Stories from Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Construction and renovations are moving quickly on three new restaurants planned for Poplar Bluff, while a longtime retailer opened in a new space Tuesday. A local hotel is also making moves to update the interior and exterior of a North Westwood Boulevard location...

Joplin-New Hope Cemetery meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 10. It is located on Highway K in Carter County. Donations can be sent to Bank of Grandin or Vicky Gunter, 7 Carter 251, Elsinore, MO 63937. Contact: 573-429-3050. Everyone welcome.

The annual Shiloh Cemetery meeting will be held on Saturday, Aug. 10. Lunch will be served at noon, followed by the financial meeting and report. Send donations for cemetery maintenance and upkeep to Sec./Treas. Earline Ward, 2897 County Road 426, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901. For more information, call President Ron Rains at 573-785-1355, or Sec. Treasurer Earline Wood at 573-998-2335...

Seventeen teams fished last weekend’s Current River Smallmouth Association tournament at Doniphan, and the top five weights were remarkably close. Paul Henderson and his son, Kason Henderson, took the top spot with a weight of 10.22 pounds, followed by Barnes and Sullivan in second place with 10.05 pounds...

Local authorities are searching for a Poplar Bluff man who allegedly was captured on surveillance video at a South 11th Street construction site at the time a utility-task vehicle was stolen Saturday morning. Patrick Marshall, with Crawford Security, reported at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday that a Honda side-by-side, owned by Cypress Creek Motorsports, had been stolen from the construction site of Empire Comfort Systems on South 11th Street...

DUDLEY, Mo. — More than 50 youngsters turned out early Saturday morning at the Otter Slough Conservation Area in Stoddard County to take part in the annual youth bird banding event. Now in its 11th year, the event is a partnership between the Dexter Greenheads chapter of Ducks Unlimited and the Missouri Department of Conservation...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Two Wayne County residents were injured in a one-vehicle crash at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 49, two miles north of Mill Spring. According to the report, Christian D. Ward, 16, of Piedmont was operating a 2008 Hyundai Tiburon northbound when it ran off the road and overturned...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Three Arkansas residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 9:10 p.m. Monday on U.S. 67, one-half mile north of the Arkansas state line, in Butler County. According to the report, Jonathan A. Moulton, 35, of Little Rock, Ark., was operating a southbound 2015 Volkswagen Passat when it struck the rear of a 2018 Dodge Caravan being operated by Byron A. Rogers, 49, of Deaville, Ark...

City firefighters responded at 6:55 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a limb down on a power line with a tree on fire at the intersection of Main and Mulberry streets. It was investigation only. According to the report, firefighters found no evidence of a tree...

City firefighters responded at 7:15 p.m. Monday to assist police officers needing to do a welfare check at 430 Vine St. According to the report, firefighters opened the Knox Box to let the officers in and went in with the officers to assist in the welfare check...

Saturday is the day when Ozark Border Electric Cooperative members from around the region will have a say in who sits on the rural power provider’s Board of Directors for the next three years. The annual meeting kicks off at 9 a.m. at the Bess Activity Center on the campus of Three Rivers College, and voting will begin immediately...