Stories from Monday, November 11, 2002

In the Tri-City mayoral races, the results ran the gamut of possibilities. Marked Tree Mayor Lawrence Ashlock was re-elected, while Tyronza voters chose Marion Bearden over the incumbent Drexel Gill. In Lepanto, Mayor Dale Dunlap will face Dwight Brown in a run-off election...

DomoreDO3, a manufacturing company in Marked Tree with approximately 60 employees, will close its operation on Thursday, Nov. 7. Beginning as a management buy-out, private investors including Todd Bridges, Domore DO3 General Manager, and Tim Dean, Engineering Manager, will reopen the company as DO Group Systems, Inc. on Tuesday, Nov. 11...

The nomination of the Willie Lamb Post 26 American Legion Hut by the State Review Board of Arkansas Historic Preservation for the National Historic Register was confirmed at a hearing in Little Rock on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The AHPP is the agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage responsible for identifying, evaluating, registering and preserving the state's cultural resources...

Joe Barnett, from the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, presented the plans for I-555 to the Marked Tree Rotary Club on Wednesday. Barnett told Rotarians that construction on the 149 Hwy. Interchange should begin in the spring, possibly with the access road from Hwy. ...

Susan Coleman, 66, of Osceola died Oct. 30, 2002, at Baptist Hospital in Osceola. She was born Jan. 15, 1936, in Wilson and was of the Baptist faith. She was a lifetime resident of Mississippi County and was a retired worker from the City of Osceola...

Louise Smith, 74, of Judsonia died Oct. 30, 2002, at the White County Medical Center in Searcy. She was a member of the Church of God of Lepanto and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward W. Smith; three daughters, Regina Louise Smith, Rebecca Faye Smith, Linda Kaye McHalffey and three sisters...

Kevin Allen Peridore, 22, of Harrisburg died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, from injuries sustained in a car accident on Highway 1 South in Jonesboro. He was born Jan. 18, 1980, at Jonesboro, the son of David Peridore and Glenda (Gibbs) Peridore. He was a 1998 graduate of East Poinsett County High School and a Senior Plant Science Major at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. He was employed at Food Giant Family Center in Harrisburg. He was an avid outdoorsman and of the Baptist faith...