Stories from Friday, March 18, 2016

After discussing Carver Gym for nearly a year, the Marked Tree City Council approved the possibility of donating the building to an interested person or group with a June deadline. The gym has been closed since last April when the council saw the condition it was in. The council has previously voted down an option to tear down the gym, and last month a vote to restore the gym failed...

After a lot of discussion during a special meeting Monday, the Trumann City Council approved an ordinance which will consolidate Trumann Rural Water with Trumann Water Works. According to Mayor Barbara Lewallen, the city is purchasing the $3 million rural water system for around $45,000. ...

It's been a long time coming, but Interstate 555 became official during a dedication ceremony in Jonesboro last Friday that drew around 250 people. The project to turn the 44-mile corridor running from the south junction of Highway 49 in Jonesboro to Interstate 55 in Turrell into I-555 originally began in 1968. ...

Since the Marked Tree Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet and auction happened the same week as the official dedication of I-555, it seemed natural that the new interstate designation was the core topic for Congressman Rick Crawford, who served as keynote speaker...

BAY - Mrs. Cleta Faye Pruitt Anschultz of Bay died Friday, March 11, 2016, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark., at the age of 63. She was born in Jasper, Ala., and had lived the past 39 years in Bay. She was a Medical Records Clerk for St. ...

TRUMANN - Beloved Arthur (Hoot) Wells passed away March 13, 2016, at the age of 85 at his residence on Old Payneway Lane in Trumann. Hoot was born July 15, 1930, in Etowah to Arthur Wells Sr. and Marie Wells. Hoot received his nickname from his Grandfather in honor of his favorite actor Hoot Gibson. After his father's death, at age 16 he helped raise his younger siblings and run the family farm...