drowning

Tammy Curtis, Publisher A Highland High School graduate and longtime educator drowned Sept. 6 around 9 p.m. at the 101 Boat Dock on Lake Norfork at Gamaliel in rural Baxter County. Bryan E. Russell, 65, who spent 32 years in education, including the final nine as the superintendent of the Valley View School District in Jonesboro, died in the incident. Sgt. Scott Thrasher with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Russell’s drowning…

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From a Press Release from Fulton County Sheriff's Department The Fulton County Sheriff’s Department released the name of the person who drowned near Saddler Falls on the Spring River on June 21. According to a release issued by Fulton County Chief Deputy William Fawcett, 25-year-old Crista Allman of  Burlison, Tenn., passed away at the White River Medical Center Emergency Department after Crista fell out of the canoe she was floating in with…

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Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Nearly four years after a Paragould woman lost her life while enjoying a family outing on the Spring River at High Falls, the Army Corp of Engineers and representatives with the Commissioner of State Lands Office are filling in the hole. Large trucks, dump trucks and an excavator made their way to the Spring River this morning, March 5, in hope of preventing another incident like the one…

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