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Annual Alley Mill traditional Christmas, other opportunities to celebrate in the MAIN EVENT (Local News ~ 12/07/22)
Memories of cookies and cider, sleigh rides, homemade gifts and ornaments, and warm gatherings of friends and family are all part of the spirit of Christmas in the Ozarks. This week’s MAIN EVENT is the Ozark National Scenic Riverways annual open house events at Alley Spring... -
Altrusa International of Poplar Bluff creates TRC scholarship (Local News ~ 12/07/22)
Three Rivers College recently received a $500 donation from Altrusa International of Poplar Bluff that will benefit the Three Rivers Endowment Trust. The Altrusa International of Poplar Bluff Scholarship is awarded to a graduate of a high school within the Three Rivers College taxing district who has completed at least one semester at TRC. ... -
8 years of feral hog control: Some progress, $2.5B damage/year (Outdoors ~ 12/07/22)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight years into a U.S. program to control damage from feral pigs, the invasive animals with big appetites and snouts that uproot anything that smells good are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment... -
Ivy Hoang is Math Counts 2022 champion (Local News ~ 12/07/22)
After five weeks of elimination and three minutes of competition, fourth-grader Ivy Hoang is this year’s Math Counts champion. Math Counts is a district-wide academic competition sponsored by the Butler County Community Resource Council. It begins with 400 fourth-grade students in the Poplar Bluff R-I School District and narrows down to four. This year’s finalists were Hoang, Wyatt Ward, Nelson Xiao and Brayden Conover, all from Poplar Bluff Middle School... -
Family of six escapes house fire Wednesday morning (Local News ~ 12/07/22)
Smoke detectors alerted a family of six Wednesday morning that their home at 1311 Davis St. was on fire. Holly and Michael Wolff and four children, ranging in age from 11 to 16 years old, safely evacuated the house around 8 a.m., said Poplar Bluff Fire Chief Mike Moffitt. The family was lucky to have smoke detectors which awakened them from sleep, he explained... -
Police reports — Dec. 6-7
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/07/22)
Poplar Bluff Police Department A student at Poplar Bluff high School reportedat 8:05 a.m., Dec. 6 their school laptop was missing. _ Andrew Ferguson reported at 8:30 a.m., Dec. 6 vandalism to a house in the 600 block of Cynthia Street. _ Charissa Clemons reported at 2:33 p.m., Dec. 6 a license plate was missing from her vehicle...
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