Information From an English Class on the Paris Junior College Sulphur Springs Campus
AN ENGLISH LESSON
PJC-Sulphur Springs Center English Instructor Ken Haley gives students Keith Kirkland and Mykala Maddox a little help during a recent class.
Paris Junior College — located in Paris, Texas, about 100 miles northeast of Dallas — has been a part of the Lamar County community since 1924.
Paris Junior College offers Associate in Arts, Associate in Science and Associate in Applied Science degrees, as well as Certificates of Proficiency in technical/workforce fields. The college has expanded its academic curriculum through the years to encourage associate degree and university transfer candidates. Since establishing its first vocational program — jewelry and watchmaking in 1942 — the college has been aggressive in adding technical/workforce programs that will benefit students entering the workforce.
The campus of 54 tree-shaded acres includes 20 major buildings and residence halls and provides students a unique and pleasant environment for learning.
Paris Junior College also operates centers in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and in Greenville, Texas.
Vision
To be the educational provider of choice for the region.
Mission
Paris Junior College is a comprehensive community college serving the region’s educational and training needs while strengthening the economic, social and cultural life of our diverse community.
Pine Bark Beetles Are Relatively Common Pests That Can Quickly Kill Pine Trees
By Mario Villarino, Texas AgriLife Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hopkins County, [email protected]
Pine bark beetles attack and kill pine trees, and are relatively common pests of pine forests. The feeding and tunneling activities of adult and larval pine bark beetles eventually girdles an infested tree (e.g., disrupts the transport of water and nutrients up and down the stem) and quickly kills it.
Pine bark beetles live under the bark of pine trees. Adults infest new trees by chewing through the outer bark, leaving small round holes in the bark that may ooze pine resin (called “pitch tubes”). Adult pine bark beetles create tunnels or galleries under the bark where they mate and lay eggs. Larval beetles hatch from the egg galleries and create new tunnels, feeding on the inner bark of the tree. When the larvae finally develop into adults, they bore a hole out of the tree and fly to another. The life cycle for these beetles can be as short as 21 days in the summer months. Pine bark beetle activity generally stops when temperatures drop lower than 50º F.
Pine trees that are stressed or weakened are most vulnerable to attack by pine bark beetles. Only the southern pine beetle is known to attack healthy trees. Drought, flooding, disease, or damage from fire, lightening, hail, wind, human activity, and other sources can make a tree susceptible to infestation. In residential areas, construction activities can stress existing pine trees and create opportunities for infestation by pine bark beetles. Damage or stress can result from soil compaction, surface grade changes, or bark injury by vehicles or heavy equipment.
It is nearly impossible to save a tree that has been infested with pine bark beetles, so preventing attacks is extremely important. Keeping pine trees healthy and in good condition is the best way to help prevent infestations of pine bark beetles and other insects and diseases. Practice appropriate tree protection practices during home construction and landscape maintenance. Applying water and fertilizer to important trees in your landscape can also help them deal with the stress of construction activities and natural events, such as drought.
The Texas Forest Service recommends that landowners promptly cut down pine trees that are visibly infested with pine bark beetles (e.g., some life stage of the beetle is currently in the tree). However, care should be taken to make sure that felling an infested tree does not damage surrounding trees, since damaged trees are more susceptible to infestation. Once the larvae have matured and emerged from an infested tree, removing the tree will no longer provide any control benefits. Removal may still be warranted if the dead tree poses a safety risk (dead pine trees become quite brittle in 6 to 10 months)
Cut trees and limbs that are infested with pine bark beetles should be burned as soon as possible, since the beetles may continue to emerge from the cut wood. If burning is not an option due to burn bans or other factors, place cut wood in a sunny area and wrap it with a tarp. The tarp may help prevent adults from moving to new trees, and the heat generated by the sun may help kill remaining beetles and larvae under the tarp. There are a few pesticides currently registered for use to control pine bark beetles. However, chemical treatments are not recommended for controlling pine bark beetle infestations in residential settings.
For more information on these or any other agricultural topic please contact the Hopkins County Extension Office at 903-885-3443 or email me at [email protected].
