Stories from Thursday, January 26, 2006

GREEN FOREST -- Phylicia Shelton was crowned the 2006 Homecoming Queen last Friday night during ceremonies between games with the Berryville Bobcats. Shelton, a member of the Lady Tiger basketball team, is the daughter of David and Beth Shelton. She was escorted by Tiger basketball players Guy Joubert and Zac Sutton...

CEDARVILLE -- When the Highlander basketball teams traveled to face the Pirates last Friday night, it was all on the line in the boys 1-AA West race. Coaches couldn't recall a win at Cedarville for the senior boys, but they got one Friday night, 56-48, keeping their league record clean (5-0, 16-9), and the lead in the 1-AA West race intact...

Week of Jan. 16-22, 2006 January 15 11:30 p.m. -- Police were dispatched to a Walnut Street residence in reference to a breaking and entering. January 16 12:05 a.m. -- Police assisted an ambulance at a Walnut Street residence. 7:55 a.m. -- Police were dispatched to a two-vehicle accident on the town square. No injuries reported...

Week of Jan. 16-22, 2006 Jan. 16 2:20 p.m. -- Officer was dispatched to Gibson Street to mediate a domestic dispute. The issue was resolved. 10:44 p.m. -- Police responded to a 911 hang-up at Sunrise Motel. Police checked area but were unable to locate the problem...

Week of Jan. 16-22, 2006 January 16 9:39 a.m.-- Officer assisted with traffic control due to a truck broken down at Magnetic Springs. 12:05 p.m.-- Game and Fish notified after caller reported a deer stuck in drainage ditch on North Main. January 17 3:18 p.m.-- Incident report taken after caller reported her cell phone had been stolen...

SANDERS BOYD GIBSON was born Nov. 27, 1921, in Berryville to Homer and Gretchen Gibson. Boyd died on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006, at the age of 84. He was one of seven children. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, and his youngest brother, H.B. Gibson, Jr...

RITA JEAN MASSEY, 71, of Sand Springs, Okla., died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006, in Tulsa. She was born Nov. 3, 1934, in Carroll County, Ark., on Brushy Creek and was the daughter of Ted and Alice Doss. Rita was a homemaker and a member of the General Baptist Church...

ALPENA -- Superintendent Robert Smalley and his secretary, Marlene Webb, had a hard time telling each other that they were retiring after this year. "She was one of the last people I told," said Smalley. "I sat her down and told her that it was a hard decision to make, but that I was retiring."...

BERRYVILLE -- Goals and trends of water quality monitoring dominated the annual meeting of Kings River Watershed Partnership Thursday night. The Pioneer Room of Carroll Electric Cooperative was filled to near capacity, but fewer than 30 voted unanimously to elect farmer and real estate agent Todd Summers to the board of directors, replacing Justice of the Peace Duane Coatney, who resigned last fall after winning office to avoid conflict of interests...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- A three-vehicle accident on Ark. Hwy. 23 South resulted in one death and critical injury of several others Friday morning. According to Arkansas State Police, Joseph W. Post, 61, of Fayetteville, the driver of a Tyson Foods tractor-trailer loaded with meat products, northbound on Hwy. 23, lost control of his vehicle after rounding a curve near County Road 108, known as the "Hogscald" turnoff at about 11 a.m. Conditions were cloudy...