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Efurd Orchards seeing best peach crop in 5 years
PITTSBURG, Texas (KETK) – Out in the country on the outskirts of Pittsburg is a third-generation family-run farm well known for it’s peaches called Efurd Orchards. “He started with let’s see, it wasn’t very many trees at all, maybe 3000, something like that, and then it just grew and grew into what it is now,” co-owner […]
2024 Hopkins County Dairy Festival Queen & Candidates
2024 Hopkins County Dairy Festival Queen & Candidates Image 2023 Hopkins County Dairy Festival Queen Caroline Prickette and 2024 HCDF Pageant contestants Kolbi McCoy, Sedona Mccollom, Zoe Reed, Bryana Ruiz, Valerie Flecker, Aspen Mayhew, and Libby Negrete helped Judy Gilreath and Dinner Bell volutneers serve up meals for those...
Sulphur Springs man dies following Monday accident on I-30
In Hopkins County, local officials have released details about a fatal accident on Interstate 30. Early Monday morning (June 3), shortly after 1 a.m., Sulphur Springs police responded to a report of a crash on eastbound I-30 near the South Broadway Street exit. Officers say they found a 2021 Tesla that had left the roadway and struck the trailer of a tractor-trailer that was parked on the shoulder. Police found one man in the car, 26-year-old Jordan Taylor Smith of Sulphur Springs, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the driver of the tractor-trailer was present in his cab at the time of the accident, but was not injured.
Annual dairy festival ‘mooves’ through Sulphur Springs
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (KETK) – Over in Sulphur Springs, East Texans are in the mood for their annual Hopkins County Dairy Festival which is being held today and on Saturday. The festival features a hot air balloon rally, a parade, the Dairy Festival Queen Pageant and even a cow milking contest. Pageant contests will be […]
DownHome 272 w Enola Gay: Tish Debase on Rebirth Juneteenth Pageant 2024
Long Caption The Juneteenth Pageant is a long-standing tradition in Hopkins County during the month of June. In recent years, it has taken on the name of Rebirth Juneteenth Pageant, to signify its re-organization and rebirth following COVID. The Pageant will be held on Saturday, June 8, on the stage of Main Street Theater, 225 Main St. downtown Sulphur Springs. There is no charge to attend, and donations are welcome at the door. Seating is limited to the first 85 who attend. The public is encouraged to support the pageant as well as to attend the Juneteenth Freedom Days Festival planned for June 15, 16 in Pacific Park.
Power outages, numerous damages in East Texas in storm’s wake
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The maps of power companies in East Texas are beginning to light up again with red outage reports. In the Kilgore area, there are nearly 11,000 customers without electricity Monday night, as of 10 p.m. Longview reports 3,168 without power. Wood County Electric Cooperative has around...
3 arrested in Winnsboro Sunday night in connection with narcotics, stolen vehicle
WINNSBORO, Texas (KLTV) - On Sunday night, three people were arrested in Winnsboro. According to Winnsboro Police Department, at around 11:20 p.m. an officer was patrolling in the area of Coke and Gilmer roads when his in-car license plate reader alerted him to a stolen vehicle at the stop light ahead. The officer verified that it was reported stolen out of Dallas.
East Texas picking up the pieces after series of storms downs trees, power lines
Weeks of storms have strafed Texas with hail, high winds, tornadoes and pop-up hurricane-force gusts, leaving hundreds of thousands of Texans without power and homes and stores ripped apart. Last month, Houston was littered with glass shards from the windows of skyscrapers, and in the past week, thousands in the...
Remains connected to Upshur County missing person found in Gilmer
GILMER, Texas (KETK) – The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office said that a dead body was found in a vehicle connected to a recent missing person case on Saturday. Upshur County Sheriff’s Deputy David Hazel said that on Saturday, Gilmer PD found a vehicle with a decomposing body inside. The body is reportedly being sent to […]
Northeast Texas Miss Juneteenth pageant turning heads for a third year
, , , , , , , , , , In the darkness of the Whatley Center for Performing Arts on the NTCC campus, excitement and admiration filled the air as friends and family cheered on the talented young ladies who held their heads high and showed their radiance beneath the spotlight for the annual Northeast Texas Miss Juneteenth Pageant. It was on Saturday, June 1, that the pageant ran for its official third year in a row. It splits into four categories: Petite Miss Juneteenth, Young Miss Juneteenth, Junior Miss Juneteenth, and Miss Juneteenth. Karrie Hargrave, founder and coordinator for the...
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