Stories from Friday, March 30, 2012

First Baptist Church, 1301 Highway 69 West in Trumann, will celebrate Holy Week with a daily worship service April 2 through April 6. The service will begin at noon Monday through Friday and begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday night with a Tenebrae service. ...

The Tyronza City Council voted in February to terminate the city's contract with Delta Environmental, however Mayor Marion Bearden said the matter has become a "wait and see" situation. "We are attempting to get out of it, but it's not as easy as it sounds," Mayor Bearden said Tuesday. "Because they're in bankruptcy, you have to have a bankruptcy attorney and that is costly."...

The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza will host the East Poinsett County Junior/Senior High Art Show April 2-27. The show will feature paintings, drawings, wire art and pottery from Melinda Burcham's art students. A reception honoring the artists will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 2. Everyone is invited...

Gayle Nichols of the Poinsett County Single Parent Scholarship Fund spoke Wednesday, March 21, to the Marked Tree Rotary Club. According to Nichols, the Single Parent Scholarship Fund was founded in 1984 in Northwest Arkansas. "I have developed a passion for it," Nichols said. "Education is the only way you can break the poverty cycle."...

Every morning when Calvin Hensley gets off the bus at Marked Tree High School, before eating breakfast he heads straight to the pen behind the agri building to feed the chickens he's raising for competition. Calvin will take the top three of 15 chickens he has raised since February to the Buffalo Island Livestock Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on April 4 to be judged on muscle mass...

Daniel Krejci of Alliance, Neb., fulfilled a lifelong dream when he visited Dyess to see Johnny Cash's boyhood home. What Krejci did not expect, however, was a series of complications which forced him to stay in nearby Lepanto. A few car problems and a lack of funds convinced Krejci that he should attempt to camp in his car in a vacant lot near downtown Lepanto until cash arrived in his bank account...