Stories from Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Blytheville's Orpheus Music Club will host its Musical Dessert Concert Program this weekend.

Monette Dorothy Lola Nance, 91, passed away Sunday, March 8, 2015, at Flo & Phil Jones Hospice House. She was born March 7, 1924, in Monette to the late Daniel and Blanche Logan Salmon. She was a homemaker and a member of the Calvary Full Gospel Church. She will be remembered as a loving mother and grandmother...

Prescott 49, Manila 39 Manila picked a bad night to post its worst shooting performance of the year, and it cost them dearly in a 49-39 first round loss to Prescott in the Class 3A State Tournament Tuesday at Cossatot River High School...

The AdvanceEd team held an exit review at the end of their three day visit of the Manila School District on Wednesday afternoon. The team informed the administration and staff they would be recommending accreditation for the district...

The Leachville Centennial Committee is busy finalizing plans for the upcoming 100th birthday celebration slated for the July 4th weekend. The celebration will begin Friday, July 3, with a "Dragging Main" event as cars line up to drive up and down Leachville's Main Street. An old-fashioned sock hop will be held at the old school gymnasium starting at 6 p.m...

Arkansas Razorback football coach Bret Bielema makes it very clear that one of the highlights of the "banquet circuit" for him is a visit to Northeast Arkansas, most notably the Mississippi County Razorback Club event at Manila...

Joe Martin "Marty" Wilkinson, 54, of Caraway passed away Monday, March 09, 2015, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Little Rock. Mr. Wilkinson was born April 27, 1960, in Memphis to Kilborn and Louise Wilkinson. Mr. Wilkinson enjoyed fishing, hunting, watching football and spending time with his family...

A proposal by Mid South Health Systems will be heard this month at the Mississippi County Quorum Court's full meeting, to request approval for a new mental health court program.

Rosie Lee Scott, 64, of Blytheville, died Friday, March 6, 2015, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

The Gosnell City Council voted unanimously to raise garbage pickup rates during Tuesday night's council meeting to cover increased expenses in the sanitation department.

Anne Allbright Phillips of Little Rock, whose life was defined by her love for her children and in later life her grandchildren, died Sunday night, March 8, 2015, in her sleep with family by her side. She was 84.

Employees at Southern Bancorp's Sixth Street branch apparently foiled an attempted bank robbery around 1:30 p.m. Monday, following the suspects, as they called authorities.