Stories from Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Poplar Bluff Police Department collected 14 pounds of unwanted medications on a recent National Prescription Drug Take Back day that collected close 745,000 of unwanted prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country. The effort was organized by the Drug Enforcement Administration and its partners. It was the 21st national event, which has collected more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception...

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and Family Caregivers Month. To mark these events, the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Missouri Chapter is encouraging people to lend a helping hand to more than 194,000 family members and friends serving as Alzheimer’s caregivers...

DEXTER — Gary Leon Zimmerman, son of the late Basil Zimmerman and Vera Juanita Inman Schoolcraft, was born on Jan. 6, 1956, in San Marcos, Texas, and departed this life on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, at the age of 65 years. He was a resident of Puxico...

Michael Joseph Stout, 71, passed Oct. 23, 2021. He was born March 6, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri to Vivian Arlene (Brannum) Stout and the late Edward Joseph Stout. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Linda (Cochran) Stout. Mike was a retired teacher for the Parkway School District. He was the proprietor of Mike’s Auto Sales and County Auto Sales for over 30 years...

Missouri’s young deer hunters killed 15,608 deer over the two-day youth season last weekend, barely edging above last year’s total of 15,591 taken over the same period. While the statewide harvest was up slightly, every county in our reader area was down...

Fourth Grade A Honor Roll Eva Ashcraft Owen Baucom Alison Bell Brayden Breeze Daniel Broege Alton Brooks Brett Burleson Brilee Burton TayMar Christian Ethan Clemons Molina Courtney Aria Cradduck Lydia Crihfield Stella Cummings Noah Davis Isaiah Eastep...

Fifth Grade A Honor Roll Cristian Acevedo Madeline Allbritton Jackson Arnold Hayden Beaton Gage Brooks Kyleigh Brown Brianna Clark Connor Cobb Dakota Collins Jakob Cooper Chloe Crafton Kelsey Crismon Emmalynn Dennis Camden Donnell Cullen Dugger Abigail Eason...

SIXTH Grade A Honor Roll Jullian Hays Alexander Clyburn Ethan Willis Allie Green Madison Anderson Charlie McCollough Kelsey Dunlap Claire Faries Samuel Hasanov Braylen Lansford Jazlynn LeGrand Clayton Schalk Audrey Smith Lynn Cotrell Colton Pigg Lucy Wolpers...

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday afternoon to introduce the public to the expanded Harry Crisp Sr. Technology Center. The expansion houses additional classrooms, an updated maintenance building and a new fire science lab, according to Three Rivers College chief academic officer Sherry Phelan. The Crisp Center contains the criminal justice, construction, fire science, information technology and workforce development programs...

Evan Holley and Shawn Adams are taking seemingly disparate businesses — a skate shop, an indoor skate park, a concert venue and a bar — and melding them together in historic downtown Poplar Bluff. Forum Fifty Fifty began when Adams, a real estate agent and developer, and his business partner Holley saw the Vine Street property come up for sale. ...