Stories from Friday, July 31, 2015

During their monthly meeting Monday night, the Marked Tree Board of Education recognized Emily Gillis as the district's 2015 Teacher of the Year. Superintendent Annesa Thompson said this is the first year the district has recognized a Teacher of the Year. She called Gillis a model teacher...

There's a new doctor in Trumann, but he doesn't practice medicine. Maple Grove Baptist Church Pastor Jimmy Mauldin recently earned his doctorate degree through the Southern Baptist Convention after working diligently on it for nearly five years. Mauldin said he decided to earn his doctorate to better serve his church and the community he serves. "It gave me an opportunity to address some of my weaknesses and become more proficient in my ministry," Mauldin said...

Marked Tree native Barrick Lester has been making art for years. He learned to paint at Arkansas State University in the 1980s and has worked on his art any way he can from painting portraits of random people he meets every day to taking scrap people throw out and turning it into something beautiful. This year, Lester took his art to the big city as he moved to Dallas, Texas...

Long before the use of cell phones, popular radio announcer Scotty Carroll could be heard across the radio waves. The Trumann resident, known as Scott Woodson on radio station KWHF 95.9 The Wolf, got his start through his high school's high-tech television and radio station...