Stories from Monday, January 4, 2021

COLUMBIA — University of Missouri Extension offers a virtual workshop about industrial hemp 12:30-2:30 p.m. Jan. 11-15. Topics include a legislative summary and regulatory update, agronomic practices and pests, uses for hemp, crop enterprise budgets, and processing and contracts...

FIRE Poplar Bluff firefighters responded to the activation of an alarm system at 1:58 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, at 445 N. Second Street. According to the report, the alarm was set off from cooking smoke. _ Poplar Bluff firefighters responded to reports of a building fire at 7:43 a.m. Monday, Jan. 3, at 813 Warren Street...

DEXTER POLICE DEXTER -- Joseph Williams, 34, of Dexter was arrested at 9:21 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, on a municipal failure to appear warrant. _ DEXTER -- Melanie Bolin, 33, of Dexter was arrested at 12:53 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, on a municipal failure to appear warrant...

Jennipher Goins Stokes, 43, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, died Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Stokes was born Aug. 9, 1977 in Poplar Bluff. She enjoyed camping, music concerts, drag racing and liked doing makeup...

QULIN, Mo. — Walter Chester Carter, 86, of Ellsinore, Missouri, died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 in Hunter, Missouri. Mr. Carter was born Sept. 20, 1934 in Arkansas, son of the late Albert Lee and Cora Lee Carter. Walter worked in the timber business until his retirement. An avid collector of other people’s unwanted things, Walter loved visiting with people who stopped by his place in Ellsinore, Missouri on Highway 60. You didn’t have to buy anything, just talk a bit and he was happy...

University of Missouri Extension offers a virtual workshop about industrial hemp 12:30-2:30 p.m. Jan. 11-15. Topics include a legislative summary and regulatory update, agronomic practices and pests, uses for hemp, crop enterprise budgets, and processing and contracts...

New Day Ministry Feed and Seed will be held from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, at 703 Franklin St., Poplar Bluff. Those attending are asked to use the side gray door. One pack will be given per household on a first come, first serve bases. For more information, contact Pastor Nancy Wolverton at 573-718-4578...

The search for a Poplar Bluff man wanted in connection with a home invasion that left one dead and another with serious injuries ended after five weeks with no sign of him.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame announced Monday that Sterling Bank had become an Associate Sponsor of its upcoming enshrinement featuring the Poplar Bluff Mules golf program. President and Executive Director Jerrald Andrews, along with Sterling Bank President & CEO Scott E. Spencer, announced the agreement. Sterling Bank has purchased 100 tickets for any former or current member of the Poplar Bluff High School golf program to attend the January 31 banquet in Springfield...

A series of job changes will give Poplar Bluff a new city planner, new director for the Black River Coliseum and new operations manager at Ozark Ridge Golf Course.  The changes were announced Monday during a city council meeting.  Code enforcement officer James Sisk has been named the new city planner, and will head up a newly combined planning department, code enforcement and animal control division, said city manager Matt Winters. ...

Poplar Bluff City Council members are expected to award a contract Jan. 19 to one of seven bidders for construction of a new police department. Bids range from approximately $9.3 million from Boulder Construction of Cape Girardeau to $8 million from Brockmiller Construction of Farmington, according to documents presented Monday to the council...

Sharon Kissinger and Erick Kirkman of Kissinger & Kirkman Investment Centre are pleased to announce Amy D. Moore has successfully completed all requirements to obtain her new title, financial consultant. Amy will be working with Sharon to continue to serve her existing clients with a broad array of investments and accounts to assist them in pursuing financial independence...