Stories from Thursday, March 2, 2023

Wednesday, March 1 • 7 p.m. the American Military Veterans Organization, 115 E. Harper St. Meal at 7 p.m., business meeting at 8 p.m. National Guard and Reservists welcome. Contact: 573-686-8837. 7 p.m. Poplar Bluff City Council, city council chambers, 301 S. Fifth St...

Events calendar for March is updated weekly with additional activities. Don’t see your event? Let us know what you’ve got coming up and we’ll add it. Just email dailyamericanrepublic@darnews.com. — Cinderella, 2 p.m. March 4, 5, 11 and 12, and 7 p.m. March 3, 4, 10 and 11. WHERE Tinnin Fine Arts Center. COST $10. WHAT The Broadway production of Cinderella with music by Rodgers & Hammerstein comes to Three Rivers College. This Center Stage production is directed by Carlie Dillinger...

Two area churches are looking for singers to join a community choir that will perform at the Tinnin Fine Arts Center on the Three Rivers College campus as part of the college’s Patron of the Arts program. “The community choir is all about beautiful music and bringing people who love to sing together,” said Cheri Dawe, choir director of Fellowship Church...

Poplar Bluff business woman Patricia Jo Boyers is one of 10 recipients of the second annual Lieutenant Governor’s Women of Achievement Award. “I am humbled and so honored,” Boyers said. “Especially since the lieutenant governor established this award to honor his own mother, who sacrificed so much for him and his family as he was growing up. What a woman to aspire toward. I shall do my utmost to live up to the standards by which I was chosen for this award.”...

Lana Diane Glaze, 76, of Harviell, Missouri, passed away Feb. 28, 2023 at her home in Harviell. Lana was born Nov. 30, 1946 to Harry and Retta Lee in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She married David Glaze Jan. 17, 1969, in Poplar Bluff. Lana was a dedicated nurse for Kneibert Clinic for most of her career until her health forced her into early retirement...

Edward L. McKinney died Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, and his body was found Monday, Feb. 27 2023. Visitation will be from 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 4, 2023, at Bradshaw Funeral Home, 10 N. Bypass Kennett, Missouri. The funeral will begin at noon Bradshaw Funeral Home...

On Dec. 31, 1954, the Lord loaned us Michael Lynn Tharp. He began his earthly journey in Pocahontas, Arkansas, born to Harold and Davine (Lincoln) Tharp. He was blessed to grow up on his family farm in Success, Arkansas, making memories with his brothers (Danny and Terry) and the Jordan and Knowlton families...

Kenneth Barks, 55, of Ballwin, Missouri, formerly of Greenville, died Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Visitation is at 4 pm, Sunday, March 5, 2023, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Greenville Chapel. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m., Monday, March 6, 2023, also in the Greenville Chapel. Burial is at Crossroads Cemetery...

Butler County sheriff Amanda Cheyenne Young, 26, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail at 1:50 p.m. Thursday, March 2, for probation violation with no bond. _ Joseph Jack Dangerfield, 25, of Poplar Bluff was booked at the Butler County jail at 3:17 p.m. Thursday, March 2, for third degree domestic assault. Bond was set at $20,000...