Stories from Wednesday, April 5, 2006

In the monthly meeting of the Lepanto City Council on March 21, the continuing pay situation concerning Judge Steve Inboden took up the majority of the hour and a half meeting. Other than going over what already been discussed in previous meetings, no action was taken on the issue...

The Lepanto Fire Department presented Fire Chief, Damon Tyler, the Bronze Helment Award for outstanding service and to tell him thanks for all of his hard work and service to the community. Tyler has served in the department for over 23 years, the last 13 as chief...

Tribune Sports Staff After 35 years in coaching, Marked Tree head girls basketball coach Betty Burge has decided it's time to retire from a game she loves. But, it's not the first time she has contemplated retiring. At Yellville, where she was when Marked Tree athletic director Tim Branum offered her the position with the Lady Indians, she seriously considered hanging up her coaching whistle because "Yellville was probably the worst place I ever coached. ...

James William Hand, 78, of Marked Tree died Saturday, April 1 at his residence in Marked Tree. He was a safety engineer for General Motors for 32 years, a member of the Central Baptist Church, a member of Elks Lodge in Michigan and an Army Veteran. He was preceded in death by his parents, Archie and Mary Hand, and one sister, Clovis Irene Cantrell...

Tribune Sports Staff Marked Tree's Indians went 4-1 on the week to raise their season mark to 11-7, but coach Matt Wright didn't want to talk about the first two wins or even the final scores. Those first two games were against hapless Turrell, which valiantly continues to field a team each year only to finish winless every season...

Tribune Sports Staff After getting back on the winning track at the XtraInnings Tournament last week, EPC (5-11) had a rough week as they traveled and lost to Armorel Monday and Gosnell Wednesday. Armorel 12, EPC 5. "It wasn't a very good day defensively," coach Brian Weathers said later. "We had five errors and gave up six walks in all. You give a team that many free and you're not going to be successful."...

Tribune Sports Staff Because of the success of the EPC Lady Warriors basketball team, the Lady Warriors softball team wasn't able to take the field for their first game until almost a month after most other teams. Marked Tree-18, EPC-3 "All things considered," first year softball coach Bobby Lewallen said immediately afterward. "I guess we did ok for the first game. We had a few bright spots and we'll just have to improve on those. We had one pretty good inning so that helped."...

Tribune Sports Staff Marked Tree (5-10) began the week on a very high note as they beat Weiner and EPC by the combined score of 31-3 on Monday and Tuesday, as they met two teams which were playing their first games of the season due to basketball. Then the Lady Indians fell to Rector on Thursday, 2-0...