Stories from Friday, October 16, 2020

Clarence H. Malone was born in Blytheville on Sept. 15, 1935, to Henry and Beulah Rice Malone. He was a graduate of Richard B. Harrison High School. Following high school, he enlisted in the United States Army where he was a supervisor of food service. ...

Lewis Benard Preston of Blytheville was born June 4, 1980, in Aurora, Ill., to Lewis McKenzly and the late Etta Miller McKenzly. He worked at the steel mill and was a member of Greater Jeremiah Temple. Mr. Preston passed away Oct. 10, 2020, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville at the age of 40. He was preceded in death by his mother, Etta Miller McKenzly; one daughter Annayia Preston; and his special cousin, Terrance Holloway...

Helen Whistle Osborne, 93, of Memphis, Tenn., and formerly of Blytheville, widow of Dr. Merrill Osborne, passed away Thursday, Oct. 16, 2020, at South Breeze Assisted Living in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced when complete. A full obituary will follow. Cobb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements...

The highly-anticipated Blytheville-Gosnell high school football game was cancelled by Blytheville Friday night because of COVID-19 related reasons. The game would have been the first ever regular season game between the two schools whose campuses are just five miles apart. It was also a 4A-3 conference game...

On Friday, Gosnell superintendent Bonard Mace said, starting Monday, all face-to-face kindergarten classes will be at home with Google classroom. At this time all other grades and classes schedules remain normal. Thursday evening, Mace said one kindergarten class would pivot to a home virtual (Google) class from Oct. 16 through Oct. 25, with the return date for the single Kindergarten classroom to be Oct. 27...

Early voting in Mississippi County will begin on Monday, Oct. 19. Hours will be 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Saturday hours, Oct. 24 and Oct. 30, will be 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday, the day before election, polls will close at 5 p.m. Election Day, Nov. 3, voters will vote at their regular polling locations from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m...