Hicks: Youth Skills Camp Rapidly Approaching and 2021 Arts & Crafts Show
By Johanna Hicks, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Family & Community Health Agent, Hopkins County Youth Skills Camp Rapidly Approaching It’s baaaaack! After being cancelled last year due to the pandemic, the 2021 Youth Skills Camp is coming back face-to-face. We have a great line-up of activities for the youth. But first, a bit of explanation is due for those who are unfamiliar with Skills Camp. ...
SSISD Summer Food Service Free For Children Up To Age 18
The Summer Food Service is being offered through July 22 at the Barbara Bush Primary Campus at 390 North Hillcrest in Sulphur Springs. Breakfast and Lunch are prepared Mondays through Thursdays. Any child up to age 18 can come in and enjoy the nutritious meals at no charge and with no application or qualifying process. Breakfast is served 7:30-8:30am, and lunch is served from 10:45-12:30. No meals are served after 12:30pm. The Food...
SSISD Tripling Internet Bandwidth District-Wide, Upgrading Security At SSHS
Sulphur Springs High School Partnering with TWC To Offer New Innovative Class Through ‘Opportunity Now’ Program Sulphur Springs ISD will be tripling district’s internet bandwidth from 1 GB to 3GB to keep up with increased internet usage. An upgrade to security equipment at the high school this summer will also be preformed. The school district also plans to implement an “innovative” career and technology course...
SSISD Eligible To Apply For $11.5 Million In Federal ESSER Grant Funding
Sulphur Springs ISD students and staff could benefit from up to $11.5 million in federal ESSER Grants funding over the next three years, provided the district can adequately articulate in grant applications that the funds meet the terms stipulated for their intended use. SSISD Assistant Superintendent Josh Williams reported the district has been notified SSISD is eligible to receive two types of federal funding, but must apply to...
SSISD Trustees To Hold 2 Executive Sessions During June Meeting
The date isn’t the only thing different about this month’s regular meeting of Sulphur Springs ISD Board of Trustees; in addition to the usual reports and action items, the agenda calls for 2 executive sessions, one at the beginning and one at the end of the 6 p.m. school board meeting. SSISD logo While school board meetings are typically held the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. This month, trustees met first on...
Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez Discusses The Edge and Next Week’s Summer Camp
Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez began The Edge for tennis Tuesday (June 1) of this week. It is scheduled to continue Mondays through Thursdays through July 25. This week, the main sessions have occurred Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30 P.M. until 9:30 P.M. Coach Martinez has also made courts available Monday and Wednesday from 9 A.M. until 10:30 A.M. for those that could not make the evening sessions. Both evening sessions...
A Large Number of Campers Are Attending Sulphur Springs Softball Camp
Perhaps it is due to the pandemic that caused the cancellation of all Sulphur Springs ISD sports camps last summer but this year’s early camps this week are drawing some good numbers. Lady Cats Softball Coach David Carrillo was greeted by a large number of softball campers Tuesday afternoon (June 1), especially among older girls entering the 6th through the 9th grades. 48 girls showed up for the camp’s second session. The...
SSISD Summer Sports Camps Open Tuesday Morning With Baseball, Volleyball and Girls Basketball
Summer Sulphur Springs ISD sports camps got underway at 9 a.m. Tuesday (June 1) as Wildcats Baseball Coach Jerrod Hammack opened his baseball camp for incoming 1st through 3rd graders in the Multi-Purpose Building. Coach Hammack says he has returned to an all skills approach to camp after several years of concentrating on hitting. He says he has set up three defensive stations: one for throwing, one for catching fly balls and one for...
Some SSHS Sports Camps Get Started Tuesday Along With The Edge For Wildcats Tennis
The summer sports calendar at Sulphur Springs High School gets underway in a big way Tuesday (June 1). There will be three sports camps starting as well as The Edge in tennis. Camps include a combined volleyball and girls basketball camp for one price as well as baseball camp and softball camp. All three camps will run Tuesday through Thursday. The combo volleyball and girls basketball camp will take place at the Main Sulphur Springs...
PJC Offering Free Coding Camp in Six Locations Over Summer
Paris Junior College has holding a special coding camp made possible by the Texas Workforce Commission at six locations during June, July and August. Applications must be received by the PJC Continuing Education Department on Tuesday, June 1. The college will be closed on Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day. The free Coding Camp is for students entering the sixth, seventh, or eighth grades, or those who have completed eighth grade in the...
