Stories from Wednesday, May 13, 2020

The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) reminds drivers to “know before you go” and visit IDriveArkansas.com before traveling during the holiday season. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend you stay home as much as possible during the Coronavirus pandemic, but if you choose to travel there are several things to consider before you go. ...

Local leaders attend National Day of Prayer at Lepanto church.

Mattie Irene Whitright, 79, of Stevensville, Mich. passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at Hanson Hospice in St. Joseph, Mich.. Mattie was born November 19, 1940 in Trumann, Ark. to Conrid and LaDell (Cassiday) Tucker. She married Howard William Whitright at 23 and lived the rest of her life in Southwestern Michigan. ...

Come June of this year, Trumann will be the site for the production of a new movie from David Arquette and his wife, Hope native Christina McLarty Arquette. Sets are already being built at the Old Compress building in Trumann. “It’s such a vast amount of space, we can build it so everyone can social distance,” Christina McLarty Arquette told the website...

Elvie Vernon "E.V.-Bug" McDonald, 92 of West Monroe, La., formerly of Marked Tree, Ark., died May 3, 2020 at WIllow Ridge Nursing Center in Arcadia, La. He was a retired welder and of the Pentecostal faith. Mr. McDonald was born July 26, 1927 in Oil Trough, Ark. ...

Trumann's Ben Turner capped off a fantastic senior year and career at Trumann High School by being selected to the East team for the Arkansas High School All-Star basketball game. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the game will not be played as all high school sports were canceled for this school year...

Quorum Court passes two ordinances at meeting By COSMO COSSEY, DT News Staff The Poinsett County Quorum court met for the first time this past Monday since the COVID-19 pandemic started. Slated to be held in Veterans Park, weather forced the meeting to be held in the Annex Building. The court conducted meetings for April and May. Social distancing practices were used...

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is accepting applications from rice field owners to enroll in its expanded Waterfowl Rice Incentive Conservation Enhancement program. Landowners may receive as much as $150 per acre annually while still maintaining the current production of rice fields by following post-harvest guidelines and allowing permit-based hunts during waterfowl season on their properties. ...

With turkey hunting season wrapped up, deer and waterfowl hunting season may look like a million years away, but there’s another spring season that gives Arkansas hunters plenty of reasons to be excited. Arkansas’s squirrel season opens May 15, and for those who enjoy chasing these treetop targets, it’s a great excuse to be in the woods...

Outdoorsmen have as much fun tinkering, fiddling and piddling as they do hunting, fishing or looking for wildlife. They break down rifles and shotguns, clean and oil the mechanisms, and put the pieces back together. They clean binoculars and cameras so they’ll be ready for the next sighting of a favorite critter. And they tear into fishing reels to make them spin smoother than the day they came out of a box...

Poinsett County Sheriff Kevin Molder announced today the arrests of two men in connection with a Marked Tree murder. On May 12, the sheriff’s office along with Arkansas State Police and the Marked Tree Police Department, arrested 19-year-old Jordan Ratton and 18-year-old Cameron Wray, both of Marked Tree, on suspicion of capital murder and aggravated robbery. ...