Dairy Festival 5k Milk Run Results
5k Race Top Female Overall Winners Place Name City Bib No Age Overall Total Time Pace 1 Elizabeth Gillette 944 18 5 19:17.6 6:13/M Top Female Masters Winners Place Name City Bib No Age Overall Total Time Pace 1 SABRINA RAMIREZ 176 46 24 26:04.6 8:25/M Top Female 9 and Under Place Name City Bib No Age Overall Total Time Pace 1 TRINITY MARTIN 154 9 89 46:27.6 14:59/M Top Female 10 to 14 Place Name City Bib No Age Overall Total Time Pace...
State Historian O’Neal Opens Mini Speaker Series on Texas Independence Day
DALLAS, TX— The Universities Center at Dallas and Texas A&M University-Commerce will kick off their Mini-Speaker Series on March 2 with Texas State Historian Bill O’Neal. The Mini-Speaker Series will feature a line-up of speakers covering intellectual, relevant and intriguing topics of today. An alumnus of A&M-Commerce, O’Neal is currently serving his second term as State Historian of Texas. He has written over 40 books, as...
SPORTATORIUM – JULY 9, 2015 by Eddie Trapp
A little history. Stepfather Thomas “Tookie” Peters (Our clan calls him Papa) recently told of going to the Dallas Sportatorium sometime back in the Forties. That’s where Fritz von Eric and many other wrestling greats performed. The show that night was not wrestling, but a concert by singing great, Eddy Arnold. James Williams Peters, and his fiancée, Charlene, were along with Papa. James Williams was Papa’s nephew although...
Fifty Shades of Grey… In Sulphur Springs?
With a line that literally ‘runs around the block’, people clamor to get their copy of the new book “Grey” signed by Author E.L. James Saturday morning. The wildly popular author made an appearance at ‘The Bookworm Box” here in Sulphur Springs. At one point the line outside ran from Gilmer, to Davis, and around to Tomlison. Tickets to the event sold out quickly. If you are thinking of running up...
My Incubator Turkeys
Just imagine the life of a baby turkey. How long do they have to be in that little egg? Our flock of turkeys gave us eggs this springs. We decided to incubate them inside to keep skunks from eating them. While incubating turkey eggs you must make sure that the humidity and heat is set just right. The temperature in the incubator needs to be 99 degrees F the humidity set at 50-60%. The incubator we use has water channels in the bottom...
THANK YOU SO MUCH MAY 7, 2015, by Eddie Trapp
Our language is continually evolving. With each edition of dictionaries come new words and their definitions. Words or phrases unheard of a year or two ago are very common now. Some words or phrases are used to fill in gaps while the speaker is trying to decide what to say next. One that hasn’t changed over the years is “you know.” For some reason this phrase is very common with coaches and athletes. Thankfully, most of these...
Local Man Arrested As Suspect in Robbery and Shooting
Sulphur Springs Police have arrested 18 year-old Gregory Dequan DeBase who is a suspect in a robbery and shooting that occurred Monday, April 20, 2015 on a County Road in southeastern Smith County. DeBase was arrested on a first degree felony warrant issued in Smith County. During the robbery, two women were shot inside a residence and the victims’ purses and wallets were taken by DeBase and a second unidentified suspect. Both...
WRECK IN WELLINGTON, TEXAS APRIL 9, 2015 by Eddie Trapp
WRECK IN WELLINGTON, TEXAS APRIL 9, 2015 Continued from last week. The Bonnie and Clyde gang was hiding out in Joplin, Missouri when a neighbor called the police about all night, loud parties. The unfortunate officers had no idea who they were dealing with. Although taken by surprise, Clyde, Jones, and Buck quickly killed a detective and wounded a constable. Bonnie used her Browning Automatic Rifle to keep a highway patrolman pinned...
Spring Breaking at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS—Families looking for a place to have an inexpensive, rewarding family vacation during spring break need look no farther than the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens. Located just 75 miles southeast of Dallas, 100 miles east of Waco and 180 miles north of Houston, TFFC is a one-tank round trip for about 10 million of you. TFFC offers free fishing with paid admission for channel catfish and rainbow trout with no...
