It was been quite a season for Andrew Vo, a 13 year old junior jetski racer from Sulphur Springs Texas, recently relocated from Southern California. This year Andrew finished the Jettribe Mid America series with a impressive first overall in the Junior 13-15 lites 2-stroke class and a second in the
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Emily Glass, our commentator on events in Sulphur Springs, discusses recent action by the City Council to grant relief on delinquent property taxes to allow new home construction to take place. Several homes are being built thanks to the 380 agreements. Also, the Hopkins County Commissioners Court has approved a tax abatement plant to allow a solar farm to be built in the northwest part of the county. Emily is the co-ower of the Venue at two-19, and the former mayor of Sulphur Springs.
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Emily Glass, our Sulphur Springs correspndent and former mayor of the city, says the Celebration City is returning to normal from the coronavirus pandemic. Emily says the city normally has 310 events in a year and now has 309 events scheduled in 2021. Events Saturday include the Spring Market on Main Street and the Reilly Springs Jamboree at The Roc event center adjacent to the First Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Saturday. Also, Emily says work on the new Grays Building community center at Pacific Park is expected to be complete by mid-June.
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Our Sulphur Springs correspondent, Emily Glass, comments on her appointment to the Sulphur River Basin Board of Directors. Emily is the former mayor of Sulphur Springs and co-owner of the Venue at two-nineteen in downtown Sulphur Springs. Also, Butch Burney has been named the new Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce president, succeeding Lezley Brown. Burney will take the position in April. Finally, Emily discusses the annual Hopkins County Health Gala, which will be a virtual event Saturday, March 20 raising money for health care facilities. The event has been rescheduled from Feb. 20.
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Dr. Kent Montgomery, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M-Commerce, considers the major space projects planned for 2021. One is the DART project, in which NASA and the Japanese space agency are sending a spacecraft to collide with an asteroid, as a way of developing a method of protecting Earth against a disastrous collision. Also, NASA will attempt to land an Orion space capsule on the moon, with plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024.