Andrea Resendiz Heading to The Washington Journalism and Media Conference
Miller Grove High School student, Andrea Resendiz, is excited to announce that she has been nominated for and will attend The Washington Journalism and Media Conference this summer. This conference is six days long in July and is being held at George Mason University in Virginia. In attending this conference, she will serve as a National Youth Correspondent and interact with hundreds of students from around the United States. She will experience hands-on leadership activities with journalists and CEOs of major media platforms. In addition, Andrea will have the opportunity to meet with members of Congress, tour the Nation’s Capital, and acquire knowledge to help her prepare for a strong career in the future.
Miss. Resendiz is being sponsored by Cumby Telephone Cooperative, Inc., and Alliance Bank. She would like to express her sincere gratitude to both of these companies and her yearbook teacher, Inge Heiligers, for their contributions and support.
3 Jailed On Felony Hopkins County Warrants
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Elijah Fite took two men and a woman into custody Wednesday and transported them to Hopkins County jail on felony warrants, according to arrest and jail reports.
Jasmine Alexis Brigham, 30, of Greenville was picked up at noon Jan. 29, at Hunt County jail, where she was held on two Hopkins County warrants, according to arrest reports.
She was booked into Hopkins County jail for surety off bond on a driving while intoxicated with child under 15 years of age in the vehicle charge and a tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair charge, according to arrest reports.
Brigham remained in the county jail on the charges Thursday morning, according to jail reports.
Michael Adrian Lizalde was taken into custody at 10:15 a.m. Jan. 29, at Dallas County jail, where he was held on a Hopkins County warrant, according to arrest reports.
The 28-year-old Carrollton man was transported to Hopkins County jail on a warrant for violation of probation, which he was on for possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance, according to arrest reports.
Lizalde remained in Hopkins County jail Thursday morning, Jan. 30, on the felony charge, according to jail reports.
Joshua Robert Welborn was taken into custody at 4 p.m. Jan. 29, at Upshur County jail, where he was held on a Hopkins County warrant, according to arrest reports.
The 26-year-old Gilmer man was transported to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked for violation of probation, which he was on for abandoning or endangering a child-criminal negligence, according to arrest and jail reports.
Welborn remained in the county jail Thursday, Jan. 30 on the 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 Man Jailed On Controlled Substance Warrant Following Traffic Stop
A 38-year-old Sulphur Springs man was jailed on a felony controlled substance warrant following a traffic stop Wednesday evening.
Officers reported they were aware of an active warrant for Cedric Dewight Mosley’s arrest. A traffic stop was conducted on a silver Cadillac CTS on Freeman Street. An officer identified the driver as Mosley, Sulphur Springs Police Officer Adrian Pruitt and Sgt. Brandon Mayes alleged in arrest reports.
Dispatchers confirmed the warrant and took the man into custody at 5:20 p.m. Jan. 29 on the warrant for manufacture or delivery of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance in a drug-free zone, according to arrest reports.
Mosley remained in Hopkins County jail Thursday morning, Jan. 30. Bond on the third-degree felony charge was set at $20,000, according to jail reports.
KSSTRadio.com publishes Sulphur Springs Police Department reports and news. The Police Department is located at 125 Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Texas. Non-emergency calls can be made to (903) 885-7602.
If you have an emergency dial 9-1-1.
The Sulphur Springs Police Department continues to serve its citizens with pride in its overall mission and will strive to provide the best possible police force in the 21st century.
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 Man Reportedly Assaulted While Walking Dog On Helm Lane
A 49-year-old Sulphur Springs man alleged being assaulted by two males while walking his dog early Thursday morning.
Sulphur Springs police officers were dispatched around 1 a.m. Jan. 30 to Helm Lane apartments, where communications operators were told an assault had occurred. Upon police arrival, a 49-year-old man reportedly told officers he was walking his dog through through one of the corridors at the apartment complex, Sulphur Springs Police Chief Jason Ricketson reported later Thursday morning.
The man reportedly told police he was approached by two black males, one reportedly wearing a black hoodie. The two men allegedly assaulted him. He was allegedly cut several times with a knife. He was transported to the hospital to be treated for non life-threatening injuries, according to the police chief.
The aggravated assault with a deadly weapon offense was still being investigated by SSPD at 9 a.m. Jan. 30. Police urge anyone with information about assault, including the identity or whereabouts of the suspects, to contact Detective Sgt. Jason Reneau at the SSPD at 903-885-7602, or relay tips to Crime Stoppers at 903-885-2020 or online. Tips made to Crime Stoppers are handled in such a way that the caller’s identity remains anonymous.
KSSTRadio.com publishes Sulphur Springs Police Department reports and news. The Police Department is located at 125 Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Texas. Non-emergency calls can be made to (903) 885-7602.
If you have an emergency dial 9-1-1.
The Sulphur Springs Police Department continues to serve its citizens with pride in its overall mission and will strive to provide the best possible police force in the 21st century.
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 FFA, Ag Mechanics Students Do Well At Fort Worth Stock Show
The month of January has flown by for Sulphur Springs ISD FFA members and agriculture students, who have spent quite a bit of their time preparing for and at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.
The trio of SSHS FFA students who visited the KSST Good Morning Show on Thursday January 30, 2020 talked about showing cattle, competing in the Calf Scramble, and their 2020 Ft Worth Stock Show experiences in general. John Holland along with Jr. Savannah Allen, Freshman Wayne Hinton IV and Jr. Jace Mayers came in. “It is a busy month for all ag teachers across the state as we kick off spring stock shows and judging season,” said John Holland, Ag Teacher and Sulphur springs High School FFA advisor. “We actually have about 300 students in the SSHS FFA Chapter this year.”
This past weekend, Jan. 23-27, Sulphur Springs had seven students showing seven beef heifers. John-Robert Mason showed his Shorthorn Saturday and placed fifth in his class. Jace Mayers placed eighth with his Beefmaster heifer and Maurie Flecker showed her Beefmaster. Savannah Allen showed her Hereford Saturday placing sixth in her class.
In addition, Alex Flecker scrambled Saturday night at the Ft. Worth Rodeo and caught a calf, receiving a $500 certificate.
On Monday, Coen Bell showed his Semmental Heifer placing third in class; Cash Vititow showed his Brahman placing seventh; and Blaine Allen showed his Brahman Heifers. In addition Annie Horton showed her market Lamb, placing 10th out of 77.
Jan. 16-22, Wayne Hinton, Tripp Smith and Matti Smith showed five Holstien heifers at the Ft. Worth Dairy Show.
“All did very well in some of the biggest classes in the breed. In addition, all three of the kids caught a calf at the Ft. Worth Calf Scramble and received a $500 certificate to go purchase another dairy heifer to show next year,” said Holland.
During that same weekend, Holland said, SSISD agriculture mechanics students Austin Crouse, Haydan Keller and Oliver Yanez exhibit a deer blind that they built.
The first week of February, Coen Bell will be returning to Ft. Worth with his steer. Also during that week, a group of ag mechanics students travel to San Angelo for another ag mechanics project show.
“Don’t forget the Hopkins County Junior Market Livestock Show and NETLA Sale in the Hopkins County Civic Center arena. It will be starting Tuesday, Feb 25, with the Ag Mechanics Show and then the Youth Livestock Project Shows on Thursday, Feb 27 and Friday February 28, and wrapping up on Saturday February 29 with the Northeast Texas Livestock Association ‘Sale of Champions’. Free to attend, everybody come out for that!” Holland said.
Hopkins County Commissioners Court Approves Fire Investigation And Protection Agreements
Emergency Management Coordinator Approved For 3 Cities
Hopkins County Commissioners Court during their regular meeting this week approved at least five items related to emergency management, fire and safety.
Appointment, Agreements With Cities
The court officially appointed Hopkins County emergency management coordinator to serve as not just the emergency management coordinator for all unincorporated areas of Hopkins County but also for the City of Como, City of Cumby and City of Tira. The mayors of each city will have roles in the event an emergency situation arises. Hopkins County Fire Chief Andy Endsley as the county’s emergency management coordinator or designated county emergency management staff will function as the emergency management coordinator for the three cities as well..
Endsley explained that he, as the county’s emergency management coordinator, has been serving in this capacity. This would allow him to officially continue in this capacity, serving all areas of the county except the City of Sulphur Springs, which has its own emergency management officials. This information will be listed in emergency management plans filed with Texas Department of Emergency Management.
