Sulphur Springs City Council Candidate Profiles
Voting in the May 4 Sulphur Springs City Council and special charter proposition elections continues with early voting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 29-30. Election Day voting will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 4. All voting in city elections is being conducted in the second floor conference room at City Hall. Voters are asked to consider approving 13 changes to the Sulphur Springs Home Rule Charter and to...
Legislative Update: Education
Education continues to be a central theme in legislative meetings, with numerous bills proposed, considered and revised. Senate Education Committee Chair Larry Taylor subbed SB 4 into HB 3 for school finance reform. HB 3 tackles basic allotments, full-day kindergarten programs, salary increases for teacher and librarians, start dates for districts of innovation, kindergarten reading readiness assessments, Tier I property tax...
Lady Cats Softball Sweeps Series Against Whitehouse Getting Clincher at Home Friday
Lady Cats Softball 6, Whitehouse 3 The Lady Cats’ softball team topped Whitehouse, 6-3 Friday night at Lady Cat Park to take their bi-district series two games to zero and to advance into the Area round. Whitehouse scored an unearned run on an error in the top of the first inning to go up, 1-0. The Lady Cats answered with three runs of their own in the first to take a 3-1 lead. They never trailed after that. Whitehouse got to...
The NETBIO announces its 2019 Beef Up Cattlemen’s Conference for May 10
By Mario Villarino The Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization (NETBIO) will host its 2019 Beef Up Cattlemen’s Conference scheduled for May 10, 2019 starting at 2 p.m. The session starts with registration and exhibitors displays, followed by Animal ID: new perspectives, Hank Hayes- Texas Animal Health Commission; Knowing Your Customer, Chris McClure Private Consultant; Creating native grasslands, Christian Ebel- Hopkins County;...
Thursday Game Day: Lady Cats Bi-District Softball and Wildcats Golf
Lady Cats’ Softball After a Wednesday, April 24 rain out, the Lady Cats’ softball team’s bi-district series is underway Thursday evening at Whitehouse. The teams are playing a best two out of three series. Game one is at Whitehouse Thursday, starting at 6 p.m. Game two is at Lady Cat Park Friday at 6:30 p.m. Game three, if necessary, will be back in Whitehouse Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The Lady Cats are district champs...
Jay Hodge Chevrolet to Host Corvette Club
The Sulphur Springs Corvette Club is teaming up with Jay Hodge Chevrolet in Sulphur Springs for a Corvette show April 27th, 2019 from 10:00 am till 2:00 pm. The Dealership will furnish hot dogs, burgers and drinks. The public is welcome to join in the fun. There will be designated parking areas for display Corvettes. Club members should start arriving around 9:45 am. All area Corvettes are welcome to...
Country’s Jake Penrod “King of Texas Twang”Appears at the Reilly Springs Jamboree
Jake Penrod’s career is climbing high in the minds and hearts of his fans, and there are a number of them in Hopkins County! At the most recent Reilly Springs Jamboree, Jake was the headliner performer. Roger Reed and the Jamboree house band got a big thrill in backing him up on traditional country standards and his original songs, compiled on his 2018 CD release, “Out of Control”. Jake travels all over the country,...
Como-Pickton CISD Board of Trustees Candidate Profiles, Part 2
Early voting by personal appearance begins Monday morning, for the May 4 school and municipal elections. Voters within Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District will have plenty of candidates to choose from when casting ballots in the school board election. Seven candidates have filed, seeking candidacy for one of four full-term at-large seats on the school board; they include D.J. Carr, JJ Cummings, James R. “Jim” Murray,...
Como-Pickton CISD Board of Trustees Candidate Profiles, Part 1
Early voting by personal appearance begins Monday morning, for the May 4 school and municipal elections. Voters within Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District will have plenty of candidates to choose from when casting ballots in the school board election. Seven candidates have filed, seeking candidacy for one of four full-term at-large seats on the school board; they include D.J. Carr, JJ Cummings, James R. “Jim” Murray,...
Lady Cats Softball Team Hangs On To Defeat Texas High, Wins District Championship
Lady Cats Softball 4, Texas High 3 The Lady Cats’ softball team won the district championship Friday night, April 19, when they hung on to eke by Texas High, 4-3 in Texarkana and then learned that Royse City had upset Mount Pleasant in Mount Pleasant, 4-3. The Lady Cats just held off the Lady Tigers in a tense bottom of the seventh on Senior Night for Texas High in Texarkana. With the Lady Cats clinging to a 4-3 lead, the Lady...
