Stories from Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Buffalo Island Museum has many antique items used in the early Buffalo Island kitchens. One of these is a kraut cutter. It is a board with two blades in which cabbage is rubbed up and down across the blades, as in grating cheese. This kraut cutter is from the early 1900s...

Riverside Senior Night was held Feb. 7. Senior basketball players and cheerleaders were honored before the senior high game. Graduating cheerleaders are Haven Crews, daughter of Brian and Tosha Crews; Savannah Jones, daughter of Kim and Melvin Swaim; Allie Burch, daughter of Becky Barnes and Ben Barnes; Ashley Horton, daughter of David and Karen Horton, sister of Alyssa Horton, granddaughter of Jack and Sadie Foote and niece of Sherri Foote.; Ashton Raney, daughter of Brandi Raney and granddaughter of Carol Raney.. ...

Recent reports from the Blytheville Police Department:

Diana Weidman of Blytheville, passed from this life Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

Mr. J.A. Smith, 87, of Jonesboro, entered into rest Monday, Feb. 17, 2014.

Mrs. Sharon Kaul Nesler O'Connor, 58, of Hickory Ridge, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, at St. Bernard Hospital in Jonesboro.

Brenda Sue Webb Moody, 60, of Blytheville, passed from this life Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, at her home.

Mr. Tiny Joe "TJ" Hargett, 77, of Steele, Mo., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

The Blytheville Housing Authority board will soon start looking into obtaining a loan that would allow the housing organization to make some major improvements on all of its properties.

Tuesday night, the Blytheville City Council voted unanimously to remove the $5 Milestone Study fee from the water bill.

A proposal to rename Marguerite Street as "Henton Drive" won a second reading from the Blytheville City Council, Tuesday night, but it took an affirmative vote from Mayor James Sanders to make it happen.

Once upon a time, I opined in this space about renaming streets in Blytheville. I made a number of suggestions, most of which I never intended for anyone to take particularly seriously.

For those of you who thought this basketball season may have lost a little luster, the last two nights have produced some of the most exciting games that this area has seen in a long time. All three schools -- Armorel, Gosnell and Blytheville --won games in overtime and I was lucky enough to see two of them...

HIGHLAND--Gosnell Pirate sophomore Carlos Blackman hit both ends of a one-and-one free throw situation with 6.1 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Pirates to a 74-73 victory over the Valley View Blazers Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of the 3-4A district tournament...

Blytheville picked up a sweep Tuesday night over the Nettleton Raiders at Chickasaw Gym. The Lady Chicks held on for a 44-41 win over the Lady Raiders in the opener while the boys kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a narrow 55-54 win in overtime...