Day 2 of The Edge; Athletes Investing In Themselves
At the end of the second day of The Edge conditioning program Tuesday morning in the Multipurpose Building, Wildcats Defensive Coordinator Triston Abron asked the athletes if they got better today. He said only they know the answer. Wildcats Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens told them if each of their reps were done with their best effort, they can’t help but get better. He had them chant, Build My House....
Junior Dairy Show
The Junior Dairy Show started off at 10:00 am in the civic center arena. There were over 129 head of cattle in the whole competition. Competitors came from Louisiana and all over Texas. There were barrels full of ice housing cold bottles of milk and water for competitors and their parents. A source of Hopkins county dairy farmers explained what the Judges were looking for: tall long body, Dairy Character-which is angular and...
Hot Air-Balloons at Sunrise
The Hot Air-Balloon Pilots met early Friday morning at 5:15, at the Holiday Inn in Sulphur Springs. Impending thunderstorms in Gainesville and Denton caused the Pilots to postpone the flight until after Sunrise at 6:15. The edge of the rain was 60 miles out, but the balloons can get affected by winds from a storm that is as far away as 50 miles out. “The FAA requires [Pilots meetings] as a group to make sure everyone has the...
The Edge Begins Monday at SSHS Multipurpose Building
Wildcats Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Owens is a big believer in the importance of The Edge, a summertime conditioning program for athletes. The free program begins Monday morning at the Multipurpose Building. Coach Owens says the Wildcats are going to be very competitive and players need to show up in shape in August so he doesn’t have to deal with injuries all through the fall. Coach Owens says The Edge is a...
Fun places around Hopkins County to take your kids this summer for under $10
by Savannah Owens Imagination Mountain and Coleman Lake-Pack a picnic lunch, a baseball, and a couple of fishing poles and you’ll have a whole day of fun set up with minimal planning. Hopkins County Historical Society Museum and Heritage Park – Enjoy learning more about the history of Sulphur Springs when you spend the afternoon here. It’s open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am-2pm. . The Dairy Museum-This museum...
Training Building Tradesmen; Summer Campus Improvements; Baseball, Softball Remodeling
Finding tradesmen for construction jobs such as home building is said to be more difficult in current times. To address that need, Sulphur Springs High School is bringing back a building trades class to help train tradesmen of the future. The building trades class will be building a house on Fore Street in Sulphur Springs on a lot owned by the school district. The slab is expected to be poured this summer. School district Director of...
East Texas Horticultural Field Day Features Public Viewing and Presentations
OVERTON – The 2017 East Texas Horticultural Field Day will feature more than 500 ornamental plant and vegetable trial varieties for public viewing, along with presentations by experts at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton. The event, slated for June 29, will be held rain or shine. Gardeners, professional landscape managers and seed company representatives can learn which landscape plants and vegetables...
911 Connection Event
By Savannah Owens The 911 Connection event was put on by the first responders to educate children and the public about safety. “The city of Commerce has a fire education trailer and the Sulphur Springs firemen asked if we would bring the trailer over and teach the kids about fire safety. It’s important to get people used to practicing [their safety plans].” Myles Zimmerman a firefighter from Commerce said as...
Meet the 2017 Dairy Festival Contestants!
Seven ladies from Hopkins County will be competing for the title of 2017 Dairy Festival Queen this June! Upon entry the ladies filled out questionnaires about themselves to let us know a little more about them. Starting with 2016 Dairy Festival Queen, Sadie Evans is the daughter of Jason and Angie Evans. She is a senior at Sulphur Springs High School and will be attending Belmont University in the fall to pursue a degree in Music and...
Blue 40, White 19 in SSHS Spring Football Game
The Wildcats spring football ended with the Spring Game as the Blue Team downed the White Team, 40-19 at the SSHS Track Complex field Friday evening. Wildcats Head Football Coach Greg Owens compared it to an All-Star Game, sloppy and probably not living up to the hype. He said lots of players got lots of reps. Coach Owens said more important than the game were the numerous workouts where players got better. The Spring Game was...
