Stories from Thursday, December 16, 2021

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Irma E.B. Nolen, 63, died Dec. 5, 2021, at the New Madrid Living Center. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until service time at 1 p.m. Saturday at the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. Burial will follow in the Portageville Cemetery...

Police, fire and emergency services agencies in Scott County asked county commissioners Tuesday for American Rescue Plan Act funding to help improve communications among the agencies. Representatives from agencies around the county said upgrading and equipment would improve communication among each and allow for more efficiency and interoperability, according to Second District Commissioner Donnie Kiefer...

SIKESTON — Sikeston residents now have the option of building “tiny homes” in areas zoned for manufactured homes. The change comes after the Sikeston City Council adopted specified 2018 International Codes. The adoption of the specified 2018 International Codes establish clear guidelines and regulations to safeguard the health and safety of citizens of Sikeston...

SIKESTON — The First Baptist Church will be hosting its annual Christmas musical extravaganza Dec. 19 at 6 p.m. The evening Christmas concert will feature solos by various members from the Sikeston community. The evening will also have music by the children and adult choir...

A new tradition has emerged in recent years that at least half of the readers love and some of you hate. This tradition involves watching something on the TV that repeats itself repeatedly multiple times a day for almost the entire month of November and all of December...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Beloved wife, cherished mother, adored grandmother, precious sister, aunt, niece and friend, Brenda Carol McTigue Ditto, received her Heavenly Reward Dec. 14, 2021, at 10:46 p.m. after a noble and courageous battle with early onset Alzheimer’s.

EAST PRAIRIE, MO. — Margie Douglas Mayabb, 78, died Dec. 16, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Missouri.

SIKESTON — Brian Kenneth Tanner, 25, Dec. 16, 2021, at his home in Sikeston. Family and friends may gather from 10:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, at the McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston.