Texas Rangers Time Delayed Wednesday 17th
April 16, 2024 – The Texas Rangers Broadcast for the game on Wednesday April 17th will be slightly delayed. KSST will join the Rangers already in progress at 12:56 PM.
Soil Testing is Crucial for Understanding the Health of Your Soil by Mario Villarino
April 15, 2024 – Soil testing is crucial for understanding the health and fertility of your soil. It involves collecting samples from different areas of your property and sending them to a lab for analysis. The results will provide information on nutrient levels, pH balance, organic matter content, and recommendations for any necessary amendments to improve soil quality and plant growth.
For soil testing through Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, you’ll typically need to collect a soil sample and send it to their soil testing lab. You can find detailed instructions on their website or by contacting the Hopkins County Extension Office located at 1200B Houston Street in Sulphur Springs. We can provide information on how to collect the sample and where to send it for analysis.
Soil tests can be used to estimate the kinds and amounts of soil nutrients available to plants. They also can be used as aids in determining fertilizer needs. Properly conducted soil sampling and testing can be cost-effective indicators of the types and amounts of fertilizer and lime needed to improve crop yield.
The effects of adding a fertilizer often depend on the level of nutrients already present in the soil If a soil is very low in a particular nutrient, yield will probably be increased if that nutrient is added. By comparison, if the soil has high initial nutrient levels, fertilization will result in little, if any, increase in yield.
For more information on this or any other agricultural topic please contact the Hopkins County Extension Office at 903-885-3443 or email me at [email protected].
Sulphur Springs High School UIL Academic 15-4A Champs Excel in 2024
April 15, 2024 – UIL Academic Team Updates (District UIL Academics Highlights 2024)
April 5 & 10 – District 15-4A Academic Meet
The SSHS Wildcat UIL Academic Team competed Friday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 10 at the District 15-4A Academic Meet. The team won the District 15-4A championship with 823 points, garnering 63 individual medals, 5 first place teams, and 3 second place teams. SSHS students also earned the titles of District Journalism and Speech Champions. In all, 33 students qualified for region competition and 6 are alternates to region. Here is a list of our 2024 medalists. Congratulations to these hard-working competitors and coaches and thanks to the staff and administration of Sulphur Springs High School for your support.
Copy Editing (Madison Millsap & Gail Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place (R) Abigail Bautista – 2nd Place(R) Payton Hooks – 3rd Place(R)
News Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place(R) Payton Hooks – 2nd Place(R) Dylan McKinney – 3rd Place (R)
Feature Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place(R) Payton Hooks – 2nd PlaceR Kolbie Moughon – 6th Place
Editorial Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Asia Chen – 1st Place(R) Anthony Small – 2nd PlaceR Jolene Reed – 3rd Place(R)
Headline Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Abigail Bautista – 1st Place(R) Betzy Chacon – 2nd PlaceR Jolene Reed – 3rd Place(R)
Journalism – 1st Place Team (Madison Millsap & Gail Herman – Coaches)
Ready Writing (Gail Herman – Coach) Anthony Small – 2nd Place(R) Alan Tellez – 3rd Place(R) Alexis Villarino – 4th Place(A)
Accounting (Jamie VanWinkle – Coach) Holden Moss – 1st Place(R)
Calculator Applications (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Asia Chen – 1st Place(R) Barrett Thesing – 3rd Place(R) Katlyn Noe – 5th Place Briana Macedo – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Chen, Thesing, Noe, Macedo)
Computer Applications (Jill Crump – Coach) Makieya Boren – 1st Place(R)
Current Issues & Events (Madison Millsap – Coach) James “Mac” McCoy – 1st Place(R)Crawford Johnson – 2nd Place(R) Abigail Bautista – 3rd Place(R) Kolbie Moughon – 4th Place(A)Craig Draper – 5th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(McCoy, Johnson, Bautista, Moughon)
Literary Criticism (Gail Herman – Coach) Alexis Villarino – 1st Place(R) Kami White – 2nd Place(R) Alan Tellez – 3rd Place(R) Betzy Chacon – 4th Place(A) Dylan McKinney – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Villarino, White, Tellez, Chacon)
Mathematics (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Asia Chen – 2nd Place(R) Anthony Small – 5th Place TEAM – 2nd Place(A)(Chen, Small, A. Villarino, K. White)
Number Sense (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Katlyn Noe – 4th Place(A)
Science (Kristen Shelton – Coach) Asia Chen – 4th PlaceA Jessie Li – 6th Place TEAM – 2nd PlaceA(Chen, Li, C. Murillo, R. Offutt)
Social Studies (Madison Millsap – Coach) Grayson Wall – 1st Place(R) Davin Ly – 2nd Place(R) Julia Garcia-Ricker – 3rd Place(R) Crawford Johnson – 4th Place(A) Conner Curtis – 5th Place Cameron Davis – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Wall, Ly, Garcia-Ricker, Johnson)
Spelling & Vocabulary (Gail Herman – Coach) Abigail Bautista – 1st Place(R) Kami White – 2nd Place(R) Kale Burgin – 3rd Place(R) Celeste Hernandez – 4th Place(A) Laney Bankston – 5th Place Camila Hidalgo – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Bautista, White, Burgin, Hernandez)
