Stories from Friday, October 16, 2015

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor BLOOMFIELD -- The 6th Corps Living History Group from St. Louis will present "Reflections of History 1860-Present" from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Stars and Stripes Museum along Highway 25 at the south edge of Bloomfield...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor BROSELEY, MO. -- Three hundred pounds of fresh, iced catfish, 50 pounds of potatoes combined with hard work is the recipe a family and friends use each year to make a donation to the Broseley Senior Community Center...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The Poplar Bluff Technical Career (TCC) building trades program recently broke ground on its 38th student constructed home, which will appear on the market in the summer of 2017. When complete the house will be a 1,200 square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath design with a 400 square-foot garage, located just north of Poplar Bluff near the intersection of County Road 523 and Avery Lane...

By PHYLLIS FLANIGAN University of Missouri Extension It's just about time to start harvesting your peanut crop. Did you know that the peanut is not a nut? It's actually a legume that is the cousin of peas and beans. Raw, boiled, steamed, or roasted, peanuts are delicious. ...

It's just about time to start harvesting your peanut crop. Did you know that the peanut is not a nut? It's actually a legume that is the cousin of peas and beans. Raw, boiled, steamed, or roasted, peanuts are delicious. This is a popular home garden crop. ...

By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat While the national media was focused on President Obama's Oregon visit with families of school shooting victims, a more important story developed when the President later that day traveled to California for a fundraiser...

The second annual Poplar Bluff Home Depot Car Show will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Home Depot employees put on the car show in support of giving back to the community. All proceeds are donated to a charitable cause every year. This year's recipient is "Care and Share Veterans Holiday Meals." Food baskets will be distributed through the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center to veterans in need at the holidays...

Dr. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn't going to write any more books, but that was two books ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The man writes with both hands, as can be seen from his website (http://tsowell.com), which lists his 45 books, 19 journal articles, 71 essays in periodicals and books, 34 book reviews, and occasional columns written in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Star, Newsweek, The Times (Britain) et al. ...

By KATHERINE WEBSTER SEMO News Service PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Testimony began Wednesday afternoon in Perry County Circuit Court in a fraud trial against the county's coroner. Herbert Miller, Perry County coroner since 1995, was charged in January 2014 with one count each of theft and financial exploitation of the elderly. Judge Ben Lewis seated a jury for the trial Wednesday afternoon...

The new classroom building on the Three Rivers College campus in Poplar Bluff has acquired a new name, thanks to a donation accepted recently by the college's Board of Trustees. Naming rights to the new "Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center" were secured by the Robert W. Plaster Foundation, a charitable organization in Lebanon, Mo., in exchange for a significant seven-figure donation to be used toward the cost of the building...

Donnie Alexander, a youth specialist at the Sierra Osage Treatment Center, has been named October Employee of the Month by the Missouri Department of Social Services. Division of Youth Services Southeast Regional Administrator Paula Shaw made the presentation...

By MARGARET SHACKLEFORD As part of the partnership with the Vietnam War Commemoration for the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, the Poplar Bluff Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has named Gary Melton as a "Hero of the Month" for October...

Cletus Manning MALDEN, Mo. -- Cletus Ardaniel Manning, 86, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at his residence in Gideon, Mo. Visitation will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 at Bradshaw Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 at the Bradshaw Chapel Malden. Burial will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery Landess Addition in Campbell, Mo...

Joyce Nimmo MALDEN, Mo. -- Joyce Nimmo, 73, of Malden died Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Landess Funeral Chapel in Malden with the funeral following at noon with James Powell officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden...

Wayne Donica LEBANON, Mo. -- Wayne Donica, 80, of Lebanon, Mo., died Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Lebanon. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Friday at Shadel's Colonial Chapel and go until service time at 2 p.m. Josh James will officiate. Burial to follow at Lebanon Cemetery...

Eula Walker DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Eula Walker, 81, of Doniphan died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, at Southeast Health of Ripley County. Funeral arrangements are pending with Edwards Funeral Hone in Doniphan and will be announced upon completion.

Calverine Hill POCAHONTAS, Ark.- Calverine Hill went to be with the Lord Jesus on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, at her home while surrounded by her family. She was 84 years old. She was born March 28, 1931, in Black Rock, Ark., to the late Calvin and Anna Lourine Smith McLaughlin. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marvil Eugene Hill, one sister, Marion Frances McLaughlin, and one-great granddaughter, Alyssa Dawn Marlow...

Poplar Bluff's postseason picture will come into focus this weekend, but the Mules will have to wait until Saturday night to learn where they fall in the MSHSAA Class 5 District 1 football bracket. With the top of the standings crowded featuring three 6-2 teams --Fox, Rockwood Summit and Poplar Bluff -- plus Vianney (5-3) and Oakville (4-4), there are numerous possible outcomes...

Jack Lee Griffith WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Jack Lee Griffith, 82, of Wappapello, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 at his childhood home, lovingly surrounded by his family. Mr. Griffith, son of the late E. Wayne and Veda (Rodery) Griffith, was born April 14, 1933 in Poplar Bluff. ...

Mary Ida Weatherholt Mary Ida Weatherholt, 79, of St. Louis, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff, entered eternal life with receiving the sacrament of our holy mother church Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. Dear mother of the late James Edward Floyd, grandmother of Angel Floyd, Barbara Floyd, HoliRay Crider, Nicole Denny and Natasha Lowder. Dear sister of James Weatherholt, John Weatherholt, Ernest Weatherholt, Ernestine Radin, Marie Drake and Betty Jean Spinner...

Hans Scheiffele PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Hans Scheiffele, 80, of Piedmont, died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015 at the Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Visitation will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. Funeral services will follow at 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home chapel with Bro. Rick Beam officiating...

Their records over the past two seasons might not mirror one another, but the rivalry between Malden and Dexter still has meaning. While Dexter leads the series over the past 11 seasons at 7-4, Malden is 3-0 against the Bearcats under fourth-year coach Joel Wyatt. The Green Wave have won the past two meetings by a combined 106-35 score after dropping a 40-26 decision in a Week 5 showdown in 2011 when both teams entered with 3-1 records...