Stories from Thursday, October 11, 2018

From the Greatest Generation to Baby Boomers, Generation X to Millennials, teenagers in every era have had challenges growing up. In today’s digital world, high school students are being tested in unique and demanding ways. The Washington Post confirms that 73 percent of all American teenagers own their own smartphone and, on average, spend almost nine hours a day texting, chatting, gaming, blogging, streaming and visiting with friends online...

Nemesis 8AAA capture Fall State baseball title.

The Lady Wildcats (6-18, 5-11) fell to Hoxie 20-15, 11-25, 12-25 this past Tuesday at Wildcat Gym. Sydney Callahan, Trumann's lone senior, had eight kills and seven digs in her last home game. Christian Jean-Paul had eight blocks and four kills as Haley Mathis had six blocks. ...

The Arkansas State football team was upended by Appalachian State 35-9 Tuesday night at Centennial Bank Stadium. Appalachian State (4-1, 2-0 Sun Belt) racked up 390 total yards behind 246 yards on the ground while forcing three A-State (3-3, 0-2 Sun Belt) turnovers and limiting the Red Wolves to 3-of-17 on third down. ...

EPC (4-0-1, 3-0-1) used a 30 point second half to finally put Marked Tree (1-4, 1-3) away with a 50-26 win over their conference rivals last Thursday at Warrior Field. The score was 20-14 at the half. Candon Argo returned the opening kick-off for a touchdown only to see a penalty on the Junior Warriors negate the score and give EPC the ball on their own 46-yard line. ...

EPC (5-1, 3-0) got an interception by Andrew Harston with 1:34 left to seal a 20-12 win over Marked Tree (1-5, 1-2) this past Friday in 2A-3 conference play at Don Lovell Memorial Field in Marked Tree. EPC got the first to start the game as Austin Baker returned the kick-off out to his 34-yard line. ...

The Tyronza City Council heard from Brett Killingsworth with Vector Disease Control Tuesday night about the services his company offers. Killingsworth said they are the biggest mosquito control contractors in the world and do work in 30 states. In addition to aerial spraying, they also set traps weekly to see what species of mosquitoes are active and where they are breeding in order to do more effective mosquito control, and use larvicide at breeding sites to keep their numbers down. ...

The courtroom was packed Monday night for Marked Tree City Council with both citizens and news media from multiple organizations following the recent resignation of Police Chief Michael Matlock. Matlock was placed on paid administrative leave last Monday and resigned Friday. ...

In the regular monthly meeting of the Poinsett County Quorum Court, County Extension Service Agents presented their annual reports to justices. Printed material explaining all the programs the Extension Service is involved in throughout the year was handed out as well as printed material about the ballot issues on the mid-term election coming up in November...