Stories from Tuesday, March 5, 2019

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Velvie Violet Frederick, 91, of Doniphan, died Friday, March 1, 2019 at St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9 at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. The funeral will follow at noon in the funeral home chapel with Brother Pete Joplin officiating. Burial will be in the Good Hope Cemetery...

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Karen Denise Roberts, 37, of Fairdealing, Mo. died Saturday, March 2, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be Wednesday, March 6 at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan from 5-7 p.m.

The only hunter education skills course scheduled in Poplar Bluff this spring will be held Tuesday, March 12, at the Poplar Bluff Junior High School gymnasium. The class is scheduled to run from 5-9 p.m. The course is free of charge and is open to anyone at least 11 years of age...

County firefighters responded at 11:20 a.m. Monday, March 4, to a vehicle fire at 225 Physicians Park Drive. According to the report, a 1997 Toyota pickup, owned by Earl Ladyman, was destroyed. The fire also damaged a 2017 Ford Edge and a Nissan Rogue...

Newly elected radicals in the U.S. House of Representatives say the world will end in 12 years unless we pass their “Green New Deal.” Candidates for president have lined up to endorse the plan, which would completely overhaul our entire economy and ban affordable energy options. They say the climate is “our World War II,” but their plan is a war on working families and the American economy...

As a Christmas gift to one another, Joe and I sent our DNA samples to Ancestry. Why did we? We wanted to know where we fit into the American story. Who were our immigrant ancestors? Where did they come from? Who came to America with our families? Joe is a third generation descendant of Polish immigrants and does not know some of his family who emigrated from Poland in the late 1800s and early 1900s except more immediate family members such as his aunts, uncles and first cousins. ...

PUXICO, Mo. — Claude L. Lowe, 82, of Puxico, died Sunday, March 3, 2019 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 9 at the Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico. The funeral will follow at noon at the Morgan Sifford Chapel. Burial will be with full military rites in the Puxico City Cemetery...

MALDEN, Mo. — Adrin Adell Morley, 77, of Clarkton, Mo., died Sunday, March 3, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 7 at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will follow at noon at the Bradshaw Chapel with Rev. Darrin Baker officiating...

Plans have been filed with city officials to repurpose a former Westwood Boulevard restaurant, and construct a second eatery on Poplar Bluff’s south side. A permit to remodel the former Ryan’s location for a Chinese buffet has been approved, according to the city planning department...

DEXTER — The Dexter Board of Aldermen heard a request Monday night from a group of individuals asking the city to consider allowing utility-task vehicles to operate inside the city limits. Speaking on behalf of the group of about 12 was Shelly McClintock...

The Neelyville High School cheerleaders gathered for their annual Christmas get-together last December like any other year. When opening their gifts of matching pajamas, Cheer Coach Brandi Lumby had a surprise message for her girls. “We told them they might want to pack them when we go to the final four,” she said...