Saltillo Lady Lions Basketball Team Gets Solid Win In District Opener At Home
The #15 ranked Saltillo Lady Lions opened district play at home Tuesday, Jan. 7, with an impressive win over Avery, 61-20.
The Lady Lions were red hot from the start and led Avery 22-2 after one quarter. The halftime score was 34-6 and the third quarter score was 49-12.
Anna Reeder led the Lady Lions with 24 points. Chandler Bain had 13 points. Brittney Peeples scored 8 points. Julianna Giles added 5 points. Maddie Smith and Allie Lane had 4 points each. Paisley Kastner scored 2 points.
Lady Lions Coach Bill Giles said this was a good win. He said defensively, the first half was probably their best of the year. Coach Giles said the girls were active, communicating and anticipating really well.
He said his team is getting in the habit of playing hard and competing the entire game. He said this makes the Lady Lions a lot better.
The Lady Lions are 1-0 in district play and 19-7 for the season. The Lady Lions play at Union Hill Friday at 6 p.m. in a varsity only contest.
Police Alleged Arkansas Left Injured Children In Car When Fleeing I-30 Crash
A 32-year-old Heber Springs, Arkansas was accused Tuesday night of leaving his injured children in the vehicle following an interstate crash Tuesday night.
Police were reportedly dispatched to Interstate 30 west at 6:53 p.m. Jan. 7 to a report of a major crash near mile marker 125. Dispatchers reported a man from one involved vehicle was running from the crash scene, traveling west on Industrial Drive, Sulphur Springs Police Lt. Eddie Moon and Officer Zachary Brown alleged in arrest reports.
A police officer reported locating the fleeing person, identified as 32-year-old Tommy Lee Jones of Heber Springs, Arkansas. Jones allegedly admitted he’d been driving a blue Chrysler Sebring that had crashed on the interstate. Police, in arrest reports, allege Jones left injured children in the crash vehicle at the crash site. Two children in the car were later transported to the hospital with possible serious injuries, Moon and Brown alleged in arrest reports.
Moon reported Jones was “acting erratic,” and admitted to the officer that there was a warrant for his arrest. Jones and taken back to the crash site. Dispatchers confirmed the 32-year-old Arkansas man did have an active parole warrant for his arrest out of Arkansas.
Jones was taken into custody at 7:16 p.m. Jan. 7 and transported to jail on the third-degree felony charge of accident involving injury or death and the Arkansas parole warrant, according to arrest reports. He remained in the county jail Wednesday morning, Jan. 8, according to jail reports.
Sulphur Springs City Council Votes Unanimously On Contract For City Manager
Sulphur Springs City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted in favor of a 5-year employment contact for the city manager.
The City Council entered into executive session to discuss matters affecting the office of the city manager, including a performance review, employment terms and other issues.
After 26 minutes, the council reconvened and heard from six individuals, who each asked the council to extend a contract to Maxwell.
“I feel like City Council right now is at a choice to go in a direction that they are going if they let it or to change direction. I sincerely and solemnly hope that you choose to continue going in the direction that you have been going in. Nobody changes the CEO of a company that’s doing well and getting better,” Robert Lenington said.
He said there are always changes that can make things better and room for personal improvement improve. It’s not reasonable to allow small disagreements to change the direction of an entire corporation, Lenington noted.
“I sincerely hope that you are in prayer when you consider Marc Maxwell and his job,” Lenington told the City Council. “I have not agreed with everything he has done, but he is a good man and he should be given a long contract. He represents this community well, and represents everybody to the best of his ability. I strongly believe he is the exact person that we at this time, and I prayerfully request you consider extending him a long contact.”
Tim Kelty said Maxwell is no different than a corporate CEO, and as such deserves a good long contact.
Clay Walker, who previously served on the city council and has served on the planning and zoning boards, said Maxwell has done a “remarkable job” as city manager. He acknowledged that while he and Maxwell have not always agreed or seen eye-to-eye on everything, they were able to communicate and work things out ahead of time to reach a consensus.
“We were remiss when I was on the council in not doing job reviews, we never felt like he needed it,” said Walker. “I would encourage this council for continuity and continued growth, continued prosperity of things we’ve seen here to give Marc a contract.”
