Stories from Thursday, June 21, 2001

by: Amanda Harris Around two o'clock Tuesday afternoon a young African-American male entered Massey's Video and Electronics, browsed around for a few moments and then pulled a gun on Susan Tacker, an employee, and demanded the money from the register...

by: MICHAEL WILKEY Marked Tree Superintendent Gary Masters and other school and community leaders are currently dealing with a recent decision by the Arkansas State Board of Education to place the school on Fiscal Distress Phase I for the 2001-2002 school year...

by: Michael Wilkey The Marked Tree Police Department busted two methamphetamine labs and made three arrests. On June 1, Marked Tree Police arrested Daniel Franklin Hellums, 32, of Trumann, after officers of the Marked Tree Police Department allegedly discovered a working methamphetamine lab in a vacant house on Ader St. in Marked Tree...

by: Sue Chambers No wonder Doris Pounders returned from Little Rock, bursting with pride for having won first place in the state as the top director of the site manager of Arkansas. But she also was overjoyed when the pictures were displayed and the one in Lepanto was so very pretty and brought some Ah! Ah!...

BY: MICHAEL WILKEY Religion is an important part of our nation, its laws, and its ideals. However, today, there are many people who wish to trash religion or mock it, saying that our nation was not founded because of religion. Religion is important because from it, we get our laws, our values, and our customs. ...

by: John Boxley I'm a little late in getting this to the paper in time because I succumbed to vanity Monday afternoon. I had LASIK surgery on my eyes at that time. I've been nearsighted since the age of nine. My parents first became suspicious when I kept running into rather large trees in the yard. They were concerned. The squirrels on the other hand used to gather to watch each time I came out to play. Since then, I have had an intense hatred of those furry tailed rats...

by: Mike Dabney I have not really written about crime in our community, but nothing prevents me from expressing my opinions on it. You will probably read of an incident, and hear of it, in which several young black gentlemen entered Massey's new game room and video store across from Fred's, and robbed it at gunpoint. ...

by: Amanda Harris The wedding On June 9th I experienced something that many of you readers have experienced; I got married. The oddest thing about the whole ordeal was that it was nothing like what I had attempted to prepare myself for. I thought I would break down and cry at some point before the wedding. I didn't. I thought I would cry during the wedding. I didn't...