Stories from Saturday, August 2, 2014

(I) is incumbent CARTER CO. Democrats Circuit Clerk Kendra Gore George Meyer Treasurer Patty Dorris Lisa Rodgers Republicans Presiding Commissioner John Bailiff(I) Donald Black Circuit Clerk Mary Godsy Tracy Chitwood Gerri Platt Missy Duncan Sheila Gore...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer By spring of the last school year, the students in Neelyville teacher Brandi Lumby's history classes needed all the instruction time she could give them. A bad winter had cost her district, and many in the region, a record number of days due to bad weather...

Lillie Marie Payton PUXICO, Mo. -- Lillie Marie Payton, 92, daughter of the late George Washington and Nellie Mae Underwood Shadowens, was born in Cobb, Mo. on March 30, 1922, and passed away at her home in Puxico on July 30, 2014. She had lived in Puxico most of her life. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Puxico. She had worked at Tri-County Home Health as a home maker, was a self employed cake decorator and loved her family...

Glen Simmons PUXICO, Mo.- Glen A. Simmons, 57, of Bloomfield, Mo., died Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at his home. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Master Touch Church in Bloomfield. Funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Everett Owens officiating. Burial in Fairview Cemetery in Puxico...

Randy Joe "Ziggy" Kirk Randy Joe "Ziggy" Kirk 52, of Wappapello, Mo., died Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, as a result of an auto accident. Mr. Kirk was born April 20, 1962 in Beatrice, Neb., to William E. Kirk and the late Marjorie V. Cawood-Kirk, who preceded him in death June 20, 2004...

Hazel Manns Hazel Faye Manns, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. passed away Thursday, July 31, 2014, at her son's residence. Mrs. Manns was born on July 30, 1935 in Haigler, Neb., to the late Andrew M. and Mildred E. (McIrvin) Burnside. On April 7, 1956 she married Raymond A. Manns, he preceded her in death on Dec. 27, 2013...

Crow gets Three Rivers scholarship Elizabeth Crow of Poplar Bluff, Mo., has received the Opportunity scholarship to Three Rivers College. Crow is the daughter of Tina and Tony Crow of Poplar Bluff and is a 2014 graduate of Neelyville High School. Crow plans to study nursing while at Three Rivers...

McKenzie Hillis of Essex, Mo., has received the BEC Incentive Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2014-2015 academic year. Hillis is the daughter of Scott and Karen Hillis of Essex, Mo., and is a 2014 graduate of Richland R-1 High School...

By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard-Democrat Despite the White House assessment that the Obama foreign policy has brought a new "global tranquility," the headlines would say otherwise. You would have to search long and hard to find "tranquility" across the world that is being touted by this administration...

Randy Kirk Randy "Ziggy" Kirk, 52, of Wappapello, Mo., died Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Projects and volunteers are needed for Serve 2014, sponsored by members of the First United Methodist Church, which will be held Saturday, Sept. 20 Serve 2014 is an annual community service project hosted by FUMC. Each year volunteers from the community provide assistance to elderly or disabled persons who own and live in their own home. Workers will come to the home and make minor repairs, clean yards or do jobs the resident is unable to perform...

The Obama administration's recent failures in the foreign-policy arena have only highlighted how far American leadership has fallen in this new century. From the Middle East to Eurasia, it often seems that President Obama is reacting to events instead of trying to shape them. Americans have begun to see his collective failures as an indictment on his presidency, and they long for clarity and purpose from their president...

The American Red Cross has scheduled the following blood drives in this area: Upcoming blood donation opportunities: Butler County Aug. 4 from 2 - 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Fifth and N. Main in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Aug. 14 from 2 - 7 p.m. at Black River Medical Center, 217 Physicians Park Drive in Poplar Bluff, Mo...

Local students graduated from the University of Arkansas at the end of the 2014 spring semester: NeeLyville, Mo.- Lindsey Emerson, agricultural education communication and technology, and Jordan Thomas, agricultural business, both earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With the party united, the odds are now at least even that the GOP will not only hold the House but also capture the Senate in November. But before traditional conservatives cheer that prospect, they might take a closer look at the foreign policy that a Republican Senate would seek to impose upon the nation...