Stories from Friday, June 12, 2009

Dear Blanche, Excuse me for assuming we are on a first name basis, but I have voted for you every time you have been on the ballot, and I do help pay your salary, so what did you expect? Anyway, I'm writing to you because there is some talk that you might have a hard time getting re-elected next year. ...

For many, summertime is a favorite time of the year. It's a time when school is out and people take to the road to enjoy weekends at the lake or family vacations, have cookouts and go camping. I used to love summers too. That is, until I moved below the Mason-Dixon line...

Economy keeping you close to home this summer? You don't have to cancel your vacation all together. There are so many nice, beautiful places to visit and things to do right in our own backyard. There are numerous museums such as Wilson Hampson Museum (655-8622), The Painted House, Lepanto USA Museum in Lepanto (475-2384), Delta Area Museum in Marked Tree (358-4998), Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza (487-2909), and Trumann Museum (487-7744).. ...

Please excuse me while I pull out my soap box for a moment. Last week I was going through a drive thru, and when I arrived at the window to pay for my order the cashier was talking on her cell phone. She continued to talk on the phone the whole time she took my money and handed me back my change. I gathered quickly from what she was saying that it was a personal phone call...

Curtis Eudell Kent, 80 of Marked Tree died Monday, June 8, 2009, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Marked Tree. He was preceded in death by parents, Eudell...

William Earl Mott, 73, of Tyronza died June 3. He was a farmer and a member of the Tyronza Church of Christ church. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Mott of Tyronza; one daughter, Wilma Jean McCleskey of Marion; three sons, Randall Earl Mott of West Memphis, Dexter Mott of Marion, James Mott of Tyronza; and four grandchildren...

Evelyn Brown Perkins, 95, of Forrest City died Saturday, June 6 at the Forrest City Medical Center in Forrest City. Perkins was born July 14, 1913, in Ravenden Springs and was the daughter of Elisha Walter Brown and Ella Lobelia Harward Brown. ...

LITTLE ROCK-- Three Poinsett County properties have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historically significant properties. The newly listed properties are the Highway A-7 Tyronza segment at Tyronza, the Highway A-7 Ditch No. 6 bridge at Tyronza and the Highway A-7 bridges -- historic district -- in Marked Tree...

Three Lepanto residents were arrested Wednesday, June 3 after police allegedly found a working meth lab at 106 Woodland Street. Kevin Womack, 30; Alicia Gibbs, 24; and Bradley Tucker, 44; were all arrested and charged with manufacture of a controlled substance -- methamphetamine. Tucker and Womack were also charged with tampering with evidence...

Clean-up by Kajacs, the firm which did the water and sewer work for the city garnered some of the most discussion during the Marked Tree City Council meeting Monday night. The discussion began when councilman Waylon Dunn asked, "Are they about ready to start (clean-up) yet?"...

Mildred Warren, 75, of Jonesboro died Friday, June 5, 2009 at the family residence. She was born in Manila and had lived most of her lifetime in Jonesboro and was formerly of Alabama. She was a plumber and of the Baptist faith...

Leonard Chadwick Snider, 31 of Trumann, Arkansas died Friday, June 5, 2009 at St. Bernards Regional Hospital in Jonesboro. Born Dec. 2, 1977 to Leonard and Ethel Seay Snider, Mr. Snider was a press operator for Great Dane Trailer Manufacturing. ...

M. Orville Halsey, 59, of Trumann, died Sunday, May 31, 2009 at UAMS in Little Rock. He was born in Jonesboro and had lived in Trumann since 1972. He was also formerly of Lake City. He was an employee of Delta Tool Box and a member of the Landmark Worship Center. Mr...

Jennie Mae Roberts Miller, 89, of Trumann died Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at Trumann Health & Rehabilitation Center. She was born and raised on Glasgow Road, a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Miller was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Roy S. Miller, one son, James Elmer Coker; one brother; one sister and her parents, J.P. and Mattie Miller Roberts...

Olga Ann Anderson was born on Monday, Dec. 27, 1920, the daughter of Nikolas and Florence May West Herlevich. She died on June 3, 2009 at the NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro at the age of 88 years, 5 months, and 7 days...

For many, summertime is a favorite time of the year. It's a time when school is out and people take to the road to enjoy weekends at the lake or family vacations, have cookouts and go camping. I used to love summers too. That is, until I moved below the Mason-Dixon line...

Economy keeping you close to home this summer? You don't have to cancel your vacation all together. There are so many nice, beautiful places to visit and things to do right in our own backyard. There are numerous museums such as Wilson Hampson Museum (655-8622), The Painted House, Lepanto USA Museum in Lepanto (475-2384), Delta Area Museum in Marked Tree (358-4998), Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza (487-2909), and Trumann Museum (487-7744).. ...

Please excuse me while I pull out my soap box for a moment. Last week I was going through a drive thru, and when I arrived at the window to pay for my order the cashier was talking on her cell phone. She continued to talk on the phone the whole time she took my money and handed me back my change. I gathered quickly from what she was saying that it was a personal phone call...

CASA is not your typical volunteer-for-a-day kind of job. It's like going to Africa in America. "It's hard core," executive director Carla Borden said. "You walk into unbelievable circumstances and you realize that you have the ability to change that and help someone."...

Trumann Water Works plans to buy and install two new sewer lift stations and may even have enough money left over by doing the installation work in-house, to buy two more pumps...

Demarcus Porter has always been a reader. So when his seventh grade teacher, Mr. Morgan, offered to give a medal to the student who read the most books during the school year, Porter used every chance he got during the school day to sneak in some reading time...

It took 324 workers and three years to construct and outfit the majestic Titanic. The towering Great Wall of China required the strength of 2000 men and a time span of several centuries to complete. The Great Pyramid stands tall thanks to the labor of 100,000 men and two decades...