Stories from Friday, July 8, 2022

The 7th annual Grille It Up at Dexter’s East Park is taking place on Friday, July 8 and Saturday 9. Friday evening will kick off the event with the Super Troopers mud volleyball match. The match will pit the Dexter Police Department against the Missouri State Highway Patrol. ...

SIKESTON — For the second consecutive year, Sikeston R-6 employees will see in an increase in pay in the new school year. The Sikeston R-6 Board of Education approved during a special meeting on June 28 a balanced budget with a slight surplus for the 2022-2023 school year, which began July 1...

Have you ever noticed that toddlers make a lot more work, but sure are cute? One of my earliest memories happened when I was about three on a hot June day. On my grandparents’ farm, we had two huge gardens, and, on that day, we were planting potatoes. We had gotten the potato seed ready by first quartering them up and putting them in a bucket. After my grandpa (with the team of horses) plowed up a very long row, my grandma went dropping two pieces about a few inches apart...

First of all I’d like you to put this comment in Wednesday’s paper so everyone can see it. Pertaining to the Jan. 6 hearing. I hope everybody is hearing all the lies the Republicans are speaking. It is not good. When voting season comes up, please vote your conscious. The lies that Donald Trump has told is effecting many, many people and he should not be allowed to run for president no more.

NAPLES, Fla. — Former Navy pilot and business executive Clay LaValle Sharp Jr. flew west on the morning of Sunday, June 26, 2022. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Naples with his loved ones by his side. Val Sharp was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Sept. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Jean H. Barksdale, age 92, of East Prairie passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. She was born Dec. 17, 1929, in Bogota, Tennessee, to the late George W. Welch and Kate (Young) Welch. As a young child, her parents moved the family to Missouri where they resided on a farm just outside of East Prairie. ...

Eat a Frito-Lay potato chip around the Fourth of July, and the odds are high the potato was grown in Southeast Missouri. It’s part of the Fourth of July Push, the two to three weeks before Independence Day, and the Southeast Missouri region is ideal for growing potatoes because the sandy soil makes them easier to dig. ...

**UPDATE as of 2:44 p.m. Friday: Missing woman has been safely located.** SIKESTON — An Endangered Silver Advisory has been issued for a woman last seen Thursday at a grocery store in Sikeston. The Sikeston Department of Public Safety on Friday issued an Endangered Silver Advisory for Myrtle Lois Ladnier, 64, who was last was last seen at 4:30 p.m. Thursday outside of Food Giant, 700 N. Main St., in Sikeston...