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Ozark Border annual meeting is Saturday
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Ozark Border Electric Cooperative will hold its annual shareholders meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at Three Rivers College. Members will have the opportunity to vote for four new appointments to the board of directors...
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Back to School sales tax holiday starts Friday
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Back to school time is just around the corner and if your wallet is looking a little light, keep in mind state and a number of municipal sales taxes will be waived on items related to education. Missouri's Back to School Sales Tax Holiday, an annual event enshrined in state law, will run from 2:01 a.m. Friday through Sunday...
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PB Kindergarten enrollment dates
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center is inviting students and parents to participate next week in its annual Round Up, an event offering information and enrollment for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. The Round Up offers three time blocks for students and parents, 9 a.m.-noon, 1:30-4 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. on both Aug. 10 and 11. New enrollees need to bring a birth certificate, proof of immunization, proof of residency and social security card if possible...
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3 races for director spots
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
Ozark Border board candidates District 1 Jordan L. Collins-Ellsinore District 2 Judy Lunsford-Poplar Bluff Steve Halter-Poplar Bluff District 3 Vince Lampe-Poplar Bluff Bill Hager-Harviell District 4 Greg T. Lintz-Dexter Jerry L. Stroup-Lowndes Current directors...
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Officers sought appraisals done for Memphis pastor Dexter firm part of HUD probe
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
By NOREEN HYSLOP SEMO News Service DEXTER, Mo. -- It was wrongly rumored early Wednesday morning that several government agencies including the FBI and IRS had a presence in Dexter at the offices of the Gill Group on One Mile Road. Files were reportedly seen being loaded into a van shortly after 7 a.m., and authorities were on site questioning anyone who pulled onto the lot. Gill employees were phoned before the workday began and instructed not to come to work Wednesday...
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Voter turnout in this area exceeds state
(Local News ~ 08/05/16)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Voter turnout Tuesday for the seven-county region exceeded both the state average and the turnout for the local area the last time Missouri did not have an incumbent running for governor in the August primary. Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Reynolds, Ripley, Stoddard and Wayne counties combined saw 29.4 percent of active registered voters turn out, casting nearly 24,700 ballots...
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At TRC's Tinnin Center Wildlife artist Eileen Melton's work starts art gallery season
(Community News ~ 08/05/16)
The Tinnin Center Art Gallery at Three Rivers College is kicking off its 2016-17 season with a gallery showing featuring the wildlife art of Doniphan native Eileen Melton. The showing will run Aug. 8-19, with an artist reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19...
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How entangled with Russia is Trump?
(Column ~ 08/05/16)
By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that would have boiled from the likes of Newt Gingrich, that Metternich of many green rooms, if Hillary Clinton had offhandedly undermined the collective security architecture of U.S. foreign policy since NATO was created in 1949...
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Divided we stand Philadelphia vs. Cleveland
(Column ~ 08/05/16)
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN It was the best night of Hillary Clinton's campaign. Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama testified to her greatness and goodness and readiness to be president. And all saw in the Republican Convention in Cleveland a festival of darkness and dystopia...
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Speak Out 8/5/16
(Opinion ~ 08/05/16)
Smith didn't write the letter The Letter to the Editor in the Friday, July 15, 2016 paper by J. R. Smith was not written by J. R. Smith. That has been going around on the Internet for the past two years. Sad to see Hastings close I wanted to put a message in the paper about Hastings closing. ...
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Mingo seeking public comments on secondary uses
(Outdoors ~ 08/05/16)
PUXICO, MO. -- A 30-day comment period for Mingo National Wildlife Refuge's Draft Environmental Assessment on the proposed open area and daily limits for the gathering of wild edibles (mushrooms, berries, and pokeweed) began on Friday, July 29, 2016. Gathering of wild edibles is currently allowed south of Ditch #11 with quantity limits of five gallons of pokeweed, one gallon of mushrooms, and one gallon of berries...
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Rummage sale for Fisk library a success
(Column ~ 08/05/16)
To the Editor: The Fisk Community Library wishes to thank all that donated, purchased and volunteered at our annual library rummage sale. You helped make it one of our most successful years! Thank you to Modern Woodmen and Phil Newkirk for your support...
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DU, MDC program gets kids outdoors
(Outdoors ~ 08/05/16)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Everybody knows it's generally pretty hard to get young children out of bed early, especially on a weekend during the summer, but if you would have seen the smiles on the 75 or so youngsters' faces at the Otter Slough Field Day Saturday, you'd almost think otherwise...
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MDC offers three ways to buy hunt/fish permits
(Outdoors ~ 08/05/16)
By FRANK CAMPA Mo. Dept. of Conservation Since March 15, we have all been transitioning to a new permit distribution system. Not only are there new ways to purchase them, there are also new ways to use them or present them to a Missouri Department of Conservation agent. Hunting and fishing permits even look different now...
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SEMO Friends of NRA banquet set for Aug. 13
(Outdoors ~ 08/05/16)
By Paul Davis Outdoors Editor SDLqThere are threats to the Second Amendment every day, and it's always the same narrative," said Andrew Heuiser of the country's political climate and the upcoming SEMO Friends of NRA banquet. "Our event gives responsible gun owners the chance to fight for their rights."...
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Devera Vail
(Obituary ~ 08/05/16)
Devera Vail Devera Vail, 61, of Poplar Bluff, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 at her residence. A memorial service is being planned for a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home.
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Jeannette Weston
(Obituary ~ 08/05/16)
Jeannette Weston GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Jeannette Weston, 60, of Silva, Mo., died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Arrangements will be announced by Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel, Greenville.
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Friday is 1st deadline for TRC manufacturing training in Sikeston
(Community News ~ 08/05/16)
Three Rivers College's "F.I.R.S.T" (Fundamental Industrial Readiness Skills Training) program will offer Industrial Technology and Manufacturing job skills training for veterans and laid-off, unemployed, and underemployed workers at Three Rivers' location in Sikeston starting in August. ...
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