-
Arkansas Northeastern College offers a EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM to high school students
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
CONCURRENT CREDIT PROGRAMS Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) located in Blytheville, Ark. is partnering with area school districts to offer an early college credit program. In doing so, many local high school students can earn college credit while still in high school. This early college enrollment program will increase students' opportunities to gain early college credit at a reduced tuition rate. This will save students both time and money to be spent on their college education. Concurrent credit classes are offered to students in general education courses through classes on An. ...
-
Portageville Elementary School 1st quarter honor roll
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Portageville Elementary School has announced their first quarter honor roll students for the 2019-20 school years. They include: 1ST GRADE ALISON HALSTEAD CLASS A Honor Roll: Samantha Angel Hadley Cook Eli Dennison Mason Fisk Avery Hunter Rylee Muller...
-
First State Community Bank Donates to Portageville School District
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Portageville, Mo. — Last week, The First State Community Bank in Portageville donated eight Chromebooks and eight large boxes of new clothing to the Portageville School District’s clothes closet as part of FSCB’s 2019 Impact Initiative Project. The students and teachers in the Portageville School District will use the Chromebooks to enhance the students learning experience throughout the district. The clothing will be used to help those students who need it most...
-
Conservation Trends in Agriculture Reflect Policy, Technology, and Other Factors
(State News ~ 11/04/19)
I am a member of both the Dunklin and Pemiscot County Soil and Water Conservation Districts. This program allows us to put conservation practices on the ground. The amount of money coming into both Dunklin and Pemiscot Counties is important to the agricultural community. While the Farm bill has changed, more emphasis is placed on conservation practices...
-
EVERY RURAL COMMUNITY HAS SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
How many times has it been said about a small hometown community that there is nothing in this town or county? Too many times if I were asked. As I work with the rural Missouri towns on creating their future, I often find they have resources they never realized. Why do you ask? Because they live there and are blind to what they have...
-
Portageville Chamber of Commerce to host Holiday Open House
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Portageville, Mo. - Christmas season is vastly approaching, and the opportunity to shop locally is during the Christmas Open House. The dates for the annual event have been announced by the Portageville Chamber of Commerce. It will begin Friday, November 8 and run through Sunday, November 10...
-
Nora W. Moore, 88
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
Nora Willene Moore, 88, of Madison, MS passed away on October 24, 2019. She was born July 18, 1931, in Hayward, MO and is the daughter of the late Jim Cummings and the late Anna Lee Humphreys Cummings. Nora is survived by her a daughter, Carolyn Hogan of Madison, MS; sons, Clark E. ...
-
Lady Luck Casino Caruthersville to treat vets to a free meal in honor of Veterans Day
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Veterans and veteran team members will receive a free meal in the O&H Express at Lady Luck Casino Caruthersville in honor of Veterans Day. The free meal will be available on Sunday, November 10th as the casino is not open on Monday, November 11th. Guests will need to present a military ID or VA card. ...
-
Bobo's Freeze Queen Now Open
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Lilbourn, Mo. - For the past few months, the City of Lilbourn had been without a restaurant where a family could go to for a good home-cooked dinner. Today, that need has been filled. Bobo's Freeze Queen has been opened for the last three weeks feeding the folks and area farmers all around...
-
Navy Corpsman Wheeler delivers remarks at 10th annual Veterans Day Breakfast
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Portageville, Mo. - The annual Veterans' Day Appreciation Breakfast was held last Saturday at the St. Eustachius Parish. One local man of small stature and a big heart was recognized as the Veteran of the Year. Charles Benny Morgan was that man. The award was presented by Jana Morris, vice president and branch manager of the First State Community Bank, Portageville...
-
Parks speaks at Portageville High Veterans Day Assembly
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Portageville, Mo. - The guest speaker for the Veterans' Day Assembly at Portageville High School will be Olin Parks. The program will be held on Monday, November 11 in the Portageville High School gymnasium and will begin at 10:30 Parks is a Vietnam Veteran and VFW Judge Advocate. ...
-
Harvey Cooper Jr.
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
SIKESTON — Harvey Lee Cooper Jr., 71, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. Harvey was born on Dec. 29, 1947, in Romance, Ark., to the late Harvey Lee Cooper Sr. and Dorothy Marie Fitzgerald Cooper. He was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church of Sikeston. He graduated from Charleston High School in 1966, served in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1971 and served as the executive director of the Community Sheltered Workshop of Sikeston from the early 1980s until the time of his death...
-
Patricia Bixler
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Patricia A. Bixler, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Sept. 7, 1933, in Lilbourn, to James William and Mary Francis Welsh Hopper...
-
Portageville Middle School Perfect Attendance and Honor Roll for 1st Quarter
(Local News ~ 11/04/19)
Perfect Attendance for First Quarter of 2019-20 Portageville Middle School include: Sixth Grade: Jaden Allen, Jerico Allen, Colton Barney, Tayvion Bogan, Caitlyn Dawson, Abigail DuBois, Gloriaha Farmer, Kenzie Hendrix, Antonio Hickenbottom, Kaniah Jennings, Armonie Larry, Colton Lovins, Kaitlyn Moore, Mia Scherer, Trey Sutton, Nathan Swims, Dany Taylor, Kylee Thacker, Kay-Lee Weddington...
-
Geneva Givens
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Geneva Maxine Givens, 74, died Nov. 2, 2019, at Southeast Health Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born March 17, 1945, in Wolf Island, daughter of the late Anderson and Maxine Smith Moore, she was a restaurant owner/operator. Survivors include: one son, Ray (Tammy) Givens of East Prairie; two daughters, Betty (Jeff) Hartlein of Sikeston and Rineva Brewer (Jerry Taylor) of East Prairie; two brothers, Charles Moore and Lester Moore of East Prairie; and nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. . ...
-
Cecilia Adkisson
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Cecilia LaPlant Adkisson, 79, died Nov. 3, 2019, at her home in East Prairie. Born Jan. 16, 1940, in the Barnes Ridge Community of Mississippi County, daughter of the late Cecil George and Elsie Jackson LaPlant, she was a homemaker, a Girl Scout leader and member of the Junior Civic Club. She also assisted as a farmhand, farm bookkeeper and cotton gin records keeper. ...
-
Charles Evans
(Obituary ~ 11/04/19)
SIKESTON — Charles Eugene Evans, age 99, passed away on Nov. 3, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born on Jan. 15, 1920, in Oran, to the late Howard and Pearl Spears Evans. Charles served in the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II; he retired from the U.S. Postal Service in Memphis, Tenn., in 1980...
Stories from Monday, November 4, 2019
Browse other days