall Friday (April 30) beginning at 6 p.m. The first team to win two games will advance to the Area round. The Lady Cats are a #1 seed and Lufkin is a #4 seed. The Lady Cats are 22-3 for the season and Marshall is 13-12. The winner of the Lady Cats and Lady Panthers series will face the winner of a Crandall and...

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Mike Morrow
Apr30

Mike Morrow

A private Memorial service for Mike Morrow, age 58, of Garland, TX will be held at a later date.    Mr. Morrow passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at his home in Garland, TX.  He was born the son of James Almer Morrow and Emma Ladale Wyatt Morrow in Greenville, TX on March 18, 1963. Mike was married to Lorenza R. Curts.  He was the owner/operator of a trucking company and had a Masters Degree in Business Administration.  Survivors...

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PJC Opens Virtual “Pyro PlayFest: A Few of Our Favorites” This Thursday
Apr30

PJC Opens Virtual “Pyro PlayFest: A Few of Our Favorites” This Thursday

Finding comfort in the familiar, Paris Junior College opens a limited virtual run of the “Seventh New Works Festival: Pyro Playfest – A Few of Our Favorites” this Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. The free festival will be available on the PJC YouTube channel until Sunday, May 2 at 5:30 p.m. The playfest features original works that have not been previously performed. While in-person performances are not currently allowed due to...

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PJC Regents Approve New Internet Service
Apr30

PJC Regents Approve New Internet Service

Though Paris Junior College was aware that internet service provided through the NETnet consortium of 15 East Texas colleges and universities was slated to end in 2022, a legal ruling affecting the Federal Trade Commission forced PJC to find a new provider much sooner. At the Monday, April 26, 2021 meeting, the Regents approved the selection of Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) to provide internet service to PJC...

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Como-Pickton CISD, Yantis and Cumby ISD Elections To Be Determined May 1
Apr30

Como-Pickton CISD, Yantis and Cumby ISD Elections To Be Determined May 1

Cumby Residents To Vote on $7.34M-7.941M In Bond Proposals; CP, Yantis Holding School Board Elections Early voting in local school bond and trustees elections concluded Tuesday, with relatively low early voting turnouts reported in Como-Pickton and Yantis ISD elections, but a higher turn out for the Cumby ISD two-proposal $7.34-7.941 million bond election than the bond election conducted in 2019. Como-Pickton CISD Trustees Election...

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Vaccine Supplies Plentiful, Available Through CHRISTUS Vaccine Clinic Roll-Outs
Apr30

Vaccine Supplies Plentiful, Available Through CHRISTUS Vaccine Clinic Roll-Outs

During the Thursday April 29, 2021 Good Morning Show on KSST, CHRISTUS CEO Paul Harvey and CNO Anitha Sanderson informed listeners about plentiful vaccines in all three types, now available through Vaccine Clinics being scheduled through the hospital. Check the hospital website, CHRISTUStmf.org and stay tuned to KSST for clinic dates during May. Or you may phone Holly Ragan at 903-439-4033 to put your name on a list to receive your...

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