Stories from Wednesday, March 10, 2021

The Poplar Bluff Eagles, 1400 S. Broadway, will have a grilled chicken dinner from 5:30 - 7 p.m. Friday. The event is open to the public.

Mike Wellman, 2018 Male Horizon Vocalist, will be in concert at 6 p.m. Saturday at TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, 6076 Highway 142, Poplar Bluff. A native of Michigan, Wellman lived in Arkansas most of his life. At a young age, he started singing in his father’s church before he could see over the pulpit. His love for Southern Gospel Music got stronger and in 1994 he felt called to spread God’s word in song and fell in love with the sound of Christian Country Music...

More than 200 people turned out Saturday night for the Heartland Gobblers/National Wild Turkey Federation’s 28th annual Super Fund banquet. “That was the most we’ve had in several years,” said chapter president Chuck Stewart. “It was one of the best banquets we’ve had in a long time.”...

Melvin Eugene Riley, 91, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, took his last earthly breath and entered the presence of Jesus on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Mr. Riley, the son of the late Floyd (Elza) Riley and Gertrude (Purdue) Riley, was born September 12, 1929, near Kell, Illinois. He was a Christian, having been baptized as a teenager, in his uncle’s pond...

PIEDMONT — Walleyes native to the Black, St. Francis, Current and Eleven Point rivers are a specific genetic strain found nowhere else, and biologists with the Missouri Department of Conservation are working to preserve them. “We’re trying to preserve the genetics of that strain,” said Fisheries Management Biologist Dave Knuth, who described the species as an offshoot of the eastern highlands subspecies. ...

Edward R. McComb, 37, of the 400 block of 2nd Street, was arrested 11:45 p.m. March 8 on an outstanding warrant. William E. Coleman, 40, of Malden was arrested on a warrant for nonpayment. He was booked at the Butler County jail. _ Jeremy D. Criteser, 40, of the 600 block of Lester was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. He was booked at the Butler County jail...

Marita Wilson, 86, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away Monday, March 8, 2021 at Westwood Hills Health & Rehabilitation in Poplar Bluff. She was born on October 27, 1934 to Jesse and Katie (Clemons) Hayman in Harviell, Missouri and married James O. Wilson on July 16 1955, in St. Louis, Missouri...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Saint Francis Healthcare System will hold phase 1B, Tier 3 COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Saint Francis Medical Center, Entrance 2 at 211 Saint Francis Drive in Cape Girardeau on the following dates: • Monday, March 15 from 8 a.m.-6 p.m...

The COVID-19 pandemic created havoc in everyone’s lives, but Butler County University Extension staff turned the challenge into an opportunity to be enterprising, inventive and imaginative in ways to provide for the community. Extension council officers Jerrica Fox, Lanny Corcimiglia and Jane Arnold, all of Poplar Bluff, are complimentary of the staff. A vote was recently held by the council to name officers for the current year...

This story is updated. Monday's announcement by Missouri's senior U.S. senator, Roy Blunt, not to seek reelection in 2022 did not catch the state's former lieutenant governor, Peter Kinder of Cape Girardeau, off guard. "I'm not surprised," said Kinder, who himself left statewide office in 2017...

Reflections on the past year’s battle with COVID-19 in Butler County highlighted the weekly COVID briefing Wednesday. Butler County Emergency Management Agency Director Robbie Myers reminded the group, “Saturday, we’ll mark one year since the Governor of Missouri and the President of the United States declared a state of emergency. It was also the day we opened our Butler County Emergency Operations Center at the Poplar Bluff Police Department.”...

BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Donald Eugene Adams, 63, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail Tuesday, March 9, on a warrant for first-degree harassment. _ Jill Denise Bieri, 54, of the 400 block of Old Highway 67 was booked at the Butler County jail Tuesday, March 9, on 48 hours shock time...

Doris Ward, 84, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at Oakdale Care Center. Doris was born August 18, 1936 to the late Robert and Maud Eagle in Rector, Arkansas. She married the late Vernon Ward on October 11, 1952. He preceded her in death on September 13, 2015...

Gary De Arman, son of the late Carl De Arman and Verna Davis De Arman, was born on August 28, 1945 and departed this life on March 5, 2021 at Winchester Nursing in Bernie, Missouri, at the age of 75 years. Mr. De Arman was a former highway patrolman with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop E and he was a member of the First Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Gary was a Harley Davidson Motorcycle enthusiast...