Stories from Tuesday, May 14, 2019

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Ashton Drake Barker, 10, died Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Visitation will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 17 at Cotrell Funeral Chapel with the funeral service following at 3:30 p.m. Pastor Rowdy Boyer will officiate. Burial will be at Black River Cemetery off JJ Hwy. in Butler County...

FISK, Mo. — Pamela Jean Abbott, 63, of Fisk, died Monday, May 13, 2019 at her residence. Visitation will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, May 17 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Kevin Murray and Jerry Murphy officiating.

DEXTER — Ozark Federal Credit Union broke ground Monday on a new, permanent location to serve the residents of Dexter. The 2,880-square-foot building at 1117 W. Business 60 is expected to be complete in the fall. It is a $1 million project, according to city permits...

Lucas Edington, broker/owner of Mossy Oak Properties Mozark Realty, has announced Derek Emmons as the Top Producer for April. Emmons has been in real estate since September of 2014. He is a member of the Missouri Board of Realtors, is the current MLS Director for the Three Rivers Board of Realtors, an active board member for the University of Missouri extension office in Butler County and is active in the community. ...

MALDEN, Mo. — James Robinson Jr., 79, of Malden, died Sunday, May 12 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Friday, May 17 at the Landess Chapel in Malden. The funeral will follow at 11 a.m. in the Landess Chapel...

BLOOMFIELD — A former deputy clerk filed suit Tuesday morning against Stoddard County and her former boss for wrongfully terminating her for questioning irregularities in the April 2 municipal election. Cape Girardeau attorney, Laura Clubb, filed the suit at 10:19 a.m. in Stoddard County Circuit Court on behalf of her whistle-blower client, Ginger McCoy...

BLOOMFIELD — Stoddard County commissioners were presented with preliminary jail plans Monday morning by approved architect, Shawn Harding of HMN Architects in Kansas. “What I brought you today is a culmination of what Dale (Rogers) started and what we took over from Dale and tightened up,” Harding said. ...

A mayor’s prayer breakfast will be held at 8 a.m. May 22 at Mt. Calvary Powerhouse Church to recognize a historic moment in Poplar Bluff’s history, as well as previous community leaders. Ward 5 representative Robert Smith was chosen in April by council members to serve as mayor. He is the city’s first African American mayor...

City firefighters responded at 4:33 p.m. Monday, May 13, to assist emergency-medical-services personnel at 1305 Gray St. According to the report, firefighters assisted in loading a patient into an ambulance and then went to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center to help with unloading the patient...