Stories from Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Director of Ripley County Emergency Management, Lance Pigg, has issued a No Open Burn Order for Ripley County. The Burn Ban was issued on Thursday, Oct. 13. A Proclamation of Fire Danger Emergency states, “No open buring of leaves, limbs or other yard waste or household trash of any kind, and no use of campfires, incinerators, or fireworks shall be allowed in the county during such period.”...

Debbie Brown. 60, of Poplar Bluff, died Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Ms. Brown was born May 31, 1962, in Pike County, Kentucky. She was employed with American Health Associates in Poplar Bluff. She was a loving Mom and Mamaw. She enjoyed gardening, spending time with her daughters, her grandbabies, and dogs...

Ricky Paul Miller Sr., 60, of San Antonio, Texas died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 at his residence in San Antonio. Ricky was born Oct. 17, 1961 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and worked many years as a diesel mechanic in Arlington, Texas and Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Later in life he worked in automotive parts sales in San Antonio. ...

Keaton Paul Brown Craft, 30, of Qulin, died Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. He was born June 22, 1992, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Keaton graduated from Nixa High School in 2010 and then obtained his bachelor’s degree from SEMO in Cape Girardeau. In 2020 he started his own business, B&B Botanicals, which he was very passionate about...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON Staff Writer A group gathered Tuesday afternoon to break ground for Missouri Highlands Health Care expansion in Poplar Bluff at the former site of New Life Christian Church United on Barron Road. The new facility will have “everything under one roof. Our patients will be able to seek care for all of their needs at the same location,” said Karen R. White, CPA and Missouri Highlands chief executive officer...

Three Rivers College trustees reviewed recent academic, charitable and athletic events during a quick meeting on Oct. 19. Gail Tinsley, director of Academic Services, gave a review of the College Transfer Fair on Sept. 28. “We had 16 universities here, and we had over 50 students and recruiters who came by. And it was a bonus, we had a preview day for high schools that day, so we had another 90 to 100 high school students,” said Tinsley...

Looking for family-friendly haunts this Halloween season? The MAIN EVENT is the right place. The Stage Company is excited to present a spooky anthology of Brothers Grimm tales, “A Grimm Halloween,” starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Subsequent shows are at 7:30 p.m. Oct 22, 28 and 29; matinees are at 3 p.m. Oct. 23 and 30...

On Oct. 17, at 7:16 a.m. officers responded to a residence in the 1500 block of Lynwood for a domestic assault. The parties were separated and charges were referred to the prosecutor. _ On Oct. 17, at 8:09 a.m. an employee at Christian Automotive and Tire at 2235 S. Westwood Blvd reported a catalytic converter was stolen from a truck on the lot. A short time later an employee at Schenewerk’s U Haul reported a catalytic converter was stolen from a truck parked on their lot...

Doyle Dewayne Isaac, 82, of Puxico, Missouri was born April 2, 1940 in Kinder, Missouri and gained his angel wings Oct. 13, 2022 at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center. Doyle lived in the Puxico and Fredericktown areas all his life and was of the Baptist Faith...

Three Rivers College recently established the Nicole M. Hall Scholarship for Practical Nursing with the Three Rivers Endowment Trust, with the first award available this fall. The Nicole M. Hall Scholarship for Practical Nursing will be awarded annually to a student enrolled in the Sikeston PN Program. ...

A lifetime collection of pottery-making equipment has been generously donated to the art programs at Poplar Bluff Junior and Senior High. Kim Stenger passed along the supplies from her late husband Fred, who was employed at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center, and made pottery in his free time in a full-scale studio at their former Butler County Road 468 residence...

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — More than 1,000 students graduated from the University of Mississippi in August 2022. Undergraduate and graduate candidates received degrees from the College of Liberal Arts, General Studies and schools of Law, Pharmacy, Journalism and New Media, Engineering, Education, Business Administration, Applied Sciences and Patterson School of Accountancy...

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain and MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2022. PBRMC is one of only 85 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor, according to a press release from the hospital...

The Feeding Missouri Board of Directors has named Heather Hargrove the new executive director for the organization. Feeding Missouri is a coalition of the six Missouri Food Banks working to provide hunger relief to every county (and St. Louis City) in the state...

Natalie Buell has been named director of finance for Southeast Missouri Food Bank. “I’m excited to join the food bank and a team that is doing so much to help our community,” Buell said. “I want to be someplace where my work will have a positive impact for our area.”...

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. — New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine welcomed its newest medical students, including Jacob McKzuin from Poplar Bluff, during ceremonies where members of the Class of 2026 received their first white coats...

A trio of nurse practitioners have joined Saint Francis clinics in Piedmont and Dexter. Clayton J. Carson, APRN, FNP-BC, has joined Piedmont Physician Associates as a family nurse practitioner. Carson earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, followed by his Master of Science in Nursing from Maryville University in St. Louis...

Gift A. Onyenso, MD, has joined Saint Francis Clinic Poplar Bluff as a pediatrician. Onyenso earned her Bachelor of Science in Community Health: Health Planning and Administration from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana followed by her medical education from St. George’s University School of Medicine in St. George’s, Grenada in the West Indies...