- UPDATED: One person struck by train on Black River bridge (Local News ~ 04/12/21)
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Women Aware to be held Sept. 16
(Local News ~ 04/12/21)
Mark your calendars for the 2021 Women Aware Conference “Born to Stand Out” Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff. “We are excited to have the conference this year since we had to cancel last year,” conference chairperson Tracey Tarpley said. “It was a hard decision to make but a necessary one to keep everyone safe in the midst of a global pandemic.”...
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PBHS grad on track to become doctor
(Local News ~ 04/12/21)
March 19 may seem like just another day to most of us, but to a local 2013 Poplar Bluff graduate, that day is one he will never forget. March 19 is the day medical students throughout the nation find out where they will spend the next three to seven years as resident doctors. It’s called Match Day, and 26-year-old Joshua King found out he will be staying right where he has spent the last four years, in Columbia, as an ophthalmology resident at University Hospital...
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Travis Tritt makes Coliseum his living room
(Local News ~ 04/12/21)
Travis Tritt made the Black River Coliseum into his living room in the venue’s first concert in more than a year over the weekend. Tritt invited the 3,062 attendees at Saturday’s concert to join him in his “living room” as he was playing solo and accompanied by just his acoustic guitar, making Saturday’s concert into more of an intimate setting than the typical show...
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Robert Lee Manns
(Obituary ~ 04/12/21)
Robert Lee Manns, 89, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Saturday, April 11, 2021 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Robert was born March 17, 1932 in Poplar Bluff to Fred and Geneva (Montgomery) Manns. He and Olline Walker were married October 16, 1953 at First Baptist Church in Kennett, Missouri. She passed away February 12, 2014...
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Levear M. Short
(Obituary ~ 04/12/21)
Levear M. Short, age 83, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Monday, March 22, 2021 at The Manor, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Short was born May 3, 1937 in Monticello, Arkansas, daughter of the late James and Rosie Harty. She worked at Doctor’s Hospital and Blackwell Baldwin. She loved going rock hunting and looking for four leaf clovers. She was loved by many friends and her family...
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Elizabeth Barnett Martin
(Obituary ~ 04/12/21)
On Friday, April 9, 2021 Elizabeth Pauline Martin (Barnett), loving mother and grandmother, was welcomed through the gates of heaven at the age of seventy-five years. Elizabeth was born December 12, 1945 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri to the late Alta Irene and Andrew Jackson Barnett...
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Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance teams up with Feeding Missouri
(Local News ~ 04/12/21)
With 813,840 Missourians labeled as “food insecure” according to a Map the Meal Gap 2018 study and a widely growing number due to circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance recognizes the need to help out hungry families across the state...
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