Fire investigation agreements with the City of Como, City of Cumby and City or Tira were also approved by the Commissioners Court at the Jan. 27 session. Having the investigations in place will allow the HCFD marshal’s office to conduct fire investigations in those cities, which do not have their own fire marshals.
“This really helps out from a legal aspect say if a case goes to court and it allows the fire marshal to go in when there’s a fire and investigate,” said Endsley. “The City of Sulphur Springs has their own investigators.”
Volunteer Fire Departments
The final fire protection agreement, with Arbala Volunteer Fire Department, was approved Monday, Jan. 27, just four days shy of the deadline.
Hopkins County Commissioners Court required all volunteer fire departments in Hopkins County to sign a fire protection agreement in order to receive benefits from the county. According to the county judge, under the fire protection agreement, the county agrees to do the following for each volunteer fire department:
- pay the VFD’s fuel bills;
- provide a monthly stipend which averages over $700 a month;
- provide workers compensation for each member, in the event any are injured while responding to calls; and
- offers to reimbursement for vehicle insurance.
Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom noted that the level of support offered to the VFDs is higher than he’s aware of it ever being in the past. The county over the last few years has continued to increase the level of support provided to the VFDs. Costs of all fuel and vehicle and vehicle insurance reimbursements were benefits added over in the last couple of years for the volunteer departments. The monthly stipend each VFD receives was also increased this year by 10 percent.
Additional funding volunteer fire departments can apply for is the VFD emergency equipment fund, that is $10,000 designated annually to assist VFDs with emergency need of equipment repairs or replacements. The department can request funding, which would be awarded based on the vote of the VFD chiefs. That funding is then paid back by the borrowing VFD over an agreed-upon period of time in small increments. Only a total of $10,000 is designated in this fund per year.
For instance, Brinker VFD a few years back was approved for an emergency loan, approved by the other VFD chiefs, so the department’s engine could receive repairs critical for operations. Brinker VFD made regular payments over the ensuring years as agreed. Brinker recently finished paying off the amount borrow from the emergency fund.
Regional Grant
The Commissioners Court also approved a resolution to apply for Fiscal Year 2020 State Homeland Security Program Grant funds to put toward a Hopkins County Regional Communications Trailer Project.
Endsley said the county can apply for this type of funding annually. In the past, the county has collaborated to obtain law enforcement equipment. This time, the request would be for Hopkins County for a communications trailer, but would be available to help other entities in the nine county region if needed
“It’s for a trailer that we’re building. It will be regional because our neighbor helped us in our need, when we had our fuel spill out at Turkey Creek, from Franklin County. We’re building our on trailer. We’ll purchase six mobile radios to go inside that trailer. It will help with our communications needs in case of a large event,” Endsley told the commissioners.
The funding would require no match from the county for the project. However, a resolution from the Commissioners Court is required to apply for the grant, Endsley said.
Endsley said much of the $20,000 Community Assistance Grant awarded in October by Sabine River Authority to the county to help the county replenish supplies and buy new equipment following the Turkey Creek fuel spill needed to help in the future are dedicated to the trailer, outfitting the trailer.
Miscellaneous
The Commissioners Court also accepted Smoke Eaters BBQ & Catering and The Rustic O‘s donation of a Task Force Tip hose nozzle for the Hopkins County Fire Department. The nozzle has an approximate value of $800, according to Endsley.
“It’s always great when people give you things you can use,” Newsom said.
Also approved by the Commissioners Court at the Jan. 27 meeting were:
- A one-year agricultural lease agreement between the City of Sulphur Springs and Precinct 2 for access to a sand pit for $2 a year;
- Requests from FEC to construct electric power distribution facilities that will cross County Roads 3518, 1178, 1127 and 1181; and
- A line item transfer of $50,000 from the Precinct 1 machinery and equipment into the lease line to pay off a piece of equipment purchased for Precinct 1.
Chamber Connection — Jan. 30, 2020
By Lezley Brown, president/CEO, Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce
Have you reserved your seats yet? It is with great pleasure that the 2020 Board of Directors invites you to the 94th Annual Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Banquet on Thursday, February 13, at 6 p.m. at the Hopkins County Regional Civic Center. Tickets are already going fast! We will host a Networking Cocktail Happy Half Hour at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and the awards will follow at 7 p.m.
