Stories from Wednesday, May 29, 2024

It’s feast and famine for local businesses. The destroyed Bimel-Ashcroft Manufacturing Company announced it will only partially rebuild its sawmill after a massive fire. However, a local bakery is raking in dough after only a couple years in business.

A long-track tornado caused damage in Ripley and Butler counties Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. The EF-2 twister started near the Fourche Creek Conservation area along the Missouri/Arkansas border in Ripley County, the NWS reports...

Students with the Mingo Job Corps recently volunteered with the Poplar Bluff Animal Shelter, their first major community service project since COVID. Student Personnel Officer Carolyn Marshall explained the newly formed student government wanted to find a service project they were all passionate about...

A long track tornado caused damage in Ripley and Butler counties Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. The EF2 twister started near the Fourche Creek Conservation area along the Missouri/Arkansas border in Ripley County, the NWS reports...

Many people in multiple locations suffered property damage as a result of the damaging storms that raged through the area early Sunday morning; and one area of damage that may have hurt the largest number of people could be in the kitchen.

Samuel Franklin “Frank” Chaffin, Jr., 74, lifelong resident of Fisk, Missouri, died Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at his residence.