Stories from Thursday, July 2, 2009

The American Greetings plant in Harrisburg, which once had as many as 500 people working, will again be teeming with life according to both Poinsett County Judge Charles Nix and Harrisburg Mayor Donnie Faulkner...

Construction on the new DaVita, Inc. dialysis unit on Hester Parker Drive in Marked Tree continued last week with the foundation and plumbing in the process of being set. DaVita, which recently opened its 1,500th dialysis unit in Gulf Shores, Ala. ...

All four Poinsett County football teams have been picked to finish in the middle of their respective conference packs. Trumann, the largest school in the county, was voted as the fifth place team by the 4A-3 conference coaches while both Harrisburg and Marked Tree were selected to finish in fourth position in the 3A-3 and 2A-3 respectively...

The Craighead and Poinsett County Little League recently announced the players selected for it's eleven and twelve year old all-star teams. Players selected for the12 year old team were as follows: Braden Stewart, Caleb Keating, Mathew Jowers, Dylan Motes, Jacob Sutton, Nash Thomas, Rex Peevey, Nick Hall, Ash Pulliam, C.J. ...

JONESBORO -- Geneva Baine Leggett, 82, of Jonesboro went to be with our Lord on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Mrs. Leggett was born in Tyronza. She had lived in Jonesboro for the past 27 years and was formerly of Trumann. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Birch Street Church of God in Trumann...

LOUDON, Tenn. -- Ronnie Darnell Hayworth, Sr., died Friday, June 26, 2009 at his home. Many Marked Tree residents may remember Hayworth. He was one of the Vietnam veterans who visited last September while the "Wall that Heals" visited Marked Tree. Although he was facing terminal cancer, Hayworth's family helped push his wheelchair to the traveling Wall so he could see his brother's name...

"Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration" -- Lou Erickson. Malcolm and Donna Patterson of Lepanto have been gardening all of their lives. They have a beautiful variety of day lilies, other blends of flowers, a few trees and used to grow their own vegetable garden...

Now that major renovations by a local entrepreneur are underway to restore a block of historic buildings along West Main Street, Mayor Sheila Walters is hoping a planned facelift on a city-owned property can help spur some new development on the other end of the block...

Last week, officials announced that the much anticipated funding for the completion of designated I-555 had been approved in the amount of $2.2 million. The funds will be used primarily to build a service road between Marked Tree and Payneway...

"We're getting eight to ten new hangers," said mayor Dixon Chandler when asked about the progress on updating the Marked Tree Municipal Airport. "The number of hangers would be according to (what construction facility) I use and how much we want."...

Last week was one of those special ones. You go all year with not much happening, and then in one week, everything happens. On Monday the big news was South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. The week before he had taken a few days off. Now, ordinarily that wouldn't be big news, but in this case it was because he didn't tell anyone he was taking the time off, or where he was going--not even his wife...

Since this will be our first edition of the new paper, I wanted to properly introduce myself. My name is Marissa Holiman. I am from Lepanto and a 2005 graduate of East Poinsett County High School. My parents are Mark and Kaye Holiman. ...

As you picked up your hometown paper this week you might have noticed a little something different about the front page. The Tri-City Tribune and Trumann Democrat have merged to form the Poinsett County Democrat Tribune. We are all so excited about the change, and all the new things we will have to offer you, our readers...

In just about a month, the football practice fields of Poinsett County's high schools will be teeming once again with kids getting ready for what they are sure will be stellar seasons. Some of the players will have to get used to new coaches while all the coaches will have to get used too many new players...

Can modern forensic science help solve a 200 year old mystery? The descendants of famed explorer Meriwether Lewis sure hope so. The family is seeking permission to exhume his remains in the hopes of shedding light on whether their famous ancestor took his own life in 1809 or was murdered for political reasons...