Stories from Monday, February 15, 2016

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer David Silverberg refuses to carry a cell phone, preferring to drop by rather than text when he needs to talk with someone. He often complains the technology of his business left him behind a long time ago, choosing to write longhand in a reporter's notebook instead of picking up a tape recorder...

Some are missing blinker juice I'm sending my condolences to vehicle owners who have run out of or were not supplied with blinker juice. That must be the reason these poor people do not use their blinkers when they are turning or they have ESP and believe that all of us have it so they will know what they are doing. ...

By STEPHEN MOORE The Iowa caucuses may have only muddied the waters in the race for the White House, but they did almost definitively decide one thing: The next president will not be a governor. That's an amazing revelation because, just one year ago, the smart money was betting that the next president would be a Republican governor...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The morning of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump, being interviewed on "Morning Joe," said that he would welcome his "friend" Michael Bloomberg into the presidential race. Which is probably the understatement of 2016. The three-term mayor of New York and media mogul whose fortune is estimated at $39 billion, making him one of the richest men on earth, told the Financial Times on Monday he is considering a run...

Dixie Watkins DEXTER, Mo. -- Dixie Watkins, 78, of Dexter, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be after 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. ...

By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer Music for a Cause Concert & Food Drive, sponsored by 67 South Entertainment, will be held Friday, Feb. 19, at the American Legion Post 153, 2023 Kanell Drive, Poplar Bluff. Doors will open at 6 p.m. to anyone 16 years old or older. Price of admission is at least one can of food or a non-perishable food item. All food collected will be donated to The Bread Shed...

Maxine Jennings DEXTER, Mo. -- Maxine Jennings, 87, of Dexter, died Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Visitation will be from noon - 2 p.m., Monday, at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home. A private funeral service will be conducted Monday in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in the Walker Cemetery in rural Bloomfield...

Debbie Champion Grimes FISK, Mo. -- Debbie Champion Grimes, 59, of Branson, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo. died Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 at University Medical Center in Columbia, Mo. Visitation will begin at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. Funeral services will follow at 12:30 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Bill Clanahan officiating. Burial will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield...

Ste. Genevieve, Mo. -- Five Dexter wrestlers advanced to state with wins in the MSHSAA Class 2 District 1 tournament on Saturday. At 106 pounds, Seth Harris (41-5) won the district title by fall over Ste. Genevieve's Nathan Geisner in 54 seconds. Storm Massey (39-3) won his first two matches at 160 pounds by pins in less than three minutes and won the district title with a 4-1 decision over Owensville's Wyatt Harrell...