Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast
Feb. 15, 2023- Kiwanis members met Wednesday to discuss their upcoming annual pancake breakfast. The pancake breakfast will be taking place on Feb. 18 from 7am to 1pm at the Sulphur Springs Civic Center, members of Kiwanis will be cooking it up for all those who are coming down to fill their bellies. Members of the Sulphur Springs High School Key club will also be helping out with the breakfast. Tickets will be sold at the door and...
Travis Cook
Graveside service for Travis L. Cook, age 81 of Sulphur Springs, Texas will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, February 17, 2023 at Greenpond Cemetery with BJ Teer officiating. Pallbearers will be Tony Cook, Lance Cook, Butch Burney, Aaron Dodd, Jonathan Cook, Ty Brown and Michael Boles and Kade Wimberley and Chris Hart as honorary pallbearers. Mr. Cook passed away on February 13, 2023 at Sunny Springs Nursing Home. Travis was born on...
Wildcats Soccer One Game Away From Perfect First Half of District Play
Wildcats basketball isn’t the only team celebrating perfection. Coach Alexi Upton and his team are one road contest away from a perfect first half of district play. Sulphur Springs is 5-0 heading into their round-one finale at North Lamar. The soccer squad won yet another district match-up Tuesday at home, dispatching Pittsburg 2-1. It took until the second period for the Wildcats to score on the Pirates, but Edgar Salazar made...
Wildcats Basketball Goes Perfect 10-0 During District Season
Coach Brandon Shaver and his team are thrilled following Tuesday’s senior night win over Pittsburg. Sulphur Springs with the win Tuesday wraps up a perfect 10-0 district season. Tuesday saw both teams struggle to score early, but that changed heading into the second as the Wildcats basketball team lead 21-7 after one quarter. From there Sulphur Springs cruised to a 55-34 win on Senior Night. Jumping out to a commanding 21-7 lead...
Wildcats Golf Finishes 4th in Season-Opening Meet, Back in Action Monday
The men’s golf team got their spring season off to a great start on Monday, Feb. 13. Coach DeLorge watched Monday as his team placed fourth overall in a crowded group of talented and big programs. Their point total from their spring opener, shooting 323, is not too far off from a tournament-best. “Every single one of them, from 35th down… getting into that position out of 94 kids? I told [the team] I couldn’t...
Jayden Arledge wins big in San Antonio NETLA 2023
Feb. 15, 2023- Sulphur Springs FFA member Jayden Arledge traveled to San Antonio on Feb 8th to compete in the Dairy Show with his two Brown Swiss heifers. He placed 2nd in class with one of his heifers and then won his class with his older heifer and went on to win Reserve Champion ORB Dairy Heifer. ORB stands for Other Registered Breeds, not only did he have to show against Brown Swiss, but he also had to compete with other Dairy...
Paul “Slick” Lee Loyd
Memorial service for Paul “Slick” Lee Loyd, age 69, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 2023, at West Oaks Funeral Home with Bro. Mike Eason officiating and Rachel Raley assisting. There will be no formal visitation. Slick passed away on Monday, February 13, 2023. He was born on December 10, 1953, in Sulphur Springs, TX, the son of Dewitt and Mozell Willey Loyd. He married Susan Davis on June 19, 1980,...
Jayden Arledge Wins Big in San Antonio
Sulphur Springs FFA member Jayden Arledge traveled to San Antonio on Feb 8th to compete in the Dairy Show with his 2 Brown Swiss heifers. He placed 2nd in class with one of his heifers and then he won his class with his older heifer and went on to win Reserve Champion ORB Dairy Heifer. ORB stands for Other Registered Breeds, not only did he have to show against Brown Swiss, but he also had to compete with other Dairy breeds such as...
Shirley Ann Meyers
A Memorial Celebration for Shirley Ann Meyers will be held from 2:00 P.M. till 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, February 16, 2023, at Tapp Funeral Home in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Shirley passed away on February 9, 2023, at her residence in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Shirley will be laid to rest with her parents Carl and Tillie Meyers at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Lincoln Nebraska on March 15, 2023. Shirley was born on March 26, 1943, in Snyder,...
Chamber Connection – Feb. 15
Those who have tickets to the sold-out Chamber of Commerce’s annual Membership Banquet on Thursday will want to get there early to look at, at potentially purchase, artwork that will be displayed. This year’s theme of “A Night at the Gallery” will include dozens of works of art, some of which will be for sale by local professional and amateur artists. The Chamber will help facilitate their sale after the banquet has concluded. The...
