Stories from Wednesday, June 29, 2005

"Let Freedom Ring" is the theme for the 78th Annual Piggott Fourth of July Picnic. The proceeds from the picnic go toward the maintenance of the beautiful Piggott Cemetery. A full weekend of activities is planned, although on Monday the picnic grounds will be the place to be...

A Poplar Bluff resident was killed when the cropdusting plane he was flying crashed at approximately 5:40 p.m. Thursday, June 23, six miles east of Piggott. The Clay County Sheriff's Department received a 911 call about a plane crashing alongside Highway 1 in a cotton field. ...

W.V. (Vaughter) Irwin, 95, of Pollard died Thursday, June 23, at his residence. He was born April 29, 1910, in Pollard, the son of the late Thomas and Jennie Hall Irwin. He was united in marriage to Gladys Robbins on Sept. 1, 1936. She preceded him in death on Dec. 23, 1986...

Janetta C. Binkley Cossey, 64, died Saturday, May 7, 2005, in Georgetown Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, S.C. She was born Feb. 9, 1941, in Piggott, the daughter of Frances Johnson Binkley and the late Joseph Osborn Binkley. She graduated from Piggott High School and Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge...

With the first football game of the 2005 season about two months away, the Piggott Mohawks are getting ready to hit the field for a winning season. The summer conditioning program began the first week of June at Parker Field. "Just about all the boys have been showing up for the conditioning sessions," assistant coach Michael Harrell said. ...

A 16-year-old Marmaduke girl died Wednesday, June 22, from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle accident about 10:20 that night as she was leaving her place of employment in Paragould. Police said Jacqueline Kaye Kent was attempting to turn left onto West Kingshighway near Carroll Road as she was leaving Taco Bell. As she turned her 1992 Ford Mustang onto the road, she pulled into the path of a westbound 2001 Ford pickup truck...

Retired Rector bank executive Mary Lee Sigsby died Tuesday, June 21, at her home at age 76. Born Feb. 7, 1929, in the Leonard community near Rector, she was the daughter of the late Frank Thomas Hill and Floy (Wimberley) Hill. She attended Draughon's Business College in Memphis after her graduation from Rector High School in 1946...

The sounds of the hardwood thundered throughout the Marmaduke gymnasium last Friday, as the Junior and Senior Lady Hounds hosted a one-day team basketball camp. East Poinsett County and Piggott joined coach Spencer Hoffman and his Lady Greyhounds in a day filled with basketball and barbecue...