Stories from Thursday, January 20, 2022

SIKESTON — JoAnn Denton, age 94, passed away on Jan. 18, 2022, at The Arbors at Westridge Place in Sikeston. She was born on May 14, 1927, in Senath, Missouri, to the late Jake and Jessie Pullin Thompson. On Oct. 12, 1944, in Flint, Michigan, she married Bill Denton who preceded her in death on June 18, 1993...

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Ottile G. Cioffi, 94, died Jan. 19, 2022, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON — A business in downtown Sikeston will be getting a fresh look thanks to a grant. Dewitt Embroidery was recently awarded a $1,000 facade grant from Historic Downtown Sikeston and the H. Garwood and Ruth Felker Sharp Community Outreach Fund. The grant will help cover the cost of painting their building, located at 123 N. New Madrid St...

SIKESTON — On Jan. 26, Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation, or DAEOC, will be leading an annual count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless population in the area, and volunteers are needed. The Point in Time Count is an initiative to count the homeless population throughout the 101 counties of the Missouri Balance of State Continuum of Care. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson in his State of the State address Wednesday proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars to boost child care services and teacher wages as the state battles the latest COVID-19 surge...

“Has anyone explained how you can trust the Bible?” I asked the high schooler I was talking with. She answered, “absolutely not as the Bible is not true.” She explained that in her church they don’t even use the Bible. She shared when someone asks a question about key elements of the faith, they are given a standard answer, “just have faith.”...