Former Wildcat Triston Abron is New Head Coach at Class 4A Mexia
Former Wildcats player, assistant coach and defensive coordinator Triston Abron has been hired as the Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Class 4A Mexia High School. The Mexia ISD announced the hiring in a tweet Monday (February 24). Coach Abron departs Paul Pewitt after two seasons as head coach of the Brahmas including last season’s trip to the Class 3A, Division II State Championship Game in December. The Brahmas went 14-2 last season.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
Wildcats Basketball Date, Time and Place Set for Area Game With Red Oak Hawks
Things are all set for the next Wildcats Basketball playoff game, an Area round game. Wildcats Coach Clark Cipoletta announced Wednesday (February 26) the Wildcats, ranked #10 in Class 5A, will be playing Red Oak, ranked #12 in Class 5A, in Forney on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Red Oak topped West Mesquite, 69-62 Tuesday night in DeSoto. The Wildcats defeated Lufkin Monday night, 78-55 at Tyler Junior College. The Red Oak Hawks, the district champion of District 14-5A, were a perfect 12-0 in district and their season record is now 23-11. The Wildcats are 27-8 for the season.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
Globe Life Field Update: Toilets Flush
A recent significant update on the construction the new home of the Texas Rangers is that all the toilets flush. This is obviously done to stress test the elaborate plumbing system before the 2020 Season opens on March 26th, 2020. Super strange and wacky, but it’s pretty common practice before opening a large facility like this one.
Another update is that the front office has now officially moved into the new office space at Globe Life Field! The new official address for the ballpark is:
Texas Rangers Baseball Club
734 Stadium Drive, Arlington, TX 76011
You can purchase tickets to the 2020 season here.
Pre-season games are underway, and KSST is broadcasting mainly weekend games through March 23rd. KSST has ordered hundreds of tickets and will give them away to loyal listens during the season.
KSST 1230 AM is proud to broadcast Texas Ranger Baseball to fans across North East Texas. Fans who wish to purchase tickets may do so here.
Richardson Woman Jailed On Hopkins County Warrant
A 38-year-old Richardson woman was taken into custody by Hopkins County Sheriff‘s Deputy Elijah Fite at 2 p.m. Feb. 25 at Plane State Jail in Dayton, Texas, on a Hopkins County warrant.
Fite transported Shannon Doty to Hopkins County jail, where she was booked on a warrant for burglary of a habitation, which arrest reports indicate occurred in May 10, 2019.
Doty is also reportedly known by Shannon Renea (Ranea) Oglesby, Shannon Renea Greenlee, Shannon Bruner and Shannon Renaw Wood.
Doty remained in Hopkins County jail Wednesday, Feb. 26. Bond was set at $25,000 on the burglary charge, according to jail reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Sulphur Springs Pair Accused Of Substance Charge Possession
February 26, 2020 – Sheriff’s officers stopped a Ford F150 around 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 for running the red light at that Bill Bradford Road and Gilmer Street intersection. Officers ended up taking the Sulphur Springs man and woman in the truck to jail for controlled substance possession, according to arrest reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Lt. Amanda Weatherford and Sgt. Scott Davis reported detecting a strong alcohol odor in the truck upon contact with occupants Staci Lynn Burkham and Claston Wayne Bearden.
Bearden appeared to the deputies to be “extremely nervous and lied about his criminal history,” Weatherford alleged in arrest reports. When asked about weapons, Bearden also reportedly admitted to having a pocket knife in his front pocket, which he gave the officer permission to remove.
The deputy reported feeling a plastic bag in Bearden’s pocket while retrieving the knife. The bag contained a crystal-like substance deputies believed to be methamphetamine. Consequently, Bearden was taken into custody. The bag and substance allegedly weighed 3.27 grams, resulting in Bearden’s arrest for possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance.
