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Hayes honored at Veterans Day breakfast
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
One local Portageville Veteran was recognized with the 2017 Today's Featured Veteran award last Saturday. Bill Hayes was presented with the award by his son, Ron Hayes, and Jana Morris at the annual Veterans Day Breakfast sponsored by the First Community State Bank, Portageville branch...
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First State Bank & Trust's Halloween Costume Winners
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
The First State Bank & Trust co. Inc.-Portageville branch held their annual Halloween Parade and Costume Contest last Tuesday, October 31. Below are pictures of the winners in age categories.
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PHS Beta Club Host Halloween Costume Contest
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
PHS Senior Beta Club hosted a Halloween Costume Contest on Tuesday, October 31. For a $10 donation to R.A.I.N. Food Pantry, students were allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school and were judged on the following: Funniest/Punniest, Laziest/Ugliest, Best Character (TV, Movie, Literary, Cartoon), Best Overall Individual Costume, and Best Group Costumes. ...
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The Christian Worldview in the Wake of the Texas Mass Shooting
(Column ~ 11/09/17)
This past Sunday the attention of the whole country was focused upon the small Texas town, Sutherland, Texas. This town, of only a few hundred people, was the home of the First Baptist Church where a lone gunmen unleashed mass murder during their Sunday morning worship service. As of Monday morning, 26 are dead and 20 more are wounded. How are we to make sense of such senseless intentional killing? What could possibly help us to understand in moral terms the existence of such evil...
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Farmers Encouraged to ‘Keep the Stubble’ during No-Till November
(Outdoors ~ 11/09/17)
During a special month-long campaign called “No-Till November,” the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is encouraging Missouri farmers to “keep the stubble” on their harvested crop fields and improve soil health. “The No-Till November campaign encourages farmers to keep tillage equipment in machine sheds this fall because tillage reduces the amount of valuable crop stubble on the surface of their fields. ...
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Heartlander Abroad: Sandy Hook, New Jersey
(Sports Column ~ 11/09/17)
“Abroad,” by definition, means being in a foreign country, and as this column enters new markets and acquires what I can only imagine are scores of adamant followers, I suppose it’s important to occasionally reiterate that I am not only aware of this, but that it is an intentional jab at my own small-town rearing, and an homage to our (us small-town folks’) ideology that being an hour from home can feel like being on another planet, depending on the surroundings and/or the fish batter and amount of sugar in the tea. ...
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Honoring Sacrifice and Service
(Column ~ 11/09/17)
As a grateful nation, we pause this week to honor America’s veterans. These brave men and women leave family, friends, careers and the comforts of home to fight and defend our freedoms and values. They’ve fought for us; it is incredibly important to fight for them now. From servicemen like my uncle, who fought in Vietnam and earned a Purple Heart, to those recently enlisted beginning their first tours of duty, we owe a debt of gratitude...
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Feral hogs: There’s nothing funny about them
(Outdoors ~ 11/09/17)
I sat at a professional development women’s luncheon in Cape Girardeau recently and across the table from me was one of our city’s most active public relations professionals. She’s a mom of a toddler, a decision maker in her home and a major influencer of our local community. She glanced at her phone, laughed and then looked me in the eye with a smile...
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The Blue Side of the Holidays
(Column ~ 11/09/17)
I want to offer a warning at the beginning that this is not my normal upbeat article. This is something I wanted to write last year, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It was too hard and hurt too much. I love the Holidays. I love the music, the family and friend gatherings, the decorations even the shopping! But last year was different for me. ...
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Lidia James
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
Lidia Odessa James, of Portageville, was born January 4, 1944, in Portageville, to Love Durden and Mae Fannie (Ward) Durden, and departed this life Saturday, October 21, 2017 at her residence. She was 73 years of age. She married Jessie Carl James February 10, 1963, in Portageville. He survives of the home...
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Bootheel Conference volleyball awards released
(High School Sports ~ 11/09/17)
Four Portageville Lady Bulldogs have been named to the All-Conference teams. Deavion Caldwell and Zarria Taylor have been selected on the Varsity level and Maggie Frakes and Nahalem Tarkington for the Junior Varsity lever. The Lady bulldogs ended with a 8-12-6 season record. The jayvee team ended with a 11-9-2 record...
