Stories from Monday, March 20, 2023

The Wappapello Lake Area Association met March 8, at the Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center at Wappapello Lake. According to Treasurer Deana Teague’s financial report, the fireworks fund has $10,391.32 and regular fund has $16,150.41. The budget for 2023 will be approved after financial adjustment is made, according minutes released from the meeting...

Macie Winkler of Poplar Bluff was one of 30 high school sophomores recently selected to participate in the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s Missouri Agribusiness Academy. Winkler and the other students selected will spend a week in June in the St. Louis area learning about many of the unique opportunities available in agriculture...

Patrons of the Arts will present “The Sicilian Tenors” at 7 p.m. March 23 at the Tinnin Fine Arts Center. These three marvelous, operatic tenors will take you on a romantic journey from Hollywood to Broadway to Italy with a concert of timeless songs...

Helen J. Sparkman Brandt, 98, of Decatur, Illinois, formerly of Poplar Bluff, Missouri died Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Decatur, Illinois.

Poplar Bluff Fire Department Poplar Bluff Firefighters responded at 5:29 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, to a motor vehicle accident with injuries at 2770 N. Westwood Blvd. The crew checked on the occupants of both vehicles before emergency medical services arrived. Once Butler County EMS arrived, the firefighters remained at the scene until the vehicles were cleared away...

The March Neelyville School Board meeting was attended by many area residents, staff and parents, as they addressed disaster response, food services and other topics of interest. Assistant director of Ozark Foothills Regional Planning Commission Andrew Murphy was in attendance and addressed the board in regards to the adoption of a hazard mitigation plan...

The city of Poplar Bluff has been awarded a federal grant to help with the purchase of equipment needed to care for fire department turnout gear. The city will match the approximately $16,500 awarded from the Missouri Department of Public Safety, according to a vote Monday by the Poplar Bluff City Council...

Butler County sheriff Kimberly Lynn Axelson, 27, of Qulin was booked Friday, March 17, to served 48 hours shock in the Butler County jail. _ Joseph Jack Dangerfield, 30, of Poplar Bluff was arrested Saturday, March 18, on a probation violation and was lodged in the Butler County jail...