The 2022 Holiday Season Will Officially Kickoff Friday For SSISD Fine Arts Students
Sulphur Springs ISD fine arts students are gearing up for the 2022 holiday season, which will officially kickoff Friday night. The next two weeks will be packed with opportunities for community members to enjoy the sounds of the district’s accomplished band and choir students.
The festivities begin Friday evening, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. with music played by the state-ranked Wildcat Band as the students join friends and fellow participants in the Lions Club Lighted Christmas Parade, and the 2022 holiday season will conclude with a special presentation at Hopkins County Courthouse on Dec. 12.
The Wildcat Jazz Band is slated to perform at 7 p.m. Saturday Dec. 3 the Chapel in Heritage Park during Christmas in the Park, then will follow that up at noon Dec. 5 with a performance in the Alliance Bank lobby. Students have also been invited to give a special private concert at Central Baptist Church on Dec. 6.
The SSISD Band Christmas Concert is slated to begin at 6 p.m. Dec. 8 in the SSHS Auditorium. Students from various Middle and High School bands will have an opportunity to put in practice the skills they’ve attained over the last year while helping entertain with sounds of the season. Slated to perform in the Band Christmas Concert are the SSHS Band, Wildcat Jazz, Sulphur Springs Middle School Concert Band, SSMS Symphonic Band, SSMS Wind Ensemble and the SSMS Beginner Band.
The SSMS All-Region Band students will perform in concert at 5 p.m. Dec. 10 at Paris Junior High Auditorium.
And, the bands aren’t the only SSISD fine arts students who will be performing beginning this weekend. The SSHS Choir students, accomplished in their own right, are slated to perform at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in Heritage Park during Christmas in the Park.
Then, SSISD choir like band students will also put on a concert for community members to enjoy. Among those scheduled to perform in the Choir Concert which begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in SSHS Auditorium are the SSHS, SSMS and fifth grade choirs.
SSISD Fine Arts Holiday Performance Schedule
- Dec 2
- Band at Christmas Parade at 7 p.m. — Downtown
- Dec 3
- HS Choir perform at 5:30 p.m. — Heritage Park
- Wildcat Jazz Band performs at 7 p.m. — Heritage Park Chapel
- Dec 5
- Wildcat Jazz Band performs at noon — in Alliance Bank lobby
- Dec 6
- SSHS/SSMS/5th Grade Choirs Concert at 6 p.m. — SSHS Auditorium
- Dec 8
- SSISD Band Christmas Concert at 6 p.m. – SSHS Auditorium
- Dec 10
- SSMS All-Region Band Concert at 5 p.m. – in Paris Junior High Auditorium
- Dec 12
- Commissioner’s Court Proclamation for SSHS Band’s State ranking during the 9 a.m. court meeting — Hopkins County Courthouse
Tuesday Gameday Has Both Basketball Teams on the Road
Both basketball teams from Sulphur Springs hit the road for this week’s edition of Tuesday gameday.
The first team up on Tuesday, Nov. 29 is Lady Cats basketball, playing in New Boston.
Coach Bryan Jones’s team looks to win their sixth straight game today if they can best the Lady Lions.
Sulphur Springs’ win streak stretches back to almost a full two weeks ago. It began in the Bells tournament in which the Lady Cats fell in their opener to host Bells, but rebounding by getting three straight blowout-wins.
The good times rolled into last week, as women’s basketball hosted two straight games in as many days prior to Thanksgiving. The Lady Cats then proceeded to beat both Mineola and Farmersville to find themselves 7-2 to start their season.
With that, Coach Jones and his team look to win their sixth straight game today, which would also be their eighth win in 10 games to start the season.
They play in New Boston on Tuesday, Nov. 29 looking to best the Lady Lions, with that game tipping off today around 6:15 P.M.
Also in action on this Tuesday gameday is Wildcat basketball. The men’s team, like the Lady Cats, play on the road Tuesday, Nov. 29.
Today they play at Lakeview Centennial.
Sulphur Springs has gotten off to an even better start, reeling off five straight wins to start their 2022-23 campaign.
