Stories from Thursday, May 23, 2024

Kick off your summer in this week’s MAIN EVENT with the opening Saturday of R.W. Huntington Municipal Pool. The pool, located at 436 N. Second St., will be open daily from 1-5 p.m. for open swim. Cost is $4 for youth and adults, with children 3 and under free...

Lisa Hafford is the city’s new human resources director following Tim Edington’s retirement. City Manager Matt Winters recounted Edington was the city’s first HR director and founded the department. He retired this year after six years of service. “He did an outstanding job for us,” Winters affirmed...

The Missouri State Fire Marshal is investigating a three-alarm fire Tuesday night involving three structures on Nickey Street near Fair Street. A crew of off-duty firefighters returned to work to provide additional coverage for the city. The first crew arrived on the scene at 10:38 p.m. with the three teams spending nearly two hours on site...

Seventy-five years ago, word of Cape Girardeau’s deadliest tornado hit the presses. Spawned from a line of violent weekend thunderstorms, it carved a path across the city that left 21 dead, hundreds wounded and many more homeless. Then another kind of chaos descended: thousands of curious storm-chasers clogged the roads to gawk at the catastrophe until they were cleared out by authorities...

Charles “Chuck” Bennett, 65, of Piedmont, died Monday, May 20. Visitation is at 11 a.m,. Tuesday, May 28, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont Chapel. A memorial service following at 1 p.m., also in the Piedmont Chapel. Online condolences:www.rueggfuneralhomes.com...

Carroll Lee “Buddy” Randolph, Sr., of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Gideon, Poplar Bluff and Dexter, died Monday, May 20, 2024, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Buddy was born Oct. 31, 1941, at the family farm in rural Gideon to the late Homer Lee and Nina Lucille Walker Randolph. He and Karen Sue Link were married Dec. 27, 1963, at the First Baptist Church in Malden...

Flags will fly over the graves of veterans Monday as the country observes Memorial Day in remembrance of those who gave their lives for others to be free. Local AMVETS and VFW posts and auxiliaries will place flags on veterans’ graves at the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery. AMVETS Post 29 is planning to start placing flags at 9 a.m. Saturday...

A subject reported Thursday, May 23, a possible scam had occurred on Facebook. An unknown person was attempting to help the victim “restore” her account, however, was requesting personal identification and the purchase of a gift card. Attempts were made to contact the suspect, but were unsuccessful...