Stories from Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Marked Tree City Council heard from an angry dog owner and passed a resolution to approve the tax millage at its regular meeting Monday night. Jerry Phillips approached the council about a ticket he received because his dog was unleashed. "I got a ticket because my dog got off the chain," Phillips said. "I didn't get a warning or anything. Another dog was right there with my dog and it didn't get a ticket."...

Marked Tree Police Department made an arrest last week in connection with a local burglary and an automobile theft. Joshua Lynn Brogdon, 19 of Paragould was arrested at approximately 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept 6 on charges stemming from a break-in of the Cenex station in Marked Tree that occurred on the morning of Sept 5...

The Lepanto Lamp City Red Hat chapter spent their September meeting visiting Wildwood Antiques in Etowah. Seventeen members dressed in full red hat regalia and enjoyed a delicious luncheon inside a beautiful screened pavilion. They toured the wildwood antiques and enjoyed the beautiful woodland gardens...

The Marked Tree PTA hosted a "Back to School" dinner Friday, Sept. 8 to raise community awareness about the organization and funds for their project to build a handicap accessible playground in memory of Rhonda Hawkins for the Marked Tree Elementary School campus. The event was a huge success with over $1,000 raised through ticket sales, a silent auction and monetary donations...

Alline P. Gray of Jonesboro died Thursday morning at her home. She was born April 8, 1922 at Poughkeepsie in Sharp County to Allen & Celia Gay. In 1952 she was married to James Phenix who preceded her in death in 1964. In 1971, she married C.J. Gray, of Marked Tree, who preceded her in death in 1993. She was also preceded in death by her twin sister, Emagene Johnson...

Tribune Sports Staff It has been years since EPC has gone two games consecutively without scoring a single point, yet that is were they stand after Friday night's contest with Cross County. The Thunderbirds came to Lepanto and, while they took nearly a whole quarter to score their first points, once they got on the scoreboard, they didn't look back. ...

Two games! 87 points! Hornets on horizon By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff Breathers normally are scheduled later in the season, but Marked Tree got one early this year as they hosted Palestine-Wheatly in a non-conference game Friday night. "Hosted" is a relative term, however, as the Indians acted like anything but good hosts, ripping the completely outmanned Patriots for seven touchdowns in the first half of a 47-0 annihilation...

Tribune Sports Staff EPC's junior Warriors upped their record to 2-0 last Thursday as they traveled to Searcy and defeated Riverview 38-28 on an outstanding special teams' performance by Dustin Beatty. "Beatty just never ceases to amaze me," coach Brian Weathers said after the game. "He comes through when we need him to no matter what the situation seems to be."...

Tribune Sports Staff Unlike last week when the EPC junior Warriors opened the game with a kickoff return for a TD and never looked back, the junior Indians of Marked Tree took nearly the entire opening quarter to take a 6-0 lead over Harrisburg last Thursday night...