Brad Johnson, on behalf of him and his wife and representing Northeast Texas Farmers Coop, expressed support for the city manager and stability and progress for Sulphur Springs.
David Niegarth described improvements in the city as improving “a thousand percent” over the last 25 years.
“It has to do with the person that’s been in leadership of this city,” said Niegarth, who said the council should “definitely” give the city manager a contract.
“Marc needs a good long contract. I’ve been here 45 years and through five city managers. Most of them didn’t have time to get started doing nothing. Marc’s been here long enough he’s got stuff going. Downtown had several businesses when I moved here. Then, it had hardly any businesses. Now, it’s thriving, and I’m not just talking downtown. I think Marc needs a good long contract to finish out what he’s doing,” John Heilman said.
At the conclusion of the comments, Councilman Doug Moore made the motion, seconded by Councilman Harold Nash, to approve the contract for the city manager as presented.
“Just for the record, that’s a 5-year contract with a 1-year buyout provision and calls for the annual performance that was already discussed earlier this evening,” Sulphur Springs City Attorney Jim McLeroy noted.
Mayor John Sellers affirmed those terms for the contract.
The contract was unanimously approved by the City Council, to applause from many in attendance at the meeting.
Winnsboro Police Department Media Report Dec. 30, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020
Arrests
- Richard Morgan, 36 years of age, of Winnsboro, was arrested on 1/1/2020 for multiple Winnsboro Municipal Court warrants.
Calls for Service
- The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 241 calls for service during this reporting period.
Citations
- The Winnsboro Police Department issued 75 citations and 80 warnings during this reporting period.
New Wildcats Assistant Basketball Coach Austin Fleming on Saturday Morning Coaches Show
Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta lost both of his assistant coaches after last season as they accepted opportunities after the Wildcats magical season. Coach Cipoletta was able to hire three coaches to replace them. He said that gave him a staff to equal lots of other Class 5A programs. Earlier this season, Wildcats Assistant Coach Sean Coleman was a guest on KSST and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coach’s Show. Assistant Austin Fleming was on The Coach’s Show last Saturday (January 4) and Assistant Joe Garcia will be on soon. Coach Fleming is the Wildcats Freshman Basketball Coach as well as an assistant varsity coach. Coach Fleming is a native of Edgewood and attended Louisiana Tech. He was an assistant at a Pittsburg junior high school for two years and was Head Basketball Coach at Class 1A Zephyr for one year before coming to Sulphur Springs this season. Coach Fleming said one of his main varsity game assignments is to determine what out of bounds plays the Wildcats will run. He said Coach Cipoletta also discusses offense with him and even calls him his offensive coordinator. Coach Fleming said he is enjoying his first year at Sulphur Springs. He said his freshmen players are a bunch of gym rats who love the game. Coach Fleming said they have played a lot of good Class 6A teams. He said he is grateful to be working for a coach like Clark Cipoletta who knows the game so well. He said Coach Cip is very detail oriented and leaves no stone unturned when preparing for an opponent.
Basketball and Soccer on Tuesday Game Day
Last year’s back to back Lady Cats and Wildcats’ basketball games in district play seemed to be well received by fans. The Lady Cats and Wildcats will again be involved in one on this game day Tuesday (January 7) but this one will feature non-district games and will be on the road. Sherman is the host. Action begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday with the Lady Cats JV versus the Sherman JV in the main Sherman gym. Then the Lady Cats varsity will play the Lady Bearcats varsity beginning at 6:15 p.m. with the Wildcats varsity taking on the Sherman varsity at around 7:30 p.m. with both games also in the main Sherman gym. The Wildcats JV will play Sherman’s JV at 5 p.m. in the Sherman Auxiliary Gym with the Wildcats freshman taking on the Bearcats’ freshman at 6:15 p.m in the Sherman Auxiliary Gym. The Lady Cats varsity is 6-16 for the season. The Wildcats are ranked #4 in Class 5A and they are 16-6 for the season. Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta says Sherman should challenge the Wildcats. He says one Bearcat player scored 42 points against Mount Pleasant last Friday in a 4 point Sherman loss. Coach Cipoletta says Sherman is athletic and will fly around and hustle. He adds they like to vary their defenses.