Please take this opportunity to bring your family, friends, and employees to an evening of dinner and community awards including Large and Small Business of the Year, Educator of the Year, Caregiver Award, Agriculturist of the Year, Woman of the Year, Growth and Renewal Award, Community Pride Award, and Citizen of the Year.
Our banquet theme is “Be the Light” and focuses on positivity and community pride moving into the next decade. It promises to be one of our most beautiful and unusual banquets to date. We are excited for you and your business to join us for this extraordinary evening. Please make your reservation TODAY by calling the Chamber of Commerce, (903) 885-6515, or by stopping by to visit at 110 Main St. in Sulphur Springs.
Hopkins County Reads held through Sulphur Springs Library
The Sulphur Springs Public Library sponsors the yearlong community wide event for teens and adults and includes author visits and discussions about the historical nature of the books. Author Ann Weisgarber will be here in Sulphur Springs to discuss the history surrounding Galveston Island during the 1900 hurricane and sign copies of her book, available for sale at the library on Thursday, January 30, at 6 p.m. at Sulphur Springs Public Library.
Uptown Cutts hosts their ribbon cutting celebration
Uptown Cutts, located at 1402 Mockingbird Lane in Sulphur Springs, will host their ribbon cutting celebration on Tuesday, February 4, at noon. Please join us at the celebration for networking and congratulating Uptown
Cutts.
Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center Says Come Get "All Shook Up" With Elvis for Valentine's Day
The Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center will hold a Valentine’s Day Party with Elvis on February 14th.
The Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Activity Center is located in the heart of Sulphur Springs, Texas. The City of Sulphur Springs has provided a place senior adults age 50 and over can go to for fun and fellowship. The Center offers a variety of activities for seniors citizens Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Activity Center can be found at 301 Oak Ave in Sulphur Springs.
Sulphur Springs ISD Board Of Trustees Extending Superintendent's Contract
Sulphur Springs Independent School Board of Trustees held a special meeting Wednesday to conduct their annual evaluation of the superintendent and consider extending Michael Lamb’s contract.
The school board was originally scheduled to conduct the annual evaluation of the superintendent, along with any other personnel matters, Jan. 13 during the executive session at their regular monthly meeting.
The SSISD trustees at the Jan. 13 meeting approved four personnel items:
- Sulphur Springs Middle School math teacher Lynn Haberstroh’s notification early retirement notification;
- Justin Findley as new campus officer at Bowie Primary School;
- Ashley Hall as new English teacher at Sulphur Springs High School; and
- Linzi Phillips switching from instructional aide to campus secretary at Barbara Bush Primary School.
However, the trustees opted at the Jan. 13 meeting to postpone Superintendent Michael Lamb’s evaluation and matters related to his contract until a special meeting on Jan. 29.
On Wednesday, following an executive session, SSISD trustees voted to extend Lamb’s contract for an additional year.
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Lady Cats Soccer Coach is Looking For His Team to Come Out Ready to Play From the Beginning
Lady Cats Soccer Coach Javier Aguayo agreed it was a long night in Pleasant Grove for the Lady Cats Tuesday night (January 28). The Lady Hawks took advantage of several Lady Cats’ defensive mistakes to take a 5-2 win. Coach Aguayo said the Lady Cats started off poorly and the Lady Hawks went up 1-0 with the game barely 5 minutes old. He said Pleasant Grove was a tough opponent but he said he did not think they were any better than the Lady Cats. Coach Aguayo said he told his team after the game that they have to show up ready to play right from the start. He said he did not feel like the Lady Cats woke up until the last 15 to 20 minutes of the game after they were behind, 4-0. The Lady Cats did rally scoring two goals late. A fifth Pleasant Grove goal sealed the deal for them. The Lady Cats game marked the return from injury by goalkeeper McKenna Gammill. The Lady Cts are expected to have their hands full Friday as they play at Wylie East. The Lady Raiders are 10-0-2 for the season and they are ranked #4 in the region. Coach Aguayo said Wylie East has already defeated Mount Pleasant, Lindale and Royse City from our district.
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