*Updated* POW MIA Area Added to Memorial
Pioneer Memorial contracted with Don Brewer with Brewer Lettering in Pickton to add a special area for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action soldiers on a stone at the Hopkins County Veterans Memorial Thursday. The new area is just to the left of the art work on the waterfall wall. It features names of POW’s from World War I and World War II as well as MIA’s from World War II and the Korean conflict. It also includes a...
250 Names Added to Veterans’ Memorial
Additional names are being added to the Hopkins County Veteran’s Memorial at Celebration Plaza in Sulphur Springs. Two men from New Mexico labored under a tarp cover Monday morning May 11 at the Hopkins County Veterans’ Memorial adding the names to a stone. Veterans’ Memorial Committee Member Clayton McGraw was there observing the work. McGraw said the workers arrived Saturday but were hampered by the weather...
Veterans Are Very Important to us in Hopkins County
Veterans are very important to us in Hopkins County, and across our nation. If you know of a Veteran of any war who was a POW or MIA, please contact Tommy Allison on behalf of the Veteran’s Memorial. Efforts will be made to give these Veterans name recognition on the Veteran’s Wall in downtown Sulphur Springs. Contact Tommy Allison at 903-885-0867 or [email protected]
Veterans Memorial Adds FM Channel
The Hopkins County Veterans’ Memorial Committee has enhanced enjoyment of the Veterans’ Memorial with a continuous loop broadcast signal that contains all kinds of information on the Memorial. It’s available on FM radio 107.9 using an unlicensed low power non-commercial FM radio transmitter. Committee member Jim Thompson came up with idea and he recorded a four and a half minute script that he wrote. By Don Julian, KSST News and...
City Managers Report July 2nd 2024
CLAIMS – We had one workers’ compensation claim in June for poison ivy exposure. We did not have any liability claims. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We have applied for a $250,000 grant from the General Land Office (GLO) to help pay for the plan. They required an amendment to our Financial Management Policy. The amendment was approved at the May meeting. The GLO says that they will make a decision on July 15. COLLEGE STREET – The College...
Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report for April 2024
CLAIMS – We had one minor workers’ compensation claim and no liability claims in April. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We have applied for a $250,000 grant from the General Land Officeto help pay for the plan. They require an amendment to our Financial Management Policybefore they approve the grant. The amendment is on the agenda. COLLEGE STREET – We are on the home stretch. I still think we will have the street open by June 01.HOLIDAY DRIVE –...
Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report – March 2024
March 7, 2024 – The following report was presented Tuesday to the Sulphur Springs City Council by City Manager Marc Maxwell. CLAIMS – We did not have any liability claims in February. We had one minor worker’s compensation claim. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We have applied for a $250,000 grant from the General Land Office to perform the plan. I had previously reported that we should know before this council meeting whether we got the...
Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report – January 2024
January 04, 2023 – Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report submitted to Sulphur Springs City Council by City Manager Marc Maxwell CLAIMS – Unable to provide claims report this month – flu season.COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We are applying for a $300,000 grant from the General Land Office to perform the plan. This will delay the plan a couple of months, but $300,000 is $300,000.SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER – Construction continues. We...
Ruth Davis
Funeral service for Ruth Davis, age 86, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 2:00p.m. Sunday, October 29, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with Dr. Jeff Gravens, Fred Lewis and C.J. Duffey officiating. Interment will follow at the City Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00p.m. Saturday, October 28, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home. Mrs. Davis passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Ruth...
Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report – Jan. 3, 2023
Sulphur Springs City Manager Marc Maxwell Tuesday evening, Jan. 3, 2023, presented to the City Council, in a Memorandum as well as aloud, the following monthly manager’s report: CLAIMS We had one workers compensation claim in December for a firefighter who fractured his ribs in a fall. We filed a claim on another driver’s insurance who crashed into a trailer at the water treatment plant. We filed a claim on our...
