Stories from Friday, February 10, 2012

Those lucky enough to catch a performance of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels soon will be able to watch Harrisburg native AM2 (AW) Rickey Humphries in action. Humphries, the son of Vivian and David Tacker of Marked Tree and Rickey and Wanda Humphries of Harrisburg, recently earned his Blue Angels Crest...

State Representative Buddy Lovell presented several organizations in Lepanto with General Improvement Funds last week. The Fire Department, American Legion, The Painted House Museum, Goldsby Library, and the Lepanto USA Museum. The total funds amounted to $6,500...

The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism recently named the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum at Tyronza to its list of 12 "Must-Do's" in the Arkansas Delta during 2012. The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum's goal is to enhance knowledge of tenant farming and agricultural labor movements and to preserve the history and promote the legacy of the sharecropper and tenant farmer, as well as the history of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union...

The troubled relationship continues this week between the City of Trumann and Delta Environmental. In what has quickly become a common sight around Trumann, refuse is again spilling out into the streets from residential and commercial bins as, according to Trumann Mayor Sheila Walters, "102 streets were missed last week" by Delta Environmental...

Elwanda Brashears, 74, of Russellville, departed this life Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 at her home. The daugher of Chester and Virgie Wirth Hipps, she was born July 25, 1937 in Russellville. She was a 1953 graduate of Marked Tree High School. Elwanda and Tommy Brashears were married Aug. 10, 1954 in Hernando, Miss. She enjoyed cooking for her family and friends and loved spending time with her grandchildren...

Christine Miller, 64, of Marked Tree entered into rest Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Jonesboro. She was born May 30, 1947, to the late Hubert and Lillie Ruth Maness. She was a member of Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza. She is survived by three sons, Dale Smith, Billy Miller and Lee Smith, all of Marked Tree; four grandchildren, Dena Smith, Christian Smith, Kayla Miller and Jacob Miller, and two brothers, Larry Maness of Jonesboro and Robert Maness of Marked Tree...