Stories from Monday, July 13, 2020

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library has followed in the footsteps of Butler County Courthouse and will now require face masks for all visitors to the building. The announcement was made Monday morning by library officials. “In order to help inhibit the spread of COVID-19, Poplar Bluff Municipal Library is requiring that all who enter the library wear masks. Masks are provided for those who do not have them,” according to a press release...

American life has been dramatically altered over the last several months as our nation has weathered the coronavirus pandemic. These changes are perhaps most profound to parents of school age children who have found their local elementary or middle school shuttered. ...

BLOOMFIELD — A Jonesboro, Arkansas, teen charged in connection with a January death will make his first appearance as an adult in a Stoddard County courtroom on Tuesday. Dominique Glenn Haynes, 16, will appear before Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield for arraignment on the Class A felonies of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery and the Class B felony of first-degree burglary...

Barbara Cecil, 75, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, July 10, 2020, at her home. Cecil was born Aug. 16, 1944, in Parma. Visitation will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Frank Chlastak officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery...

James Bo Muller, 18, of Poplar Bluff passed away Saturday, July 11, 2020, in Butler County. James was born May 12, 2002, in Poplar Bluff to Charles and Jennifer (Hicks) Morelan. He enjoyed tinkering with anything mechanical, the outdoors and he loved to talk...

Judith Ann Alphin, 75, of Poplar Bluff, passed from this life on Friday, July 10, 2020, at Wellstar Tranquility Hospice, in Austell, Georgia. Mrs. Alphin was born May 25, 1945, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of the late Willie and Wilma Janes. On April 6, 1969, she married Harold Alphin. He preceded her in death on July 15, 1998...

Miles Gregory Meadows, son of the late Thomas and Katherine (Chapin) Meadows was born Jan. 1, 1937, in Oakland County, Michigan and departed this life on Monday, July 6, 2020, at his residence in Poplar Bluff. He attained the age of 83 years, six months and five days...

Waylon Adam Quaite, infant son of Christopher and Amanda Quaite, died Friday, July 10, 2020, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He is also survived by four siblings, Jonathan and Leah Cooper and Jessica and Kylie Quaite; grandparents, Thomas and Sandy Gray, Barbara Espey and Robert Vanover Sr.; and great-grandmother, Faye Espey...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 22-year-old Van Buren woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash at 11:35 p.m. July 8 on U.S. 60, two miles west of Willow Springs, in Texas County. According to the report, Ashley V. Mace, 25, of Goodman, Missouri, was operating a 2003 Dodge pickup westbound when it ran off the left side of the road and overturned...

City firefighters responded at 5:14 p.m. Sunday, July 12, to a motor-vehicle crash at the intersection of Shelby Road and Highway 53. According to the report, firefighters assisted with traffic control and used a leaf blower to clear debris from the northbound and southbound lanes...

The Neelyville R-IV school district will have a new phone system for the upcoming academic year with the help of CARES act funding. The new system will work with the current door locks and camera system, but also create a more reliable system for teachers to communicate with parents and students, Superintendent Debra Parish said...