Vocational and Associate Degree Nursing Students Receive Award
Paris Junior College vocational and associate degree nursing students received awards during pinning ceremonies held during the final week of the spring semester. Vocational nursing student perfect attendance awards went to Maddie Marie Bowers of Paris and Madison Rose Oats of Cooper. During the vocational nursing ceremony, the Hopkins-Nicholas Award for outstanding performance in both classroom and clinical training went to Brittany...
Training Building Tradesmen; Summer Campus Improvements; Baseball, Softball Remodeling
Finding tradesmen for construction jobs such as home building is said to be more difficult in current times. To address that need, Sulphur Springs High School is bringing back a building trades class to help train tradesmen of the future. The building trades class will be building a house on Fore Street in Sulphur Springs on a lot owned by the school district. The slab is expected to be poured this summer. School district Director of...
More Than 500 Graduate From PJC in May Ceremony
By Paul Bailey The west stands of Noyes Stadium was packed as Paris Junior College held its 92nd spring graduation ceremony Friday evening, May 12. PJC had 512 students graduating from PJC with a certificate or associate degree, and nearly 260 students chose to participate in the graduation ceremony. The ceremony opened with an invocation by Student Government Association president Logan Thomas and a song performed by PJC alumna and...
PJC Offers TIG Welding Class
Third semester welding student Erik Tussey, right, of Sulphur Springs, practices Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding under the watchful eye of lab technician Xavier Plata during his class in the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center welding shop. To learn more about the welding program and other workforce training classes, stop by the campus located at 1137 Loop 301 East or call 903-885-1232.
SSES Hosts Summer Programs for Hopkins County
Sulphur Springs Elementary School is hosting a variety of summer programs for all of Hopkins County. There is Happy Campers Summer School, Summer YMCA, STEM, Cooking Camp, open library, and a free meals program. Shelby Gibson, District Elementary Librarian for all of the elementary schools in Sulphur Springs, sat down with KSST to talk about the programs being offered this summer at SSES. The Happy Campers Summer School currently has...
Sulphur Springs High School Graduation
On Friday May 26th, 275 Seniors graduated from Sulphur Springs High School. The Salutatorian, Tori Mattison, thanked her classmates for “supplying me with memories that will last a lifetime.” She encouraged her fellow graduates saying they were “not at the end of our story but the end beginning…Wherever we each may go from here, may we each strive for greatness.” The Valedictorian, Lydia Burleson, had a...
SSISD Special Meeting Friday Focused on Personnel
A special meeting of the Sulphur Springs ISD school board was held on Friday, May 26, 2017. The only item of business for the board focused on personnel changes. Resignations Omie Penny Pre-K Aide ECLC Kayla Bohannon Grade 4 Teacher SS Elementary Misty Abron English Teacher Middle School...
SSISD Kindergarten Registration is Online May 30-June 2, 2017
Registration for Sulphur Springs ISD Kindergarten has a process that is different for the new school year. Sulphur Springs ISD Parents: The 2017-2018 Kindergarten Roundup is Tuesday-Friday, May 30-June 2, 2017. The district now uses online registration through Skyward Family Access which can be completed at home or, if one needs access to a computer, in the Early Childhood Learning Center (ECLC) Parent Center, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. If...
SSHS Seniors Practice for Friday’s Graduation Ceremony
The 2017 Sulphur Springs High School Graduation will be on Friday May 26 at 7:00 pm in the Arena of the Hopkins County Civic Center. SSHS Staff expect that the commencement will end around 8:30pm. Guest and Visitor parking will be in the civic center parking lot. 275 Students will be taking part in the Friday night ceremony, and 28 students will be honors graduates. Special recognition honors go to Lydia Burleson, who is this...
Graduation News Around Hopkins County
SSISD…Graduation on Friday May 26 at 7:00 pm in the Arena of the Hopkins County Civic Center. There are 285 graduates wearing the cap and gown, with Lydia Burleson and Tori Mattison representing the top of the Class of 2017. NORTH HOPKINS…28 students will be handed their diplomas on Saturday May 27 at 3 pm in the W.S. Long Gymnasium. Mary Brown is Valedictorian and Christian Matlock is Valedictorian. SALTILLO…Anna...
