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New Madrid’s 2021 budget focuses on infrastructureNEW MADRID, Mo. - After what New Madrid City Administrator Richard McGill described as “hours and hours and hours of discussion,” the New Madrid Board of Aldermen approved the 2021 budget just as 2020 came to an end. For the coming year, the city of New Madrid budget forecasts general revenues of $2,112,300 and expenditures of $2,107,150. It expects to end 2021 in the black with $5,150...
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2020 VISION: Year brings both challenges and successesNEW MADRID, Mo. - New Madrid City Administrator Richard McGill is used to challenges. When he began work with the city six years ago, within the first month the county’s largest employer, Noranda Aluminum, announced its closure. In 2019, the county experienced a 500-year flood event...
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New Madrid News BriefsCOVID Update New Madrid County Health Department’s COVID-19 Update as of Jan. 17 Confirmed cases: 1,947 Out of Quarantine: 1,907 Deaths: 40 Active: 40 By gender: Female 1,138; Male: 809 Race: African American, 341; Caucasian, 1,567; multi-race, 14; other, 25...
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Parker, Pullen named Students of the MonthSIKESTON — Natalie Parker and Makenzie Pullen were named Sikeston High School Students of the Month for January. Sikeston Public Schools Foundation, which sponsors the monthly program, names two seniors each month for the honor during the 2020-2021 school year...
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Standard Democrat to keep New Madrid’s Weekly Record aliveNEW MADRID, Mo. — Subscribers of The Weekly Record in New Madrid received some tough news in the Friday, Jan. 1 edition of their hometown newspaper. The headline read: “You Are Reading Our Final Issue.” Owners Linda and Ed Thomason announced they were retiring from the newspaper business. Owning and conducting day-to-day operations of a small-town newspaper can be overwhelming at times...
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Latest State & Nation News
- Sikeston Boys Basketball Roundup: Bulldogs continue winning streak over Farmington
- Girls Basketball Roundup, Jan. 20: Delta ends Advance win streak at five games, wins 80-273
- Boys Basketball Roundup, Jan. 20: Oran escapes with road victory, downs Chaffee
- BREAKING: Flannigan, Brown resign as head football and softball coach at Sikeston (1/19/21)
- Sikeston wrestling readies for the SEMO Conference meet with win 54-24 win over Kennett (1/19/21)
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Man steals local truck and drives it to court (1/19/21)On the afternoon of Jan. 11 an officer took a report about a stolen farm truck. The truck was actually found by the owner on a parking lot on Main Street before he knew it had been stolen. After...
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Victory is the theme for 2021 (1/15/21)For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. -1 John 5:4 Victory is the theme of 2021 from 1 John 5:4 and every Christian...
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David Jenkins: Plenty of blame to go around for Capitol events (1/13/21)Watching the events at the Capitol last week I, like many, could only cringe. What happened was disgusting, inexcusable and just plain sad. The fallout has been just as sad and while most of the...
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Letter: Praise for Dr. Max Heeb (1/9/21)To the editors: After I graduated from college and got married in 1969, we moved to Sikeston and lived in a two-bedroom apartment my aunt and uncle (Malone) rented us for $35/month. I had a job...
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Letter: Prayer was offensive (1/8/21)Dear Editors: I believe congratulations may be in order for United States Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (MO District 5). He has singularly demonstrated the ability to offend everyone possible...
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Scriptures deal with birth of Jesus (12/25/20)This week’s article is the passages from Scripture dealing with the birth of Jesus. I enjoy reading it every year with the family. I include it with the hope that you might choose to do that as well....
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Becky KelsoMATTHEWS, Mo. — Rebecca “Becky” Ruth Kelso, age 75, of Matthews passed away on Jan. 19, 2021, at Country Place Assisted Living in Kelso, Missouri. She was born Aug. 31, 1945, in Sikeston, to the late...
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Anita KeyDENVER, Colo. — Anita L. (Cobb) Parker Key, age 92, passed away on Dec. 30, 2020, at Orchard Park Healthcare Center, in Denver. Born on Oct. 29, 1928, to the late Pauline S. and Tom N. Cobb of East...
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David Hay (1/19/21)SIKESTON — David L. Hay, age 83, passed away Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born Nov. 23, 1937, in Paragould, Arkansas, son of the late Alfred and...
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Shirell True (1/19/21)SIKESTON — Shirell True, age 84, passed away Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 6, 1936, in Dorena, Missouri, son of the late Homer Lee True and Margaret Matheny True. He lived in East Prairie, Missouri for over 47 years before moving to Sikeston. ...
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Willard Marble (1/19/21)SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Willard (Bill) Marble, age 87, passed away on Jan. 16, 2021, in Springfield Missouri. He was born in Seattle Washington, to the late Wesley and Betty Marble, after graduating high school, and on Aug. 16, 1956, he married his high school sweetheart, Patricia “Breithauptt.” While serving in the Marine Corp during the Korean War, he was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service medal and the United Nations Service Medal. ...
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Dr. William ‘Gene’ Stevens (1/19/21)JACKSON, Tenn. — Dr. William “Gene” Stevens passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, Jan. 17, 2021, after a lifetime of service and research. He was 63 years old. Those closest to Gene described him as a humble gentleman. He accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior early in life and served Him faithfully. At home, he was a devoted husband to Leeta, his wife of 40 years, and amidst a busy career, he always took time to invest in his children, Ben and Laura...