News

September, 2022

• 14 September

  Paris ISD honors Distinguished Graduate

  DuWayne Lee Wirta Former Paris High School student DuWayne Lee Wirta has been named 2022 Distinguished Graduate. The Distinguished Graduate Award is the most prestigious award the District can bestow its graduates. Wirta’s portrait, along with 2020 Distinguished Graduate Robert Riggs, will be displayed on the Wall of Honor at …
• 14 September

  Hopkins County Veterans To Be On Honor Flights To DC

  Three Hopkins County veterans are on the Dallas DFW Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. These men and women will visit the memorials and have a banquet in their honor. There will be about 50 Veterans on this each flight. We honor them with a send-off on Thursday, Sep 22, on …
• 14 September

  Lamar County Head Start Receives Dental Screenings

  Dr. Shaneka Scott with Paris Children’s Dentistry conducted dental screenings for all Lamar County Head Start students. Lamar County Head Start requires all students to have an up-to-date dental exam every 12 months. Dr. Scott volunteered to help conduct the dental screenings at the campus to help families meet this …
• 14 September

  Sulphur Springs ISD Holds Meeting On Bond Election
• 14 September

  Tyler ISD Worries About “One Chip Challenge”

  Tyler ISD said Tuesday that three students took a “One Chip Challenge” on social media, which hospitalized them. It is a goal to eat a dangerously spicy chip. Eating one tortilla chip might sound harmless, but this is no ordinary snack. The box contains the spicy chip, and on the …
• 14 September

  Paris Police Report For Wednesday (Sep 14)

  Mary Joyce Leeks At 1:40 Tuesday afternoon, Paris Police arrested Mary Joyce Leeks, 39, of Paris, at the Lamar County Probation Office for two outstanding felony probation violation warrants. Leeks’ probation is due to possession of a controlled substance and an abandon/endanger a child by neglect convictions. Officers booked Leeks …
• 14 September

  Judge Ken Starr Dies

  Ken Starr, the former president of Baylor University who earned nationwide notoriety as the independent counsel who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness. Starr’s six years at Baylor ended in controversy after the school drew criticism for …
• 14 September

  FBI Takes Mike Lindell’s Phone

  My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell said Tuesday that federal agents seized his cellphone and questioned him about a Colorado clerk whom prosecutors have charged in a “deceptive scheme” to breach voting system technology across the country. Lindell says he was approached in the drive-thru of a Hardee’s fast-food restaurant …
• 14 September

  ERCOT Reliability

  The outgoing head of ERCOT says they’re building back trust after winter storm Uri when outages led to hundreds of deaths. Brad Jones told lawmakers we had a cold winter and no significant outages. He says this summer was the second hottest on record for Texas, and there were no …
• 14 September

  PLCHD COVID Update

    The latest COVID report for Lamar County, issued on Tuesday, shows 181 active virus cases with no new fatalities reported. Regarding testing, there were 43 positive PCRs and 181 positive Antigens. There have been 14,706 confirmed cases of COVID in Lamar County since the pandemic began.