Stories from Saturday, September 5, 2020

Is the good Lord trying to tell us something? Over the years, wars have come and gone, each one worse than the one before. With each event, lives have been lost, people have been hurt, homes have been destroyed, but we never seem to learn. Now we have this worldwide pandemic and all these protesting and rioting. Moaning and groaning won’t get it to go away...

Dear Editor, Recently many of us experienced a disruption in our mail service, a service we need more than ever during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our mail is normally delivered around noon but for a week we did not get our mail until 7 p.m. Bills and medications were received late and two shipments of needed items were lost. ...

To the Editor: Enough is enough already. Yesterday, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, the City of Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best has decided to resign because the city council voted 8-1 with one absentee, to defund the Seattle Police Department by 14%. Then on a brighter note, (sarcasm), in Chicago the Black Lives Matter Chicago group put out a statement regarding the looting and rioting in Chicago on Monday, Aug. ...

Elsie Burgess, age 93, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, at Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Burgess was born Dec. 23, 1926, in Rombauer, Missouri, to the late Edward and Doris Beck. She is survived by several grandchildren, nieces and nephews...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL A 36-year-old Puxico woman was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4, on Business Highway 67 at County Road 472 in Butler County. According to the report, David W. Erickson, 44, of Poplar Bluff was operating a 2001 Ford pickup southbound when it struck a 2003 Ford being driven by Rebecca M. Null in the rear...

City firefighters responded at 11:33 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, to a motor-vehicle crash at 2605 Fair St. According to the report, the occupant was found unconscious and breathing upon the fire department’s arrival. Two doses of Narcan reportedly were administered prior to the arrival of emergency-medical-services personnel...

We are now less than two months away from an election that gets more heated every day. While the candidates debate the issues, there is one matter within local control — the safety of our polling places. We would like to urge our area counties to consider increasing COVID-19 precautions at our polling places on Nov. 3, both for the health of the poll workers and for those who will come to participate in a great American tradition...