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training
(Local News ~ 03/26/14)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor This year's regional fire school was geared toward providing continuing education for area firefighters who assist in the training or investigations at their departments. Along with the annual regional fire school was an instructors conference, which was held earlier this month at Three Rivers College...
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Mexican diner request
(Local News ~ 03/26/14)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Plans for a new restaurant along Highway 142 south of Route 53 were announced during the Poplar Bluff Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Monday night. "It will be a Mexican restaurant," said Bob Sutton, owner of Bob Sutton Real Estate and Loans. "It will occupy 2,500 square feet on the north side of a building currently under construction, but it will be more of a fast food restaurant."...
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R-1 candidate forum date set
(Local News ~ 03/26/14)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Teachers at Poplar Bluff School District have organized an event March 31 to help provide voters with more information about the five people competing for three spots on the R-I school board. The candidate forum will begin at 6 p.m. at the Kay Porter Theater on the high school campus. Incumbents Alana Robertson and Steve Sells will face challengers Cindy Boyers, John Scott and Jim Ward in the April 8 election...
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Harps Foods work starts
(Local News ~ 03/26/14)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Site work has already started for Harps Foods, which will be built on five acres between Shelby Road and the Kindergarten Center. The firm plans to construct a 31,000 to 32,000-square foot supermarket which will face to the south, City Planner Dennis Avery told Poplar Bluff Planning Commission members Monday night...
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Plan OK'd to rezone Kinyon School building
(Local News ~ 03/26/14)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor A recommendation to rezone the former Kinyon School property was approved by the Poplar Bluff Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night. Robert and Lisa Wyatt and their son, Benjamin Asa Wyatt, all of Poplar Bluff, Mo., request the two acres at 910 Vine St. be rezoned from RS-3 central area residential to C-2 general commercial...
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Taelyn Zahner
(Births ~ 03/26/14)
John Zahner and Ashley Joiner, both of Poplar Bluff, Mo., have chosen the name Taelyn Jane Zahner for their 7-pound, 7-ounce daughter born at 8:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Taelyn was 18 inches long. Grandparents are Robert and Tonya Richard and Ruth Zahner, all of Poplar Bluff. Great-grandparents are Paul and Betty Wilson of Corinth, Miss...
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Spreading love for reading, writing
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By SHARON RANDALL McClatchy-Tribune News Service It was an offer I wouldn't refuse. My husband is a newspaper editor. For Read Across America Day (March 3), the newspaper where he works signed up to send volunteers to read to school children. "I signed you up, too," he told me. "You can go with me."...
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Is there wage stagnation?
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Many economists, politicians and pundits assert that median wages have stagnated since the 1970s. That's a call for government to do something about it. But before we look at the error in their assertion, let's work through an example that might shed a bit of light on the issue...
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Speak Out 3/26/14
(Opinion ~ 03/26/14)
Knockout victims I would like your newspaper to write an article on the "Knockout Game" since we've had a couple people who were victims of that. There's actually a number one bestseller now about that game. I don't know the title of it right off the bat, but can you all think about that? The Knockout Game. Thank you...
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Bradley Sullivan
(Births ~ 03/26/14)
Lisa Anne Sullivan and Jeremy Paul Sullivan of Poplar Bluff, Mo., have chosen the name Bradley Merlin Michael Sullivan for their 5-pound, 7-ounce son born at 10:47 a.m. Thursday, March 6, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center's Family BirthPlace, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Bradley was 20 inches long...
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Joseph Stokely
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Joseph Stokely GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Joseph L. Stokely, 63, of Greenville died Friday, March 21, 2014, at the Greenville Nursing and Rehab Center in Greenville. A memorial service will be held at Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Greenville at a later date.Online condolences: www.morrisonworleychapel.com...
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Why Obama scares me
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By MONA CHAREN The most febrile of George W. Bush haters liked to claim during his tenure that the former president "scared" them. There is far more reason to be frightened by President Barack Obama, because fecklessness and inconstancy trigger wars...
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Verline
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Verline McCollough DEXTER, Mo. -- Verline McCollough, daughter of the late George Granville Ferguson and Ethel Aldred Ferguson, was born on April 8, 1924, in Bloomfield, Mo., and passed away on March 22, 2014, at her residence in Dudley, Mo., at the age of 89...
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Paula Van Hoff
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Paula Van Hoff Paula Van Hoff, 63, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, March 22, 2014, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Ms. Van Hoff was born April 15, 1950, in Hillmar, Calif., to the late Peter Van Hoff and Vida Pauline (Brewer) Van Hoff...
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Virginia
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Virginia Thompson Virginia Ruth Thompson, 59, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, March 21, 2014, at her residence. A service will be held at a later date in Trinity, Texas, where Mrs. Thompson had once resided. Online condolences: www.cotrellfuneralservice.com...
