Stories from Saturday, August 31, 2019

Xi Kappa held its 10th annual flower sale to benefit the United Cancer Assistance Network. Members of Xi Kappa Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi would like to take this opportunity to send our thanks to those who bought flowers from us. All proceeds are donated to UCAN. This year, $2,144 was raised...

Difference Makers I think it’s a wonderful thing that you did in the paper today with the Difference Makers but it seems like it’s always the same people that gets recognized. There is a lot of small business people and other people in town that doesn’t get recognized like some of these others do on a regular basis. Just my opinion. Thank you...

George Edward Niswonger, of Poplar Bluff, will celebrate his 90th birthday Sunday. He was born Sept. 1, 1929, in Arkansas. Niswonger and his wife, Mable, have lived in Poplar Bluff for three decades and celebrated 71 years of marriage this past April...

After 13 months of construction and several delays, the Poplar Bluff Industrial Park overpass was opened to public travel Friday morning.

Longtime staff member Donna Farley has been named editor of the Daily American Republic. Farley joined the DAR in 2005, and since that time has covered Twin Rivers and Poplar Bluff schools, Three Rivers College and the historic flooding in 2008, 2011 and 2017, as well as city and county government. She was named associate editor in April 2018...

The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness. I looked it up and this is what the dictionary says “gratitude” is.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

City firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident without injury on Oak Grove Road near Poplar Bluff High School on Friday, Aug. 30 at 6:12 p.m. They helped direct traffic and and used absorbent to cover oil on the road.

Williamsville celebrated Labor Day early over the weekend with it’s 35th Annual Labor Day Picnic.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Dylan L. Crook, 25, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 2:10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31, on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). He was held at the Poplar Bluff Police Department and released...