Stories from Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The Mustangs are the 2A-2 district golf champions once again! Buffalo Island Central fired a team score of 233 in the play-four, count-three event held Tuesday at the Turkey Mountain Golf Club in Horseshoe Bend. Marmaduke came in second with a 318 total while Salem was third, shooting a score of 338...

Walnut Ridge quarterback Andrew Brewer scored four touchdowns, propelling the Bobcats to a 36-13 victory over Manila in junior high football action Thursday night at Lion Field...

Walnut Ridge, bolstered by Luke Harper's huge night, roared past Manila 38-15 in 3A-2 football action Friday night at Bobcat Field. Harper exploded up the middle on the 'Cats first play from scrimmage and raced 64 yards for a touchdown. The 2-point attempt failed leaving Walnut Ridge with an early 6-0 lead...

The Monette Masonic Lodge #558 hosted a family fish dinner on Tuesday, September 13, to honor four outstanding membership award recipients...

Manila resident Jimmy Brooks had requested, at the August Manila City Council meeting, a waiver to place a camper mobile home on property he owns on Haywood Street. He asked council members to grant a temporary waiver to allow a man to live in the camper purchased by Brooks. ...

Manila Future Farmers of America (FFA) Alumni Association is making preparation for the 17th annual scholarship dinner/auction set for Saturday, Oct. 8. The event will be held at the Manila Airport Community Center with a barbecue dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by the auction. The $10, pay at the door, meal will consist of barbecue pork steak, baked beans and potatoes...

Buffalo Island Museum in Monette hosted a book signing for new author Brannah Barrett Bibbs on Sunday, Sept. 25. Her first published book is titled "When Life Turns Upside Down". Bibbs, a 2007 graduate of Buffalo Island Central High School and a graduate of Arkansas State University, now lives in Alexandria, Va., with her husband Samuel, who is in the Air Force...

Lisa Sitz was appointed to serve as commissioner to the Lake City Housing Board at the Sept. 19 city council meeting. The appointment will begin Oct. 1, 2016, and run through May 31, 2021. Council members present included Brenda Hutcheson, Harold Barker, Tommy Eakins, Jeffrey Wisham, Donald Davis and Danny Dunigan...

Rev. and Mrs. Gradie Goff celebrates 60th anniversary Gradie and Helen Goff of Leachville recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. The couple married at Cottage Hills, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1956. They are both graduates of Civic Memorial High School in Illinois. Rev. Goff graduated in 1956 and Mrs. Goff in 1958...

Stephen Forrest Robertson and Shae Lyn Hulett became husband and wife on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. Vows were exchanged on the lovely Adams Estate grounds in Leachville. The bride is the daughter of Greg and Misty Hulett of Arbyrd, Mo., and Angel Hulett of Jonesboro. The groom is the son of Rodney and Marti Robertson of Leachville...

CARAWAY -- Postmaster Pam Poag is pleased to announce a celebration for 100 years of service by the Caraway Post Office. The celebration begins with a program at the Post Office, starting at 10 a.m., Wednesday, September 28, followed with refreshments. ...

The 17th annual community reunion was held Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Manila Airport Center. Friends, family members and neighbors from Lost Cane, Little River, Whistleville and Roseland gathered...

Mr. Donald Jerry Jackson, 82, of Osceola, Arkansas passed away Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born December 18, 1933 in Dell to the late James Farmer and Linnye King Jackson, he was a member of Westside Baptist Church in Osceola and a retired manager at American Greetings Corporation...

Ms. Autem Williams, 25, of Hayti, Mo., passed away on Friday, September 23, 2016 at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti. She was born on September 27, 1990 to John Williams, Jr. and Dorothy Woods. Ms. Williams leaves fours sisters, Raquel Jenkins of Blytheville, Telisha Hendrix of Riverdale, Ga., LeShun Jenkins and Taquila Jenkins both of Kennett; and...

