Saltillo Students Designate Veteran Parking Spaces
Saltillo Beta and FCCLA members took a few days to paint Veteran Parking spots at Saltillo ISD this summer. Students stayed after their summer workouts and visited the school on their own time to help paint and decorate the four spots that were designated last year for veterans.
RECALLED: 4 Lots of Contaminated Lidocaine Topical Cream, Gel Products
Ridge Properties LLC DBA Pain Relief Naturally is voluntarily recalling four lots of 4 percent lidocaine topical cream and liquid gel products sold at the consumer level. FDA analysis has found these products to have microbiological contamination and the potency is higher than the labeled amount for lidocaine, according to The risks from a contaminated pre-tattoo product are greater since the skin is being traumatized immediately...
Commissioners Court To Consider Proposed Tax Rate, Consolidation of 2 VFDs
Hopkins County Commissioners Court have a full morning of work ahead of them Monday with a regular meeting scheduled at 9 a.m., with a work session to immediately follow. Commissioners will be asked Aug. 12, to consider and vote on a proposed tax rate; and to set the date, time and place for two public hearing regarding the tax rate. A public hearing will also be conducted to consider a plan for the district clerk’s technology...
HCSO: Amended Community Supervision Terms Require Jail Time For Man On Aggravated Assault Charge
Robert Jay Aaron, 30, of Sulphur Springs was booked into Hopkins County jail for aggravated assault of a family or household member with a weapon, as ordered by 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt, in “amended/altered court-ordered conditions of community supervision,” according to arrest reports. The amendment reportedly directs Aaron to remain in the county jail from 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug....
De Kalb Man Picked Up In Arkansas On 2 Hopkins County Warrants Alleging Sexual Assault Of Child
Randay Toliver was jailed at the Miller County Jail in Texarkana, Arkansas on two felony Hopkins County warrants. After Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office was alerted, Officer Melvin Jackson was dispatched to retrieve the 44-year-old De Kalb man. Jackson took Toliver into custody at 6:53 a.m. Friday at the Arkansas jail and transported him to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked on warrants for aggravated sexual assault of a...
Cumby Traffic Stop Early Saturday Yields Marijuana, Pills, 1 Felony Arrest
An 18-year-old Arlington man was arrested early Saturday morning, after an alert by a police canine revealed a container with bags of marijuana and pills inside of it in the car he was driving, according to arrest reports. A Cumby police officer, identified in reports only as Officer Geer, reported stopping a four-door Kia at 2 a.m. in Cumby for speeding. While talking to the driver and lone occupant, the officer claimed the...
Hopkins County Records For The Week Ending Aug. 9, 2019
Applications for Marriage Licenses Shawn Allen Caldwell and Tatum Celeste JohnsonDavid Duane Tidwell and Lareda B. RobbinsSammy Davis Crocker and ALethea Ann GibsonStanley Colton Aulsbrook and Shannah Lianne Walker
Police: Methamphetamine Found In Woman’s Pocket While She Was Being Booked Into Hopkins County Jail
Mary Elizabeth McDonald A 31-year-old Oklahoma woman, one of a pair arrested for possessing drug paraphernalia, ended up with a felony charge after a corrections officer found a bag of suspected methamphetamine in her pocket while being booked into the county jail, according to arrest reports. Sulphur Springs Police Officer Adrian Pruitt reportedly conducted a Ford F150 at 1:33 p.m. Aug. 9 in the 400 block of Texas Street. He...
Progress On Wastewater Treatment Plant Bubbling Along According To Schedule
Testing of the wastewater treatment plant’s new systems is off to a bubbling start. On Tuesday, the city began testing the new aerators. That night they filled the aeration basin with treated effluent, and we will began a 5-day aeration test Wednesday afternoon. The next step will be to start treating wastewater with the new aerators. The $18 million dollar bond-funded project to put in eight new units to defuse the air and...
Sulphur Springs City Council Awards Contract For Re-Insurance to HM Life
City Considering Take Stand In Railroad Law Suit The city of Sulphur Springs will continue to partially self-fund health insurance for city employees, the city council decided during their regular August meeting. Also discussed during a closed executive session was the city’s potential involvement in law service involving rail service. Re-insurance contract Sulphur Springs sought bid proposals for re-insurance coverage, as has...