Two of those wins came last week in the first ever Thanksgiving Classic, which saw Coach Brandon Shaver’s team taking on and defeating both Dallas Lincoln and Naaman Forest to secure a perfect 2-0 record in the first ever holiday invitational.
The game before that though, Sulphur Springs saw their largest scoring output ever, drubbing Hampton Prep 104-29 for the highest number of points scored by men’s basketball in a game in program history.
They look to win their sixth straight game Tuesday, Nov. 29 when they travel to the outer fringe of the DFW metroplex to battle Lakeview Centennial.
The Patriots are still looking to win their first game on the season, winless at 0-8.
They have a tough battle ahead of them as they look to upset a rolling Sulphur Springs team.
But the Wildcats play in Garland Tuesday, Nov. 29 looking to win their sixth straight game to start off the season.
That game tips off in Garland on Tuesday at 6:30 P.M.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
Part Of Private Drive To Be Added To Precinct 3 Road Inventory; Road Complaint Made To Commissioners Court
The bulk of discussion during the Nov. 28, 2022 meeting of Hopkins County Commissioners Court revolved around Precinct 3. Proposed was the addition of part of a private drive to the county road inventory. A complaint was made by a resident about the continued bad condition of a county road, and the county fire marshal submitted for inclusion in the official record for the Nov. 28, 2022 meeting of Hopkins County Commissioners Court two closed complaints investigated by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Private Drive
The Commissioners Court Monday morning authorized the taking in of a private drive in Precinct 3, which extended from the beginning of County Road 3502, west for about 1,018 feet and is about 28 feet wide. The drive leads up to the fire drill field, HCSO Trustee Farm, and Goodwill Industries property.
The drive will from that point become part of CR 3502. It will allow the 911 system to straighten up some addresses for property on the north side of the drive, which if left as is, could otherwise pose an issue for fire or law enforcement should either department have cause to be dispatched to the area.
“This will help them proceed on with the subdivision process. They’ve done everything we’ve asked. They need these addresses to get surveyed correctly so they can go to the preliminary subdivision plat,” said Hopkins County Fire Marshal Andy Endsley, noting those owning property through that area should be warned of possible heavy smoke from firefighter training at the drill field at times and of the farm, which could at times result in unpleasant odors. “The owners are aware of this and plan to subdivide. … The property is next to the city’s extra-territorial jurisdiction (ETJ), but the City of Sulphur Springs has opted to let that go out to the county.”
That stretch of private drive from CR 3502 past the Goodwill service center property to the drill field, which Precinct 3 Commissioner Wade Bartley said has been kept “in good maintenance” for a number of years, will now be the responsibility of the county and Precinct 3 for upkeep moving forward as it will become part of CR 3502. The change will allow the county to serve residents on the north side of the property, where the subdivision is planned. Proper signs will be posted and property owners on the north side, on Tiegiser Lane, will be notified of the address change.
TCEQ Investigations
Endsley reported two different complaints in Precinct 3 which Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigated.
“We always like to let the public know about complaints against the county. We were cleared of that,” Endsley said. “We pick up trash throughout the county on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, here people have dumped out in the road ditches and out in creeks. What people don’t understand is if you dump in creeks it’s a felony.”
Endsley said the county currently has a very aggressive program by which some individual have been charged for dumping.
“But, when it comes to some of our own, the county, we want to make it clear to the citizens that we were cleared of these allegations,” the fire marshal said.
The county received a notice of compliance with those allegations dated Nov. 30, 2021, on County Road 3564 in Dike, that “states that the TCEQ found that everything was in compliance, and all actions were corrective and no charges were charged from TCEQ for the site,” according to the county fire marshal. The second complaint was a county dumpsite on County Road 3518 in Dike. “Again the state said there were no violations found, everything was in compliance on both of those,” Endsley said.
The county fire official submitted the two notices from TCEQ so they would be part of the official record during Commissioners Court
Road Complaint
Frank Brown, a County Road 3546 resident, submitted to the county judge images he said were of a county road. He asked the judge to give them to Precinct 3 Commissioner Wade Bartley. He then asked why Bartley hasn’t gotten work done to rock his road. Brown said Bartley on Valentine’s Day 2022 told him that the Precinct 3 employees he oversees were responsible for beginning work on his road in January and indicated at that time that the road would be rocked “when the rain stops.” Brown alleged that “not a bit of rock” has been placed to improve the road since February. In June, Brown further alleged that work in June spread more dirt on the road, which has since become mud.
