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Dig for Life fights cancer
(Local News ~ 10/23/14)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A charity that has provided nearly 5,000 free mammograms in Poplar Bluff, Mo., will receive a new influx of funding, thanks to junior high cheerleaders and high school volleyball players. The students presented a check for $4,000 to Dig For Life last week, after the sale of nearly 500 T-shirts during Pink-Out Poplar Bluff...
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With many kids and parents in area Shots fired at Bacon Park
(Local News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Local authorities are investigating a report of multiple shots being fired Wednesday evening at Bacon Park as youth athletes were on the park's practice fields. At about 6:15 p.m., a call came out of shots fired in the Bacon Park area, according to Poplar Bluff Deputy Chief Jeff Rolland...
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Chamber survey shows Many PB businessmen are unhappy with city
(Local News ~ 10/23/14)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer In a survey released today, members of the business community question whether city officials value their wallets more than their talent. The Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce asked members to weigh in on two topics: local government and schools spending money with qualified, local companies, rather than outside of town, and what other concerns should local government address...
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UMKC graduating one a year for next four years New dentists to return home
(Local News ~ 10/23/14)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Poplar Bluff will have four new reasons to smile in the near future as four locals currently enrolled in the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Dentistry announce their intent to return home upon graduation. The four students are, Travis Blaich his wife, Lauren (Decker) Blaich, Brittany Irons and Anderson Gilberto. ...
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Millions Around World Take Part In ShakeOut
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
Staff Reports At 10:16 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than 20 million around the world took cover -- school children, students at universities, employees and patients in government and health care facilities and others -- as part of the global Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill. It is estimated that nearly one-half million individuals in Missouri participated in the drill...
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What Would You Ask Jesus?
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
How would you like to sit down and have a good talk with Jesus? What would you ask Him? Perhaps, "Lord, why did you come to earth when you knew you would be crucified?" He might answer, "I came to offer Myself as your Savior because of God's love for you, and because of His desire to reconcile you unto Himself. ...
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Several Gather For Annual Hobbs Reunion
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
A total of 30 attended the 2014 Hobbs Reunion at the Southwest Church of the Nazarene in Dexter Sept. 27. Several did not attend because of illness or other commitments. Those attending enjoyed a lot of good food and fellowship including the yearly auction. A $250 donation was made to the Hobbs Chapel Cemetery Fund...
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3 PHS Students To Travel To D.C.
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL Puxico High School seniors Chelsea Baker, Brianna Doublin and Phoenix Richard have been chosen to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Nov. 14-16 in Washington, D.C. "Phoenix and Chelsea were supposed to go last February but were snowed out," said Cheryl Doublin, who will be the girls' chaperone on the trip. "They are letting them go this year and were able to accept one more so Brianna is going."...
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City To Combat Derelict Vehicles, Tall Weeds, Grass
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL Health ordinance violations, including abandoned vehicles and tall grass and weeds, were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Puxico Board of Aldermen Oct. 16, and board members came up with a strategy to combat the issues...
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No Vote On Buying Bulk Fuel
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL Ward II Alderman Bill Hemby asked fellow members of the Puxico Board of Aldermen to consider having each department make bulk fuel purchases during the board's regular monthly meeting Oct. 16. He said this would save the city money on taxes, which they currently pay on single purchases at the pump...
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Lady Indians Honor Seniors
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL The Puxico Lady Indians will wrap up their season this week as they compete in the Missouri State High School Activities Association Class 2 District 2 Volleyball Tournament. At the end of the tournament, four seniors will say goodbye to their high school volleyball days...
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Woodworking Group Forms; Meet At Dexter
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
A new area chapter, "Crowley's Ridge Area Turners" will meet every month at 9 a.m. on the third Saturday, in the Dexter High School wood shop in Dexter, Mo. Meetings are open to the general public. There will be demonstration and classes on several woodworking procedures...
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Twister Confirmed Near Puxico
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By DAVID SILVERBERG SEMO News Service An EF-1 tornado touched down in a rural area east of Puxico, Mo., Monday, Oct. 13 afternoon, according to the National Weather Service at Paducah, Ky. "Several trees were snapped off or uprooted," Pat Spoden said after he and Brittney Peterson conducted an assessment of the damage in Stoddard and Bollinger counties Tuesday. Both are NWS meteorologists...
