Stories from Saturday, August 22, 2015

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The Black River Coliseum announced today country music singer Easton Corbin will take the stage Nov. 7 Corbin's third album, "About to Get Real," reached No. 1 in July on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. A traveling version of The Price Is Right is also planned for Feb. 24, said coliseum Director Bobby Godwin...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The athletic complex at what will be the new high school will cost $1.8 million more than anticipated, Poplar Bluff school officials learned at Thursday's regular monthly meeting. K and S Construction submitted the low bid of $5,867,080. The estimated cost of the project was expected to be approximately $4 million. A special meeting is set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, where board of education members will discuss their options...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor NEELYVILLE -- Due to a reassessment of real estate, a lower tax rate was approved by the Neelyville School Board Thursday night. The new tax rate will be $2.96722 per $100 of taxable valuation, according to superintendent Brad Hagood. Last year, the rate was $3.0282...

By now, you have probably seen the disturbing undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood executives discussing how they sell body parts of unborn babies. It sickened and troubled me to hear administrators talking so callously about the dismemberment of babies - valuable, precious lives taken too soon. The videos were vile, and Planned Parenthood's actions potentially violate federal law...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER "This was not a subject that was on anybody's mind until I brought it up at my announcement." -- Donald Trump, on immigration, Republican debate, Aug. 6 WASHINGTON -- Not on anyone's mind? For years, immigration has been the subject of near-constant, often bitter argument within the GOP. ...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government's size and coercive powers...

Agee Club meeting The Agee Community Club met at The Bread Company for its noon luncheon Aug. 7. Nadine Johnson was the hostess. Club President Cathy Womack opened the meeting with the group repeating the club motto, "When the heart is full of love the world is full of beauty," followed by offering the invocation. ...

Karen Miller graduaes FAYETTE, Mo. -- Karen Miller of Poplar Bluff was one of nearly 300 students graduating from Central Methodist University's summer graduating class of 2015, according to President Roger Drake. Miller earned a master of science in nursing degree from CMU in Union Aug. 4...

Muslims and gun owners We are advised to not judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. But we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. Welfare and Social Security Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about welfare running out of money? What's interesting is the first group worked for their money, but the second didn't...

Harlon Whittle FISK, Mo. -- Harlon Whittle, 75, of Broseley, Mo., died Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 at his residence. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. A graveside service will follow at 1 p.m. in Ash Hill Cemetery with Rev Calvin Buhler officiating. Burial will be in Ash Hill Cemetery at Fisk...

Helen L. Warmack WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo. -- Helen L. Warmack, 91, died Thursday, August 20, 2015 at her home in Williamsville. No public services are planned. Burial will be in the Holliday Cemetery in Williamsville under the direction of Morrison-Worley Chapel, Piedmont...

Vivian E. Garman Vivian E. Garman, 83, of Poplar Bluff, died Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 at her residence. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Dexter volleyball coach Carmen Morgan has hardly ever had a strong bench. The Lady Bearcats will sport that and more as they try to defend their MSHSAA Class 3 District 1 title. "I think we are maybe a more well-rounded team as far as the whole makeup of the team," Morgan said. "At any point in time, we could possibly have four, maybe five sophomores out on the floor. So that is young, and with that comes a lot of what I call 'emotional immaturity' more than playing immaturity for them."...

Coming off a loss in the MSHSAA district championship, the Poplar Bluff volleyball team has a tall task of returning there with a short amount of height. "We're small, but they can all play pretty much any position," Mules coach Amanda Lance said. Poplar Bluff's two seniors -- Megan Knuckles and Destiny Wallace -- are a perfect example. Neither is taller than 5-foot-7 but both have the ability to get above the net with their leaping abilities...

Last postseason was the best in program history for Poplar Bluff soccer, which reached the MSHSAA Class 3 state quarterfinals. With the addition of a goal scorer and a new keeper between the pipes, Mules coach Steve Edwards said his 2015 squad might be the most talented he's had in his three seasons at Poplar Bluff, which is aiming to take another step forward...

Virgil Daily, Sr. DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Virgil Leon Daily, Sr., 71, of Doniphan died Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, at his residence in rural Ripley County. A graveside visitation will begin at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Amity Cemetery near Doniphan. A graveside service and burial will follow at 1 p.m...

Syble Jean Curd Moore PUXICO, Mo. -- Syble Jean Curd Moore, 74, daughter of the late Roy Elvis and Columia Ann Patrick Curd, was born in Puxico on April 27, 1941, and passed away at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015...