The vehicle was then searched. A bag containing what appeared to the officers be a usable amount of suspected methamphetamine, two pipes of the kind use to smoke methamphetamine and a red straw with suspected methamphetamine residue inside of it were allegedly found during the vehicle search. The bag weighed 0.4 grams, resulting in Burkham’s arrest for possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Both 47-year-old Sulphur Springs residents were taken to jail; the truck was impounded. Claston, who is also known as Bearden Claxton, Wayne Dumas Claston, Claston Wayne Dumas and Claxton W. Bearden, remained in Hopkins County jail Wednesday morning, Feb. 26, in lieu of $20,000 on the controlled substance. Burkham, who is also known by Stacy Lynn Rawls Burkham and Staci Lynn Rawls Burkham, remained in jail in lieu of $5,00 bond on the controlled substance charge.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
SSHS Theatre Students To Perform OAP ‘Emma’s Child’ On March 1
Sulphur Springs High School Theatre Department will offer local residents a sneak peak at the One Act Play the student will perform at competition on Tuesday. They will perform Kristine Thatcher’s OAP “Emma’s Child” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, in the Sulphur Springs High School Auditorium.
In “Emma’s Child,” seniors Rachel Bramlett and Chase Berry portray Jean and Henry Farrell, who, after years of unsuccessfully attempting to have a baby of their own, decide to adopt. Sophomore AllieGrace Woodard plays Emma, the birth mother who approves of the couple. Then, they begin awaiting the birth of their child.
When the time comes, it is not a happy occasion, however, as the baby boy Robin, is born hydrocephalic and will not live long. Jean falls for this child anyway; the attention she pays to Robin not only threatens to tear her marriage apart, but causes trouble at the hospital as well. Jean’s best friend Franny, played by junior Rorie Young, and some loving nurses (portrayed by juniors Anthony Arroyo and Hannah Shultz, help Jean as she deals with the ensuing problems
Junior Haylee Fletcher and sophomores Emilie Gotcher, Caleb Talmage, and Lucy Braddy round out the cast.
Stage Manager sophomore Anayeli De La Cruz and Technical Stage Manager sophomore Brandon Williams lead the technical team of which includes senior Alex Walker; junior Gregg English; sophomore Heather Horne; and freshmen Danielle Verlander, Ricardo Chavarria, Markida Hood and Khira Young.
Tickets for the SSHS Theatre production are $1 for students and $3 for adults.
Independent Sulphur Springs Team Places Second At Destination Imagination
An independent group of Sulphur Springs youth earned second place honors in the Destination Imagination contest held recently.
While not officially an Sulphur Springs Independent School District team, all four students reportedly attend high school in SSISD.
“These are high school kids who love DI so much that they formed their own team and their parents pay for it themselves,” reports SSMS teacher Brooke Howard.
The team consisting of Dawson Carpenter, Savannah Lilley, Lexi McCoy and Aubrey Williams and coaches Brooke Howard and Clay Hansford received second place honors in the Secondary Level Scientific Challenge.
The theme for this contest is “First Encounter.” The Scientific Challenge encourages students to blend scientific research with the creative expression of performance art. Teams are challenged to:
- Research a real species and a real habitat.
- Create and present a story about the first encounter between the species and the habitat.
- Show how the species and the habitat change as a result of the encounter.
- Present the story in theater in the round.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
Although they will not advance to state, the students are commended for their achievement and dedication. The students reportedly started working weekly on their challenge solution in August, and for the last few months have worked daily.
Hopkins County Teen Jailed For Allegedly Threatening Family Members With Knife
A Hopkins County teen allegedly threatened his family with a knife and ended up in jail on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge, according to sheriff’s reports.
Hopkins County sheriff’s dispatchers received a 911 call at 7:07 p.m. Feb. 25 in which a FM 1536 resident’s 18-year-old son was reported to be suicidal and to have run away. The 18-year-old was reported to have a knife while threatening to kill himself and his family. Sheriff’s Deputies Bobby Osornio, Zach Horne and Sgt. Scott Davis responded, according to sheriff’s and arrest reports.
