Stories from Saturday, October 9, 2021

A very special flight departed Cape Girardeau Regional Airport for Washington, D.C., on Friday morning. They left Poplar Bluff with great fanfare before the flight, including traveling under raised firetruck ladders and passing by groups of people outside John J. Pershing VA Medical Center, waving flags and cheering...

Dorothy Pry Collard, 90, of Poplar Bluff is featured in a five-generation photograph taken at the recent Pry-Gambill Family Reunion and Celebration. Standing is her grandson, William Ahrens of Mountain View, Arkansas. Seated from left is Collard’s daughter, Deborah Collard Preston of Melbourne, Arkansas, Collard’s great-great-grandson, Carson Ricks of Bakersfield, California, and her great-granddaughter, Cherrity Ahrens Ricks of Bakersfield...