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No new leads in Gill disappearance
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
There have very few leads in the last week into the disappearance of a 15-year old Tyronza girl. Jennifer Ann Gill was last seen at a Marked Tree car wash on Aug. 17. Her family contacted law enforcement later that day and family and friends began the search. Poinsett County Sheriff Larry Mills told the Tribune last week that interviews were conducted Thursday and Friday in the area...
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Richard Matthew Franks
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Richard Matthew Franks, 25, of Memphis, formerly of Tyronza, died Aug. 26, 2002 in Tyronza. He was a restaurant manager, a communicant of St. Norberts Catholic Church in Marked Tree and a U.S. Army veteran. The funeral will be Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church in West Memphis. Burial will be at Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion...
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Lorraine Peavler
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Lorraine Peavler, formerly from Lepanto was called to her Heavenly Homecoming on August 19, 2002 from her earthly home and family. Her husband, Paul, was employed for 27 years at Cameron Iron Works and they were charter members of Woodridge Baptist Church. They are currently members of Park Place Baptist Church, where Lorraine enjoyed singing in the Keen Choir...
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Lela Mae Manley
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Lela Mae Manley, 76, of Belton, Mo. died Aug. 15, 2002 at Pleasant Hill Health Care. She was born March 28, 1926 in Etowah and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1957. She retired from Allied-Signal in 1985. She was preceded in death by her husband, Milton, in 1984...
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Emma Lou Ming
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Emma Lou Ming, 56, formerly of Lepanto and Marked Tree, died Aug. 26, 2002 at her home in Jonesboro. She was a retired teacher of 34 years. She taught at Lepanto, Dyess, Rivercrest and Wilson. She was of the Baptist faith, a former member of the Eastern Star and a devoted teacher. She was active in caring and giving to charities...
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County requests over $143,000 in funding for mosquito control
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
An intergovernmental meeting was held in Harrisburg last Monday to discuss plans in filing for available funds to assist in the eradication of the West Nile Virus. Poinsett County Judge Bill Craft met with elected officials from Marked Tree, Trumann, Harrisburg, Waldenburg, Weiner, and Lepanto. The group discussed the county proposal of $143,087, for funding from the $1 million in emergency funding released by Gov. Mike Huckabee from the Disaster Fund to combat the West Nile Virus in Arkansas...
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Neal announces bid for Lepanto mayor
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
James W. "Jimmy" Neal has authorized the Tri-City Tribune to announce that he will be a candidate for mayor of the city of Lepanto in the 2002 municipal elections. Neal, a lifelong resident of Lepanto states that if elected, he will bring more jobs to the city of Lepanto, programs for children, work to help senior adults and help to fight crime in the city...
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Body found in burned car Monday
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
Richard Matthew Franks, 25, of Tyronza, was found with a gunshot wound to the head at approximately 2 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26, when the Earle Fire Department responded to a call reporting a car on fire behind a residence on South Ford Road, north of Earle. ...
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Mrs. Hazel Othela Meeks
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Mrs. Hazel Othela Meeks of Trumann died Tuesday August 20, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro, of natural causes. She was 81 years old. Mrs. Meeks was born in Etowah, Ark., on May 14, 1921, and had lived in Trumann since 1952. She was a housewife and member of the Highway Valley Pentecostal Church. She was preceded in death by twin sisters, Lori and Ori Jackson, one brother, Noble Jackson and her parents Emmett Anderson and Arizona "Arie" Sellers Jackson...
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Blanche E. Hooker Whitmire
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Blanche E. Hooker Whitmire, 80, of Trumann died Friday, Aug. 23 at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center of NEA in Jonesboro of natural causes. She was born in the Frog Pond Community in Nettleton and had lived most of her lifetime in the Trumann area. She was a retired salesperson for Guy's Discount Center in Trumann and member of the Senior Adult Sunday school Class of Maple Grove Baptist Church...
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Open for hunting
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
Current and approaching seasons in Arkansas. Bullfrogs: April 15-Dec. 31. Daily limit is 18 per day and possession limit is 36. Coyote: Sept. 1, 2002-Mar. 1, 2003, statewide. No limit. Rabbit: Sept. 7, 2002-Feb. 28, 2003, statewide. Limit 8. Possession limit 16...
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Plans for Miss Mallard pageant finalized for Duck Festival
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
This year will mark the 20th Wild Duck Festival. Festival workers hope to make this year the biggest and the best yet. Each week, festival events will be printed in the Democrat as they are finalized. The Miss Mallard beauty pageant will be Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Trumann High School Auditorium. Registration begins at 4 p.m. and the pageant begins at 5:30 p.m. Pageant directors are Cara Harrison, Brittany Payne and Jennifer Giddings...
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Roach Manufacturing is awarded
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
Roach Manufacturing Corporation, the leader in 24-hour shipment conveyors, has been awarded the Liberty Mutual Award for its outstanding safety performance in 2001. By keeps a proactive stance on safety, Roach's has not had one accident or lost time injury in the past 12 months...
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Trumann to hold 9-11 remembrance event
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
Exactly one year following the attack on America, citizens of Trumann will come together in a commemoration ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11. The commemoration ceremony honors the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, airline flight takeovers and the American military service personnel who have died in the battle against terrorism while other members of the service continue to fight...
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Bob Arnold announces bid to run for mayor of Trumann
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
Bob Arnold has announced his candidacy for mayor. Arnold is a lifelong resident of Trumann and the surrounding area. He has always owned and operated his own business. He believes Trumann has many possibilities and some of his priorities will be to work hard to solve drainage problems, to procure money to make much needed street repairs and to have a good working relation ship with all city employees and city council members...
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Bikers invade Trumann on Thursday s
(Local News ~ 08/29/02)
If you have a motorcycle of any kind, rev up your engines and join local bikers for Bike Night. Bikers from Trumann and surrounding areas have started meeting every Thursday night at Burger King on Hwy 463 in Trumann at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m., everyone rides to Jonesboro to meet the Jonesboro group. Both groups go on a short ride and return to Trumann around 9 p.m...
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Lola Bishop
(Obituary ~ 08/29/02)
Lola Bishop, 88, of Trumann died Sunday, Aug. 25 at Regional Medical Center of NEA. She was a member of the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Trumann. She was a homemaker and had lived most of her life in Trumann. She was preceded in death by her father, Arville Breford Chaffin and one grandson...
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