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Saying 'thank you'
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
While the nation honors the nation's veterans, members of the New Madrid County Central High School Beta Club also took the opportunity this week to remember those still in service. The club members collected and packed 7 boxes full of candy and added thank you cards as part of Operation Gratitude's effort to provide treats for the troops...
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Missouri State Veterans Cemetery to hold Veterans Day program
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Veterans Day program will be held Saturday at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo. The annual program will begin at 1 p.m. at the Committal Shelter Plaza in the cemetery with Major John P. Myers, USAF, information security officer at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center, to be the guest speaker...
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Fire safety event set for Saturday in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
SIKESTON -- The recent time change and colder weather are signs of winter, but they also means it's time to review fire safety in households. Lowe's Home Improvement will host a free fire safety awareness event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at its Sikeston location...
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Council establishes SAEDC
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
SIKESTON -- On Monday, the Sikeston City Council set a new path for encouraging economic development by dissolving the Department of Economic Development Board and authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with Sikeston Area Economic Development Corp. for the provision of economic development services...
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Holiday season approaches
(Local News ~ 11/09/17)
Historic Downtown Sikeston's Holiday Open Houses will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Other festivities include a candy cane hunt, carolers and pictures with Santa Claus, who will be available tonight at the gazebo on Front Street...
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Gary Newman
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
ELDRIDGE, Mo. -- Gary Newman, 61, died Nov. 7, 2017. Born Oct. 18, 1956, he was employed with the Good Humor Breyers Ice Cream Manufacturing Company in Sikeston for many years. His wife, Rita, survives of the home. Other survivors include: two sons, Derrick Newman (Kelly) of Lebanon and Hunter Newman (Roger) of Macomb; one daughter, Heather Newman Cranmer of Macomb; four grandchildren, Karsen, Preston, Madilyn, and Grayson Newman; four brothers, James "Bubba" Newman (Melba) of Hardin, Ky., Billy Newman (Connie) of Joliet, Ill., Mike Newman of Sikeston, Jerry Newman (Sheila) of the state of Kansas; two sisters, Brenda Alexander of Sikeston, MO, Debbie Jones (Wayne) of Bertrand, MO; special friend, Ti Bordoff and her children, Ireland and Elizabeth Bordoff; nieces and nephews; great-nieces and -nephews; other relatives and friends.. ...
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Buck Pierce
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
BENTON, Mo. -- Louis Allen "Buck" Pierce, 79, died Nov. 8, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born March 21, 1938, in Pinhook, to the late Everett John and Olive Lorene Moorehead Pierce, he had been employed as a horse trainer and was a member of Unity Baptist Church in Benton...
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Alfonzo Fitzgerald
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
SIKESTON -- Alfonzo Fitzgerald, 60, died Nov. 5, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born April 18, 1957, in New Madrid, he was the son of the late Alene Gill and George Fitzgerald. Survivors include: one daughter; five brothers, Robert Fitzgerald of New Madrid, George Fitzgerald Jr. and Jerome Fitzgerald of Los Angeles, Bobby Joe of Kansas City, and Eddie Carl Fitzgerald of Portageville; and one sister, Joyce Green of Portageville...
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Carrie Miller
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Carrie Miller, 98, died Oct. 30, 2017, at her home in New Madrid. Born March 27, 1919, in New Madrid County, daughter of the late Louis and Lela Herron, she was a member of the Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church. Her husband, Oscar Miller, preceded her in death...
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Clyde Freeland
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Clyde Freeland, 71, died Nov. 8, 2017, at his home in East Prairie. Born June 19, 1946, in Sikeston, to the late Clyde and Inez Andrews Freeland, he was of Baptist belief and retired from Turner Dairy in Sikeston in 1998. On March 3, 1967, in Sikeston, he married Bernice Burgess Freeland who survives of the home...
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Tim Crutchfield
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Timothy Mark Crutchfield, 51, formerly of Graves County, Ky., died Nov. 7, 2017, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was a cashier at Wal-Mart in Cape Girardeau and a member of the Morley Church of Christ in Morley...
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Grady Gregory
(Obituary ~ 11/09/17)
SIKESTON -- Grady Gregory, 95, died Nov. 7, 2017, at Delta South Skilled Nursing Facility in Sikeston. Born July 1, 1922, in Parma, son of the late John Gregory and Clenny Barrett Gregory, he was an employee for the Frisco Railroad for 17 years and was a former grocery store owner in Parma for 23 years. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Morehouse...
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