Stories from Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tribune Editor Residents of Deckerville, a small community near Tyronza, is still cleaning up from a tornado that rocked the area last Tuesday, Jan. 8. According to the National Weather Service in Memphis, the F-1 tornado touched won on Lucas Road, just south of Highway 63. The Tornado was 25 yards wide and 250 yards long...

Tribune Sports Staff EPC coach Josh Hill had mixed emotions about the two games his Warriors played in Lepanto last week. In both the junior and senior high contests, the teams went from playing exceptionally good basketball on Tuesday to playing just good enough to win on Friday...

By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff If there's a better team in the state, I would like to see the two of them play," said coach Barbara Wilburn following the Indians' 65-37 loss to Earle last Friday night at Marked Tree. "We were definitely outmatched. Earle is just phenomenal."...

Tribune Sports Staff By the end of the first quarter of the Lady Indian-Lady Bulldog game at Marked Tree last Friday night, it looked as if the game was going to be an Earle blowout as the boys game would turn out to be in the next game. Down 13-5, the fans can be forgiven if they doubted that the Lady Indians could come back. Clearly, though, the ladies didn't doubt themselves as they cam from down by as much as 13, to gain their third win of the season, 65-57...

Martha Loudene Wray, 80, of Payneway died Jan. 12 at the NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church and taught Sunday school for 50 years. Survivors include her husband, James E. Wray of Payneway; three sons, Eddie Wray, Terry Wray and Larry Wray, all of Payneway; one daughter, Janice Cantrell of Payneway; one sister, Elizabeth Hamm of Ramer, Tenn.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...

Lena Mae Rogers, 89, of Ashflat formerly of Lepanto died, Jan. 13, 2008 at Eaglecrest Nursing Home. She was a member of West Ridge Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Cleo, M. Rogers; one son, Bobby Joe Rogers and a daughter, Linda Sue Rogers...

The Marked Tree Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. on Wed., Jan. 30, 2008. The topic of the hearing will be to discuss rezoning property located at 406 Railroad Street from residential - 1, to commercial - 1. 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...

October 3 - Angel Kain, a 13 year old eighth grader from Marked Tree, was found after being missing for more than a week; 875th returns home. October 10--Engineering choice causes division at Marked Tree City Council. Choosing an engineer to design and build the sports and recreation complex sparked a debate and divided the council at the Marked Tree City Council meeting; Virginia Cross crowned Kerrigan Gordon, this year's Terrapin Derby Queen...

Tribune Sports Staff With Poinsett County Judge Doyle Hills absent with a case of pneumonia, the first meeting of the Quorum Court for 2008 began with the court appointing Justice John Sadler of Trumann to fill the roll of meeting moderator. The two items took most of the court's attention, one concerned a petition presented by Susan Criner representing residents on and who use Senteney Road north of Greenfield. ...

Tribune Editor Fees paid to grant writers stirred discussion at Monday's regular meeting of the Marked Tree City Council. Mayor Dixon Chandler broached the subject when he asked council members to approve the grant writers and their fees officially for the minutes...

Tribune News Staff After eight long months of investigation and one convicted felon's slip up, the Tyronza Police Department was finally able to get inside the residence of Turrell High School science teacher, James David "JD" Bodry, 47, whom the TPD has suspected of drug activity for years...

By DAN BRAWNER Tribune Sports Staff Coach Bobby Lewallen was trying his best to be generous about the Lady Warriors' 68-37 blowout of Harrisburg last Thursday night at Lepanto, but it was hard considering the ease with which his team defeated the Lady Hornets...