Brown said he isn’t the only one who wants to know. He said other residents of CR 3546 had signed a petition wanting to know why Bartley can’t get the road work done.
Bartley said he has Brown’s name on a list for repairs; Brown argued Bartley had told him he’d rock the road when the rains stops, but hadn’t said anything about a list in February. Brown said Bartley has been citing a list only since June, which he pointed out, was 5 months ago, and still the road improvements have not be made. He’s seen a motor grader three times on a Saltillo road since February, yet his county road remains unfinished.
“I believe my guys were on your road week before last and last,” Bartley contended.
That work, Brown said, had nothing to do with rocking the road.
“I’ve been on your road several times, Frank. It’s not in bad shape compared to other roads,” Bartley noted. “That’s not bad compared to some others.”
Brown said he’s driven the county roads every day from Birthright down to his road. Some road, he acknowledged, Bartley and the precinct employees have redone. The farmers who actually live there, however, are retired, Brown said. He asked if it was a budget thing, if only the roads of people who own more property, and thus pay more in property taxes matter; he cited 2-3 landowners whose property spans 100 or more acres or is worth $1 million or more as an example. He said Bartley has cited taxes as an excuse for how much or little road work is done.
“That doesn’t matter to me,” Bartley said. “I’m not using an excuse about the taxes.”
“You pulled my taxes up to see what I was paying and you said, the bottom line was ‘you’re not paying nothing,'” Brown accused.
“And you gripe and complain more than anyone else,” Bartley pointed out.
“I’m doing this for everybody. You want to see the petition again with everybody’s name?” Brown asked.
“I don’t need it,” Bartley replied. “You’ve been doing this for 10 years Frank. I’ve been hearing the same stuff since I’ve been in office. The commissioner before me told me it was going to happen, and you known what? He was right. For 10 years, you’ve been griping and complaining about the same old things.”
“Don Patterson would never say that about me,” Brown rejoined. “He knows better.”
“Oh, he does?” Bartley asked.
“Yeah, I know that for a fact,” Brown insisted, then asked for his pictures back. Bartley said he did not need them.
Brown again insisted the road needs to be repaired, that the rains, even recent rains which stopped on Friday.
Bartley pointed out the area received 5 1/2 inches of rain, which meant standing water, leaving the ground still too wet for work.
Brown argued that Bartley’s response is the same even in times when only 1 inch of rain has fallen. He said the road has been in the same condition for 10 1/2 months, and he and the other residents of CR 3546 would like to know when they can expect work to be done, when it will be rocked.
“It might be 10 1/2 more months if you keep complaining,” Bartley retorted. “I went straight to you. When you put that ad in the newspaper and you condemned Precinct 3 about the roads, you just peed your Post Toasties when you did that.”
“That’s not the way to run a business too, is it?” Brown respond.
“That may be,” Bartley said, “but that’s alright. The more you complain, the less you’re going to get.”
Brown said thank you, then returned to his bench seat at the back of the courtroom.
Memorial Snowflakes — An Annual Tradition To Pay Tribute To Friends, Family
By Jennifer Heitman, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected]
If you have been in our hospital lobby recently, you may have noticed the snowflakes adorning the windows alongside our elegant Christmas tree. These beautiful memorial snowflakes are in honor or memoriam of loved ones. The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation recently kicked-off their annual snowflake campaign.
The community is invited to pay tribute to friends or family members with a gift in their honor or memory. The Foundation will then send a notification to the honorees or designated contact to make them aware of the gift. In addition, a beautiful snowflake bearing the name of the honoree is displayed in our main lobby. This offering of the Foundation has become an annual tradition that is warmly received by donors and honorees alike. The recommended donation for each person honored is $25. Recognition of individuals makes a lovely seasonal gift.
For more information, you may visit the Foundation’s webpage, or call 903.438.4799.