Speech – 1st Place (Coaches: Trevor King, Jamie VanWinkle, Lesha Woodard)
Prose (Lesha Woodard – Coach) Tally Brown – 1st Place(R) Aiden Woodard – 2nd Place(R) Aspen Mayhew – 3rd Place(R)
Poetry (Lesha Woodard – Coach) Emma Boatman – 1st Place(R) Addison Bradley – 2nd Place(R) Nathan Bilyeu – 3rd Place(R)
Informative (Trevor King – Coach) Carolina Murillo-Barcenas – 2nd Place(R)
Persuasive (Trevor King – Coach) Jordan VanWinkle – 1st Place(R) Reese Offutt – 2nd Place(R)
(R) – Regional Qualifier, (A) – Alternate for Region
Previous Events Contributing to District Totals:
CX Debate (Offutt-Murillo) 2nd Place Team (Advanced to State CX)
ONE ACT PLAY District Champs (Advanced to Bi-district competition)
Upcoming dates:
April 26 – SSHS UIL @ Region 2 UIL Meet (TAMU – Commerce)
May 13 – 15 – SSHS UIL @ State UIL Academic Meet (UT – Austin)
In UIL 4A District 15 Academic Contest, overall school sweepstakes resulted in the following…
Sulphur Springs earned 823 points. Paris earned 268 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove earned a total of 243 points. Paris North Lamar earned 178 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau collected 106 points, and Pittsburg earned 17 points. UIL Academic Event Scoring was 0.
Speech Team results included…
Sulphur Springs in first place with with a Team Score of 129, and 10 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove in second place with a team score of 72, with 5 points. Paris North Lamar in third place with a team score of 64, with 0 points. In fourth place was Paris with a team score of 36, with 0 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau landed in fifth place with a score of 22, with 0 points.
UIL 4A District 15 Academic Contest Journalism team results looked like this.
First place went to Sulphur Springs with a Team Score of 179, with 10 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau landed in second place with a Team Score of 46, with 5 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove was in third place with a Team Score of 42 and 0 points. Fourth place went to Paris with a Team Score of 8, with 0 points.
KSST would like to thank Sulphur Springs ISD Communications Coordinator Angela Grimes for this information. Way to go, Wildcats, and all students excelling in 2024!
Winnsboro Police Department Media Report 4-8-2024 – 4-14-2024
Arrests:
GILBREATH,JESSE 19 years of age, of Mineola, TX, was arrested on 8-8-2024 for DWI
STONE,ELIZADAN 22 years of age, of Winnsboro, TX, was arrested on 4-10-2024 for DWI
Calls for Service:
The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 130 calls for service during this reporting period.
Citations:
The Winnsboro Police Department issued 26 citations and 52 warnings during this reporting period.
Texas Rangers Time Delayed Tuesday April 16th
April 15, 2024 – The Texas Rangers Broadcast for the game on Tuesday April 16th will be slightly delayed. KSST will join the Rangers at 12:56 PM.
CraversTX Community Garden Spring Tea Party
The CraversTX Community Garden is hosting a Garden Tea Party on April 21st. The fun starts at 2:30PM. Grab your best hat & join us for our first tea party! Wonderful trays of homemade goodies with organic herbal & English teas will be available.
This is a ticketed event. Click here to get your tickets.
It all happens at 420 W Park St in Sulphur Springs.
Texas A&M – Commerce Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
April 15, 2024 – COMMERCE, TEXAS—Dr. Maia Lamarque, a professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
The Fulbright Program is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious educational exchange programs. Every year, 800 scholars study, teach and conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
A&M-Commerce Provost Tami Vacha-Haase, Ph.D., expressed pride in Lamarque’s accomplishment and emphasized the significance of the Fulbright Award:
“We are immensely proud that Dr. Lamarque has been selected for this prestigious opportunity,” Vacha-Haase said. “Her dedication to scholarship and her profound contributions to the field exemplify the spirit of the Fulbright Program and the values here at A&M Commerce. Her work not only enriches our academic community but also fosters greater understanding and collaboration on a global scale.”
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Playing an important role in international relations, Fulbright recipients exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections and work to address complex global challenges.
Fulbright scholars demonstrate exceptional academic achievement, cultural sensitivity, leadership skills, and a genuine commitment to cross-cultural exchange and collaboration. They engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started abroad and laying the groundwork for future partnerships.
Exploring Peruvian Folktales
Through the Fulbright program, Lamarque has received a grant that will enable her to conduct research in Peru for four months later this year. She will analyze Peruvian folktales from a psychological perspective to identify things like social notions, patterns and biases in oral stories. Specifically, she will focus on stories told in indigenous languages, analyzing their psychological components, similarities, differences, and cultural implications.
