Stories from Thursday, July 18, 2013

Prepared by: Debbie Still County Extension Agent -- Family & Consumer Sciences Greene County University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service The Arkansas Hospitality Association has been awarded a grant from the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services to train 2600 food-service management employees in ServSafe Food Safety. ...

The Department of Community Education of Arkansas Northeastern College will offer Hunters Education on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 5-7, from 5:30--9 p.m. The class will meet on the ANC Blytheville campus. The class is free and registration is required...

Leachville Library's summer reading program ended Wednesday, July 10. Mandy Hill, librarian, thanked all of the children for their participation and encouraged them to continue reading. This year's theme was Dig into Reading 2013...

Manila Library ended its summer reading program on Wednesday, July 10, with refreshments, prizes, and a drawing for a DSXL. "We appreciate all of you and the reading you did this summer," Carol Barron, librarian said...

Ruth McWilliams Cisne, 92, of Fort Smith, formerly of Conway, passed from this life on Monday, July 15, 2013. Ruth was born and raised in Northeast Arkansas (Mississippi County). She grew up on a cotton and soybean farm where she chopped and picked cotton, raised a large garden and raised three children...

Mr. Deginald D. Snead, 35, of Blytheville, died Sunday, July 14, 2013, in Memphis.

Six AAA American Legion teams will be battling for one title as the Zone 2 Tournament begins today at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. The host Blytheville ANC Casons (15-11 overall, 8-2 Zone), who won the regular season Zone championship, own the top seed coming into the tournament, thanks mostly to their sizzling start to the summer, when they won seven of their first nine...

Mr. Kenneth Earl Henry, 77, of Blytheville, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at St. Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro.

I don't know why, but often I express myself better in writing ... maybe because the backspace key serves as my filter! So ... since my brother, Bruce, has a great friend who just happens to own the newspaper ... My heart is so full I feel as though it will burst! As many of you may know, we found out my brother, Bruce had colon cancer last fall. ...

Sunday's "Paws to Ponder" got me thinking about some of the unsung heroes in our community. In the article, Shirley Connealy wrote about how Lt. Doug Brown, a Blytheville fireman, helped save a dog that had been the victim of a hit-and-run.

Larry Rich was working Wednesday afternoon when he noticed merchandise moving on the store shelves at the Walmart Supercenter.

Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday Aug. 3, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday Aug. 4, the state of Arkansas will hold its sales tax holiday, allowing shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, school art supplies, school instructional materials and clothing free of state and local sales or use tax.

Approval was given by the district's solid waste management board Wednesday to an ordinance requiring that all waste created within Mississippi county be disposed of at the county landfill.

The first of the city's new garbage trucks arrived Wednesday.

24-year-old Joe Little III was arrested and charged with several offenses after a high-speed pursuit ended with the man driving through a home.

The U.S. Geological Survey began its survey flights over the weekend, and scientists are hoping to use a technique new to the region to gather useful data that can be used in forecasting the probability of earthquakes in the Mid-South.