Stories from Friday, November 8, 2013

The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service is accepting applications for the Master Gardener Program in Mississippi and Craighead Counties. The horticulture education includes classroom time, tours and demonstrations. ...

OSCEOLA -- Rivercrest rallied for two fourth quarter touchdowns to push past their South County rival Osceola, 28-27, Thursday at Seminole Stadium. While the 42nd meeting between Osceola and Rivercrest might not have had the same implications as last year's battle of conference unbeaten's, the 2013 game had its share of drama...

FORREST CITY -- Damekko Clark accounted for both Blytheville touchdowns Thursday night in the final 5A-East junior high football game of the season at Forrest City, giving the Junior Chickasaws a 14-8 victory. Clark scored on a 10-yard run with 3:23 to play in the first quarter but was stopped on the two-point conversion leaving the Junior Chickasaws with a 6-0 lead...

GOSNELL -- With a conference championship at stake and their backs against the goal line, the Gosnell defense made its biggest stop of the season. A goal-line stand with 3:12 to play preserved Gosnell's first outright conference championship since 2002 as the Pirates hung on for a thrilling, 14-10, win over Valley View in the regular season finale, Thursday night, at a packed, boisterous J.W. Rea Stadium...

Mr. Roy Earl Poplin, 87, son of James and Annie Poplin, was born Aug. 14, 1926, in Dover, and died Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, in Gosnell.

Mr. Norman Kemp, 76, of Blytheville, died Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, at his residence.

Mrs. Burlon Arlene Owens Flowers, 92, of Blytheville, passed from this life Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, at Great River Medical Center.

Thanks to a little research from editor Andy Weld, I can announce with some degree of certitude that there are only about 1 million veterans of World War II left alive in the United State of America.

The Blytheville Public Library was recently sent a 1924 Blytheville High School yearbook from Dallas, and Mississippi County Library System Director Jay Ziolko is asking citizens to keep sending the county libraries any old phonebooks and yearbooks.

An administrative law judge has tentatively scheduled a March 28 hearing on the appeal of an air permit issued for a planned $1 billion Big River Steel mill in Mississippi County.