Tira News
by Jan Vaughn The Tira City Council will meet on Tuesday, June 7, at 6:00 p.m. at the Tira Community Center. During the meeting, they will look into filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Mayor Floyd Payton, along with conducting regular business. The public is always welcome and encouraged to attend. Joyce Dodd was in Paris last Friday, to meet six of her former coworkers from Cooper ISD. They met at TaMolly’s for a late...
Tira News By Jan Vaughn
Tira News By Jan Vaughn Tira Mayor Floyd Payton has submitted his resignation, due to health issues. The City Council will meet on Tuesday, June 7th, at 6:30 p.m. at the Tira Community Center. They consider filling Mayor Payton’s position and appointing a new member to the council, to fill the vacancy, in addition to conducting their regular quarterly business. Martha Payton expects that Floyd will be able to come home from rehab by...
Mayor Celebrates Arbor Day Planting Tree in Buford Park
Sulphur Springs Mayor Kayla Price-Mitchell planted a tree in honor of Arbor Day Thursday, April 28, 2016, near the new pavilion in Buford Park. The 9 a.m. event, attended by city staff members and fellow City Council member Emily Glass, brought attention to the loss of trees due to drought and new construction. tree 1 tree 3 tree 2 20160428_090031 tree 4...
Bankhead Highway 100th Anniversary
Today, April 21, the Bankhead Highway Centennial Celebration stopped at Celebration Plaza to showcase their selection of classic automobiles and to interact with the people of Hopkins County. Roughly 50 to 60 cars from 1919 through 1933 were involved in the celebration. The showcase was part of a celebration for the 100th Anniversary of the Bankhead Highway. The Bankhead Highway Centennial Celebration left Texarkana, TX at 8 a.m. and...
Bankhead Highway Celebration Comes to Celebration Plaza Thursday
This year, 2016, is the 100th anniversary of the Federal Aid Highway Act that birthed the modern day highway system in the nation. The celebration of the centennial event comes to Celebration Plaza in Sulphur Springs Thursday. When John Hollis Bankhead, a U S Senator from Birmingham Alabama and newspaper publisher Asa Rountree became president and secretary of a nationwide good roads movement, their dream may not have been as broad as...
Chamber Connection April 14th, 2016 by Meredith Caddell
Chamber Connection by Meredith Caddell April 14th by Meredith Caddell Congratulations Grocery Supply Company for winning the 27th Annual Chamber Golf Tournament! We had a fabulous day at the Sulphur Springs Country Club last Friday! The weather was Perfect, the course was beautiful and the golfing was superb! Grocery Supply Company did something that no other team has done in the past…not only did they win the low...
Vandergriff Keynotes I-30 Corridor, TEX-21 Meeting
TEX-21 and the I-30 Corridor Task Force will meet Friday, March 18, 2016, at Texarkana College in the Patman Room of the Truman Arnold Student Center to consider updates on freight movement, the effect of the Panama Canal Expansion on freight movement on Interstate 30, and hear an update on transportation funding. Keynote speaker for the event is Texas Transportation Commissioner Victor Vandergriff. TEX-21 is a statewide organization...
Primary Runoff; Municipal Election On Horizon
One election has just ended and another will begin soon. In fact, more than one election is on tap. For the Sulphur Springs School Board and Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board, no election will be held. Those races were no race since only incumbents filed… except for one seat on the hospital board where on one filed. That place will be filled by law by appointment of the board. However, for the City of Sulphur Springs, there will...
Tira News By Jan Vaughn
Tira News By Jan Vaughn The Tira City Council met on Tuesday, March 1, at the Community Center and discussed routine business and made plans to move forward with the installation of the playground set, which was approved at a prior meeting. The project was delayed due to wet weather in the fall. Robert, Yvonne, and Wesley Weir spent Saturday visiting Destri in Dallas. Yvonne also shared, “All the pansies Robert planted for me are...
Planning and Zoning to Hear Heavy Commercial Zoning Request
Looking to the future, the owner of 89.6 acres located on the South side of Wildcat Way between Arbala Road and Holiday Drive and a 1.2 acre lot at the corner of Wildcat Way and Arbala Road is seeking to have the properties rezoned from Single Family to Heavy Commercial. The request is the only new item on the February 15th Monday evening agenda for the City of Sulphur Springs Planning and Zoning Commission. Commission members will...