Upon arrival at the FM 1536 residence, family members advised deputies Brayden Brown had attempted to gain entry to the house, kicking, punching and stabbing the front door of the residence. Brown reportedly went to the Tira Cemetery, before returning and walking into the residence.
Family members reportedly attempted to calm the teen down, but alleged he got out of hand. Then, the teen began destroying the residence and got into a physical altercation, threatening to kill his family with a knife. Family members alleged while Brayden Lynn Brown was trying to unsheath the knife, they disarmed him of the knife and took him outside the residence.
The teen then reportedly ran away from the residence. Deputies attempted to locate Brown in the area near the residence. A neighbor reportedly found him and deputies took him into custody at 8:41 p.m. Feb. 25. He was booked into the county jail, where he remained Wednesday morning, on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to arrest reports.
The arrest marks the fourth time in less than a year that Brown has been booked into the county jail, and second time he’s been charged with assault. He was first arrested on March 8, 2019 for evading arrest or detention. He was jailed again Sept. 9, 2019 for family violence assault causing injury. Brown was jailed Dec. 2, 2019 for bond forfeiture on the evading arrest or detention charge, according to Hopkins County jail reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Cumby, Como-Pickton Students Earn Top Awards At NETLA Ag Mechanics Show
The NorthEast Texas Livestock Association Ag Mechanics Show featured 29 projects from six schools, some team and some individual projects.
Cumby and Como-Pickton students went home with the top awards presented at Tuesday’s event.
Grand Champion went to Cumby FFA members Fabian Camargo and Logan Miller for their hay bunker and Reserve Champion to Como-Pickton FFA members Jason Monk, Canyon Thomas and Braden Miller. Baylee Bowen, also of Como-Pickton FFA, won the Ag Mechanics Showmanship Award
Class awards were awarded in four class categories: farm, recreation, wildlife and farm shop categories.
The projects featured the work of students who have dedicated numerous hours over days, weeks and months to complete them.
Projects were as unique as the students building them, ranging from picnic tables, utility tables, TV tables, shadow boxes, fire boxes, hay trailer, a shadow box, deer feeder, handcrafted longbow, chuck wagon grill, entry gate, grills, hay squeeze shut and many other agriculture projects.
Some were crafted over time, some designed for functionality and others included intricate details or were customized. Some competitors were experienced, while others competed at the show for the first time.
KC DelCamp and Wiliam Sallee, Miller Grove 
Wyatt Poteet and Eli Hewitt, Miller Grove ISD 
Clayton Tackel, Miller Grove 
Bryce Perez (not pictured, Dalton Morgan), Como-Pickton 
Jacob Smith and Caiden Lewis, Sulphur Springs 
Cash Vititow, Sulphur Springs 
Angel Abrego and Shaden Cruz, Sulphur Springs 
Alayna Chapman, Maci Wright and Presley Cummins, Como-Pickton 
Eli Ham, Sulphur Bluff
For instance, Clayton Tackel, a Miller Grove student, made a picnic table and bench that he waterproofed. Atop the table is painted a Texas flag. The benches are ADA approved to make the bench easier for people in wheelchairs to get into and more accessible to all.
Como-Pickton’s Alayna Chapman, Maci Wright and Presley Cummins also put their own stamp on their picnic table. They went to great lengths to preserve the colors in the wood pieces they used to create in their glossy table, which features tractor seats shaped for a better fit and a metal tractor cutout below it.
However, the table constructed by Sulphur Springs’ Angel Abrego and Shaden Cruz was built more for utility than decoration.
Baylee Bowen crafted a wooden shadow box which has function as well as design; she plans to take it with her to cow shows to hold most of her tack. CP student Bryce Perez crafted a TV table from smaller pieces of wood put together in a zigzag specific pattern and a drawer at the bottom.
Then there’s Sulphur Bluff Eli Ham, who spent two months carefully crafting his longbow. The project started with 1x4s and required lots of time using multiple instruments to shape, sand and string it.
Of course those are only a few examples of the projects entered in the NETLA Ag Mechanics Show.
