Stories from Friday, July 27, 2012

Louie Bivens of Trumann passed away July 20, 2012, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro at the age of 83. Mr. Bivens was born in Tyronza to Brodie and Lorine Franks Bivens. He worked for Kohn Bray Propane Company and was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. He loved western movies so much he spent hours working in theatres...

Mary Kathryn Berryman, 92, died Monday, July 23, 2012, at the Flo & Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. Mrs. Berryman was born in Manila to John Henry and Lillie Mae Grant Tarver. She lived most of her life in Trumann and was a homemaker. She was Baptist...

Earnest Richard Sutton, 57, of Greenwood, Ark., passed away Sunday, July 22, 2012, in his home. He was a self-employed cabinet and furniture maker. A resident of Greenwood since 1994, he was formerly of Trumann. Mr. Sutton was an avid fisherman and a Razorback fan who loved his family dearly...

Sloane Holzhauer, originally from Dumas (Desha County), started a new adventure Monday, July 16, with the Poinsett County Cooperative Extension Service in Harrisburg. She will be the new Family & Consumer Science agent working in the areas of Food Safety and Nutrition, Marriage, Parenting and Family Life, Financial Management, and Health and Aging. Her duties will also include working with the Extension Homemakers Council and 4-H...

District 6150 Governor John Carter of Sherwood spoke to the Marked Tree Rotary Club Wednesday, July 18, about the excitement and enthusiasm the club has displayed for the 75 years they have been in service to their community. Carter discussed the Rotary International theme for 2012-2013, "Peace Through Service." This theme was chosen because peace means something different to each person throughout the organzation, whether as a member or someone benefiting from Rotarian assistance, he said. ...

Shawn Merrell, director of the Forrest L. Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature Center, was the guest last Wednesday at the Trumann Lions Club. Merrell has been director of the nature center for the last six years having worked as the wildlife program coordinator before that. He had worked for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) since 1997 and managed the Bayou DeView Wildlife Management Area for six years...

Grants for two projects Trumann has been working on for some time were announced at a luncheon at the Community House this week. Barbara Lewallen with the Trumann Chamber of Commerce announced the City of Trumann had been awarded a grant of $789,430 for the purpose of building a detention pond on a 45 acre tract of land near Mulberry Street to alleviate flooding. ...

The fate of Jerry Lard, 38, of Trumann, charged with capital murder in the April 12, 2011, shooting death of 30-year-old Trumann police officer Jonathan Schmidt, soon will be in the hands of jurors who listened this week to testimony which began Friday, July 20, after a lengthy jury-selection process which began four days earlier...