Stories from Thursday, November 7, 2019

Before the influx of relatives and friends descend upon your home this holiday season, plan ahead to make sure you and your home are ready for visitors and guests. No need to deep clean every crack and crevice, just hit the highlights and heavily trafficked areas your guests will spend most of their time in during their stay. No one will care if your sock drawer is organized to a tee. It’s a pointless waste of valuable time and energy to clean and straighten barely used spaces...

The Poplar Bluff Police Department is one of the most highly regarded small town agencies in the state. This did not happen overnight or by chance. It is the result of superb leadership within the department, city administrators and extremely dedicated and talented personnel...

WARD, Ala. — Dorothy Ann Bragg, 71, of Doniphan, died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at Shorts Church in Ward, Ala.

City firefighters responded at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, to an alarm at the Family Counseling Center, 3001 Warrior Lane. It was investigation only. _ City firefighters responded at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, to a motor-vehicle crash at the intersection of Shelby Road and Highway 53...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 76-year-old Piggott, Ark., woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, on U.S. 62, three miles west of Campbell. According to the report, Billy R. Turner, 53, of Piggott was operating a 2008 Chevrolet HHR westbound when he lost control of his vehicle, and it ran off the road...

Meredith Rines of Poplar Bluff will present the program Kick Starting Your Business for the New Year at the Women Aware luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce. A Women Aware member, Rimes said, “I will be sharing social media tips for small businesses – whether your job or your side business that you’re trying to grow. ...

Area veterans will be saluted, honored and remembered Friday and Monday, which is Veterans Day. Events will include a Women’s Veterans Art Show, Breakfast for Veterans at the United Gospel Rescue Mission, a program at the Black River Coliseum’s Veterans Wall and a Veterans Day Program at the Missouri State Veteran Cemetery in Bloomfield...

NAYLOR — Flossie Mae Thrasher, 96, of Malden, died Nov. 6, 2019 at Ridgeview Living Community Center in Malden. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 in the Naylor Pentecostal Church in Naylor. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the Naylor Memorial Cemetery...

NEELYVILLE ­— James B. Hayes, 82, of Doniphan, died Nov. 5, 2019 at his residence. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8 in the Fowler & Sons Funeral Home in Neelyville. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home. Burial will be in the Hitt Cemetery near Success. Ark...

As the county’s population and illegal drug problems continue to grow, the Butler County Sheriff’s Department recently shifted its resources to better combat those illegal narcotics. For the first time since July 2013, the sheriff’s department again has a full-time narcotics investigator, Ben Chamblin...

Robert ‘Rob’ Bryan Fairless, 52, of Springfield, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 at Burke Medical Center in Waynesboro, Ga. Rob, the son of Myron George Fairless, Jr. and Judith Ann (Lichtenegger) Lee was born Oct. 24, 1967 in Poplar Bluff. He was of the Christian faith and was a 1986 graduate of Poplar Bluff High School. ...

The Poplar Bluff Student Council is doing well and being recognized by other districts in the area.

Federal funding, seats in Congress and votes in the Electoral College for the next decade are dependent on the results of the 2020 Census. However, large portions of Butler, Dunklin and Wayne counties as well as all of Ripley County are considered hard to count populations.