New PJC-Sulphur Springs Campus Nearing Completion
Workers are busy this week putting a new surface on the parking lot at the soon-to-be new campus for the Paris Junior College-Sulphur Springs Center. The new campus is located on East Loop 301 at the former Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co. site. Construction is nearing completion on classrooms, offices, a bookstore and other facilities in the remodeled building shown above. The PJC welding program is already underway in a new building at...
PJC-Sulphur Springs Center Speech Class Communications-By-Advocacy Project
Members of the speech class at the Paris Junior College-Sulphur Springs Center are busy setting the scene with ducks, deer heads and other objects for their outdoor communications-by-advocacy project. Dr. Paul May, right, is the instructor and proposed they build an outdoor scene to help them gain ideas for subject topics. Pictured from left (front) Emilio Ramirez, Kaylee Giles and Lacey Taylor: (Back) Ashley Keeter, Eddwardo...
Water Bill Phone Scam In Sulphur Springs
Home and business owners in Sulphur Springs may be receiving a phone call from a group claiming to be with the city’s water department. City Manager Marc Maxwell has announced that this is indeed a scam. Scammers are attempting to con residents by calling to inform them that the water lines at their residence or business will be shut off unless a “remaining balance is paid in full within two hours of the phone call.”...
Community Bible Study Celebrates 25 Years in Sulphur Springs
Sulphur Springs has one of the longest running Community Bible Study groups in the nation. Kim Carr, National Director of Community Bible Study, states that the international group continues to grow exponentially. Yet, with all the growth, there is commonality–the study of the Bible. Carr was the Wednesday morning guest on KSST’s Morning Show with Enola...
Sulphur Springs Fine Arts Director McCauley Announces Band and Fine Arts Christmas Performances
The Christmas season is a busy time for the Wildcats Band and High School Fine Arts. Charles McCauley, Band Director and Fine Arts Director at SSHS, said the jazz band will play 5:45 p.m. Thursday night at the Lights of Life Tree Lighting event. The band will march for the last time this school year in the Friday night Lion’s Club Lighted Christmas Parade. A number of other events are also scheduled before Christmas...
Three Sulphur Springs Men Co-Invent High Altitude Balloon System
Three employees of Raven Industries in Sulphur Springs are co-inventors for a “high altitude balloon system” that recently received a U S patent. The Sulphur Springs co-inventors are Michael Smith, Kurt Sehnert, and Randy Scott. They share the co-inventor status with Justin Lee Marsh, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Mark L. West, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Raven Industries home office is in Sioux Falls. The high altitude balloon system...
Sulphur Springs Food Scene Sees New Changes
Changes have come to a number of restaurants in Sulphur Springs which include Chicken Express, Burger King, the new Roma’s Italian Restaurant, and San Remo’s. Chicken Express is now under new management with the entire franchisee being bought out by a new owner. “We purchased this from Ricky Stewart, the franchise owner’s son,” Regional Manager Justin Grubbs said. “This location will be the 22nd...
November Second Straight Month Over 10 Inches of Rain for Sulphur Springs
November was another wet month for Sulphur Springs. Some rain was recorded on 16 of the month’s 30 days. With rainfall of 10.17 inches, November was the second straight month of more than 10 inches of rain in the city. Total rainfall for the first eleven months of 2015 is 58.08 inches. That’s 14.85 inches above the average of 43.23 inches for Sulphur Springs. The city is already assured of having above average rainfall for...
Sulphur Springs City Council Agenda for December 1
CITY OF SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, DECEMBER 1, 2015, 7:00 P.M. AN EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE HELD AT 6:30 P.M. IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.071, CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY – PENDING LITIGATION. The regular meeting of the Sulphur Springs City Council will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 in the Council Room at 201 North Davis Street. The following items will be...
Man Lied to Family for Ride to Sulphur Springs Where He Was Arrested for Online Solicitation of a Minor
Lyndon Kyle Sillings, 26, of Oak Cliff was arrested by local law enforcement including the Crimes Against Children division and charged with online solicitation of a minor. Sillings had been communicating with someone he thought was under 17 and arranged a meeting in Sulphur Springs. Unable to provide his own transportation, he was transported to Sulphur Springs by his step-mother and step-brother who thought they were bringing him...
