Stories from Thursday, June 23, 2005

The third annual Stars and Stripes Jubilee in Tyronza was held this past weekend and everyone came out in full force for the great community driven festivities. With booths set up with face and hair painting, stick on tattoos, t-shirts, caps, funnel cakes, nachos, cold drinks and best of all, mouth watering Bar-B-Q, there was plenty to choose from for the entire family...

Marked Tree's School Board met Monday night and addressed a long list of issues including school surveillance systems, building repairs and bid review for various things. The meeting began with the board, as well as a number of concerned citizens, loading up in a school bus to drive around the high school and elementary facilities to give their assessment as to what needed to be done to the buildings and grounds...

Marked Tree's Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing Friday, June 17 to discuss the Riverview Subdivision plan submitted by Glenn Gillis of Gillis Construction Company of Marked Tree. Members of the council in attendance were Ritter Arnold, Frank Brunner Jr., Wayne Hendrix, David Johnson and Bobby Phillips...

The Tyronza City Council met last Tuesday to resolve several pending issues including the National Incident Management System or NIMS resolution. The council also accepted a new fire chief, discussed the enforcement and consideration of several city ordinances and followed up on several properties in need of renovation or upkeep...

Barton Chapel Baptist Church in Heafer will be holding its 2005 homecoming this Sunday, June 26. Bro. Ricky Milam and Bro. Clarence Raines, newly ordained deacons, will speak. A pot-luck meal and church-wide singing will follow the morning services...

Billy Wayne McGuire, age 45, of Tyronza died Sunday, June 12 at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was a farmer and was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his mother, Laura McGuire; two sisters, Sue Young and Shirley White; one granddaughter, Courtney Renee Johnson...

Jesse "Mann" Carson, age 84, of Lepanto, died Tuesday June 14 at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. He lived at Stevens Square and was a member of the Lepanto United Methodist Church. He was employed by the City of Lepanto for many years. He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Estella Carson, two brothers and one sister...

Joseph Lee Stewart, age 32, died suddenly Monday June 13 at Lepanto. He was a musician and of the Baptist faith. He is survived by his father, Raymond Raybak of Georgia, his mother, Leona Shettleworth of Sidney, Ark., his step-father, Danny Settleworth also of Sidney and one sister, Crystal Dawn Shettleworth of Sidney...

Tribune Sports Staff EPC's Little League-Major Warriors went 2-1 last week, starting with a loss to BIC, 9-7, then coming back to defeat Bay, 5-1, and Marked Tree, 8-0. "It was a good week overall," coach Brian Weathers said. "That puts us 8-2 on the season."...