“I’ve been researching folktales for years, and I am from Peru, so I wanted to study folktales from that area,” Lamarque said. “I’m collaborating with scholars in the fields of linguistics, folklore, anthropology, and culture, and we are specifically looking at oral narratives and folktales shared in the indigenous languages in Peru, the Andes, and the Amazon Forest.”
She added: “My research will shed light on how folk stories highlight Peruvian identities and how these indigenous groups construct and perceive each other and their reality. Through a cross-cultural study of these narratives, I will also gain and share an understanding of global social identity.”
A Passion for Learning
Lamarque arrived at A&M-Commerce in 2005 from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she graduated with her doctorate in Latin American Studies and Culture. At A&M-Commerce, she teaches mainly graduate and advanced courses in the Hispanic Studies program. She also teaches courses in the Department of Psychology.
With a deep passion for learning and education, Lamarque holds multiple degrees and is currently working on her doctorate in psychology at A&M-Commerce. Originally from Lima, Peru, she grew up in a family that prioritized education.
“My parents, both professionals, always told my sisters and me that education would take us places,” she said.
Indeed, Lamarque’s education has taken her far—literally and figuratively—from Lima to Louisiana to Texas and now, full circle, back to Peru as a Fulbright Scholar.
Receiving a Fulbright Award has been a long-time goal for Lamarque, and she feels extremely honored to be a 2024-2025 recipient.
“A Fulbright is awarded to only a very small percentage of academics around the world,” she said. I am honored to receive such a prestigious award and serve as an ambassador for the U.S. in Peru.”
Famous Fulbrighters
Notable Fulbright alumni include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 78 MacArthur Fellows, 41 heads of state or government, 17 U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and thousands of leaders across public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Famous recipients include poet Maya Angelou, author John Steinbeck, Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander de Croo and Former President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
The Fulbright Program
Fulbright is a program of the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations worldwide also provide direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in more than 160 countries worldwide.
For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit https://FulbrightProgram.org.
About Texas A&M University-Commerce
Texas A&M University-Commerce serves rural and metropolitan East Texas with a dedicated mission to Educate. Discover. Achieve. With an enrollment of approximately 12,000 students, A&M-Commerce is the third-largest member of The Texas A&M University System. Students choose from among 135+ academic degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels and learn from world-class faculty who conduct nationally recognized research. A vibrant student experience includes a thriving Greek community and more than 100 student-led organizations. As a member of the Southland Conference, A&M-Commerce features 14 NCAA Division I athletic teams. The university offers classes online and on-site in Commerce, Corsicana, McKinney, Mesquite, Bryan (RELLIS) and the newest location at 8750 North Central Expressway in Dallas
Missing Juvenile: Sulphur Spring Police Needs Your Help
April 15, 2024 – The Sulphur Springs Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a Missing Person / Juvenile, Landry Ryder Moody who is 13 years of age. Landry has red curly hair and wears glasses. Unknown clothing at the time that he left. Anyone that knows Landry’s whereabouts please contact the Sulphur Springs Police Department at (903) 438-4040.
Second Cup of Coffee With Guest Cooper Lake’s Steve Killian From April 9th
April 14, 2024 – On this episode of A Second Cup of Coffee with John Mark Dempsey, John Mark sat down with Cooper Lake State Park Complex Superintendent Steve Killian. The interview was conducted on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at the KSST studios in Sulphur Springs, Texas. John Mark and Steve discussed the eclipse, Earth Day, the next steps in Steve Killian’s career, and much more. Be sure to check out the video down below.
Plant Marigolds With Tomato Plants From Master Gardener David Wall
April 14, 2024 – When it comes to growing tomatoes, one of the best ways to use the power of companion planting to help grow a bigger and better harvest is to plant marigolds with or near your tomato plants. Marigolds add color to a vegetable garden, and their fragrant foliage and colorful blooms help protect tomato plants from pests, while simultaneously attracting beneficial insects! Many old-time gardeners used to ring their entire garden with them to help protect their crops. It is a practice that many all-natural modern backyard gardeners are beginning to use once again.
Marigolds are easy and cheap to plant. They germinate and grow fast. Because of that, they can be planted from seed at a huge cost savings to gardeners. Even better, you can save their seeds quite easily from year to year.
Marigolds Help To Repel Pests That Love Tomato Plants, such as aphids and whiteflies. Aphids carry disease to your plants as well as destruction of the plant itself. Large numbers of aphids can cause the plant foliage to brown and curl. Planting marigolds on the edges of a raised bed can bring in pollinators, as well as keep away pests. All at the same time! Whiteflies also bring diseases and leave behind a sticky gel on tomato plants that can cause black mold. These pests stunt growth and reduce fruit production. Since, however, they can’t stand the marigold odor, they stay away. As added benefits, marigolds repel both tomato hornworms ad mosquitos, while attracting ladybugs and paper wasps.
All marigolds repel to a certain extent, but French marigolds seem to work much better than African, signet or triplet. Marigolds should be at the top of your list for companion plants. At end of season, cut off some blooms and break open to get next year’s seeds!
