Como-Pickton CISD Trustees To Consider Budget, Tax Rate At Special Aug. 26 Meeting
Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees have called a special meeting to consider approving the proposed budget and tax rate proposed for fiscal year 2019-2020, which begins on Sept. 1. A public hearing will be conducted on both the proposed budget and tax rate, then the trustees will be asked to adopt each. The C-P CISD tax rate, as proposed, would be 97-cents per $100 property valuation, which is...
Laura Jean “Jeannie” Barrett
Laura Jean “Jeannie” Barrett, age 71, of Emory, passed away Wednesday afternoon, August 21, 2019 at Sulphur Springs Health and Rehab. Laura Jean “Jeannie” Barrett Funeral service will be held at Elm Baptist Church at 11:00 AM, on Saturday, August 24, 2019. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at 10:00 AM. Interment will follow the service in the Elm Cemetery. Bro. Robert Burns will officiate the...
Sulphur Bluff Lady Bears Win A Pair Of Volleyball Matches Against North Hopkins
The Sulphur Bluff Lady Bears won a couple of recent matches against North Hopkins. The two teams met in a Gold Bracket game in a North Hopkins tournament last Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sulphur Bluff won, 2-1. The score was 24-26, 25-22 and 25-20. Tuesday the two teams faced off at Sulphur Bluff and the Lady Bears won 3-1. The score was 16-25, 26-24, 25-22 and 25-21. For the Lady Bears freshman Skylar Stanley had four blocks and six...
PJC Sulphur Springs News
register for classes at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center La Shey Almager of Sulphur Springs brought her son Logan and his cars along to register for classes at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center. Campus Secretary Jocelyn Sanchez Ambriz and Assistant Director Iris Gutierrez, right, and Secretary Jocelyn Sanchez Ambriz help with the paperwork. The fall semester begins Monday (August 26).
Jacob Stahl Honored as Rookie of the Year at NASA
COMMERCE, TX— A&M-Commerce alum Jacob Stahl aimed for the moon and landed among the stars, as the old saying goes. jacob Stahl, left, accepts the Rookie of the Year award. Stahl was recently awarded the 590 Rookie of the Year Award by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The award is given to an employee from NASA’S Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis (MESA) Division who practices “commitment to excellence,...
Wildcats Football Team Scrimmages At Liberty-Eylau Thursday Evening In Texarkana
Sulphur Springs Wildcats The Wildcats Football Team has their only scrimmage of the preseason Thursday night, Aug. 22, at Liberty-Eylau in Texarkana. The varsity Wildcats will get underway at around 7 p.m. The JV and freshmen teams will alternate beginning at 5 p.m. The Liberty-Eylau Leopards are coached by former Wildcat, Klint King, son of former Wildcats Head Football Coach Chuck King. Wildcats Football Coach Greg Owens says the...
Lady Cats Volleyball Team Had Pool Play Thursday In An Edgewood Tournament
The Lady Cats Volleyball Team is playing in the 5th annual Edgewood Back-to-School Dig-Fest Volleyball Tournament on this Thursday game day, August 22. The Lady Cats play three pool games in the afternoon at the Edgewood Middle School Gym. The Lady Cats began play with Lone Oak at 2 p.m., then will take on Scurry-Rosser at 5 p.m. and Caddo Mills at 6 p.m. The top two teams after pool play in the four pools will go into a Championship...
Chamber “In a Stir” Over Major Food Event’s Golden Jubilee Anniversary
1974 Dr. Ben Woods, Unknown, May Dell Peoples (Goldbolt), Unknown, Unknown, Unknown Plans have long been in the making by the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce for the 50th Anniversary Stew Contest. This is to be the ‘granddaddy of them all’ as far as attendance goes, even by stupendous standards of past stew contests. Now that the time is almost here, the Chamber staff is preparing in high gear. But let’s get a...
The Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Now at Home, Downtown
Lezley Brown President/CEO Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce According to Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Lezley Brown and Chamber Vice President Logan Vaughan, the new offices are ‘in a whirl’ of preparations for the annual World Champion Hopkins County Stew Cook-off’s special 50th Anniversary event! Their much anticipated move to new quarters at 110 Main Street has coincided with the final...