Meanwhile the Lady Cats Soccer Team opens the regular season at home at Gerald Prim Stadium on this game day Tuesday facing old foe North Lamar. There will be a JV contest at 5:30 p.m. The varsity match should get underway at around 7:15 p.m. The Lady Cats have a new head coach, Javier Aguayo, an assistant last year for Wildcats Soccer Coach Alexi Upton. The Lady Cats have played well in scrimmages this season. The Lady Cats tied a traditionally good Kilgore team 2-2 before losing in penalty kicks at Prim Stadium. Then the Lady Cats topped Paris, 1-0 on the road. Coach Aguayo is replacing longtime Lady Cats assistant coach and head coach Joel Bailey, who retired from coaching after last season. KSST Radio will bring you the Lady Cats and Pantherettes soccer match live from The Prim with live video and audio streaming beginning at around 7:15 p.m. The game will also be videotaped and posted to YouTube and also be broadcast at a later date on Channel 18 on Suddenlink Cable.
Campbell Woman Jailed Following Fight At Sulphur Springs Shopping Center
A 25-year-old Campbell woman was reportedly arrested Monday afternoon following her involvement in fight at a Sulphur Springs shopping center.
Officers reportedly responded at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 6 to a report of a disturbance at Spring Village Shopping Center. Upon arrival in shopping center in the 1100 block of South Broadway Street, officers alleged the Campbell woman was in a physical altercation involving another person.
When police attempted to talk to the woman, they alleged she had “no control over her facial muscles,” spoke with a thick tongue and “displayed the inability to stay still.” She allegedly admitted she had used methamphetamine earlier in the day Jan. 6.
Believing the woman to be a danger to herself or others, she was taken into custody and transported to the emergency room. Once medically cleared, she was taken to Hopkins County jail for public intoxication, Sulphur Springs police alleged in arrest reports.
The Campbell woman spent the night in the county jail and was released from custody Tuesday morning, according to jail reports.
Carrollton Woman Jailed On Hopkins County Warrant
Hopkins County sheriff’s officials were notified Leslie Austin Boswell was in custody at Dallas County jail on a Hopkins County warrant. Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Dallas County, took the 52-year-old Carrollton woman into custody at 5 p.m. Monday and transported her to Hopkins County jail, according to arrest reports.
Boswell was booked into the Hopkins County jail at 7:13 p.m. Jan. 6 on the warrant for violation of probation, which she was on for a July 13, 2017 possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance charge, according to jail and arrest reports.
Sulphur Springs Pair Jailed On Controlled Substance Charge
Robert Earl Hawkins Jr. 
Crystal Paige Lyon
Officers stopped a Buick LeSabre at 7:39 p.m. Monday on Carter Street at Calvert Street after the driver failed to signal a turn; both occupants were allegedly taken into custody after methamphetamine was found in their possession, according to police reports.
When Robert Earl Hawkins Jr. was asked to exit the car, the 35-year-old Sulphur Springs man allegedly began making what police described in arrest reports as furtive movements. He was reportedly placed into custody as a precaution for the officer’s safety.
A records check allegedly showed Hawkins to be wanted on a no seat belt warrant. When asked if all items on the top of the car were his, he reportedly affirmed they were. Inside of a small wallet Hawkins claimed as his a baggy containing a crystal-like substance officers believed to be methamphetamine was found, resulting in Hawkins also being charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance in a drug-free zone, Sulphur Springs Police Officers Derrick Williams and Zachary Brown alleged in arrest reports.
The passenger in the car was identified in arrest reports as Crystal Paige Lyon. A probable cause search of the car allegedly revealed the 33-year-old Sulphur Springs woman to be in possession of methamphetamine, resulting in her arrest for possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance in a drug free zone, Brown and Williams alleged in arrest reports.
Both Hawkins and Lyon remained in the county jail Tuesday morning, Jan. 7. Bond for each was set at $10,000 on the controlled substance charge, according to jail reports.
