Stories from Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Fifth & Sixth Grade Center has named the April Students of the Month. Emalee Dobbs, daughter of Brooke and Nathan Dobbs, was chosen as student of the month by her homeroom teacher, Wendy Nepean, because she is a sweet and thoughtful student. She is always willing to help both the teachers and her classmates. It is a true joy having Emalee in class this year. She is an honor roll student...

The Poplar Bluff Park Department recently hosted a workshop and training session on the preservation of valuable trees for area arborists and tree enthusiasts. "Sometimes we find defects in a significant tree that should and could be preserved instead of removed" said Angela White, Park Department horticulturist/arborist, "A system of cables and/or braces can improve the integrity of a tree"...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions. And it encourages rent-seekers to exploit opportunities for concentrated benefits and dispersed costs (e.g., agriculture subsidies confer sums on large agribusinesses by imposing small costs on 316 million Americans)...

PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Etta G. Hovis, 98, of Piedmont died Monday, April 22, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Arrangements will be announced by Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont.

Suppose you buy a gallon of gas for $3. How much did it cost you? You say, "Williams, that's a silly question. It cost $3." That's where you're mistaken, because there's a difference between price and cost. To prove that price and cost are not the same, consider the following. ...

They don't technically have a Homecoming game for the soccer teams, but Monday evening's game might as well been one for the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules. After just two home games at Whiteley Park the first five weeks of the season which both resulted in losses, the Lady Mules won their first of five straight home games by beating Fredericktown, 2-1...

Juanita Rankin DEXTER, Mo. -- Juanita Rankin, 86, of Grayridge, Mo., died Monday April 22, 2013 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.