Stories from Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Mr. and Mrs. William and Gilda Harris were recently crowned Valentine king and queen at Heritage Square Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Students from Mrs. Gobles's third-grade class at Gosnell Elementary School recently wrote, illustrated and published a class book. Each student wrote a story reflecting on things that they were thankful for. On Feb. 3, they held an author's party, where they did readings from the book and presented it to their parents...

Laura Martin played the role of Martha Washington as she recently visited the Charlevoix Chapter of DAR. She shared insight into the Revolutionary War, helping the current generation understand just how difficult were the times our first president endured. President Washington never had enough men, food, clothing or supplies...

The 3-4A District Tournament will finally get underway Wednesday at Cave City. The Gosnell Lady Pirates are scheduled to tip off at 2 p.m. Wednesday against Harrisburg followed by the boys taking on Highland. The game had been pushed back two days because of the recent winter storm...

Prezley Baudendistel was introduced to the game of basketball Friday night at the Armorel-Tuckerman game. Prezley has had to wait for more basketball action, after the recent winter storm forced the rescheduling of district tournaments for both Armorel and Gosnell this week. Gosnell began play Wednesday, while Armorel was scheduled to begin its tournament action Thursday...

Mark Brasfield has been promoted to general manager of the Blytheville Courier News.

The recent winter storm has kept local emergency units on their toes. While they are ready to respond, the need has fortunately been minimal around the Blytheville area thus far.

Although most of Blytheville and much of the surrounding area is still blanketed with a thick sheet of ice, the city hasn't experienced any major incidents in relation to the frosty conditions thus far.

I would like to believe that the perfect recipe for the perfect place to live, work and raise a family would have to have some very specific attractions. These would include: 1. River transportation. Let us say, for our perfect recipe, the largest and most traveled river in the country. Capable of moving huge strings of barges and include docks that are designed to transfer most any bulk or liquid to and from those barges...

Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington declared Thursday that Christopher Sowell of Gosnell was not involved in the 2013 murder of Jessica Williams.

Ron Redmon, 23, was given a $500,000 cash bond after turning himself into the Blytheville Police Department in connection with August 2014 murder of Justin Harrison.

Mrs. Valeria A. Rowe, 55, of Los Angeles, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.