Stories from Wednesday, May 1, 2019

At some point this month, each local senior will step onto the graduation stage and accept his or her diploma from a school administrator. Thirteen years of hard work and dedication in the classroom have come to fruition for hundreds of Mississippi and Craighead County students...

I am a concerned parent from Gosnell School District. All students should be treated fairly. It’s not fair to the students that were at tryouts that worked hard to make the team. There were students that made the team that were not at tryouts. They were at the EAST program. Only certain students were chosen to go on the EAST trip and there were students in the EAST program that did not get to attend...

Rotary Club of Blytheville president Diane Hay took home one of the top individual honors at the Rotary District 6150 Conference held Friday and Saturday at Arkansas State University. Hay was named Club President of the Year for medium/small clubs in District 6150, which includes 42 clubs total stretching from Little Rock to Blytheville...

The 6th Annual Blytheville Youth Fishing Rodeo will be happening Saturday, May 18 at the Walker Park Pond in Blytheville. Registration for the rodeo will begin at 6:30 a.m. that day and ages 16 and under are able to participate. The fishing will begin at 7 a.m. that day...

Bay scored three runs in the fifth inning to pull away for a 6-1 victory over Riverside in the finals of the 2A-3 District Tournament Saturday at Melbourne. The two teams had split during the regular season, but it was the Yellowjackets who prevailed to claim the district championship...

Riverside’s Mallory Felton slammed a walk-off two-run homerun in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Lady Rebels to a 4-2 victory over Rector in the consolation game of the 2A-3 District Tournament Saturday at Melbourne. Rector got on the board first, scoring a single run in the second inning. ...

Manila and Gosnell battled to a 4-4 tie through 10 innings before the Pirates finally pushed across the winning run in the top of the 11th to claim a 5-4 victory in the semifinals of the 3A-3 District Baseball Tournament Wednesday afternoon at Rivercrest...

Corning scored what proved to be the winning run in the top of the seventh inning to squeeze past Manila 6-5 in 3A-3 District Tournament action Monday at Trumann. The loss ended the season for the Lady Lions. Manila out-hit Corning 10-9 on the day but committed four errors compared to just two for the Lady Bobcats. Olivia May took the loss, working seven innings, allowing six runs, only two of which were earned. May gave up nine hits, fanned three and walked one...

Rookie League Farmers Bank 3, Family Eye Care 2 Farmers Bank led 1-0 early and added two runs in the bottom of the third to led 3-0, but Family Eye Care scored two runs in the fifth inning. However, Farmers Bank held on to defeat Family Eye Care 3-2...

The Rivercrest Lady Colts scored six runs in the first inning to lead the Gosnell Pirates 6-2 after one. The Lady Pirates scored four runs in the third inning tie the game at six. The Lady Colts scored four runs in the sixth inning to defeat the Lady Pirates 13-8...

The Armorel Tigers led 5-3 heading into the final inning but a three-run homer on a full count gave the host Mammoth Spring Bears a 6-5 lead. The Tigers were unable to score in the bottom half of the seventh inning and the Bears were crowned the 1A-3 District champions Saturday night. The Tigers, however, were crowned conference champions in the regular season...

Two programs aimed at improving literacy made their way back to the Gosnell School Board table on Monday evening. Shannon O’Neal updated the board on successes the district has seen in participating in Books from Jan — the Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s version of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library...

The Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual community clean-up on Saturday. The Chamber will have recycling available for e-waste, tires, books, paint, plus a document shredder. It will also have "lunch on the lot" at the end of clean-up. Volunteers are needed...

Under the leadership of the Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce and the auspices of the Blytheville-Gosnell Regional Airport Authority, a new non-profit organization has formed to develop The National Cold War Museum at the former Blytheville Air Force Base...

Crews install signage at the future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in Blytheville on Monday evening. According to city of Blytheville building inspector Rick Ash, crews hope to finish construction in the next two weeks. He noted the target date to open is June 1...

Bernice Morgan Rice, 85, of Manila, widow of Jake Rice, Jr., went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at St. Elizabeth's Place Nursing Center in Jonesboro. Born in the Blackwater Community near Manila, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Zola McCrackin Morgan and had been a Manila resident since 1949. ...