Stories from Friday, July 3, 2020

SIKESTON, Mo. — The Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Board of Directors announced early Friday ACM New Male Artist of the Year nominee Cody Johnson will take the stage Aug. 7 as the entertainment to follow rodeo events. The announcement comes a week after the Jaycees announced the originally scheduled Friday night act, ZZ Top, was unable to attend this year’s event...

SIKESTON — The Standard Democrat will not publish a paper Friday in observance of Independence Day. We wish everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center and the City of Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department are notifying the public of potential community exposure from a COVID-19 positive case. “While performing contact tracing on a positive case reported to the Girardeau County Public Health Center, we have determined that individuals that attended activities at the Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center in Cape Girardeau on the following dates at the specified times may have been exposed,” said Jane Wernsman, director of the Cape County Public Health Center in Cape Girardeau.. ...

DEXTER, Mo. — Officials from Sikeston, Dexter and Poplar Bluff gathered at the Dexter Chamber of Commerce to discuss the expansion of US Highway 67 South (federally designated future Interstate 57) to the Arkansas state line. Bill Robison of the Highway 67 Commission presented members with funding options to continue expansion through federal INFRA grants along with Missouri Gov. ...

SIKESTON — Robert “Dave” Guthrie, 61, died July 2, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Born April 18, 1959, in Augsburg, Germany, he was the son of Joy Layne Guthrie of Bowling Green, Ky., and the late William Robert Guthrie...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Luanne Staples Hill of St. Louis, Missouri, and formerly of Charleston, Missouri passed away at the age of 79 on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in St. Louis.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — LaJeanne Vick (Smith) Luker, 88, passed from this earthly life Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at
University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. LaJeanne was born on Aug. 24, 1931, in Steele, Missouri, the daughter of Oscar Lensdy and Mildred Joyce (Vick) Smith and spent her early life in Caruthersville, Missouri. ...

SIKESTON — The campaign manager of the committee to re-elect Scott County Sheriff Wes Drury has filed two complaints against his opponent’s campaign. Adam Brassfield, senior campaign manager on the Wes Drury 2020 Committee, said he filed on Tuesday a complaint against the Rick Walter for Scott County Sheriff 2020 campaign with the Missouri Ethics Commission...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A Sikeston, Mo., woman faces multiple charges for an alleged stabbing incident in Charleston. Dinah Oliver, 55, of Sikeston is charged with felony second-degree assault, armed criminal action and resisting arrest, according to online court records...

SIKESTON — Two longtime City of Sikeston employees have received promotions. Karen Bailey, who began working for the City of Sikeston in the Administration Division in 1979, has been promoted to Finance Director. During her time with the City, Bailey as worked in various departments and assignments and was appointed City Treasurer/Deputy Clerk in 1987, responsible for the City’s accounts payable, payroll and investment functions. ...

New Madrid, Mo. — Mike Johnson of East Prairie, Missouri, joined Associated Electric Cooperative in June 2000 on advice from his father-in-law who worked at the New Madrid Power Plant. Twenty years later, Mike leads a team he considers family at the plant...

Sikeston, Mo. – Southeast Missouri Food Bank has added Gratten Allen to its staff in the newly created role of operations coordinator. Allen, of Sikeston, will assist with operations and distribution functions in the food bank warehouse and will serve as a liaison to the administrative side of operations by working with the Development Department to identify sources of food and funding to support ongoing operations. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — The East Prairie Chamber of Commerce has announced a new agriculture business in Mississippi County. Located at 2917 West, MO-80 in East Prairie, Farmers 1st Agronomy Services LLC is independently owned and will offer the only American-owned seed brand left in agriculture today, Pioneer/Corteva, according to a news release from East Prairie Chamber of Commerce Director Cyndi Norton...