June 6 Update: 1 New COVID-19 Case In Hopkins County
Hopkins County’s COVID-19 Total Since MidMarch: 30 Cases, 23 Of Which Are Active Cases And 7 Have Recovered Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, announced 1 new case of COVID-19 case in Hopkins County. No additional information about the new case is known. The Local Health Authority has reached out to all of the patients with active cases this week and they are home isolating, according toHopkins...
June 5 Update: 2 New COVID-19 Cases In Hopkins County, 1 Additional Recovery
Hopkins County’s COVID-19 Case Total Since MidMarch: 29 Cases, With 7 Recovered And 22 Active Cases Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom at 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, announced 2 new COVID-19 cases in Hopkins County; one additional person also has been confirmed as recovered from COVID-19. “This is not necessarily good news today. We are in a mini-surge compared to some of our neighbors,” Newsom said. “Most of our...
Free Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing Offered June 3-5 In Mount Pleasant
As numbers continue to spike in Titus County, free drive-thru COVID-19 testing for people with or without symptoms is being offered 9 a.m.-5 p.m. June 3-4-5, at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center. Those testing can only register for a specific day approximately 24 hours in advance. The state will not show dates available any further out than the next 24 hours. To register go online to TXCOVIDTEST.ORG or call 512-883-2400. Titus County...
Free Mobile Testing for COVID-19 Offered June 8 In Delta County
Prior Registration Is Required For Testing Free mobile COVID-19 testing will be offered in Delta County on Monday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Cooper ISD Elementary School’s west parking lot. The testing is offered through the partnership between the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), Texas Military Department (TMD), the local Regional Advisory Councils...
Northeast Texas WDA Unemployment Rates Rose In June 2022, But Remain Lower Than June 2021 Rates
Unemployment in Northeast Texas Workforce Development area rose for the second consecutive month, but the June 2022 unemployment rates were still below June 2021 unemployment rates for all nine counties in the WDA. Franklin and Hopkins continued in June 2022 to have the lowest unemployment rates in NETWDA and both county’s 3.5% unemployment rates are still below the overall state unemployment rate of 4.4% for June 2022,...
Slaton & Colleagues Ask Governor To Halt COVID Vaccines For Children Under 4 Years Of Age
Unanswered Questions About Vaccine’s Effect On Young Children Among Concerns Cited In Letter to Abbott Representatives Bryan Slaton (House District 2), Jeff Cason (HD 92) and Kyle Biedermann (HD 73), as well as House District 93 candidate Nate Schatzline, emailed a letter Friday, July 7, 2022, to Governor Greg Abbott requesting he direct the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to halt distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to...
Chamber Connection – June 15: Digital Advertising Expert Featured At Lunch And Learn
By Butch Burney Small business owners will want to come to our Lunch and Learn, set for Wednesday, June 22, at the upstairs room at Corner Grubhouse, entitled Digital Marketing 101, by April Bliss, founder of Bliss Digital Innovations. We had scheduled April for this workshop in January, but had to postpone it due to COVID. Learn from Digital Advertising Expert April Bliss, who brings her unique perspective as a digital marketing and...
Chamber Connection – June 8: Entries Hopkins County Stew Logo Contest Open Until July 14
By Butch Burney It’s June, which means stew is in the air – or at least the planning has begun. Hopkins County stew pot The 53rd Annual World Championship Hopkins County Stew Contest is opening up its annual logo contest. This year’s theme is Road Trip Stew 22 (the stew is Oct. 22, 2022), a take off from Route 66. The logo contest runs through June 30. The winner will receive four stew tickets, four T-shirts with the logo on the...
June 1 Chamber Connection: Lots of Events Slated In June Including Dairy Festival
The Reinforcement Foundation Golf Tourney To Benefit Hopkins County EMS, Cumby VFD By Butch Burney It’s Dairy Festival time in Hopkins County! Hopkins CountyDairy Festival The Dairy Festival is back this year with a great schedule of evets, starting June 1-4 with the carnival on the grounds of the Civic Center. The Festival will host a ribbon cutting at noon on Friday, June 10, on Celebration Plaza, before moving to Shannon Oaks...
June Is National Men’s Health Month – Make Prevention A Priority
June 1, 2022 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. By Jennifer Heitman, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected] Did you know that men, on average, die almost five years earlier than women? Part of the reason is that men are more reluctant to go to the doctor, according to...
