SSISD Opts For Buses Without Seat Belts Due to Budget Constraints
Sulphur Springs Independent School District moving forward will purchase school buses without seat belts for general bus routes, district trustees decided this week. Pre-kindergarten and Head Start buses will still have the safety devices required by law, but all other new buses will not have seat belts for students.Superintendent Michael Lamb cited budget constraints as the prime reason for his recommendation of buses without seat...
Gabby Idzi, Kavan Smith Recognized As Top Miller Grove 8th Graders
Gabby Idzi and Kavan Smith have been announced as the top 8th graders at Miller Grove Junior High this year. Gabby Idzi, daughter of Robert and Michele Idzi, is the MGJHs valedictorian. She is a member of Awana’s Youth Group at Brashear Baptist Church and helps her mom and dad around the house as much as possible. Gabby participated in many UIL events and has gained many awards. This year she placed second in calculator, fifth in...
SSHS Spring Football Wraps Up
Wildcats Varsity and JV Take on Gilmer in 7 on 7 Football Tuesday Night The Wildcats’ 7 on 7 football teams, JV and Varsity, took on Gilmer Tuesday evening (May 14) in the Multipurpose Building. Both teams got in two games with the Buckeyes. In the first Varsity game, the Wildcats and Buckeyes tied, 35-35 with Gilmer scoring a touchdown right as the horn went off signaling the end of the game. Quarterback Noe Ponce led the...
Miller Grove ISD Breaks Ground On New Track
Miller Grove ISD Board of Trustees Secretary Bret Garrett, member Ray Sparks, and President Brandon Darrow; Anna Ferguson, who donated a portion of the land where the new track will be built); and board members, Doug Hall, Vice President Eric Mabe, John Wilbur and Clark May officially break ground on the new MGISD track project Monday. Miller Grove ISD board members officially broke ground on the site of the new school track on...
20 Personnel Decisions Approved for SSISD, 3 Trustees Sworn In Monday
Twenty personnel recommendations were approved, the new and reelected school board members sworn in, and officers elected by Sulphur Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees at their regular May board Monday evening. Board of Trustees Sulphur Springs ISD Election Officer Sandra Gibby administers the oath of office Monday evening to John Prickette, Leesa Toliver and Craig Roberts, who were unopposed during filing for the...
Graduation Time
PJC-Sulphur Springs Center Assistant Director Iris Gutierrez helps student Melody Shannon try on a graduation robe to prepare for the Friday evening commencement exercises. Shannon will be one of several hundred students receiving their diplomas at the 7 p.m. ceremony in the stadium on the PJC Paris campus.
Rains, Como-Pickton Teams Take Top Honors In SSHS BBQ Build Off, Cooking Honors Won By Bland
Top honors in the Sulphur Springs High School BBQ Build Off Friday went to Rains High School ag students for their smoker and to Bland High School in the cooking contest. Rains team accepts their first place awards at the SSHS BBQ Build Off.The Rains ISD team with their first place barbecue smoker at SSHS BBQ Build Off. The annual contest featured teams of three and four students from nine different high schools, including Sulphur...
200 Athletes Compete In 10th Annual Hopkins County Track and Field Meet
Friday’s early morning rain may have forced the 10th Annual Hopkins County Track and Field Meet inside, but it did nothing to dampen the excitement and enthusiasm of the 200 student athletes competing in the special sports day at Sulphur Springs High School Friday. Students from Barbara Bush, Lamar and Travis Primary campuses, Sulphur Springs Elementary, Middle and High School in Sulphur Springs ISD were joined by student...
SaDavia Porter Runs at State Meet Friday Night, Plus Some Sports MVP’s
Briefly in sports, Lady Cat track sprinter SaDavia Porter will compete at the State Track Meet Friday night (May 10), weather permitting. Porter will run in the Class 5A 100-meter dash at UT Austin beginning at 7:05 p.m. Porter will run in lane one in the nine athlete field. Without a main SSHS athletic banquet this year, each sport is having their own gathering and their MVP’s are being announced. Wildcats Golf Coach Chris...
8th Annual SSHS BBQ Build Off Well Under Way Friday
Nine teams compete in the Sulphur Springs High School BBQ Build Off Friday. Teams from nine school districts got a real world taste of fulfilling a work order, setting up and beginning their entries in the rain at the 8th Annual Sulphur Springs High School BBQ Build Off Friday morning. “The contest simulates a real job site, which can mean dealing with the weather,” SSHS ag mechanics teacher John Luper said Friday morning....
