Stories from Saturday, September 9, 2017

Safe Driving Campaign Educates to Save Teen Lives

PHS students from the dual credit physics class participated in the Solar Eclipse Mission Operations (SEMO) high-altitude weather balloon experiment on Monday, August 21, 2017 at Houck Stadium on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The mission was to launch test tubes with small experiments into the Earth’s atmosphere to test the effects of speed, pressure, and temperature on the experiments. ...

EMINENCE, MO:  Ozark National Scenic Riverways will host a Trail Celebration and Fall Hiking Season Kickoff on September 9 and 10.  Everyone is invited to celebrate the importance of water, hiking, biking and equestrian trails in the area.   On Saturday, September 9, members of the Ozark Trail Association will host trail maintenance and hiking activities in the Round Spring and Echo Bluff area.  Meet at the Round Spring pavilion at 8:30 a.m. ...

Across the country, far too many rural businesses, schools, and health care providers are struggling to keep pace with people who live in bigger towns and cities because they lack access to high-speed internet, often referred to as broadband. That’s why, as a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, I’ve been committed to ending the digital divide and ensuring rural communities have the same opportunities to grow, compete, and succeed...

Nationally renowned surgeon Warren H. Cole had been a friend and mentor to Sikeston surgeon Loring Helfrich, but the medical doctors shared another passion which led Cole to visit Sikeston in August 1977.  

It is easy actually very easy to look at today's world and wonder if we are near the end of times. If you want to believe that way, there are ample signs in virtually every aspect of our lives that would convince you that time is running short on civilization as we know it. Look anywhere. Chaos reigns around the world and especially at home.