Stories from Saturday, September 12, 2015

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor "It's been pretty rough," said Retired and Senior Volunteer Program Director Jennifer Rosener Friday morning, just after making her second trip walking up and down the stairs of Poplar Bluff's Twin Towers. Rosener decided last night she would walk the stairs eight times, which, she said, would match the 110 floors New York City firefighters had to climb during the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade center 14 years ago...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer As Poplar Bluff City Council members consider a drainage project on Valley Street and other un-budgeted expenses, the consequences of the city's spending in the past year are becoming increasingly apparent. The drainage project would have to come from cash reserves, according to city manager Mark Massingham...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Poplar Bluff City Council members are considering a drainage project on Valley Street that could cost as much as $350,000. Council member Peter Tinsley believes the city needs to install an underground culvert in an open drainage ditch he says is a hazard...

To the Editor: For 31 years, Sarah Jarboe White graced this world with her kindness, her selflessness, her humor, her simplicity, and her smiles. For the last 4 years, this community has continued the legacy of Sarah's smiles through the Sarah White Scholarship 5k held each year since she lost her hard fought battle with colon cancer in 2012...

Charles Bridgewater Charles Bridgewater, 76, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, at Westwood Hills Healthcare. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Hone in Poplar Bluff.

By MICHELLE MALKIN After nearly eight years of the East Wing's politics of mope and complain, it's refreshing to see a presidential candidate's spouse who is always smiling. Candy Carson -- wife of GOP 2016 hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, mother of three sons, and grandmother of two -- is the anti-Michelle Obama. She's a quiet but confident ray of sunshine: down-to-earth, devoutly Christian and proudly patriotic...

America needs a healthy economy that puts folks in control and on the path to financial independence, but last week five unelected bureaucrats at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made a decision to set our economy back and hurt job growth. The NLRB, a federal agency that oversees the organization of labor unions, opted to change the way employees at franchises like McDonald's, Colton's Steakhouse, or Anytime Fitness are characterized. ...

A traveling exhibit featured across Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas during the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is coming to Margaret Harwell Art Museum. The public is invited to attend an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. Saturday. Artist Dan Woodward will present a gallery talk at 7 p.m. The event is hosted by the Friends of the MHAM...

The Three Rivers College Patrons of the Arts Society has announced the schedule for its upcoming 2015-16 season, which will include the return of Russian ballet, a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute concert, Chinese acrobats, two children's shows, a performance by the Vienna Boys Choir, and more...

BERNIE -- Dexter, which entered the contest without a loss to an SCAA school since 2012, received an early scare from Bernie in a road contest in front of a near-capacity crowd. The Bearcats outlasted the Mules 25-18, 25-15 in a battle of state-ranked Stoddard County programs Thursday night...

Carolyn Sue Shrum NEELYVILLE, MO.--Carolyn Sue Shrum, 70, of Doniphan, Mo., died Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be at 2 p.m., Sunday at Fowler-Sullivan Memorial Chapel in Neelyville. A memorial service will follow at 3 p.m. in the chapel...

Floye Wangler FISK, MO.--Floye A. Wangler, 81, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 at her residence. Mrs. Wangler was born March 30, 1934 at Broseley, Mo. The daughter of the late Frank and Sophia Norden Marler. She had worked at Smiley Container in Poplar Bluff. ...

SIKESTON -- A full team effort by Poplar Bluff led to a two-game win over Sikeston on Thursday at the Sikeston Field House. Poplar Bluff pulled away from a small Sikeston rally to win the first game and took the match 25-18, 25-13. "We had a couple of girls in different positions, but they did well," Poplar Bluff head coach Amanda Lance said. ...

It had been 16 days since the Poplar Bluff boys soccer team played a game at home. A return to Whiteley Park turned out to be exactly with the Mules needed to get their offense rolling. Led by Kameron Misner's natural hat trick, Poplar Bluff scored five second-half goals and cruised to a 6-0 victory over Cape Central on Thursday...

PIEDMONT -- Clearwater's offense was running through its middle hitters so well that coach Sara Hampton had to tell the Lady Tigers to quit relying on it. "There at the second game, they were doing a little bit better about getting it out to our outside hitters," Hampton said...

FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Keshawn Reid was nearly unstoppable on the ground for the Poplar Bluff Junior High eighth grade football team in a 36-8 win at Farmington. The seventh-grade Mules lost 36-6. Reid carried the ball six times for 156 yards and two touchdowns. Through the air, Shay Amoss completed two passes for 103 yards and a touchdown. The longer of the two was hauled in by Josiah Kilgore for a 65-yard touchdown...

NEELYVILLE -- With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, Kylee Hart scorched a walk-off single to left field, scoring Maggie Eaker to give the Neelyville a 6-5 win over visiting Twin Rivers. Eaker doubled to begin the late rally and finished 2-for-2 with a single...