Stories from Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Riverside opened the George Kell Classic by hammering out a 59-21 victory over Cross County Saturday night at Swifton. The defending champion Lady Rebels bolted to a 17-6 lead after the first quarter and increased their margin to 31-10 at the half. Riverside took a whopping 50-17 advantage into the fourth quarter...

Buffalo Island Central’s Junior Lady Mustangs defeated Brookland 48-40 Saturday on the road. Kaydence Lambert poured in a game high 20 points to lead BIC while Emily Stull pumped in 14 more for the Junior Lady Mustangs. Stellar Parker top the Lady Bearcats with 12 points...

Gosnell dropped a 62-40 decisoin to host Pocahontas Friday evening. Gosnell (10-5) fell behind 11-5 in the first quarter and trailed 27-15 at halftime. The Redskins led 40-25 at the end of the third quarter. Brayden Burcham led Gosnell with 15 points, while Cooper Pieri chipped in nine...

Manila squandered the majority of an 18-point fourth quarter lead before slipping out of Walnut Ridge with a 54-50 3A-3 conference victory over the Bobcats Saturday night. The Lions, who improved to 12-3 overall and 5-1 in league play, led 15-7 after the first break and 26-14 at the half. ...

The Blytheville Lady Chickasaws were defeated 65-32 Monday night by 4A-3 conference foe the Valley View Lady Blazers. The Lady Chickasaws (0-8, 0-4) started off sluggish as the Lady Blazers jumped out to an 8-0 lead early in the first quarter, but BHS cut the lead 10-6 after senior guard Zion Haynes started the run off by finding classmate Sandi Gillespie on the block for a layup and then Haynes hit two jump shots of her own...

JONESBORO- The Class 4A No. 3 Blytheville Chickasaws (13-3) lost a nail-biter in overtime Friday night in the Hoopfest at Jonesboro High School to the North Little Rock Charging Wildcats,80-78. Both teams started out slowly as the Charging Wildcats led 11-9 to start the game and outscored the Chicks 20-12 in the second quarter to lead 31-21 at the half...

At the request of Osceola Mayor Sally Wilson, the Mississippi County Solid Waste Management District Committee met Monday afternoon at the Annex Building in Blytheville, discussing the city of Osceola’s plans to start recycling cardboard. Committee member Steve Choals, who works for the city of Osceola’s Street Sanitation, said, “What we would like to start doing in the city is recycling our cardboard, but the startup cost is what we need.”...

Riverside School Board held the first meeting of 2020 on Monday, Jan. 6, reviewing the financial statement, extending the superintendent’s contract, approving a student transfer, and heard reports from Superintendent Jeff Priest. During the financial review, it was noted the ending balance was $2.501 million and at the same time last year it was $2.50 million, only $1,000 difference...

Marybeth Byrd and a few of her friends from The Voice put on quite a show for the 345 in attendance at the Ritz Civic Center on Sunday afternoon. The Northeast Arkansas Pageant Association welcomed home the Armorel native who made the area proud by finishing in the semifinals of The Voice’s seventh season...

Tracy June Rhodes, 51, passed away Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. Tracy was born Dec. 17, 1968. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, the late Donald and Wilma Burton and the late Robert and Violet Johnson, as well as her mother, Audra Francis Johnson, and her brother, Jimmy Alan Tucker...