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Oak Grove club meets
(Community News ~ 03/26/14)
Oak Grove club meets The Oak Grove Homemakers Club met in March at the home of Reba Marion. Helen Birdsong offered thanks for the meal. Betty Ketcherside, president, conducted the business meeting. Marion gave the devotional of repeating the 23 Psalm and read a Helen Steiner Rice poem that correlated with the message of Psalm 23. Roll call was answered with, "Something about Spring Flowers." Birdsong read the secretary's report and Marion gave the treasurer's report, both reports were approved...
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Why secrecy on health sign-ups?
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat If the Obamacare program is as successful as the administration tries to portray, is it not valid to ask why such secrecy over the sign-up numbers? The administration - even before a Congressional committee - refused to acknowledge how many people had actually paid their insurance premiums and just how many young adults had joined the federal program...
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Is Russia's Putin the irrational one?
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Vladimir Putin seems to have lost touch with reality, Angela Merkel reportedly told Barack Obama after speaking with the Russian president. He is "in another world." "I agree with what Angela Merkel said ... that he is in another world," said Madeleine Albright, "It doesn't make any sense."...
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Has America lost its grit?
(Column ~ 03/26/14)
By MONA CHAREN Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mother" who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish. Written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld (both are law professors at Yale), "The Triple Package" examines a number of groups who've succeeded in this country and advances a thesis about why groups (and nations) prosper or decline...
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Nelda Hodge
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Nelda Hodge MALDEN, Mo. -- Nelda Louise Hodge, 75, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., formerly of Malden/Dexter area, died Sunday, March 23, 2014, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Saturday at the Landess Chapel in Malden. Funeral service will follow at 11 a.m. in the Landess Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden...
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Lori Stephens
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Lori Stephens VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Lori Lane Mae (Hayes) Stephens, 27, of Van Buren, formerly of Colorado, died Sunday, March 23, 2014, in Mount Vernon, Mo., along with her husband, John, and three sons, Tyler, David and Harly. A visitation will be held for the public at 6 p.m. ...
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Doris Cookson
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Doris Cookson PUXICO, Mo. -- Doris Cookson, 81, of Puxico died Monday, March 24, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Brown General Baptist Church in Puxico. Burial will follow in Brown General Baptist Cemetery...
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Dempsey, Royals freeze Puxico
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/14)
BROSELEY -- Maybe the typo in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament program back in the fall was forecasting the future. Twin Rivers senior Cole Dempsey -- Cold Dempsey in the program -- was cold-blooded Monday afternoon. Dempsey beat the Puxico Indians on the mound and at the plate as the Royals won 6-1 in the season opener for both teams...
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Sallie Evans
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Sallie Evans MALDEN, Mo. -- Sallie Annie Mae Evans, 94, of Malden died Thursday, March 20, 2014, at Golden Living Care Center at Malden. Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Zion Grove in Malden. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. at Zion Grove. Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden is in charge of services...
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Mules make quick work of Raiders
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/14)
The Poplar Bluff baseball team was nearly perfect in its home opener Monday. The Mules scored all of their runs with two outs and got a combined 5-inning no-hitter to beat North County 10-0. Lucas Tibbs struck out six of the 13 batters he faced and walked one in three innings while lefty Kameron Misner allowed a base runner on an error and struck out one in his one inning of work...
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Mules look to keep state streak going
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/14)
Poplar Bluff's streak of state tournament appearances was kept alive by the slimmest of margins last year, and if the Mules want to make a sixth straight trip they will again do it as a team. "We try to keep (expectations) at a high level and if it happens it happens," Mules coach Billy Pyland said...
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Brandy Rushing
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
Brandy Rushing FISK, Mo. -- Brandy Nicole Rushing, 37, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday at University Hospital in Columbia, Mo. She was born Dec. 2, 1976, at Poplar Bluff. She is survived by her mother, Peggy Magill; three sons, Ronnie Rushing, Zackery Rushing (Hannah Miller) and Seth Whitmer and their father, Ronald Whitmer; one sister, Heather Weeks; her grandmother, Sharon Rushing; and two nieces, Summer Whitmer and Mackenzy Bulger...
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John Stephens
(Obituary ~ 03/26/14)
John Stephens VAN BUREN, Mo. -- John Andrew Stephens, 30, of Van Buren, formerly of Winona, Mo., died Sunday, March 23, 2014, in Mount Vernon, Mo., along with his wife, Lori, and three stepchildren, Tyler, David and Harly. A visitation will begin at 6 p.m. ...
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Agee club has meeting
(Community News ~ 03/26/14)
The Agee Community Club met on March 19 at Ryan's. Jeanie Figgins was this month's hostess. Cathy Womack, club president, opened the meeting with the ladies reciting the club motto. Orel Smith offered the invocation. Nickey Orton read the devotional from Romans 1-:9. Figgins read the secretary and treasurers report. There was no old or new business discussed...
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Barks hits 2 homers, Greenville tops Risco
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/14)
RISCO -- Barks had a lot of bite at the plate Monday afternoon. Cullen Barks, Greenville's senior third baseman, smacked out two homers against the Risco Tigers as the Bears rolled to a 16-5 win. Devon Duncan added a solo homer for the Bears (3-0) while Trynton Tompkins was the winning pitcher...
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