Stories from Thursday, November 2, 2006

Tribune News Staff There are several candidates running for mayor in Lepanto and Marked Tree. Incumbent Dale Dunlap is being challenged by Kevin Wright in Lepanto and incumbent Lawrence Ashlock, Jr. is seeking re-election against Dixon Chandler in the Marked Tree race...

Courtesy of the Modern News Poinsett County is in the planning stages of developing a response plan in case an influenza pandemic should occur. Poinsett County Office of Emergency Management Coordinator Merle Williams met with city and county officials, school officials, health department personnel and emergency responders last month to provide the framework for a county plan. ...

Tribune News Staff "I guess they were about eight cents," said retiring Lepanto postmaster Gene Ashcraft from his office Monday afternoon. "They might have been six cents, but I think they had gone up to eight." Ashcraft can be forgiven his short memory concerning the price of postage stamps considering that it has been nearly 37 years since first class stamps were that price. ...

Oliver Carter, 75, of Marked Tree died October 26, 2006 at NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born December 17, 1930, in Poinsett County and was a farmer. He was preceded in death by one grandchild, Vanessa Scott. Survivors include four daughters, Sue Leadford, Shirley Ware and Norma Jean Carter, all of Florence, Ala., and Rachel Arreola of Marion; eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren...

Will have home field advantage throughout playoffs By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff With only a 14-6 loss to AAA conference Harrisburg, Marked Tree (8-1, 5-0) put another notch on their belt by slapping down pesky Walnut Ridge (3-4-1, 2-3), 36-6 Friday night to win the 3AA championship outright for the first time since 2002...

Tribune Sports Staff The Hornets of Harrisburg clinched at least a share of the 3AAA title Friday night at the expense of EPC, 36-6. "Harrisburg is very good," EPC coach Dusty Meek said afterward. "(Nick) Burnett makes their offense a lot better than it is anyway. He's probably the best player in our conference."...

Tribune Sports Staff "It was good to go out winning," coach Brian Weathers said after his junior Warriors 22-20 winning finale last Thursday night at Barton. It was questionable at the beginning of the season as to whether EPC (6-3) was even going to have enough players to compete or not. By the sixth game of the season, though, they were vying for the conference championship with a 5-1 record...

Tribune Sports Staff It was one of those games which a team likes to forget about. Marked Tree came into the final contest of the year against powerful, undefeated McCrory with the only win under its belt coming against hapless Turrell. Plus the Friday before, the senior Indians had pounded the senior Jaguars 46-0. So the stage was set for a blowout and the junior Jaguars responded, 56-0...