Stories from Friday, March 1, 2013

Carol Hamrick, chair for the area Make A Wish, was joined by volunteers in a road block at the Monette Stop Light on Friday, Feb. 15. Thanks to the generosity of the community the road block raised $7,278.11 for the Make A Wish Foundation. ...

Mr. Ronald Joseph Mastowski, 64, of Blytheville, passed from this life Friday, March 1, 2013, at his home with family members at his bedside.

Mr. Russell Haynes Farr, 90, passed from this life Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at St. Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro

Mrs. Shirley Jean Dedrick, formerly of Blytheville, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.

When you drive five hours to catch a $150 round-trip flight to Orlando, Fla., and have only two full days and two half-days on the ground down there, it's kind of hard to get everything in you'd want to but we tried.

An appreciation dinner was held Feb. 22 in honor of Charles Cobb. Cobb has been an employee with the city of Gosnell for more than 38 years.

A 16-year-old Blytheville High School student is in custody at the Mississippi County Detention Center and is facing several charges after he was found to be in possession of marijuana and a gun on school property.

After 37 years of service to the city of Blytheville, City Collector Janie Battles has retired.

OSCEOLA -- The Randy Smith era got off to a good start Thursday night as his Blytheville Chickasaws bested the Osceola Seminoles, 14-6, in seven innings. Trailing, 6-5, heading into the top of the seventh, the Chicks (1-0) scored nine runs to defeat their county rival...

MARION--After dropping their season opener, 14-0, to 5A Greene County Tech on Tuesday, the Gosnell Pirates bounced back with a 6-3 win over 7A/6A Marion Thursday afternoon. Junior Ricky Gable pitched 5 1/3 innings. Gable gave up two runs on five hits while striking out seven. Will Camp came on in relief and gave up one run on one hit over 1 1/3 to seal the win...

CAVE CITY--The Gosnell Pirates were knocked out of the first round of the 4A state playoffs after a 71-49 loss to the Monticello Billies Thursday night at Cave City. Despite being a two seed in the tournament, Monticello, who dropped down from 5A this season, came in as the No. 1 ranked team in the 4A at 26-3, posting losses to only 5A Little Rock Mills and 7A/6A Marion before being upset by Central Arkansas Christian in the regional final...