Stories from Friday, July 6, 2018

Hello Southeast Missouri, hello Miner. Miner, Missouri, and there is no foul language so this should be printed. We have a city attorney that refuses to negotiate or talk to – we have a union contract up in our town.

PUXICO, Mo. – Nine teachers from southeast Missouri attended Nature’s Night Shift, a workshop hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), specifically for teachers as part of the Discover Nature Schools (DNS) program. The purpose of the workshop, according to Sara Bradshaw, a MDC education consultant, is to help teachers learn how to explore the nocturnal aspects of nature in Missouri and then use the lessons from the workshop in their classroom...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An Oran man matched four white-ball numbers and the Powerball number drawn on May 16 to win $50,000. Jarret Moore claimed his prize over a month later on June 21. He purchased his winning ticket at Amerimart, 221 S. Winchester, in Benton. The winning numbers were 17, 19, 21, 22, 51 and the Powerball number was 19...

SIKESTON — No fatalities were reported in Southeast Missouri over the Fourth of July holiday, but several people were injured in local crashes over the holiday counting period. The holiday counting period by the Missouri State Highway Patrol began at 6 p.m. Tuesday and ended at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. The Patrol reported on Thursday the following Fourth of July holiday statistics: 114 crashes; 59 injuries; three fatalities; 40 DWIs; and 38 drug arrests...

DEXTER, Mo. — A man found dead in his Dexter home last week was stabbed, according to the Stoddard County coroner. Law enforcement began investigating the homicide of Jimmy Lynn Casey, 66, after a home-health worker found his body June 28. “Mr. Casey was stabbed,” said coroner Kenny Pope. “We do know from the wounds he had, one of the wounds was not superficial. It was life threatening...

SIKESTON — The American Red Cross currently has a critical need for blood. And without the letters A, B and O  — letters that also represent blood types — no one can be saved. That’s the message of the international campaign, “Missing Types,” which was unveiled this summer by the Red Cross...

Three-year-old Jett Hawkins already knows what he wants to do when he grows up - be a farmer just like his grandfather Robert Henry. Jett took the opportunity to work on his skills recently in his grandfather’s garden in New Madrid.

SIKESTON — While MERS/Goodwill will no longer be providing WIOA youth services in Scott and New Madrid Counties, the services will continue. In both counties, the services will be provided by the Workforce Development Board. The WDB will work to provide services to qualified youth (ages 16-24) by helping them obtain the experience, skills and support needed to become successful young adults...

The Sikeston Regional Chamber and Area Economic Development, Corp. held a ribbon cutting for MirTech Harvest Center on June 22. Cutting the ribbon are Robert Krattli, owner and Tom Livingston, general manager. MirTech Harvest Center is the Delta’s premiere CLAAS dealer. In addition to CLAAS, MirTech offers other leading brands such as HARDI, MacDon, Great Plains, Manitou, Mustang, Gehl, Salford, BBI, Parker, Woods and Bourgault...

A group of individuals have come together in Stoddard County for an opportunity at a renewable energy source that is starting to become more prevalent in the market. With the help of John Bollinger and Bollinger Real Estate Services of Sikeston. Mo., Orion Renewable Energy Group of Oakland, Calif., has been looking at land in Stoddard County to install solar farms...

SIKESTON — Carlotta "Carla" Moore, 54, died July 6, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Oct. 30, 1963, in Dexter, to Joe and Etta Lou Shipp Hughes of Morehouse, she was a member of Landmark Pentecostal Church in Malden and co-owned and operated APS Automated Payroll Solutions with her husband...