Stories from Wednesday, September 7, 2022

SIKESTON — The filing period for the April 4, 2023 City Council election will begin Oct. 11 at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. on Nov. 1. Any person desiring to become a candidate for Council shall file with City Clerk Rhonda Council at City Hall during the filing period. The seat up for appointment will be Councilman Brian Self’s At-Large position...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Sandy “Pinky” Pettis and Robert George Keener Jr. have announced their engagement. A Sikeston High School graduate, the future bride is employed at McClain’s Grocery Store in Charleston. Her fiance is also employed at McClain’s Grocery Store and is a 1993 graduate of Charleston High School. He is the son of Betty Keener...

killing a grown person. If you don’t want to get pregnant, use something to keep from getting pregnant. The only reason a woman should have an abortion is for her health reasons. The woman that gets the abortion and the doctor that does it, should be punished. And one day, they will be. They will meet God and I don’t he’ll appreciate what they’ve done.

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — An accident on Interstate 55 closed the northbound lanes for nearly three hours near Portageville Tuesday night. On Tuesday at 5:44 p.m. Portageville Rescue was dispatched for a multiple vehicle motor vehicle accident on Interstate 55 at the northbound 34 mile marker...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Nick Thurman, 72, died Sept. 2, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Graveside services were held on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements...

HAHIRA, Ga. — Kevin Scott Chambers, age 64, formerly a resident of Charleston, Missouri, and Atoka, Tennessee, passed away peacefully, after a courageous battle with cancer, in his home on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Hahira. Kevin was born Dec. 26, 1957, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the parents of Billy Lee and Bobbye Scott Chambers. ...