Stories from Thursday, January 5, 2012

Mrs. Marion Evelyn Payne, 91, of Martin, Tenn., formerly of Steele, passed from this life Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Volunteer Community Hospital in Martin.

Mr. Richard Howard Moore, 62, of Trumann, died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at his home.

Mrs. Dana L. Lisenby, 43, was born Aug. 7, 1968, in Blytheville, to Otha Kennedy and Margaret Duncan. She passed away Jan. 2, 2012.

Mrs. Gladys Margaret Kelly Morgan Muggins Kaletta, 93, died Nov. 18, 2011.

Angel Rose Charlotte Fay Howell-James went home to be with the Lord Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012.

Mrs. Ida B. Clayborn, 88, of Blytheville, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at Methodist Hospital in Memphis.

This letter is about the stealing of $3.2 million of the citizens' money and forcing the citizens to replace the money through a sales tax. To clear the air, stealing is defined by very smart people as "to take or appropriate without right or consent and with the intent to keep or make use. Robbery, theft."...

2012 has the potential to be a make or break year for the city of Blytheville. Sometime this year, the city will likely enter into an Offer In Compromise with the Internal Revenue Service for the multi-million payroll tax debt.

The following is a list of winners of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery from Mississippi County in the last four months of 2011:

Following a meeting with Dr. Tom Kimbrell, commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education, the Osceola School Board has voted to change its STEM charter application again.

Nucor Corporation announced Thursday that it will exit the business of fabricating light gauge steel framing and therefore will close its Nuconsteel division.

The Blytheville Police Department held its annual Awards Banquet on Dec. 15 in the Governors Ballroom at the Arkansas Northeast College.

Two local math teachers will be headed to Little Rock this summer to begin training in a math academy event which only 30 teachers statewide are invited to attend.