Stories from Saturday, October 9, 2021

DEXTER — An Oran man is in jail after being arrested in Stoddard County on drug charges. Lawrence Woodson, of Oran, is charged with one count of trafficking drugs in the first degree, two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, one count of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of resisting arrest...

I am glad to see that many governors and their supporters, have called in the military and national guard to help and support the health workers with the COVID-19 explosion. At the same time, many of these same governors and supporters are rejecting mandated masks and vaccinations. Is this the definition of hypocrisy?

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Orlene Carlton Drake, age 95, of Morehouse died Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born Jan. 8, 1926, at Murray, Arkansas, to the late Charles Carlton and Pearl Stevens Carlton. She had lived in Morehouse most of her life and had attended the Canalou Baptist Church.