Stories from Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Cora Belle (Jewell) Lee, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

The last small game seasons of the year in Missouri will wrap up Tuesday. The rabbit season has been open since Oct. 1, and the squirrel season, the state’s longest, has been open since May 22. Squirrel hunters can take 10 per day, and rabbit hunters can harvest six daily, with a restriction on swamp rabbits...

Renovation work on the former downtown Poplar Bluff bank building, purchased last year by the R-1 School District, is intensifying as the project moves along. Brockmiller Construction, according to R-1 Superintendent Scott Dill, has “been doing some preliminary work for a few weeks now...

Wappapello Civic Center volunteers hope the public will show a little love for the 100-year-old former school and support a fundraiser Valentine’s Dance to be held from 6-9 p.m. Saturday. “It’s the old Wappapello school building, and it was closed in 1965,” Lenda McDonough said. “That was the last graduating class.”...

Arnold W. Jones II, 51, died Feb. 6, 2022, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 in the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery. Online condolences: www.mcspaddenfh.com.

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Thomas Wayne Saneford, 68, beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, while a patient at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Wayne, son of Bevion Brooks and Janette (Ferrell) Saneford, was born June 13, 1953, in Dyersburg, Tennessee. ...

POPLAR BLUFF FIRE DEPARTMENT Firefighters responded at 9:34 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, to a two-vehicle accident at Nooney and Valley streets. They checked all involved and provided first aid until EMS crews arrived. They also assisted EMS with packaging and loading a patient...