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Your view: You filled it
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/07/07)
Dear Editor, I would like to thank the citizens of the City of Sikeston and the surrounding area for helping to make this year's Muscular Dystrophy Fill the Boot campaign so successful. This is the fourth year that the Sikeston Department of Public Safety has led the area's fire departments in collections. This year's total was $14,350.42...
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Major blacktopping projects complete
(Local News ~ 09/07/07)
CHARLESTON -- Major Mississippi County blacktopping projects are all done for this season. County commissioners reviewed blacktopping completed so far during their regular meeting Thursday. Of the $65,000 budgeted for asphalt materials, $51,000 has been spent, according to Presiding Commissioner Jim Blumenberg...
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Miner 911 is major issue
(Local News ~ 09/07/07)
BENTON -- Scott County officials are continuing to struggle with how to make the county's 911 system more efficient. At Thursday's regular meeting, Miner Police Chief Roger Moore met with commissioners to discuss the system in place in Miner, and reactions he has heard from residents about the possibility of shutting down that station due to the costs of keeping it open...
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Speakout 9/7
(Opinion ~ 09/07/07)
Could someone with the soccer leagues please contact me or put in SpeakOut when the coaches are going to be contacting the parents. I was told when I signed my child up that I would be hearing from the coach in two weeks and it's going on a month now and I haven't heard anything. (I signed up when it was in Homestead Electronics parking lot.) w_gardner79@yahoo.com...
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Looking Back 9/7
(History ~ 09/07/07)
SIKESTON - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Deschamp of Sikeston are parents of a baby boy. SIKESTON - Construction will begin immediately on a new Wal-Mart Store, east of the Midtowner Village Shopping Center. NEW MADRID - Final preparations are under way for the seventh annual American Legion Fall Festival...
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Investigation leads to a second arrest
(Local News ~ 09/07/07)
EAST PRAIRIE - An ongoing drug investigation has led officers from Scott County into Mississippi County. The SEMO Drug Task Force reported Billie James Martin, also known as "Bear," is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. Martin is being held in the Mississippi County Jail, where bond is set at $100,000 on the drug charges...
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Vets head to Washington, D.C.
(Local News ~ 09/07/07)
Sue Rogers photographs Sikeston members of the "Honor Tour" who left Thursday afternoon for a visit to the National World War II Memorial at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Rogers' father, James Tanner, is among those participating in the tour...
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Prep play preparations
(Local News ~ 09/07/07)
Donnie Garner II places the 20-yard line stencil down on the Sikeston Senior High School Football field while Jeff Wilson paints the 30-yard line marker. SHS maintenance employees are preparing the field for tonight's home opener against the Charleston Bluejays...
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Bell City raises its intensity
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/07)
BELL CITY -- It was almost like a flick of the switch. On Thursday night, the Bell City Lady Cubs turned up their level of intensity before sweeping the Bernie Lady Mules 25-16, 25-12 during a prep volleyball match. Bell City, which improved to 7-1 this season, received eight kills apiece from Rachel Spears and Jessica Abner. Both players were responsible for kickstarting an attack that Bernie (2-2 overall) simply could not handle...
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Sikeston shut down by ND
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/07)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Sikeston Bulldogs were not able to overcome a stiff challenge from defending MSHSAA Class 2 soccer state champion Notre Dame. In a meeting of the teams that have played for a district title each of the last three years, Notre Dame secured a 4-0 shutout on Thursday...
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Jamie Linville
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Jamie Renee Linville, 26, died Sept. 4, 2007, at her home. Born Nov. 14, 1980, in Muskegon, Mich., daughter of Katherine Cupp Conrad of Bernie and James Linville of Dudley, she had been employed for the past two years as the lead cook at Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in Poplar Bluff...
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Hershel Hardgrave
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
FARRENBURG - Hershel William Hardgrave, 69, died Sept. 6, 2007, at his home. Born April 11, 1938, in Farrenburg, to Angerie Hardgrave of Farrenburg and the late E.W. Hardgrave, he was a farmer and had retired from Tetra Pak. He was a lifelong member of the Farrenburg Church of the Brethren...
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Hazel Tidwell
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
SOUTH HAVEN, Miss. -- Hazel Tidwell, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died Sept. 7, 2007, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.
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Cordez Williams
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
NEW MADRID - Cordez Montrel Williams, one year old, died Sept. 1, 2007, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Dec. 20, 2005, in Sikeston, he was the son of Annie Betts and Delaney Williams who survive of New Madrid. Other survivors include: three brothers, Corvon Williams, Corvel Williams and Cordell Williams of New Madrid; maternal grandparents, Lila Bledsoe of New Madrid and James Betts of St. Louis; and his paternal grandmother, Patricia (Chutis) Hicks of Lilbourn...
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Jeanette Keasler
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
DEXTER -- Jeanette Keasler, 93, died Sept. 4, 2007, in the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Born Aug. 5, 1914, in Wright County, to the late Jesse and Bertha Cravens Webb, she was a homemaker and a member of the United Women's Group and the First United Methodist Church in Mountain View...
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Clyde Russell
(Obituary ~ 09/07/07)
SCOTT CITY - Clyde Marvin Russell, 66, died at 6:36 a.m. Sept. 6, 2007, at Heartland Care and Rehab in Cape Girardeau. Born Dec. 6, 1940, in Tupelo, Miss., son of the late William and Johnnie Lou Ivey Russell, he was a self-employed carpenter and owned and operated Russell Construction. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was a member of the Eagles Club No. 3775 in Cape Girardeau, American Legion Post No. 369 in Benton and the SEMO Horseshoe Association...
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