Stories from Friday, March 19, 2010

GOSNELL -- Len Whitehead will remain assistant secondary principal and senior boys basketball coach at Gosnell School District. In its regular meeting, Thursday the Gosnell School Board read and accepted Whitehead's letter declining the principal position the board hired him for at its meeting last month. ...

MANILA -- The Manila School Board hired a new high school principal at its regular meeting Thursday. After coming out of executive session to discuss personnel matters, the Manila School Board approved the hire of Robin Baugher, who is currently assistant elementary principal, as Manila High School principal. Baugher will be filling the position held by Pam Chipman, who announced at last month's board meeting that she is retiring this school year...

Members of the Mississippi County Baptist Association recently participated in a project called "Buckets of Hope," which provided food to people affected by the recent earthquake in Haiti. The program, a project of the North American Mission Board, provides 10 pounds of rice, a bottle of cooking oil, 4 pounds of beans, 5 pounds of flour, 20 ounces of sugar, 2 pounds of spaghetti and 40 ounces of peanut butter in a reusable 5-gallon bucket to families...

Ashleigh Rogers of Batesville, the Lights of the Delta's Outstanding Teen, recently visited the members of Blytheville Intermediate School's Boys' and Girls' Club to talk to them about the importance of knowing how to administer CPR. With Rogers at BIS was Jennifer Shaw, a CPR trainer who is also from Batesville. ...

Mark Bryles of Blytheville was inducted March 12 into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame. Bryles helped lead the revival of cotton as the primary crop in Mississippi County. His career as an agent with the UA Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service spanned 35 years, 22 of those in Mississippi County...