Stories from Friday, February 27, 2009

Volunteers from Trumann Police Department will lend a hand the weekend of Feb. 28 cleaning up limbs and storm debris around Trumann. Interim Chief Tony Rusher said off duty police and reserve officers will go around to the homes of the elderly and disabled and help cut and drag limbs to the side of the road so the city can dispose of them...

Trumann aldermen discussed the possibility of placing a cap on the number of Section 8 housing units within city limits at a meeting Feb. 10. City councilman Don Cole told the council he's had a number of citizens in Ward 4 express concerns about federally subsidized housing units creeping in to their neighborhoods and lowering property values...

Mayor Sheila Walters is looking at an in-house candidate to become Trumann's next Chief of Police and is currently evaluating interim Chief Tony Rusher's performance in that position. "I'd love to keep it in-house if at all possible," Walters told the Trumann Lions Club. "Right now, Tony is doing a good job. He has a heavy heart too and throughout it all has worked diligently."...

Trumann Parks and Recreation Committee members voted to adopt a set of strict governing laws spelling out the guidelines and eligibility requirements for volunteers, coaches. The vote, however, effectively ended the service of one of its own board members...

Mayor Sheila Walters will meet with federal emergency management personnel and state lawmakers in Little Rock this week about getting a slice of the $25 million in disaster aid funds set aside for counties in Northeast Arkansas hard hit by a January ice storm...

Barbie, you're still a doll! Can it really be that the Barbie doll will turn 50 in March? And at 50 the ol' girl is still going strong and still looking as pretty as ever. I was a G.I. Joe guy myself. Boys don't play with dolls. We play with "action figures."...

It's funny how much our lives become intertwined and ingrained with those of another person. My husband Josh and I have been married five and half years and, in that time, we really haven't spent a lot of time away from each other. Of course there have been weekend trips here and there, but they are always few and far between...

Despite the challenge of rescheduling because of the ice storm, the Trumann Chamber of Commerce had a great turnout at their annual banquet Thursday, Feb. 19. Guests enjoyed entertainment by the Ridgefield Brass Band of Jonesboro which included several Trumann residents...