Stories from Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Buffalo Island Museum has several antique dolls. A porcelain doll which is over 100 years old was donated by Joyce Christman. The doll belonged to her aunt, Florence Burt. The Chatty Cathy doll is from the 1960s and the Betsy Wetsy is from the 1950s. ...

Recent reports from the Blytheville Police Department:

This is the time of year when temperatures at night are cooler and daytime conditions are pleasant, a wonderful time for evenings spent on the porch. That will be hard to do this year with mosquitos swarming all around us. I live on the west end of Cottonwood, where there is very little mature standing water except ditches, which are dry, but the problem still exists...

I read an article Friday or Saturday where Mr. (David) Tennyson (Courier News publisher) had some things to say about Thunder Bayou (click here to read).If you have the time, I would like to rebut that article. First, the article is written on hearsay and not fact. ...

I am a newspaper editor. To hear people talk, this means I am no more than an endangered species on the brink of extinction; an occupational dinosaur, simply biding time until my professional existence is wiped from the face of modern society.

Representatives from the Bluegrass Pipeline project visited a delegation of local elected officials Tuesday at the county mayor's meeting.

Vector Disease Control's Tim Nelson is encouraging residents to make sure any items holding stagnant water stay emptied, and any sewage leaks get immediate attention.

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will be holding its annual Fall festival from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday on the church grounds.

Planning for the 33rd Annual Greater Blytheville United Way Chili Cookoff fundraiser is already underway, and organizers are sticking with what works for this year's festivities.

The Blytheville City Council pulled a proposal to implement a city hiring freeze Tuesday night.

Elmira Kate Sledge, 53, of Blytheville, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Mrs. Queen Ester Polk, 88, of Blytheville, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Mrs. Mary Aleine "Miss Allie" Connell, 87 of Bronson, Fla., and Des Plaines, Ill., passed away Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013.

Monette -- Virgie M. Owens, 92, died Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, at St. Francis South in Tulsa, OK. Virgie was born December 2, 1920, in Monette, the daughter of late Jet Raymond and Gertrude West Shaver. The former Miss Virgie Shaver attended school in Monette. ...