Stories from Saturday, August 3, 2019

Our grandparents traveled gravel roads to St. Louis. It was slow going and many areas were prone to flooding. The trip took most of the day, if it wasn’t the rainy season. Then, it was even longer. As the 100-plus miles were upgraded to two-lane pavement, it must have felt like a journey that just flew by...

GREENVILLE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cleaned up a seven-mile section of the St. Francis River in Wayne County last week, part of an annual effort to keep the Wappapello Lake project maintained. “This is an important project because it helps clean up our project and our new bosses got to explore some more of our project, while doing something good for the project,” said Pathway intern John Garver, of Greenville, who will start his second year at Three Rivers College in August, studying forestry.. ...

Poplar Bluff residents will be asked Tuesday to decide on an effort to four-lane Highway 67 south. Community leaders believe the measure will help complete a project important to area growth. The ballot measure goes before the city’s five wards. It asks if the city should redefine the Highway 67 effort, which began after 2005 with roads north to Fredericktown...