Stories from Tuesday, September 17, 2024

In its fifth year of presenting the awards, the Poplar Bluff Elk’s Lodge Post 2452 is seeking to raise awareness about its Student of the Month, Outstanding Students, and Student of the Year honors. Exalted Ruler Donnie Trout said the process, in one form or another, has existed as long as he can remember. However, the lodge stopped giving out the award at some point in the past due to a lack of interest...

VAN BUREN — A celebration will be held Sept. 28 in honor of the 100-year anniversary of Missouri’s first state park, Big Spring. Now part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, it was also the first public recreation land in the Current River watershed, park rangers said in a press release...

Did you know that George Washington was president of the Constitutional Convention, but he didn’t speak during the process? Were you aware there was a motion within the government to abolish the Senate in 1876? Butler County Senior Judge Michael Pritchett knows such things, and shared that information — and more — as the speaker Tuesday afternoon at the Constitution Day Luncheon...

Editor’s note: Area civic clubs will gather at noon today at Poplar Bluff Library to mark Constitution Day. Senior Judge Michael Pritchett will speak. To the Editor, (At) the 237th anniversary of the United States Constitution, signed September 17, 1787, let us remember this document and the enduring impact it has had in shaping and preserving our freedom. ...

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center has welcomed Tony Torres as its new chief operating officer, effective Sept. 9. Torres joins PBRMC with years of operation experience, most recently serving as the market assistant chief executive officer for the AllianceHealth Durant and Madill hospitals in Southeastern Oklahoma, according to a press release...

Everyone needs a snack and a new outfit occasionally, but most people don’t opt to steal cheese and an old pair of pants. This was what burglars chose at a Poplar Bluff store in 1924, however, eschewing more valuable items. Headlines from later decades covered railway strikes and the search for a new police chief.