Stories from Friday, January 13, 2023

Richland Elementary in Essex, Missouri, has announced its second quarter honor roll for the 2022-2023 school year. First Grade-Aiden Bewley, Raelynn Johnson, Realynn Reese, Sadie Schweitzer, Graham Strickland, Scarlette Wade, Olivia Walley, Amelia Williams...

During the Sikeston Board of Education’s regular monthly meeting on Dec. 10, Sikeston High School senior Lilly Hodgkiss was voted as the school district’s nominee for the Missouri School Boards’ Association’s John T. Belcher Scholarship. Hodgkiss’ strong academic and extracurricular achievements are some of the qualifications looked at when nominations are made for the scholarship...

SIKESTON — The American Red Cross is celebrating January as National Volunteer Blood Donor Month. With the holiday season over, blood donors are in high demand in order to give someone else another chance at life. The American Red Cross in Southeast Missouri encourages anybody who is eligible to give blood to go donate blood for patients in need...

SIKESTON — Construction on the Sikeston Kindergarten and Early Childhood Education Center’s multipurpose building and safe space is moving along; however, recent, heavy rains have impacted work-site conditions. Richard Graves, project superintendent, briefed the Sikeston R-6 Board of Education on the project during the board’s regular monthly meeting Tuesday at Central Office...

Jan. 16 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has provided us with many instructive and memorable quotes. One of my favorites is: “Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, ‘Love or perish.’ Hate is too great a burden to bear.”...

My 13-year-old granddaughter acts more adult than the Republicans in Washington, D.C. I’m not going to vote Republican again until they grow up. They are just there to help themselves, not the American taxpayer.

Billy Holdiness of Fronabarger Concreters Inc. works Wednesday, Jan. 11 to break the existing concrete on the sidewalk along New Madrid Street in preparation for the future pouring of concrete for new sidewalks in Historic Downtown Sikeston.

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man wanted for a shooting that injured one Thursday near Benton, Missouri. Bryce Jordan Johnson is wanted for his involvement in a shooting incident that took place outside Thursday, Jan. 12 outside of Benton, according to Sheriff Wes Drury. The incident left one victim hospitalized, he said...

A Sikeston, Missouri, man wanted for his alleged involvement in a shooting that injured one Thursday near Benton, Missouri, is in custody. Bryce Jordan Johnson, 23, of Sikeston is charged with felony first degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm, according to online court records...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Judith A. Newcomb Myres, 72, died Jan. 13, 2023, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

ORAN, Mo. — Soryne Colt Hayden, 2-month-old son of Kyle Hayden and Maddelyne Seaabaugh, died Jan. 12, 2023, at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Private family services will be held at a later date with McMikle Funeral Home of Sikeston in charge of arrangements...