Stories from Thursday, December 24, 2009

Carey Gene Case, 37, of Trumann died Thursday, December 17, 2009 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Case was born in Paragould and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was disabled and was a member of the East Side Baptist Church...

W. D. "Doc" Clem, 83, of Trumann, died Saturday, Dec. 19 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Clem was born in Sidney. He had lived in Trumann since 1949 and was formerly of Strawberry. He owned and operated Clem Furniture for many years and was a member of the Parkview Baptist Church...

Ted Secrease, 79, of Trumann died Friday, Dec. 18 at Wynne Healthcare Center in Wynne. He was born in Harrisburg and lived in Trumann for the past 15 years coming from Georgia. He was a retired electrician, veteran of the U.S. Army and of the Pentecostal faith...

Tommy Jack Shuburte, 65, of Trumann, died Thursday, Dec. 17 at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. Shuburte was born in Savannah, Tenn., and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was a retired laborer and of the Pentecostal faith...

John Robert "Bob" Young, 97, of West Memphis died Thursday, Dec. 17 in West Memphis. A beloved and cherished father and grandfather, Young was born Aug. 17, 1912. He made his home in West Memphis since his retirement. Bob spent much of his later years working in his large garden and drinking coffee with his many friends...

"We didn't play real well early, but we played hard," was the way Weiner coach Jimmy Allen summed up the Cardinals' first round, 64-46 win Monday morning over Crowley Ridge Academy in the NEA invitational tournament at the ASU Convocation Center in Jonesboro...

Onlookers to the Marked Tree and Tuckerman game at the NEA Tournament would have thought it was a game of street ball between bitter rivals. Alas, it was just the fourth quarter and Tuckerman turned up its press defense that threw Marked Tree for a loop. Marked Tree held their own though and pulled out a 68-65 victory...

When EPC's Alyson Phillips made the back end of a pair of free throws, she moved the Jr. Lady Warriors as close as they would ever be in their first round game with Nettleton last Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately that score was 2-1 and it occurred in the first minute of their 41-35 loss...

Trumann's Wildcats went over .500 last Thursday when they traveled to Brookland and withstood the Bearcats points onslaught with a barrage of points of their on to claim a 99-90 win...

EPC Warrior Head Coach Josh Hill describes his team as a work in progress. After the Warriors 58-25 defeat of the BIC Mustangs on Friday, "work in progress" seems quite the modest assessment...

Even though they were playing a much bigger team in 5A Paragould, 2A EPC never trailed in their 45-37 win in the first round of the Junior Raider Classic Saturday at Nettleton...

The 10th seeded Lady Cardinals went home early from the NEA Invitational Tournament as Weiner fell 54-42 due to a second half flurry from 22nd seeded Crowley Ridge Academy Monday afternoon...

"We've just got to learn how to play a whole game," was all that coach Marty Vallance had to say about his Wildkittens' 45-39 loss to host Nettleton in the semifinal of the Raider Classic Monday afternoon...

Larry Blagg was tragically taken from his family and his brothers at the Trumann Police Department in January. But those brothers thought it only appropriate to honor his family Monday night by unanimously naming Blagg as the TPD's Officer of the Year...

Marked Tree aldermen tabled an ordinance on the 2010 budget at their monthly meeting Dec. 14. Aldermen wanted the opportunity to thoroughly review the 2010 budget prior to passing the ordinance. Aldermen agreed to table the matter until January's meeting. Officials noted that the budget must be approved by February...