Stories from Thursday, May 4, 2006

Broken bones, the mumps, colds, the flu, bee stings and the like are just some of the things a parent gets used to associating with their children. One thing, however, that no parent will ever get used to hearing in association with their children are words like heart disease, autism or, worst of all in most people's minds, cancer...

Tribune Sports Staff "Muddy, muddy, muddy," was the way coach Waylon Dunn described the conditions at the AA Region IV tournament in Piggott last Saturday. The mud didn't seem to affect the Lady Indians (13-17), though, as they plodded their way to a 13-10 victory to advance to the second round...

Tribune News Staff A disappointing season came to a close somewhat appropriately for EPC (13-16) as they lost to Marmaduke 12-2 on a rainy cold Saturday to open the Region IV AA tournament last week. The game, in fact, was the only baseball game played of all the regional tournament games scheduled in northeast Arkansas last weekend...

Lucy Mae Taylor Tanner, age 82, of Marked Tree died Saturday, April 22, 2006 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro of heart failure. Born April 4, 1924 in Tennessee, she was a homemaker of the Baptist faith. Survivors include one cousin, Rosetta Lustor of Marked Tree...

Anna Starns, 76, of Marked Tree died Saturday, April 22 at Three Rivers Nursing Home in Marked Tree. She was born in Boulder, Co and was a homemaker. Survivors include one daughter, Colleen Smith of Paradise, Cali. and two sons, Pat Mullins of Northfolk, Virg. and Mike Mullins of Paradise, Calif...

J. P. Madden, 81 of Tyronza, died Sunday morning at the family residence. Born in Hoxie, he had lived in Tyronza for the past 36 years and was formerly of Trumann. He was a fitter welder for Trumbo Manufacturing in Memphis, Tenn., and a member of the Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza...

Three Rivers Baptist Church is hosting a community block party and everyone is invited. The party will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 6 at the Carver Recreation Center. There will be free food and drink, games, prizes and entertainment. Pastor David McKinney hopes everyone will come enjoy an afternoon of fun...

The Marked Tree Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 18. The topic of the hearing will be to discuss rezoning property located next to the Travel Air Motel from residential -1, to commercial -2. Copies of the rezoning request will be available for public inspection at the Marked Tree City Hall, 1 Elm Street, during normal business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday...

The Marked Tree Arkansas Community of Excellence Committee will hold a community wide meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9 at the Arkansas State University Student Center formerly Delta Technical Institute. The ACE Committee, comprised of volunteers throughout the community, is working to obtain the ACE certification and economic development for the city of Marked Tree...

Early voting will end at 5 p.m. on Monday May 22. Early voting is available to all registered voters.

A commodity distribution for Poinsett County is set for Thursday May 11, The distribution of food will begin at 9 a.m. at three locations - Marked Tree Fire Station, Trumann Recreation Complex Pecan St., Wiener City Hall. According to Judy Becker, USDA Coordinator for the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas, persons receiving the U SDA food must reside in the county in which the distribution is taking place. ...

The Lamp City Red Hatters of Lepanto spent their April meeting in Holly Springs, Miss. First, they enjoyed a delightful luncheon at Annie's restaurant famous for their southern-style home cooking. Three red hatters, Cindy Slack, Doris Steakley, and Judy Blocker were entertained by Annie and several waitress's in honor of their birthdays. The Red Hatters then left Annie's to take part in a Holly Springs Pilgrimage tour of historic homes...

The Tyronza Police Department recently completed a course in the safe and proper use of the taser X26 conducted energy weapon. Lt. Wayne Frazier of the Poinsett County Sheriff's office volunteered his time to instruct the officers and dispatchers on the proper aiming and firing techniques; proper loading, reloading and unloading of weapon cartridges; adequate arming, disarming and sparking of the weapon and hitting a target at a distance of eight feet...

Tribune Sports Staff Marked Tree's lone senior on the Indian basketball team this year, Robert Tyree, took the next step in his college career and life on April 20 as he signed a national letter of intent to play basketball with Shorter College of Little Rock. Tyree had a number of "feelers" from different schools including some Division-I institutions, but he said he wanted to start out in a junior college first to help him acclimate to college life...