Stories from Monday, August 29, 2011

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer The Missouri Department of Economic Development has approved the Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff for nearly $100,000 in tax credits through the Youth Opportunities Program. The funding the credits generate will be used to help support the club's afterschool and summer programs for youth...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Broseley area residents will break ground at noon Friday for their new half million dollar combined senior and community center, which officials describe as "a very much needed large project for a rural area." The new building will replace both the senior and community centers. ...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer When Rev. Paul White of Poplar Bluff, Mo., began writing his first book, he never imagined it would release within a week of brother Michael White's contemporary Christian/worship album. Paul is the pastor of Midland Church, where Michael is the music and associate pastor...

By MELISSA MILLER SEMO News Service Hunters, whose beagles run after them through the Mississippi River bottoms, call them "swampers." Swamp rabbits, popular with small-game hunters in the Birds Point New Madrid Floodway, were nearly wiped out when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intentionally blew up the Birds Point levee May 2...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Broseley area residents will break ground at noon Friday for their new half million dollar combined senior and community center, which officials describe as "a very much needed large project for a rural area." The new building will replace both the senior and community centers. ...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer The Missouri Department of Economic Development has approved the Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff for nearly $100,000 in tax credits through the Youth Opportunities Program. The funding the credits generate will be used to help support the club's afterschool and summer programs for youth...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer When Rev. Paul White of Poplar Bluff, Mo., began writing his first book, he never imagined it would release within a week of brother Michael White's contemporary Christian/worship album. Paul is the pastor of Midland Church, where Michael is the music and associate pastor...

By MELISSA MILLER SEMO News Service Hunters, whose beagles run after them through the Mississippi River bottoms, call them "swampers." Swamp rabbits, popular with small-game hunters in the Birds Point New Madrid Floodway, were nearly wiped out when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intentionally blew up the Birds Point levee May 2...

After getting a taste of success last year, the Poplar Bluff cross country teams are hungry for more this fall. Allison Huskey, the lone state qualifier, returns with a Lady Mules team that qualified for sectionals while Bailey Davidson and the Mules look to join them...

Jamie Waddell knows what it's like to be a part of a successful soccer program at Poplar Bluff. Back in 2000, Waddell was on the Mules' one and only district championship team. In terms of coaching, he had a widely successful four-year stint as a coach for the boys and girls programs at Platte County near Kansas City where he was Missouri Coach of the Year in 2008 and won two district and two sectional titles with the girls' program as well as a school record for wins in a season for the boys' team.. ...

After getting a taste of success last year, the Poplar Bluff cross country teams are hungry for more this fall. Allison Huskey, the lone state qualifier, returns with a Lady Mules team that qualified for sectionals while Bailey Davidson and the Mules look to join them...