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Remembering the day JFK was shot
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The principal of Big Island Elementary had the sad duty nearly 50 years ago of announcing to children and teachers in each classroom at the small Broseley, Mo., school that the president of the United States had been shot and killed...
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Christmas Around World Saturday
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Displays featuring 15 countries, entertainment and food samples, along with passports, activities, prizes and Santa's visit for children, will highlight "Christmas Around The World" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday...
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West guilty of involuntary manslaughter
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associated Editor JACKSON, Mo. -- A Cape Girardeau County jury took two hours Thursday to convict a Hayti, Mo., man of recklessly causing the death of a local teen by shooting him multiple times. The six-woman, six-man jury reached its verdict after beginning its deliberations at 4:37 p.m. ...
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A Nation United
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
(This editorial appeared Nov. 23, 1963 on the front page of the Daily American Republic.) Poplar Bluffians, like Americans throughout the free world, were stunned yesterday when word of the death of President John F. Kennedy was received. Not only members of the President's political and religious faith, but bitter partisans joined in prayer and words of respect from the nation's young leader whose tragic death occurred in the prime of a life devoted to service for mankind...
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R-I plan moves PBHS
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
A long-range plan that will relocate the high school to the current 5th & 6th Grade Center property on Oak Grove Road was officially adopted Thursday by the Poplar Bluff R-I Board of Education. The board is expected to decide in December how it will fund the project and how changes will be phased in...
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MO TOPS 347 meetings
(Community News ~ 11/23/13)
MO Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) 347 met Nov. 14, at the Palace of Praise in Poplar Bluff. Meeting was called to order by Brenda Williamson, chairperson. Those attending stood for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the TOPS Pledge and song, "The More We Get Together."...
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Mo. Star Quilters' Guild meets
(Community News ~ 11/23/13)
The November meeting of the Missouri Star Quilters' Guild was called to order at by President Dori Caldwell with 18 members present. The minutes from the October 2013 meeting were approved as published. Because Cheryl Maples was ill, Karen Vallow presented the treasurer's report...
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Kannon Reese Arnold
(Births ~ 11/23/13)
Kannon Reese Arnold is the name Latisha and Daniel Arnold of Bernie, Mo. have chosen for the name of their 9-pound, 4-ounce son born at 2:35 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center's Family BirthPlace in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Kannon was 20 and one-half inches long...
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The myth vs. reality of President Kennedy
(Column ~ 11/23/13)
By DAN K. THOMASSON Scripps Howard News Service Hovering over the remembrances of John F. Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination is the ghost of a life that is more myth than reality, more revisionist than factual -- one that has left him perhaps forever stranded in sort of an historic limbo between inspirational and second-rate tawdriness...
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Deputies pay Solve problem, not symptom
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/23/13)
To the Editor: Having read the letter from the Sheriff Deputies, the letter written by Larry Kimbrow and the comments made by the folks in your "Let's Talk" column, it is obvious the County has a problem. However, what we see and read focuses on the symptom, not the solution...
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Let us commemorate anniversary fatigue
(Column ~ 11/23/13)
By REG HENRY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It is time to confess something that has every chance of making me look like an insensitive jerk. I am anniversary overloaded. There, I have said it. The 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg Address and recently the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech" have come together in a great media tornado of anniversaries...
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Mizzou's Green-Beckham back in spotlight
(Community News ~ 11/23/13)
COLUMBIA -- Dorial Green-Beckham remembers how it felt to play as a freshman. Paralleling the roller-coaster ride No. 8 Missouri has taken in the Southeastern Conference, the star receiver experienced a tumultuous first season before landing on his feet this year, appearing at ease as he jokes with teammates and talks without hesitation to reporters...
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Larry Cronan
(Obituary ~ 11/23/13)
Larry Cronan MALDEN, Mo.--Larry Cronan, 71, of Clarkton, Mo., died Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, at his residence. Visitation will be 6 p.m. Friday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bradshaw Chapel. Burial will be in Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton...
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Myrna Mayo
(Obituary ~ 11/23/13)
Myrna Mayo Myrna M. Mayo, 74, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Myrna was born Jan. 21, 1939, in Poplar Bluff. She gave her heart and life to the Lord as a child. ...
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Smith looks to extend 5-match win streak
(High School Sports ~ 11/23/13)
Poplar Bluff's Sheldon Smith will look to extend his five-match win streak when he steps into the ring tomorrow to take on Jesse Parker for the 125-pound amateur title. "He sounds like he is going to be good competition," Smith said. "I'm not coming in here to get the win by decision or win by points. I'll come in there to fight smart and knock them out. Nobody wants to see a decision. Everybody wants to see finishes. So that is what I come to do every time."...
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David Rodney
(Obituary ~ 11/23/13)
David Rodney GENEVA, Ill. -- David Allen Rodney, 69, of St. Charles, Ill., died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. David was born July 11, 1944, in Kalamazoo, Mich., to Haldane and Edna Rodney. His early childhood was spent in Arkansas. He attended junior high and high school in Poplar Bluff, Mo. After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam until 1967. He worked at Burgess Norton for 32 years...
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Raiders hold off late rally
(High School Sports ~ 11/23/13)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- For the second time in three games, a late lull by the Lady Raiders nearly cost Three Rivers a win. Anna Vogt made a jumper with just over eight minutes remaining in the second half to put Three Rivers ahead of Arkansas Baptist by 18. But the Lady Raiders made just one more field goal the rest of the game and hung on to win on the road 79-69 Thursday night...
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Jamborees provide coaches a 1st glimpse at team
(High School Sports ~ 11/23/13)
Neelyville girls basketball coach Becky Hale showed no fear when she accepted an invitation to play in a jamboree at Cardinal Ritter this Saturday. The Lady Tigers, a team that reached the state quarterfinals last year in Class 2, will square off in practice games against the Class 4 state champions in Incarnate Word, a perennially solid team in Cardinal Ritter and a strong program in Metro up in St. Louis...
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R-I survey results
(Local News ~ 11/23/13)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Poplar Bluff R-I School District asked for the community's input on the long range plan prior to its approval Thursday by the Board of Education. A school planning company conducted a phone survey of 400 registered voters spread across the elementary school districts. Patrons and employees were also able to participate in separate online surveys. About 270 people participated in the patron survey and 190 in the employee survey...
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