Dairy Festival Contestants on the Air
Dairy Festival Queen Contestants Sarah Rost and Avery Faulks, both from Sulphur Springs High School, were guests on KSST’s Good Morning Show with Enola Gay Thursday morning. All six contestants appeared on the Good Morning Show this week. Sarah is the daughter of Tom and Suzy Rost. Her sponsor is the Junior Waverly Club. Sarah sees being a Dairy Festival Queen Contestant as a once in a lifetime opportunity. She says its’ been a cool...
Dairy Festival Kicks Off
The 55th annual Hopkins County Dairy Festival officially kicked off with a ribbon cutting on Celebration Plaza in downtown Sulphur Springs at noon on Friday. Dairy Festival Parade Chairman David Watson says this year’s Parade starting at 10 a.m. Saturday will be the best one we’ve ever had. Featured will be the Budweiser Clydesdales. Watson says there will over 100 entries including little kids in golf carts, Queen Kennedy Potts, six...
Hopkins County Dairy Festival
The 55th annual Hopkins County Dairy Festival gets underway this week. A Queen’s Dinner takes place Monday at 6:30 p.m. at The Lodge. Reigning queen Kennedy Potts will welcome six contestants. Hot air balloon activity is scheduled Friday night with a rally and glow at Shannon Oaks Church grounds. Saturday events include the Parade, Junior Dairy Show, Milking Contest, Ice Cream Freeze Off and another balloon rally and glow. By Don...
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...
Triple T Amusements Carnival Open Wednesday-Saturday
The ribbon has yet to be cut on this year’s Hopkins County Dairy Festival, but one favorite among kids and the young at heart is back for a four-night stint. Triple T Amusement is all set up on the Hopkins County Civic Center grounds Wednesday evening, gearing up to offer fun, thrills, delights, games and prizes. Carnival patrons gear up to lift off on Viper, part of Triple T Amusements Carnival on the Civic Center grounds June...
Chamber Connection June 8, 2017
The Ice Cream Freeze-off has mooooved!!! I have a big announcement regarding the 16th Annual Ice Cream Freeze-off! We have changed the time and location. The Ice Cream Freeze-off will still be held on Saturday, June 10th, but the time has moved to 5:30 p.m. and the location has moved to Shannon Oaks front lawn. Come enjoy all-you-can-eat ice cream for $3.00 (while it lasts), then watch the hot air balloons take flight at 6 p.m. all...
Chamber Connection June 1, 2017
BIG NEWS for the Ice Cream Freeze-off!! I have a big announcement regarding the 16th Annual Ice Cream Freeze-off! We have changed the time and location. The Ice Cream Freeze-off will still be held on Saturday, June 10th, but the time has moved to 5:30 p.m. and the location has moved to Shannon Oaks front lawn. Come enjoy all-you-can-eat ice cream for $3.00 (while it lasts), then watch the hot air balloons take flight at 6 p.m. all...
NETLA Buyers Luncheon Hosted By FFA, 4H at First Baptist Church
L to R, FFA Youth Cannon Gibson, Aaron Stanley, Josh Couch, Rachel Stanley and Mollie Gibbins About two dozen Hopkins County FFA and 4H Youth hosted potential buyers on Thursday February 23 for a prime rib lunch in the dining room of First Baptist Church. The youth helped seat and serve the diners, refilled glasses and made sure their guests got their fill including desserts. Several Hopkins County clubs were represented including...
Eldon Ford
Eldon Ford was born April 19, 1937, in Como, Texas to Lonnie Ford and Myrtle Pittman. Eldon was the youngest. His brother Lonnie Ford Jr. and sister Bobbie Jean Ford-Hollins preceded him in death. Eldon attended Sandfield elementary and junior high school in Como, Texas. Eldon grew up spending extended periods of time with his grandmother Georgia White-Pittman in Como, Texas. He often said she was like a mother to him. He would spend...
26 Graduates Ranked In Top 10% of SSHS Senior Class of 2023 Recognized at Honors Breakfast
The top 10% of Sulphur Springs High School Senior Class of 2023 was recognized Tuesday morning, May 16, 2023, at a special honors breakfast at 7 A.M. at Hopkins County Civic Center. The invocation was given before the breakfast prepared by the SSHS Culinary Arts Department, served by SSHS staff. Former Superintendent Michael Lamb offered thanks to Alliance Bank, long time sponsor of the event which has become a...
