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Tick borne illness on the rise across country
(Local News ~ 06/19/17)
SIKESTON - Tick borne illness is on the rise, according to Brenda Freed, health educator for the Scott County Health Department. The Center for Disease Control has alerted health care professionals across the country to watch for certain symptoms as the tick is associated with a growing number of illnesses...
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Harvest nears end
(Local News ~ 06/19/17)
A New Madrid County farmer completes the last swath of a winter wheat field. The wheat harvest was about 70 percent complete at the end of last week before the arrival of the rains. According to USDA, farmers nationwide planted less wheat in 2017.
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Funds raised
(Local News ~ 06/19/17)
David Grubbs polishes his bike before heading home from the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield after the America Legion Riders of Post 114 delivered a check for $22,500.00 to the Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield The funds were raised this spring at Post 114's various fundraising activities...
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Jo Coffman
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
MATTHEWS, Mo. -- Elizabeth D. Jones Robertson "Jo" Coffman, 77, died June 17, 2017, at the home of her daughter in East Prairie. Born June 20, 1939, at Hohenwald, Tenn., to the late Frank H. Jones and Mary Vera James Hensley Jones Thomas, she was a member of Cornerstone Church in Bertrand and had been a teacher at Sikeston Head Start for over 20 years, retiring in 1998. She and her husband Leo then owned and operated E J Pilot Escort Service until his death in 2011...
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Shawn Foulk
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. - Shawn Anthony Foulk, 44, died June 17, 2017, at the family home in Chaffee. Born Oct. 8, 1972, in Chaffee, son of Dean Foulk of Chaffee and the late Mary Alice Slayton Foulk, he was a forklift operator for Rubbermaid in Jackson. On July 17, 1999, he married Mandy Puckett, who survives...
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Louise Taylor
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
LILBOURN, Mo. - Louise Taylor, 89, died June 17, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.
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Albert Grainger
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
SIKESTON -- Albert L. Grainger, 88, died June 18, 2017, at his home near Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Blanchard Funeral Chapel.
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Mildred Brown
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - Mildred Juanita Brown, 91, died June 17, 2012, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born June 11, 1926, in Portageville to the late John and Clara Carson Negler, she was a member of the Portageville First Church of God, where she served as a Sunday school teacher and was a member of the W.C.G club...
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Rebecca Horstkoetter
(Obituary ~ 06/19/17)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Rebecca Horstkoetter, a wife to one husband for 44 years and dedicated mother to four children for nearly four decades, died Sunday, June 11, 2017, after a two-year battle with brain cancer. She was 66. Born to Annie and Aubra Wrather in May of 1951, Becky grew up in Portageville. ...
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