Stories from Monday, December 24, 2012

When 11-year-old Ryan Taber of Trumann found out that two families he knew weren't going to have the money to celebrate Christmas this year, he wanted to do something to help them. He came up with the idea of making wreaths and selling them to raise money for the families...

Nathan Maxwell and Kelly Guthrie of Trumann and Chris Montague and Poohnu Perry of Marked Tree were named Unico Bank Players Of The Month for November.

Boys Mookie Sturdivant scored 30 points and Malik Monk added 26 points as the EPC Warriors downed Augusta last Thursday in Lepanto. The Warriors picked up their second win of the week as the downed Riverside 78-57 in Lake City this past Tuesday. Sturdivant and Monk combined for 51 points in the game as Sturdivant led with 32 and Monk scored 19...

Trumann hosted Cave City in a 4A-3 conference match up this past Friday in boys' high school basketball action. Trumann jumped out early before Cave City fought back. The game was tied after 32 minutes of regulation play and the teams played another 12 minutes of overtime before Cave City used a big third overtime to post a 86-75 victory...

Marked Tree got their first lead of the game with 55 seconds left in the game and held on to beat the Bay Yellowjackets 80-79 in Marked Tree this past Monday night in high school boys' basketball action. Bay got out to a quick lead as Tyler Pritchett scored on a lay up and then drilled a three-pointer to put Bay up 5-0 a little over a minute into the game. ...