Stories from Thursday, October 4, 2007

It's time to buy those Terrapin Derby tickets and head to downtown Lepanto this Saturday to get in on the famous turtle races. This year mark's the 77th annual derby which will kick off at 8 a.m. Oct. 6. Terrapin Derby favorites will be returning this year including helicopter rides and an old fashioned bean dinner sponsored by Steven's Square...

Tribune Sports Staff EPC continued the march toward erasing the memory of a disastrous 2006 season as they won their fourth game of the year against just one loss, traveling to Brinkley to defeat the Tigers 33-12 last Friday night. "Brinkley's a tough place to go and play," coach Bryan Harris said after the game. "We played well enough to win and any time you can come away from there with a win it's a real good thing."...

Tribune Sports Staff Playing what many thought was going to be the game for the eventual 3-2A championship, Marked Tree had to overcome four fumbles to come away with a 27-12 win over the 1-4 Thunderbirds at Cross County Friday night. Partially making up for the four fumbles, the Indian defense stole three aerials from the 'Birds, negating scoring opportunities which could have obviously made a difference...

Charles G. "Chili" McDaniel, Sr., 80, died Sept. 28, 2007, at his home in Tyronza. He was a retired heating and air maintenance man of Tyronza. McDaniel was also a U.S. Navy veteran, retired founder and fireman of Tyronza Fire Department, charter member of the Tyronza Hunting Club and a member of the Tyronza First Baptist Church...

Beulah Etta Barrier Daniels, 93, died on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at the St. Bernard Hospital in Jonesboro. She was a homemaker. She is survived by four sons: Ray Daniels, Henry Daniels and Greg Daniels, all of Tyronza and Randy Daniels of Marked Tree; one daughter, Peggy Preston of Tyronza; one sister, Wilma White of Savannah, Tenn.; 18 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren...

By MARISSA HOLIMAN Tribune News Staff (Editor's note: Sources for this article included "A History of Lepanto First Baptist Church" by Mrs. J. T. Lee Sr. and Lepanto News-Record articles.) In 1908 the first church in Lepanto was born in a small frame house on the upper end of Main street. Just over 10 people worshiped in the same building for a year or two while exploring the possibility of building a church building...

Tribune News Staff Northeast Arkansas welcomed home the soldiers of the 875th Engineer Battalion of the Arkansas National Guard Saturday after a year's tour in Iraq. The battalion based in Marked Tree, Harrisburg, Jonesboro and Paragould was mobilized in March, 2006 and deployed in Sept. 2006...

Tribune Editor "This is one of the most important books you'll ever have," Bill Stanley told area third graders last week. Stanley, who is the literacy chair and president of the Marked Tree Rotary Club, and other Rotarians handed out dictionaries to third graders last week at schools in Marked Tree, Tyronza and Lepanto...

Tribune Editor Angel Kain, a 13 year old eighth grader from Marked Tree, was found after being missing for more than a week. According to Poinsett County Deputy Sheriff Wayne Frazier, Kain was found in Jonesboro after a man driving spotted her walking down the street and recognized her from the news. He called the police, who also spotted her walking down Johnson Avenue in Jonesboro...

Tribune Sports Staff Unlike against Brinkley the week before, the Junior Mustangs knew they had been in a fight, at least, when the final buzzer sounded on the Hoxie-EPC contest last Thursday night. The 28-0 score notwithstanding, the Junior Warriors had their chances against the much larger, home-standing Junior Mustangs...