Stories from Thursday, April 30, 2009

It's been a good couple of months for Matt Wright. First, he was named teacher of the year last month by the Marked Tree Chamber of commerce, receiving the Golden Apple Award for the honor. Then, his Marked Tree Indians baseball team qualified for the 2A regional tournament for the fifth year in a row two weeks ago and then the 2A state tournament last weekend...

It's been a tradition since at least the Nixon Administration that the President stays "presidential" while the Vice-President plays the role of attack dog to the critics. For example, everyone knew that Nixon hated the press, but he never criticized it publicly. Agnew, on the other hand, delivered a series of speeches railing about the left wing bias in the media...

Students at MTHS in upper level technology classes such as advertising design, agriculture, ROTC and business classes, primarily in grades 10 through 12, have shown dramatic performance in other areas as well, compared with 23 other schools in our area...

Cereal is one of my husband's favorite things in life. If left with no other choice, Josh would happily eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner the rest of his life. He even has it down to a bit of a science...

James "Jim" (Rabbit) Evett, Jr., 48 of Tyronza, died Wednesday, April 22, at the NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. He was of the Baptist belief. He was a hunter, musician and athlete. He loved anything associated with the outdoors...

With rain threatening, the Indians and Warriors took the field for the semi-final game of the 2A North Regional at Walnut Ridge Monday afternoon. By the end of the contest, which indeed was finished in a steady drizzle, EPC had defeated Marked Tree for the fifth time this season in six innings, 11-1...

The Lady Indians, after winning the 2A-3 district championship last week at Monet had high hopes for their chances in the 2A North Regional Tournament at Melbourne. That feeling probably increased when they beat Cedar Ridge, 5-3 last Saturday in the opening round...

Gregory Kyle Fulton of Jonesboro, a senior at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, was recently named the recipient of the R. E. Lee Wilson Award for 2008-2009 at the 76th annual Student Honors Awards ceremony in the student union auditorium...

With construction moving along quickly at the site of the future sports and recreation complex in Marked Tree, Mayor Dixon Chandler was excited to see things falling in line when he learned last week the city will receive an additional $75,000 in grant funding. ...

Nobody likes to pay higher taxes. But there is one tax I don't object to at all. The federal government recently doubled the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $1.01 per pack...

Cereal is one of my husband's favorite things in life. If left with no other choice, Josh would happily eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner the rest of his life. He even has it down to a bit of a science...

After holding one of the top ranked girls softball teams in the state to no hits on Saturday, the Lady Wildcats followed up with a disappointing 6-4 loss in extra innings to Highland Monday in the semi finals of the 4A-4 East regional softball tournament in Lonoke...

Patricia Ann Goff, 55 of Jonesboro died Friday, April 24, 2009 at the family residence. She was born in Truman, and had lived there most of her lifetime before moving to Jonesboro 7 years ago. She was a homemaker. Goff was preceded in death by one sister, Joan Hill, one brother, Way Goff and her parents, Elmer J. and Pauline Mary Meridith Goff...

Carter Marshall Loveless, 68, of Marion passed away Sunday April 26, 2009 at his residence. He was a United States Air Force Veteran. He is survived by his mother, Jewell Loveless of Marion; his son, Marshall Todd Loveless of Marion; his step-son, Kenny Conrad of Marion; his daughter, Mindy Rogers of Marion; his step-daughter, Shelly Neal of Southaven, MS and nine grandchildren. ...

Marylin Suzanne Hightower, 59, of San Leon, Tex. Formerly of Trumann, passed away April 11, 2009 in Houston, Tex. She was born on February 8, 1950 in Harrisburg, to Stanley and Ester (Jackson) Roberts...

The Trumann Lions Club raised about $3,500 during their annual golf scramble Saturday at the Trumann Country Club. Lions president Betty Payne said the club will present five Trumann High School graduating seniors with $500 scholarships to help pay for college...

When Suzanne Sloan decided to go back to work full time in 1981, she applied for a job as a bank teller at what was then First National Bank of Poinsett County and prayed that, God willing, she would get the job...

City workers have cut down the tree which claimed the life of former police chief Larry Blagg and one other Trumann resident who died recently when his vehicle crashed into the tree...

Volunteers working to restore the old Boy Scout Hut say they expect to have the project completed by mid-May. Trumann American Legion Post 42 Commander Ron Taylor, who has spearheaded the effort, said volunteers have been working on the inside putting up walls and trim and painting...

Mayor Sheila Walters tries to always have good things to report to her fellow mayors whenever they get together at the intergovernmental meeting in Harrisburg. But this month she had even more good reasons to be proud of Trumann...