Stories from Tuesday, June 8, 2021

The Poplar Bluff Piranhas swim team opened its season Saturday by hosting a meet at the Black River Coliseum Aquatic Center. The host Piranhas won 26 events, including five relays, to finish second in the team standings. Kennett won with 1,285 points followed by Poplar Bluff at 648, Charleston at 256 points and Dyersburg (Tenn.) at 28...

Three Rivers College inducted more than 90 students into the Sigma Rho Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of two-year colleges and academic programs. Members are chosen based on scholarship, leadership, and service. Following is a list of inductees, which includes those from 2020 and 2021:...

A Dexter man suffered serious injuries at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, June 8, when his motorcycle struck an animal on Route AB, 10 miles east of Bloomfield, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

Spire is extending the application deadline for its Missouri assistance program that helps residential customers who are financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Missouri residential customers with past-due balances who have been furloughed or experienced job or income loss due to the pandemic have until June 30 to receive up to $400 toward their natural gas bill. ...

A Qulin resident was recently named to a state board by Governor Mike Parson. Kade McBroom was appointed to the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority, according to a press release from the governor’s office. McBroom is the owner and manager of McBroom Farms and Feed Fuel Plus, LLC. He was also the managing partner of Malden Specialty Soy from 2015 to 2017...

Commercial construction at two different locations was discussed Monday by the Poplar Bluff City Council. The council has approved a request that will allow Quality Tech Transmission on South Broadway to construct a new, larger facility following a significant fire...

One man’s vision of a tiny home for an Oglala Lakota family on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is coming to life. When John Cornelius III saw a shipping container, the Army veteran and an Oglala Lakota Native American realized it would make the perfect home for a small family on the reservation where he was raised...

The Poplar Bluff Trails Coalition and Poplar Bluff Kiwanis Club are teaming up to make big improvements at Bacon Memorial Park over the summer. Work is expected to begin in early June and will be done in two phases, said PBTC volunteer project manager Jon Breithaupt...

Catherine Evelyn Gutterman, 94, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Sunday, June 6, 2021, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Catherine was born on October 30, 1926, to Mike and Katherine Glad in Johnston City, Illinois. She married John Clay Gutterman on June 8, 1946, in Johnston City, Illinois...

Crews work early Tuesday evening to clean up an accident at the intersection of West Pine and North Sixth Street in Poplar Bluff. As of 5 p.m., Butler County EMS and Poplar Bluff Fire Department personnel were on scene. Firefighters cleared debris from at least two vehicles still in the roadway and prepped them for removal...

Missouri took a big step in the battle against opioid and prescription drug abuse when Gov. Mike Parson signed Senate Bill 63 into law Monday, which creates a statewide prescription drug monitoring program. SB63 establishes the Joint Oversight Task Force of Prescription Drug Monitoring, responsible for collecting and maintaining the prescription and dispensation of prescribed controlled substances to patients within the state...

Poplar Bluff Neighborhood Watch organizer Rob Duckett had hoped originally that a handful of people would attend an introductory meeting for the group Tuesday evening at Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home. Instead, he was pleasantly surprised when about 60 people showed...

__POPLAR BLUFF FIRE DEPARTMENT__ Poplar Bluff firefighters responded at 12:37 p.m. Monday, June 7, to an unauthorized burn in the backyard at 804 Oakhill Road. According to the report, the fire was put out with 10 gallons of water. They informed the owner of the city’s burn ordinance....