Sulphur Springs High School 2021 BBQ Build Off Draws 7 Schools, 8 Teams
Sulphur Springs High School’s annual BBQ Build Off may have been a couple of teams smaller than usual, but was still a success, thanks to the many local businesses who contributed to help with costs of materials and awards for participant FFA groups. According to the SSHS FFA instructor costs for materials needed for students to challenge themselves to build a barbecue pit within a limited time frame on the school ground has...
Travel Tuesday: Atlas Ocean Voyages To Set Sail On New Ship In July
Atlas Ocean Voyages is a new cruise line with smaller luxury ships that specializes in bucket-list worthy adventures. Their first ship, World Navigator, is the first of what will be a fleet of five similar sized ships to be released by the end of 2023. World Navigator will set sail July of 2021 and will offer it’s 196 passengers once-in-a-lifetime journeys in remote and bucket-list destinations. From the Black Sea to South...
Fall 2021 Career Fair Registration at Texas A&M-Commerce Now Open
Registration is now open for Fall 2021 recruiting events at Texas A&M-Commerce. This fall our events will be a mix of in-person and virtual recruiting! Registration Fees start as low as $129. Save 20% with a mix and match 3-fair package deal starting at just $299. Sponsorship packages are available to build your brand on campus for as little as $249. In-Person Career Fairs & EventsCollege of Business Career...
The Flowers on the Hay Meadow, by Mario Villarino
This year has certainly has taking longer to become spring weather like. Although nice to work outside and enjoy, the presence of colder weather weeds in the pastures and meadows is still a situation farmers and ranchers have to deal with. I am including an overview release by Texas A&M AgriLife forage specialist Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olsen in Overton. Although the presented weeds are really winter weather loving, since our hot...
Freddie Miller
Graveside service for Freddie Wayne Miller, age 84, of Miller Grove, TX will be held at 10:30A.M. on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at Miller Grove Cemetery with Pastor Wayne Darty officiating. Mr. Miller passed away on May 9, 2021 at his residence. Freddie was born on April 25, 1937 in Middlesboro, KY to Sadie Miller. He was raised in Artemus, KY. He served in the National Guard when he was 16 and served in the United States Navy at age 18...
SSISD Trustees Approve 60 Personnel Changes During May 10 Meeting
Sulphur Springs ISD trustees approved 60 personnel changes Monday evening during their regular board meeting; among the 1 1/2 pages of SSISD personnel changes were four notices of retirement, nearly two dozen resignations and new hires, and more than a dozen personnel job/campus swaps which will impact every district campus. The oath of office was administered to two incumbent trustees and board officers were agreed upon by trustees....
Mindy Vine
Memorial service for Mindy Vine, age 43, of Sulphur Springs, TX will be held at 4:00P.M. on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Ruby Ellis officiating. Ms. Vine passed away on May 8, 2021 at Sunny Springs Health and Rehab in Sulphur Springs, TX. Mindy was born on February 4, 1978 in Dallas, TX to Warren Ringold and Glenna (Hicks) Vine. She always had a smile on her face and was laughing. Mindy was always a...
PJC Music Student Rebekah Veien Wins Texoma Piano Competition
PJC music student Rebekah Veien of Paris is shown at the piano where she recorded her winning entry in the Texoma Piano Competition. Paris Junior College music student Rebekah Veien recently took first prize in her category of the Texoma Piano Competition, hosted in April by the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Department of Music. Her virtual entry featured a performance of French composer Claude Debussy’s “The Sunken...
‘History by Foot’ Participants Will Tour Connally St. at 10AM May 22
Local Historian John Sellers Local historian John Sellers stays busy in several areas of interest in his hometown. But his interest in local history was fueled early in life by connections to Sydney Brice and June Tuck, who researched and compiled many of the historical records we now depend on. Also, even earlier, Celia Wright, John C. McDonald and C.O. James were keeping records on Hopkins County that he uses now in his research....
Rowena Johnson’s 50-Year Legacy As Educator To Continue At Lamar Campus
Rowena Johnson’s 50-year legacy as an educator will continue at Sulphur Springs ISD at the campus where she dedicated the final 27 years of her career as principal. SSISD Board of Trustees Monday evening voted unanimously to honor Johnson’s dedication to education by changing the name of Lamar Primary to Rowena Johnson Primary School. Rowena Johnson retired in June 2020, and was honored by the school board for her 50 years...