Mr. Woodrow Wilson, Jr, 74, of Osceola, died Thursday, September 22, 2016 at home. Born on July 4, 1942 in Clarksdale, Miss to the late Woodrow Wilson, Sr. and the late Ellen Harris Wilson, he was a retired welder for International Harvester and was also a deacon of Tabernacle M.B. Church in Osceola...

Ms. Velma Cunningham, 68, of Blytheville, passed away on Thursday, September 22, 2016, at the Heritage Square Nursing Facility in Blytheville. She was born on September 23, 1947. Ms. Cunningham leaves four daughters, Bobbie Johnson and Dorothy Stone of Blytheville, Gloria Rinkines of Sierra Vista, Ariz. and Olie Smith of Atlanta, Ga.;...

Ms. Mollie Mae Hayes, 77, of Blytheville, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born October 1, 1938 in St. Louis, to the late Cornelius Hayes and the late Arletha Jones Hayes, she was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith...

Ms. Danielle Rena Stevison, 21, of Lepanto, passed away on Saturday, September 24, 2016 in Memphis. Born November 1, 1994 in Jonesboro, to Frederick Joplin and Ellen Stevison of Lepanto, she was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. Ms. Stevison leaves grandparents, Estella Joplin of Lepanto, Nobec Joplin, Jr of West Memphis and great-grandmother Katherine Joplin of Lepanto;...

Ms. Candy Renae Shaw, 36, of Blytheville, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born April 26, 1980 in Memphis, to Willie L. Burks of Blytheville and the late Amy Peggy Tucker, she was a homemaker. In addition to her mother she is preceded in death by two brothers, Robert McMinn and Willie Tucker...

Mr. Jason Richard Thomas, 36, of Blytheville, passed away at his home on Monday, September 26, 2016. Born May 20, 1980 in Blytheville to Brian Richard Thomas and Sandra Marie Hammock, he loved being a paramedic and working in the healthcare profession...

Mr. James Edward Saulsberry, 70, of Blytheville, died Monday, September 26, 2016 in Blytheville. Born April 23, 1946 in Barr, Miss. to the late James E. Saulsberry and the late Callie Davis Saulsberry, he was retired military, serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and was a retired entrepreneur. He was also a member of the Northside Church of Christ...

Mr. Franklin Cletus Huckabee, 66, of Caraway, passed from this life on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in Monette, he was the son of the late Hayden and Letha Mae Dawson Huckabee and had been a lifelong resident of Buffalo Island. He was a retired farmer, having been a longtime employee of Lloyd Bibb Farms and Noble Cullum Farms. He attended Milligan Ridge Baptist Church and will be greatly missed by his family and friends...

The Finance Committee of the Mississippi County Quorum Court began budget proceedings for the 2017 fiscal year Monday afternoon. Members were given a packet of both projected expenditures, based upon trends from 2016, as well as a projected revenue spreadsheet for this year...

The Blytheville School Board held an extremely long board meeting Monday evening, with some of the highlights including the election of new officers, reappointment of a board member and passage of their 2016-17 district budget as well as their 2016-17 Title VI-B annual budget...

After last week's departure of Armorel's boys basketball coach, Hunter Kortan,. Armorel's Superintendent, Mrs. Sally Bennett, says that the school is in the process of finding a new boys basketball coach and hopes to have a qualified person hired as soon as possible...

The rash of robberies continued on Tuesday evening. Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, two black males robbed Little Caesars Pizza on East Main, then fled south, according to Capt. Scott Adams, the Blytheville Criminal Investigations Division Commander. Minutes later Dollar General on West Main was robbed, Adams said...

Mrs. Ann C. Kuykendall, 82, of Atlanta, died on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at Well Star Cobb Hospital in Austell, Ga. She was born in Widener, Ark. to Mr. Emery Stinnett and Mrs. Rosanna U. Bane. She moved to Blytheville as a very young child and was reared by her aunt, Rosie Allen, and her brother Ellis was reared here by another aunt, Bertha Stinnett. ...