CHRISTUS Comprehensive Wound Healing Center At Sulphur Springs
Under the direction of Dr. Scott McDearmont, our wound healing team provides specialized treatment of complicated, non-healing wounds of any kind. Our goal is to heal wounds, promote early recovery, prevent hospitalization, and avoid prolonged or permanent disability and amputations restoring your quality of life through individualized plans.
Advanced healing therapies such as Hyperbaric Oxygenation are available as well. To reach our Wound Care team, please call 903.438.4670.
Flu Shots: Do not Delay, Get Yours Today!
Flu shots are available at CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic, 105 Medical Plaza. Schedule an appointment with your provider today at 903.885.3181. If your provider has seen you in the last six months, you may walk in for a flu shot weekdays between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System includes CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospitals – Tyler, South Tyler, Jacksonville, Winnsboro and Sulphur Springs, the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital – Tyler, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital a partner of Encompass Health, Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, a long-term acute care facility, and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic. CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic is the area’s preferred multi-specialty medical group, with more than 400 Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers representing 36 specialties in 34 locations serving Northeast Texas across 41 counties. For more information on services available through CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, visit christustmf.org
- Bed count – 402 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler
- Bed count – 8 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – South Tyler
- Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Jacksonville
- Bed Count – 96 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs
- Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Winnsboro
- Bed count – 94 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital
- Bed count – 96 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart – Tyler
- Bed count – 51 – Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital
Winnsboro Police Department Media Report for Nov. 21-27, 2022
Winnsboro Police Department each week provides a media report with information about department activity. WPD activity for the week of Nov. 21-27, 2022, included:
Arrests
- Joshua Smith, 42 years of age, of Winnsboro, was arrested on Nov. 25, 2022 on a Harris County Warrant.
Calls for Service
- The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 132 calls for service during this reporting period.
Citations
- The Winnsboro Police Department issued 25 citations and 42 warnings during this reporting period.
3 Arrested On Possession Charge Over The Weekend
Three people were arrested on a possession charge over the weekend. A Waxahachie woman and Conroe man Sunday for having a bag of marijuana and a THC “dab pen” they tried to hide, and a Kaufman man caught with a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine Saturday, according to arrest reports.
I-30 East Traffic Stop
Cumby Police Officer Justin Talley reported stopping a Hyundai Sonata at 4:57 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at mile marker 114 on Interstate 30 east for traveling 92 miles per hour in a 75 mph speed zone. The driver was identified as 19-year-old Sadye Joleyne Lovett of Waxahachie, and the passenger as 19-year-old Cameron Terrell Taylor of Conroe.
While speaking with the pair, Talley reported smelling a strong marijuana odor emitting from the car and seeing a package of marijuana in visible inside of it. The Cumby policeman instructed Lovett to exit the car. As she did, he noted she’d been sitting on a THC “dab pen,” a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance. He had Lovett sit in his patrol vehicle while he instructed Taylor to exit as well. Taylor complied, but Talley reported the “dab pen” was not longer visible in the driver’s seat. When asked about it, Taylor allegedly indicated he did not want Lovett to get into anymore trouble. The car was searched.
Lovett was found to be in possession of about 1.5 ounces of a green plant-like substance he believed based on his training to be marijuana as well as the THC dab pen, which weighed right at 10.2 grams; while Taylor was found in possession of 0.9 ounce of a green plant-like substance believed to be marijuana, Talley alleged in arrest reports.
At 5:35 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 27, Lovett and Taylor were taken into custody and transported to the county jail; the car was impounded. Both Lovett and Taylor were booked into Hopkins County jail at 7:05 p.m. Sunday on possession of marijuana. Lovett was also charged with possession of 4 grams or more but less than 400 grams of a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance, a second-degree felony offense, while Taylor was charged with tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony offense, according to jail reports.
SH 154 South Traffic Stop
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputies Drew Fisher and Ryan Reed reported stopping a silver Lexus at 12:57 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, on State Highway 154 south near Wood County for speeding. The car took what Deputy Fisher reported to be an “extended amount of time” to yield to the emergency lights and sirens on his patrol vehicle.
