Stories from Thursday, December 24, 2020

Editor’s note: For the past 30 years or so we have shared the following story with readers every Christmas. The words of Francis P. Church will ring true today as they did more than 100 years ago when first written. In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon became worried when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus. Her father advised her to write to the New York Sun to find out the truth, and the reply by Francis P. Church became a classic:...

Sikeston Kiwanis recently made a donation to Spread Hope Now for the Warming Center and for any local families in need.

BERTRAND — Rose Ellen Lee-Terrell, age 79, of Bertrand, Missouri, passed away Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. She was born June 4, 1941 in Bragg City, Missouri, to the late Tom and Mattie (White) Gribble and had worked at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston before retiring...