Stories from Tuesday, February 20, 2007

EPC's Sade Madden (right) battles with her counterpart from Corning as both girls tried to make a rebound last Thursday night. EPC won the game as well as the 3A District Championship when they defeated Hoxie Saturday night. (Tribune photo/Dan Brawner)...

Tyronza could soon see a privilege tax on the books in order to increase revenue for the city. At the city council meeting last week, city attorney Noyl Houston reviewed a compilation of categories and amounts of privilege taxes from surrounding cities...

Tribune News Staff One of Lepanto's icons opened for the last time Saturday. Burrow's Diary Crème welcomed its last customers, who were there to bid on the wide variety of things the Burrows have collected over the years. Items varied from John Deere collectible tractors to Coca Cola memorabilia...

Richard K. Walker, 42, of Searcy was arrested by Officer Blake Permenter of the Tyronza Police Department on Feb. 15. After witnessing Walker disregard a stop sign and driving from lane to lane, Officer Permenter conducted a traffic stop and after making contact with Walker noticed a strong odor of intoxicants. A search of the vehicle lead to the discovery of two apparently used syringes, several full and empty beer cans, a busted steering wheel and the vehicle had been hot wired...

Tribune News Staff "I think that everyone in America should have some of this. (If they did) it would be another country." These were just some of the last words written home by a 19 year-old boy in the midst of the greatest war the world has ever known...

Helen Robbs Brunner, 85, of Marked Tree died Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. She was a lifelong resident of Marked Tree, and the widow of John A. Brunner, Jr., both of whom were active members in their local and regional business community. For over 30 years, Brunner operated the Travel Air Motel, a popular stop-over and eatery for travelers located along Arkansas highway 63. ...

Mildred Terry Carter, 86, of Tyronza died on Feb. 5, 2007 at her home in Tyronza. She was a retired secretary and a member of Tyronza First Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Mary Grace Lee of Tyronza and Kay Carter Adair of Arkadelphia; one son in law, Johnny Adair of Arkadelphia; eight grandchildren, Debbie Carter of Trumann, Wally Lee of Tyronza, Terri Grissom of Tyronza, Cindy Ledbetter of Stuttgart, Christy Syman of Kansas City, Kans., Melinda Evans of Greenbrier and Mark and Marty Adair of Arkadelphia; 18 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.. ...

Tribune Sports Staff In 2005, the EPC Lady Warriors won their way to the state AA basketball tournament only to lose in the first round to Mineral Springs. Their record was 21-8. In 2006, EPC lost only one game all the way to the state final against Strong only to lose in Alltell Arena. Their record was 27-2...

Tribune Sports Staff There were probably some mixed emotions in the EPC camp when they found out they were going to be playing Brookland last Monday in the opening round of the 3A-3 District Tournament in Manila. The reason was that the Warriors had just played the Bearcats at Lepanto little more than a week before in their final regular season game, losing to their eventual first round tournament opponents 76-73...