Stories from Wednesday, May 4, 2011

It appears Osceola and Rivercrest will once again be paired in the same athletics conference. Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, Osceola is slated to drop down to Class 3A. According to the Arkansas Activities Association numbers released recently, Osceola will have a projected enrollment of 286.67 in grades 10-12 for the 2012-2013 year making Osceola the fourth largest school in Class 3A...

There once was a talented college quarterback with a huge arm. He could make any throw asked of him at any time in the game. He was big but could move around the pocket and avoid most defenders with his nimble feet. He set most of his school's passing records and kept them in the hunt for a national championship for most of his college career...

Mr. Edward Gene (Eddie, Ed, and Big Ed) Robinson of Blytheville, died April 27, 2011, in Hot Springs.

Dr. Robert "Bob" Rhea Jayroe Jr., 71, of Huntsville, Ala., passed away Thursday, April 28, 2011, at his home.

Rachel Gaines, 88, of Blytheville, died early today in Searcy.

The choirs of Arkansas Northeastern College will take the audience "Around the World in 60 Minutes" when the music department presents its year-end event at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Adams-Vines Recital Hall on the ANC campus

The decision of the Arkansas State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to revoke the license of a Blytheville funeral home and its owner's license as a funeral director has been affirmed by a circuit judge.

The Blytheville City Council's Health and Sanitation Committee is considering changing language in the garbage and trash ordinance, possibly even writing a new one, to prevent the city from losing money on trash pickup.

Area representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with keeping watch over the levee systems at the state and county level, are again reassuring the public that Mississippi County's main river levee is in no danger of breach, topping or any other type of failure.

Mrs. Joyce Carolyn Bays Sullins, 69, passed away Monday, May 2, 2011, after a brief illness.