<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Ocal Mowery 96, of Ullin died at 7:28AM, Saturday, January 21, 2012 at his home.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Getty Cicchette, 80, of Olive Branch, died at 1:55pm Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 at home.</span></strong></p>
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Brady Wright scored 21 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead Anna-Jonesboro to a 60-43 win over host Century in non-conference high school boys’ basketball action Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Noah Fuller added 18 points and 4 rebounds for the Wildcats. Travis Smith had 17 points and a rebound. Jarid Veronesi had 4 points and 3 rebounds.
The Wildcats were ahead 13-8 after one quarter and 18-14 at the half. A-J went on a 21-13 scoring run in the third quarter to build a 39-27 lead headed into the final period.
After winning its opening game against Trico, Anna-Jonesboro lost its final three games at the Benton high school girls’ basketball invitational.
Carterville 45, A-J 42: Jessi Stone scored 15 points to lead the Lady Wildcats in the loss in the fifth-place game Thursday, Dec. 29.
Brooke Chamness added 10 points, Kim Mixen 8, Valerie Pender 5 and Erica Friebel and Katie Grant 2 each.
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Danny J. Holdman, 67, of Anna, died on January 1, 2012 at 9:00PM at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.</span></strong></p>
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Jay Kemp scored on a lay-up with four seconds remaining in the game to give Anna-Jonesboro a 40-38 win over Fairfield in the fifth place game at the Eldorado Holiday Tournament in boys’ high school basketball action Wednesday, Dec. 28.
With just seconds remaining, the Wildcats took a time out to attempt to halt the final play by the Mules.
“We took a time out and wanted them to catch the ball in front of us,” A-J basketball coach Mike Chamness said.
The year 2011 has come to an end and a new year is underway.
This week, The Gazette-Democrat takes a look back at some of the many events which unfolded during 2011 in the Union County area.
Following are highlights of some of the many events which happened last year in Union County:
January
The Cobden Community & Business Association hosted a town hall meeting Monday, Jan. 10.
Union County Hospital in Anna welcomed Dr. John Earnhart as a hospitalist.
The ducks and geese didn't cooperate a whole lot at the Grassy Lake Hunting Club near Ware Saturday, Jan. 14. But that didn't seem to make a lot of difference.
"I don't care if a goose flies by me or not," said Shawn Lee of Jefferson City, Mo. "It's just been a great time."
Lee was from a group of 15 hunters who were participating in the third annual Wounded Warriors duck hunt along with members of the disabled military veterans from the U.S. Army base at Fort Campbell, Ky.
William Carl Shepard, 73, of Jonesboro and Bushnell, Fla., died at 4:50 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
He was born on July 26, 1938, in Jonesboro, the son of Harry and Bea Boshell Shepard.
He married Betty Holtzclaw on Jan. 27, 1984, in Corinth, Miss.
For the past several years, students in social studies teacher Jamie Nash-Mayberry's classes at Shawnee High School at Wolf Lake have been working hard to promote awareness about the condition of the area's river levees.
The high school is located in an area which includes the Mississippi and Big Muddy rivers.
Now, students in Nash-Mayberry's classes are working on a unique fundraiser.
"We are selling t-shirts about the levees," the Shawnee teacher said.
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