Celebrating CTE Month: SSHS Interior Design Class – Architecture Program
February is Career and Technical Education Month, a public awareness campaign that takes place each February to celebrate the value of CTE and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs across the country. To help Sulphur Springs High School celebrate CTE Month, KSST’s high school interns have compiled short videos featuring a few of the CTE programs offered at SSHS. One will be featured each week during CTE...
Filing For School And Municipal Elections Continues; All Reports So Far Are Of Uncontested Races
With a little less than 2 weeks left in the filing for school and municipal elections, all reports thus far are of uncontested races in Hopkins County. Sulphur Springs In Sulphur Springs, the incumbents are the only candidates who had filed candidacy in both the City Council and school board elections. School Board On the first day of the filing period, Kerry Wright and Jason Dietze filed candidate applications seeking a place on the...
Paris Junior College Holding Virtual Auditions for Pyro Playfest I
Paris Junior College is holding virtual auditions for the continuing virtual season that continues in the Spring semester with back-to-back Pyro Playfests. Celebrating original works that have yet to be performed on stage, the performances will be done on Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Pyro Playfest: Shipwreck’d” is the sixth annual festival of 10 to 20 minute one-act plays. Originally planned for in-person performances last...
Planning & Zoning Commission Approves Final Subdivision Plat Request, 2 Three-Story Apartments Planned
The Sulphur Springs Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a request from BGE, Inc. of Fort Worth, to combine two lots in Z. Jewell Subdivision, located northwest of the League and Bell Street intersection into one plat 5.488 acres plat for pair of three-story apartments. The Zoning Board of Adjustments also gave approval this week to Sergio Mendez’s request for a variance to setback requirements to construct a...
Sulphur Springs City Council Approves Requests for 5 Building Projects That Will Provide 80 New Housing Units
Sulphur Springs City Council on Jan. 5 approved requests involving five building projects that, upon construction, will provide about 80 new housing units in Sulphur Springs. 380 Agreements The council first granted two 380 agreements, to SM Family Holdings LLC and one 380 agreement to Adrian Lopez. After constructing a single family home on property already within the city limits in identified areas (infill housing development). the...
Archie Mitchell
Memorial service for Archie Mitchell, age 65, of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, December 13, 2020 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Judge Newsom officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Mr. Mitchell passed away on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at his home. Archie was born on May 24, 1955, in Clarksville, TX, to Archie Milton and Shirley Ruth (Mabry) Mitchell. He married Jennifer...
Candidate Profiles: Sulphur Springs City Council Place 1
December 6, 2020 – The early voting in the Dec. 15 runoff election for Sulphur Springs City Council Place 1 is under way at Sulphur Springs Municipal Building, 201 North Davis St. As of Friday afternoon, only 20 of the 9,695 registered voters in Sulphur Springs had cast ballots in the runoff election. Early voting by personal appearance continues from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 7, Dec. 9 and Dec. 11; and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m....
Hopkins County Records – Nov. 6, 2020
Land Deed Transactions Cindy Brumfield, Jerry D. Brumfield formerly doing business as JCL Outdoors to Anthony Ferguson Ballard and Mary Katherine Ballard; tract in the Levi Midgett surveyRobert D. Idzi Sr. to Matthew Jay Stang; tract in the James C. Sanders surveyEverett Jennings and Lacie Jennings to Billy Ray Howard; tract in the WC Towers surveyArthur Lee Skidmore and Glenda Carolyn Skidmore to Hilda Patricia Ramos and Jose Ramons;...
Nov. 3, 2020 Hopkins County Election Results
Below are the unofficial final results of the Nov. 3 elections conducted in Hopkins County. Early voting results reflect Hopkins County totals only and include the total of absentee and early voting. Sulphur Springs City Council Place 1 Jay W. Julian – 1,764 votes (45.97 percent) early voting (EV) and 179 Election Day; total: 1943 total votes (43.67 percent)Mark Bradley – 933 votes (24.32 percent) EV and 162...
School, City, District, County, State, National Elections On Nov. 3 Ballots In Hopkins County
Registered Hopkins County voters will have one more change to cast ballots at any one of the 12 county voting locations between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 3, 2020. At least 15 state, national and federal races are on Nov. 3 Hopkins County ballots. Overall, there are 38 different ballots, including elections for 7 county and 3 district positions with only one candidate; and 3 school board and 2 city elections which have drawn multiple...
