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Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 9-15
(Local News ~ 10/08/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – While most Americans feel safest at home, research shows that three-quarters of fire deaths and injuries occur in our homes and that people are now more likely to die in a residential fire than they were in 1980. That’s why the National Fire Prevention Week, Oct, 9-15, theme is “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape.”...
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October Calendar Girl
(Local News ~ 10/08/22)
Zoe Robison is the Standard Democrat’s October Calendar Girl. Robison, who is the daughter of Lacy and Bobby Robison, attends Southeast Missouri State University where she is majoring in political science with the plans to attend law school.
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Suicide attempt survivor to share story
(Local News ~ 10/08/22)
SIKESTON — A suicide attempt survivor who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge will share his story with the Sikeston community. Kevin Hines, an award-winning brain/mental health and suicide prevention activist, entrepreneur, multiple award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, international educator and speaker, will share his story of an unlikely survival and his strong will to live at 6 p.m. ...
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Styrofoam homes – energy efficient, climate friendly
(Local News ~ 10/08/22)
Strata US and Stan Morris Construction have partnered to building leading edge technology styrofoam homes in the Bootheel region. Morris Construction President Shawn Morris recently presented on the unique construction project. “It’s a basic styrofoam and it’s been put together in 4 x 8 blocks,” Morris stated. “You can get it in six inch, eight inch, twelve inch, all the way up to sixteen inch.”...
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More Missouri farmers growing peanuts; harvest underway in Bootheel region
(Local News ~ 10/08/22)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. – This is peanut harvest time in the Missouri Bootheel. Interest in the versatile legume has grown among Bootheel farmers since 2018, says University of Missouri Extension soils and cropping systems specialist Justin Calhoun. Calhoun estimates there may be more than 15,000 acres of peanuts in the Bootheel region. ...
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Capt. Larry W. Plunkett retired Sept. 1
(Business ~ 10/08/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri State Highway Patrol captain and former public information officer for Troop E has retired, according to Col. Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Patrol. Capt. Larry W. Plunkett, director of the Gaming Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, Missouri, retired Sept. 1 after over 33 years of dedicated service. He is the son of the late Sgt. Larry W. Plunkett Sr. (1969-1998) and nephew of retired Capt. Carroll L. Plunkett (1968-1998)...
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Speakout
(Opinion ~ 10/08/22)
I was just reading your article on the YMCA in your newspaper of Sept. 17/18. I’ve never seen so much puffery in my life. Is the YMCA for exercise or is it a church or is it a left-wing political organization? Does the YMCA get money from the government? I’d like to know more about it. Again it sounds more like a church or a left-wing political organization. Thank you.
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David Hurley
(Obituary ~ 10/08/22)
BERTRAND, Mo. — David Eugene Hooper Hurley, 72, of Bertrand passed away Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born May 14, 1950, at Bertrand, to Harold Eugene “Gene” Hooper and Pauletta Hurley of Bertrand.