Farm From School with Texas Farm Bureau in Spring 2025!
This program offers a virtual opportunity for K-5 classrooms to engage with a farmer or rancher to learn about how agriculture connects to grade-level concepts. This program is open to Texas public, private, and homeschool educators. Classes will meet with a different farmer or rancher during February-May. Topics and dates for the Spring 2025 semester will be announced later this winter. Program details are available in...
Paris Junior College fall Graduation Debuts Changes
December 26, 2024 – Nearly 370 students applied to graduate and more than 100 chose to walk across the stage at Paris Junior College. New this year were two ceremonies, and students sported green gowns as part of the College’s 100th anniversary celebration. Graduating students were also featured speakers this year. “To each of you, I extend my heartfelt congratulations on earning your college degree or certificate....
Texas A&M Student Summits Mount Everest
After a decade of preparation, Aggie veteran Patrick Monday achieved his lifelong dream of standing on the peak of the world’s tallest mountain. By Emily Chan ’25, Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences December 26, 2024 Patrick Monday set his sights on climbing Mount Everest when he discovered mountaineering in the fourth grade. Monday, a 2022 Texas A&M University biology graduate who is now attending...
New Facility Dog Brings Heartfelt Holiday Cheer to Patients in Texas Children’s Heart Center
December 26, 2024 – HOUSTON – Texas Children’s Hospital is excited to welcome its newest facility dog, Noelle, just in time to bring comfort and cheer to patients during the holiday season. Noelle, a 2-year-old black Labrador/Golden Retriever cross, has joined the Pawsitive Play program and begun working with her handler, Shannon Stowers, in the Texas Children’s Heart Center. Stowers is a certified child life specialist...
Bevo Banned from College Football Playoff against Arizona State
The Texas Longhorns will be without their live mascot, Bevo, for their second-round matchup in the College Football Playoff against Arizona State. The barring of the mascot could be a bad omen for the Longhorns given the result in their last game played without Bevo. December 24, 2024 – The Peach Bowl, hosted in Atlanta, made the decision to keep Bevo out of Mercedes-Benz Stadium due to safety concerns, which is fair given...
Get your Garden Ready for Onions in 2025 From Master Gardener David Wall
December 21, 2024 – Onions are a fun crop to grow, requiring minimal soil preparation and very little maintenance. They tolerate most soils and transplant extremely well. They have a history possibly exceeding 5,000 years, so they’ve been around awhile, and it’s hard to imagine many foods without them. There are many varieties, and new varieties seemed to be in continual development. Typical varieties include yellow,...
KSST & Cable Channel 18’s Coverage of Christmas in Sulphur Springs
December 20, 2024 – It’s the best time of the year! Christmas! Check out KSST’s and Cable Channel 18’s coverage of Christmas activities in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 2024… Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Christmas...
Bill Designating Bastrop Post Office in Honor of Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Heads to the President’s Desk
December 19, 2024 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed his bill designating the United States Post Office located on Main Street in Bastrop, Texas as the “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office.” The bill memorializes the service of Sergeant Major Waugh, a Silver Star, and eight-time Purple Heart recipient, and now heads to the...
The Senior Citizens Activity Center Golden Agers Tree Still has six Names on it!
December 18, 2024 – Dawna Pryor with the Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Activity Center reached out to KSST and asked us to put the word out that the Golden Agers Tree, as of December 17, 2024, still had six names on it. If you can, please help out this worthy cause and make sure none of our loving Senior Citizens go without presents this Christmas season! These Seniors are someone’s Grandparents, someone’s parents,...
Mr. Christmas Recalls Wireless Decorative Tree Light Controllers Due to Fire Hazard
December 17, 2024 – This recall involves a decorative tree light controller that operates wirelessly to turn on holiday lights on a tree. The decorative controller contains two parts: a lever or a switch that can be pulled to turn the holiday lights on or off, and a separate white receiver that plugs into an outlet and into which the tree’s holiday lights are plugged. The controller sold at Walmart and Cracker Barrel is...
