By Butch Burney About one week remains to get your nominations for the Annual Community Awards, presented at the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Membership Banquet on Thursday, February 15. Nominations need to be in by Tuesday, January 2. To nominate, the committees ask that you not just list a …

Residents can double their donation to Sulphur Springs Meal-A-Day through December 31. An anonymous benefactor promised to double all donations up to $5,000 during this period. In the last report, Meal-A-Day reached just over $2,700 towards the goal. Contact Meal-A-Day Director Amanda Dietlin at 903-885-1661 to make your donation. As …

Titus County Deputies arrested Sandy Padilla on Tuesday on outstanding warrants. They charged her with money laundering of more than $2,500 but less than $ 30,000 with the Manufacture and Delivery of more than four grams of a Penalty Group II Controlled Substance. At the last report, they had not …

A small plane went down in Van Zandt County in a residential area near Thompson Tailwind Airport in Edgewood. The plane crashed into a home, and the owners were not in the house at the time of the crash. The pilot, the only occupant of the aircraft, died. The plane …

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on collision Christmas night that claimed the lives of three people and shut down Hwy 70 for about three hours. In one vehicle, the driver, 63-year-old Max Sides Senior, passenger 55-year-old Vicki Sides, and 32-year-old Max Sides, Jr., of Coleman, Oklahoma, were pronounced …

Chokma! ​ ​My name is Faithlyn Taloa Seawright. My Chickasaw and Choctaw name, Taloa, means ‘To Sing.’ I am the 25-year-old daughter of Gwen Burris and Larry Seawright. I am a participant in the Chickasha Academy Adult Immersion Program, where I have the opportunity to learn my language. Upon graduation, …

Posing with Gala Chairs John Sellers (far left) and Kim Sellers (second from right) are Diana Cotton, Lori Ray, Mickey McKenzie, Steve Rutherford, Kerry Law, and Josh Hood.GSC Enterprises and the McKenzie family are long-time Hopkins County Health Care Foundation supporters. Barbara McKenzie was the organization’s founder, and Mickey McKenzie …

Another chilly night is in store tonight, with temperatures in the low to mid-30s. A cold front will arrive late tonight into Wednesday morning, bringing a reinforcing push of colder air. High temperatures will only be in the 40s to 50s on Wednesday, with breezy winds keeping wind chills in …

There’s Still Time to Make a Difference at The Salvation Army End-of-Year Giving Supports Twelve Months of Help to Community Paris, Texas (December 26, 2023)— Now that Christmas has passed and we approach the final few days of 2023, there’s still time to make a difference and positively impact your community. …

The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a travel warning about visiting Texas. The ACLU says it’s because of the new state immigration bill Texas recently signed into law. The advisory states that in some cases, judges who have no training in immigration law can order people deported.