Stories from Monday, August 19, 2024

“I’ll try not to cry too much,” a parent said Monday morning at the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center, as students made their way in for the first day of the new school year. According to Principle Christy Young, 350 young students started their educational journey Monday...

In July 1974, Poplar Bluff residents protested a proposed natural gas rate hike. In today’s news, those protests paid off, and the increase is slashed in half. The headlines on this date also included the first discussions of a local airport, and the Daily American Republic’s measures to protect paper carriers from dog attacks...

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the fatal crash of Ryan McCallister’s Air Tractor AT-602. The accident occurred at 7 a.m. June 14, near Broseley. According to the report, McCallister had been flying for roughly an hour before the incident. An unnamed witness said the plane’s engine sounded normal most of the time the pilot was working the field...

Butler County Circuit Judge Kacey Proctor ruled Friday afternoon that there must be a recount to determine the Republican candidate for Butler County Western District Commissioner in November’s general election. The preliminary count, which took place immediately following the election on Tuesday, Aug. ...

Cheryl Ann Olic, 75, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away peacefully in her home Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. Cheryl was born July 24, 1949, to Marland Dale McQueen and Vivian Ester Peters in Chicago, Illinois. Cheryl was a member of Temple Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff. ...

Vera Lee Danner, 97, of Rogersville, Missouri, passed away Aug. 17, 2024 at The Maples Health and Rehabilitation Center in Springfield, Missouri. Vera was born to Homer and Hazel (James) Webber Nov. 9, 1926 in Corning, Arkansas. Vera graduated from Brazzle Public School in 1941. She then attended Southeast Missouri State, and later went on to get her Bachelor’s degree at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1964...