Stories from Thursday, October 16, 2008

Cotton bolls inthe Tri-City area are full and ready for harvest. Many area farmers have already begun to pick the "white gold." (Tribune photo/Dan Brawner)

An economic development initiative announced Friday, Oct. 10 in Harrisburg, is "tailor-made" for Poinsett County, according to County Judge-elect Charles Nix. Arkansas State University's College of Business and the Delta Center for Economic Development (DCED), in partnership with the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, announced the selection of Poinsett County as the second participant in the "Powering Rural Development" model project.. ...

James Edward Butcher, Jr., 60, of Marked Tree died Saturday, Oct. 4, at his residence. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War. Survivors include his wife, Brenda Robbins Butcher of Marked Tree; four sons, Lucan Jim Butcher of Three Rivers, Mich., Sparky Edward Robbins of Elk Hart, Ind., Lance Q. ...

Elsie Marie Mullins, 54, of Lepanto,died Oct. 9 at the White County Medical Center in Searcy. She was born May 27, 1954 in Bakersfield, Calif. She was a homemaker and a member of the Etowah Pentecostal Church of God...

On Tuesday, Oct. 7, Quaniah Mychela Perry died. She was born to Latonia Turner and Quantralis Perry in Little Rock on Sept. 30, 2003. She was an adorable young girl who loved to hear music, have people talk to her and let her roll around everywhere on the floor...

Myrtle Rand of Tyronza died Thursday, Oct. 9 in her home. She leaves five daughters, Pamela Morris, Juanita Cross of Tyronza, Carolyn Dabney of West Memphis, Dinah Young of Turrell and Cheri Rand of Marked Tree; five sons, Jerome Sturdivant of Marked Tree, Donald McGowan of Tyronza, Charles Rand of Pagosa Spring, Col., Terrane Rand and Jeffery Rand of Las Vegas, Nev.; mother, Mattie Seals of Jackson, Mich.; four sisters, Irene Westley of Turrell, Diane Houston of Denver, Colo., Beverie Cobbs and Jelita Nelcoms of Chicago, Ill.; three brothers, Leon Johnson of Jackson, Mich., Pleas Seals of Atlanta, Ga. ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 7, at approximately 10 p.m., the Poinsett County Sheriff's Office received information concerning an individual who was lost in the floodway, north of the Siphons Access near Marked Tree. The individual, Westin Cissell, 17, from Poinsett County, along with his father and two friends, were scouting the area for deer and placing hunting stands when they became separated...

Thomas Bishop, 44, of Marked Tree, was arrested by the Marked Tree Police Department on Oct. 7 after a brief stand off with police. Officers responded to a 911 call reporting Bishop in the backyard of his residence firing a shotgun. ...

Governor Mike Beebe has named Mike Walden of Jonesboro as prosecuting attorney in the 2nd and Judicial District which encompasses Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Mississippi and Poinsett Counties...

East Poinsett County School board members learned more about The Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan (ACSIP) at a meeting held Monday, Oct. 13. The school district's federal coordinator, Melinda Hannah, was on hand to explain the plan...

Are you overweight, balding and living a miserable life because you can't make perfect smoothies at home? Does you life feel incomplete because you don't have a pilates chair? Or maybe it's the boflex that makes your heart go pitty-pat? And can you really live your life another day without that miracle wrinkle cream or magical mineral makeup?...

In the spirit of Halloween I've been watching my share of scary movies lately. However, I don't get into them too much, because I don't really believe in the ghostly ghouls and monsters bit. And of course, around my house the most that we decorate for Halloween is a traditional carved pumpkin. ...

With 1:28 left in the half, the Junior Indians scored their second TD of the night to take a 16-14 lead on the Junior Greyhounds at Salem. By the time the half arrived, though, the 'Hounds had taken a 30-16 lead which turned out to be the final tally...

It took another huge night from Michael Gray to help the Indians recover from a 21-7 third period deficit to defeat Walnut Ridge 33-28 Friday night. In the beginning, though, it looked as if the Indians might have an easy time with the Bobcats when Carlos Matos intercepted an errant Walnut Ridge pass at the Cat 48 and returned it to the 26...

It was clear from the beginning that the Greyhounds from Salem were no match in virtually any way for the Warriors Friday night at Lepanto. As a result, the EPC homecoming was a more than successful occasion as they destroyed Salem, 39-6...