Stories from Thursday, December 29, 2005

The Tyronza City Council discussed an insurance policy and heard from the East Poinsett County School superintendent at its meeting held last Tuesday. The council also met the city's new police officers. EPC superintendent of schools Mickey Pierce addressed the council with questions about the potential for growth in the community that may affect the school enrollment. ...

Tribune Sports Staff Probably many people in the stands chuckled when Robert Tyree stole the ball and raced down the court to give the Indians a 2-0 lead in the opening seconds of the Marked Tree-BIC second round NEA tournament game Friday night. After all, BIC was the #1 seed in the tournament while Marked Tree came is as the 16th seed, having beaten Tuckerman on Wednesday night. ...

Tribune News Staff Last year, EPC, the #2 seed, played BIC, the #1 seed, for the championship of the NEA Tournament, the Mustangs winning a close defensive battle, 48-44. This year, though, while BIC may still make it to the finals, EPC will not as the 13th-seeded Warriors went down to fourth-seeded Riverside, 68-56, Friday afternoon...

Tribune Sports Staff By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff The second round NEA girls game between EPC and Black Rock on Friday went about the way a game between a #1 seed and a #17 seed is expected to go. After the first four or five minutes of the contest, there was no doubt that the Lady Warriors were the far better team. They then went on to prove it with a workman-like effort which ended in a 65-39 final...

Curlene Simpson Treat, 77, of Marion died Thursday, Dec. 22 at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by one infant son, her parents, two brothers and one sister...

Frank "Kager" Cox, 83, of Dardanelle died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005 at his home. The son of Everett and Anna (Burgess) Cox, he was born Sept. 25, 1922 in Marked Tree. He worked as a carpenter for the Santa Fe Railroad. After his retirement, he spent much of his time fishing, hunting and playing poker...

Reya Pauline Carter, 81, of Marked Tree died Dec. 23, 2005 at Three Rivers Nursing Center in Marked Tree. She was a homemaker and a member of the Black Oak Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents George McIntosh and Mildred Lynch McIntosh and a son, Jesse Earl Carter...

James Lee "Red" Vanhoozer, 55, of Marked Tree died Dec. 24 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born May 20, 1950 in Tyronza, Vanhoozer was a farmer and of the Church of Christ faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dorothy Davis and Vollie Vanhoozer...

(Editor's Note: This is the first part of a four part series reviewing the headlines from 2005.) January City of Marked Tree raised its water rates for the first time in 30 years. The National School Board president visited Marked Tree Schools. National guard members from the 1123rd transportation company were honored at a "freedom salute" ceremony in Little Rock...

DYESS, Ark. (AP) - The pivotal event that changed Johnny Cash's life forever was dramatically depicted on screen during this month's showing of "Walk the Line," by 20th Century Fox. The scene in which Johnny's older brother Jack, just 14, fell into a saw, was shot on location in the town where it actually happened, Dyess, or as it was known then, Dyess Colony...

Tribune Sports Staff Seeding-wise, Marked Tree (5-6) shouldn't have even been able to stay on the court against number three seed and defending NEA champion Cave City in the second round of the NEA Tournament Thursday. Granted, the 19th seeded Lady Indians got past 14th seeded Walnut Ridge Wednesday afternoon, 55-46, (compared to losing the first round by nearly 40-points last year) but the Cavewomen were coming in as one of the favorites to win the whole thing...