Stories from Thursday, April 22, 2010

Betty Jean Hamlet Miller, 80, died Friday, April 16. Miller was born in Rodney, in Baxter County on May 8, 1929. She attended Norfolk public school and graduated from Southern State Teacher's College. Miller also attended Henderson State College graduating in 1949 with a degree in home economics...

Retired Circuit Judge David Burnett, a candidate for state senate, was the guest speaker at the April 13 Poinsett County Intergovernmental meeting. Poinsett County Judge Charles Nix was pleased to have Burnett at the meeting. "We're going to be depending heavily on whoever is elected," he said...

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. ~Author Unknown...

Last Thursday was tax day, and if filling out your 1040 wasn't enough to give you a headache, all of those TEA Party rallies should have. Since these folks usually gather to protest paying taxes, if they had just watched CNN they would have realized that they were just wasting their time. ...

I understand that there is now an organized movement of atheists in Jonesboro and Northeast Arkansas. That's their right, of course. The founding fathers of this country, who used the Bible for the basis of their thinking, declared such rights to be inalienable...

Marked Tree High School had the opening game on their new field spoiled with a 10-7 loss to the Paragould Rams on Thursday. "We're doing well," said MTHS Head Coach Michael Wages. "We are 16-7. ...

The new park was the hot topic at April 12th's meeting of the Marked Tree City Council. City council members were upset that the city has had to have volunteers complete a majority of the work at the park, including some field work. ...

State Rep. Buddy Lovell gave an update on the General Assembly at April 14's meeting of the Trumann Lions Club. Lovell noted this legislative session finished five days early. He attributed this to people seeking state and national offices. "Lots of people are running for national and state offices this year," he said...