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Puxico Head Start Kicks Off Awareness Month
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
To kick off Head Start Awareness Month at the Puxico Center; center director Melana Long invited past center director Bonita Gregory to visit. Gregory was hired in 1992 when the center was first opened. While at the center, after the children sang their "Good Morning" greeting song, Gregory was able to read the children a story called the "Very Quiet Cricket". ...
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Museum To Close For Season
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL The Berry-Glenn Museum will soon be closing for the season. Do not miss an opportunity to stop by and see the displays celebrating Puxico's rich history. The museum, located at 320 Highway 51 in Puxico in the Old Frisco Depot, is open from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each Saturday, with the museum closing for the season after Oct. 25...
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From Secret Service agent Local businesses get cybercrime tips
(Business ~ 10/23/14)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The U.S. Secret Service hosted a seminar Friday at the Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce on cybercrime and how to keep money from falling into the wrong hands in today's world of online finance. Special Agent Timothy Reboulet, of the St. ...
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Middle Zone youth duck season up next
(Outdoors ~ 10/23/14)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor The weekend a lot of young duck hunters in the region have been longing for is almost here. Yes, it's time to don the waders and duck calls and get down to business. On Saturday and Sunday, Missouri's Middle Zone youth (age 15 and under) duck season will take place...
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First segment of Missouri youth deer season is right around the corner
(Outdoors ~ 10/23/14)
By JOHN PRATT Mo. Dept. of Conservation An important date is just around the corner for those wanting to introduce their youngsters to deer hunting. The first installment of the youth firearms deer hunting portions of the deer season is Nov. 1-2. The youth portion of the firearms deer hunting season is made up of two parts, and the second installment is Jan. 3-4. Youth hunters who have unfilled tags can participate in this hunt if they are unsuccessful in the earlier portions of the season...
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Productivity of men is on the decline
(Column ~ 10/23/14)
By MONA CHAREN Voters are souring on the Democratic Party. Apparently, all it takes are six years of economic torpor; the disastrous debut of the biggest new federal program in two generations; record levels of federal debt; revelations of scandals and malfeasance at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service, the Secret Service and the Justice Department; Russian revanchism on the march; a rampaging army of (literal) cutthroats gobbling up territory in the Middle East; and the feeble and patronizing government response to a modern plague.. ...
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"We the people" must rise again
(Column ~ 10/23/14)
By BEN CARSON It should come as no surprise to most thinking people that Wal-Mart, like many other large employers, recently announced it would be suspending health-care benefits for part-time workers. This is really a double hit on workers: In many cases, they previously had full-time jobs with 40-hour workweeks before being reduced to part-time status and now losing their health benefits...
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Wappapello crappie size structure out of balance
(Outdoors ~ 10/23/14)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Most anglers would agree the number of keeper-sized crappies in Wappapello Lake has fallen over the last couple of years. There's still plenty in the lake, but just not as many as a few years ago. "I'm not happy with the size structure," Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Management Biologist Dave Knuth said during his annual trapnetting survey last week. ...
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Ebola vs. civil liberties
(Column ~ 10/23/14)
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- Unnervingly, the U.S. public health services remain steps behind the Ebola virus. Contact tracing is what we do, Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden assured the nation. It will stop the epidemic "in its tracks." And yet nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who developed Ebola, were not even among the 48 contacts that the CDC was initially following...
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Rayni Day Miracles event Saturday
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
The Rayni Day Miracles fund-raiser will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 2408 Crestwood Drive, located across Highway 67 from the old hospital. There will be a silent auction, which is currently online at www.32auctions.com/RayniDayMiracles2014. There will be a prize drawing for a 32-inch TV and gift cards...
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Practicing medicine 50 years Mizzou to honor PB doctors for service
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
Kneibert Clinic Drs. Kirby Turner and Ben Till, University of Missouri (MU) graduates of the class of 1964, are being honored for 50 years of medical practice at MU's homecoming later this month. The 57th Annual Physician Alumni Weekend is being held in October at the University Of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, in conjunction with Homecoming weekend. ...
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Woodwork group formed
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
A new area chapter, "Crowley's Ridge Area Turners" will meet every month at 9 a.m. on the third Saturday, in the Dexter High School wood shop in Dexter, Mo. Meetings are open to the general public. There will be demonstration and classes on several woodworking procedures...
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Qulin Ctr. yard and bake sale
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
Community Senior Citizens (Qulin Nutrition Center, 485 D Street, Qulin, Mo., will hold a yard and bake sale beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday at the center. It will be an inside/outside sale with all proceeds going to benefit the center. Donations will be accepted at the center from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Requests are going out for gently used, clean items that are pre-priced, if possible. All donations will be appreciated...
