SSHS Choir Sending 12 To TMEA Area Contest

Returning students Sarah Harper, center, and Jasmine Gutierrez, both of Sulphur Springs, receive registration papers from PJC-Suphur Springs Center Secretary Stephanie Koepke to begin the spring semester.

Coach Bryan Jones and his team are quickly heading into the home stretch of their district season, with only three games left to play. Sulphur Springs plays two of three on the road, including two straight this week prior to the regular-season ending Senior Night. Lady Cats basketball plays at...

Sulphur Springs, Texas, January 23, 2023 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. The 2023 Lights of Life Gala tickets go on sale next week on February 1, 2023. Sponsorships, however, are available now and each level includes tickets for the event. The sponsorship levels are priced the same as last year’s levels, but with new names to reflect the “Stilettos & Stetsons” theme.

Coach Bret Page and Wildcats powerlifting take this week off, their lone bye of the spring season. Sulphur Springs heads into their bye riding high after a second-consecutive 2nd place finish. Last Thursday the team headed to nearby Paris for the second competition and competed very well. According to coach...

The real test begins Tuesday as Sulphur Springs takes on Liberty Eylau. The district opener for men’s soccer kicks off Tuesday at Gerald Prim Stadium at 7:30 P.M. This past Friday Coach Upton and his squad hosted Celina, not only top-5 in Region 2 but also one of the top teams in all of 4A.

PJC Regents receive clean audit report, positive ranking news. The Paris Junior College Board of Regents received the 2021-2022 audit report and results from a national data report at their monthly meeting held Monday, Jan. 22, 2023. The regents approved the audit report. “That’s a clean opinion on these financial...

Help us celebrate Hopkins County at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet on Thursday, Feb. 16, which will have a theme of “A Night at the Gallery.” Art work from local artists, including professionals, amateur artists and high school students,. will be displayed and much of it for...

Friday, Jan. 27 is a busy one for Sulphur Springs sports. In what is truly the first gameday of the spring semester, five different teams from town are all in action. First team up on Friday is tennis, playing in their second competition of the season. Coach Tony Martinez and...

Funeral service for Wister Godbolt III, age 69 of Greenville, Texas will be held at 12:00 P.M. on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at Morning Chapel Missionary Baptist Church with Bro Larrenzo Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Mel Haven Cemetery with Archie Lindley, Lee Pogue, Terry Wright, Freddy Robertson, Sam Gassoway and Rudy Ellis serving as pallbearers and Pete Nash, Eurrie Rembert, Charles Perry, nephews and grandsons serving as honorary pallbearers. Visitation will be held from 8:00.

Wesley Cooper has announced his candidacy for one of the two places on Sulphur Springs ISD Board of Trustees to be determined in the May 6, 2023, election. He has lived in the SSISD for 12 years. He plans, if elected, to listen to the needs of the district without an agenda of his own.

Shirley Marie Richmond, age 86 of Dike, Texas passed away January 16, 2023 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas. Funeral services for Shirley will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1701 TX-301 Loop, Sulphur Springs, TX with President Jeff Sant officiating. Visitation will be held on Friday, January 27, 2023 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. at Murray- Orwosky Funeral Home in Sulphur Springs, TX.

Opening this coming weekend–four performances starring two different couples in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, the story of childhood friends Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner. Their lifelong correspondence begins when both are children with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. The pair continues to communicate throughout their lives, and the final letter shows how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.

Funeral services for Esther May Johnson, age 79, of Frisco, formerly of Cumby, will be conducted at 1:00 p.m., on Friday, January 27, 2023 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Cumby. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at West Oaks Funeral Home.

Funeral service for Paulagene Watson, age 92 of Cooper, Texas will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Johnny Witherspoon officiating. Interment will be held on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. at Forest Park East Cemetery with Stephen Watson, Jeremy Bell, Bill Watson and Joseph Watson serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Watson passed away on January 24, 2023 at her residence.

Charles D Coffey and Cynthia R Coffey to Ignacio Gutierrez Linarez and Maria Jacoba Sanchez; tract in the Agaton Caro survey. Caleb Lewis and Kristen Lewis to Madalyn Evans and Rodney Evans; tract in the Jose Y’Barbo survey. Robinson-Bennet Construction INC to Kyle Robinson and Lisa Robinson; tract in...

January 27th, 2023 – Eric Montreal Anderson a.k.a. EBG-Ejizzle, a resident on Memphis, TN was brought back to Hopkins County by Sheriff’s deputies on several outstanding warrants. Deputies traveled to the Horry County Jail in South Carolina to retrieve the accused. Anderson fancies himself a rapper, and has...

It is with great pleasure that the 2023 Board of Directors invites you to the 95th Annual Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Membership Banquet hosted at Hopkins County Regional Civiv Center Febuarury 16th. Networking Cocktail Happy Hour starts at 6:00 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and awards will...

A Press Release Regarding the Arrest, Trial and Sentencing of Clayton Reynolds. January 26, 2023 – DCSO Deputy Samantha Manrique met up with DPS Trooper Sgt. Kain to make an arrest on Clayton Reynolds in downtown Cooper, Texas on July 7, 2022. At that time, Mr. Reynolds had two warrants for his arrest for two third-degree felony assaults, both against the same woman who is the mother of his children. During this time, Mr. Reynolds had been heavily using methamphetamine and was experiencing delusions regarding the mother of his children. As a result of these delusions, Mr. Reynolds was calling 911 repeatedly. This is what prompted the meeting between Sgt. Kain and Deputy Manrique.

PJC-Sulphur Springs Center Education Advisor Maria Zuniga, right, observes as Pedro Mendoza fills out paper work to enroll in the spring semester as the Sulphur Springs campus. For information about classes and registration requirements, call 903-885-1232.

A celebration of life for Jordan Sawyer, age 79 of Prosper, Texas will be held at Blanco BBQ in San Antonio, TX, on Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 11:30 A.M. The spreading of Mr. Sawyer’s ashes will be held at 12:00 P.M. at Heroes Ranch in Quitman, TX on Saturday, April 15, 2023.