Upon contact with the driver, he noted the man appeared to be distraught and was sweating profusely. Steven Wayne Metcalf told deputies he was trying to get away from people who were chasing him. Fisher observed no other vehicles on the road at that time, other than the Lexus and patrol vehicle.
Based on the 50-year-old Kaufman resident’s behavior, Fisher asked to search the car. When the man refused, Fisher had his K-9 partner conduct a search around the car. When the police dog alerted, the deputies conducted a probable cause search of the vehicle. Deputies found a water bottle cap with a crystal-like substance stuck inside of it, Fisher alleged in arrest reports.
Metcalf was arrested at 1:19 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, and transported to the county jail. The vehicle was impounded. The substance field-tested positive for methamphetamine. Deputies weren’t able to get an exact weight of the substance without the bottle cap, but instead estimated it weighed less than 1 grams. As a result, Metcalf was booked into Hopkins County jail at 2:30 a.m. Saturday on a possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance charge, the deputies alleged in arrest reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Winnsboro Man Accused Of Assaulting Troopers Who Arrested Him For DWI
A 39-year-old Winnsboro man was accused Saturday night of assaulting the troopers who arrested him for DWI, according to arrest reports.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Cody Sagnibene was contacted by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Drew Fisher to respond on FM 1870, to assist with a traffic stop. Fisher had stopped the driver of a Toyota Tacoma that’d been reported for as a suspected drunk driver traveling north on FM 1870 for failing to maintain a single lane of travel.
Upon arrival, Fisher told the state trooper he’d seen what appeared to be an open container in the truck parked on the north shoulder of FM 1870 and found a 6 pack of beer, with all except one beer empty. Alcohol could also be smelled on the driver he driver, identified as Omar M. Jimenez, a man with slurred speech, Sagnibene alleged in arrest reports.
Jimenez admitted he’d consumed five beers in the previous two hours, and displayed numerous clues of intoxication on standard field sobriety tests, resulting in the 39-year-old Winnsboro man’s arrest at 10:59 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, on a second offense DWI with an open container charge, according to the arrest report completed by Sagnibene.
The truck was towed. A recording of warning was played for the DWI suspect, who refused to provide a breath sample for testing. A search warrant was obtained from County Court-At-Law Judge Clay Harrison requiring Jimenez to submit to a blood draw. Jimenez was transported to the hospital for the blood draw.
When Sagnibene showed the warrant to Jimenez, he reportedly told the officials he would not allow them to take a sample of his blood. After being advised he’d face an additional charge if he resisted the blood draw, Jimenez allegedly told the trooper to charge him.
Jimenez resisted the blood draw and had to be held down in order for to complete it, the highway patrol reported. Jimenez then began fighting officers, causing the phlebotomist to accidentally stick Sagnibene with the needle, and grabbed Trooper George Greenway, jabbing his thumbnail into Greenway’s index finger, cutting him and smashing handcuffs together on Greenway’s finger, breaking the trooper’s nail in two, Sagnibene alleged in arrest reports. Despite that, the officials were able to complete the blood draw. Afterward, Jimenez was transported to the county jail.
Jimenez was booked into the county jail at 2:09 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, on an assault of a public servant (for the alleged assault on the troopers), a second offense DWI with open container and a resisting arrest, search or seizure charge, according to arrest reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Yantis Man Killed In One-Vehicle Crash on FM 514 In Wood County
A 47-year-old Yantis man was killed in a one-vehicle crash on FM 514 in Wood County Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, according to Texas Department of Public Safety reports.
Darryl Johnson was traveling west in a 2006 Honda Pilot on FM 514 west, five miles east of Yantis, at 8:20 a.m. the day before Thanksgiving. He failed to drive in a single lane and left the roadway to the right, striking a tree in the wet, rainy conditions Wednesday morning, according to the preliminary crash report by DPS Trooper Gary Hayes, assigned to the Emory area.
Johnson was pronounced deceased at the crash site by Wood County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Tony Gilbreath, DPS Safety Education/Media & Communications Sgt. Adam Albritton reported Monday afternoon, Nov. 28, 2022.