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Donald Henson
(Obituary ~ 10/23/14)
Donald Henson PIEDMONT, Mo.--Donald Lee "Duck" Henson, 76, of Piedmont, died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at Landmark Hospital, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. Services will follow at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home chapel. Burial will follow in Masonic Cemetery, Piedmont. Online condolences: www.rueggfuneralhome.com...
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Gula Shulse
(Obituary ~ 10/23/14)
Gula Shulse Gula Geraldine Shulse, 99, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.
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New Madrid Central rallies past 'Wave
(High School Sports ~ 10/23/14)
PORTAGEVILLE -- It started with an offensive rebound. Malden won a close first game and built a 7-0 lead in the second. New Madrid Central's back line had a bad first touch, the second hit went 20-feet into the air and careened off the raised basketball hoop. The Lady Eagles scrambled just enough to send a desperate return that narrowly missed the ceiling and dropped for a point...
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Dennis
(Obituary ~ 10/23/14)
Dennis James Keele Dennis James Keele, 59, of Williamsville, Mo., died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 at his residence. He was born on Aug. 28, 1955 to Clyde James and Norma Ward Keele. He is one of Jehovah's Witness, and attended Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah Witness in Poplar Bluff...
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Wildcats edge Saxony for 1st title since 2011
(High School Sports ~ 10/23/14)
BLOOMFIELD -- Pun intended, there was a little bit of a delay between district titles for Bloomfield's Chelsea Delay. The senior last won one as a freshman in 2011 with a Lady Wildcats team that advanced all the way to the MSHSAA Class 2 quarterfinals...
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Harold Howard Griffin, Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/23/14)
Harold Howard Griffin, Sr. Harold Howard Griffin, Sr., 85, of Boonville, N.C., formerly of Neelyville, Mo., died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at Forsythe Medical Hospital in Winston Salem, N.C. Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, at the Boonville United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall with the funeral service immediately following at 3 p.m. Burial will be at the Boonville Community Cemetery...
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Reindeer end 17-year wait with 3-set thriller
(High School Sports ~ 10/23/14)
CARDWELL -- For the first time in 17 years, Clarkton volleyball coach Amy Cowart has a district title to her name. It's all thanks to a team that finally prevailed over a strong opponent from Gideon. The MSHSAA Class 1 District 1 championship match stretched across three intense sets, with the Reindeer eventually prevailing with a thrilling scoreline of 25-23, 20-25, 25-23 Tuesday night...
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Senior sweep: Bernie wins 4th straight district crown
(High School Sports ~ 10/23/14)
BELL CITY -- Bernie volleyball coach Erin Hoffman put an increased emphasis on blocking as her team prepared to make a run at a fourth straight district championship. "All we've done for the last week is work on blocking," Hoffman said of the preparation. "Especially, since we pulled a new girl up in the last week and a half. She had to really learn our scheme. We even came in an extra hour on Sunday and worked strictly on blocking."...
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Janis "J.K."
(Obituary ~ 10/23/14)
Janis "J.K." Stevens Janis "J.K." Stevens, 61, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at her residence. She was born March 19, 1953, in Poplar Bluff to Robert Hawthorne and Ruby Barriner Hodapp; both proceeded her in death. She was of the Baptist faith, and worked as an administration clerk for Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center...
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Qulin Ctr. yard and bake sale
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
Qulin Ctr. yard and bake sale Community Senior Citizens (Qulin Nutrition Center, 485 D Street, Qulin, Mo., will hold a yard and bake sale beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday at the center. It will be an inside/outside sale with all proceeds going to benefit the center...
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Woodwork group formed
(Community News ~ 10/23/14)
Woodwork group formed A new area chapter, "Crowley's Ridge Area Turners" will meet every month at 9 a.m. on the third Saturday, in the Dexter High School wood shop in DexVter, Mo. Meetings are open to the general public. There will be demonstration and classes on several woodworking procedures...
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Mules end regular season with loss
(High School Sports ~ 10/23/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Adam Vincent scored for the fourth straight game but the Poplar Bluff Mules lost for the second straight nigth as they closed out the regular season with a 2-1 loss Tuesday night at Notre Dame. The goal, which was also Vincent's fourth of the year, was assisted by sophomore Alexis Reyes...