Editorial

Republican Headquarters in Sikeston at 502 S. Kingshighway has a sign out front of the building. Those of us in the group decided that one of the things we really wanted to put on the sign was to ask people to pray for people to pray for people in Afghanistan that were in such terrible trouble. We didn’t feel like that sign would have anything to do with politics at all, rather reminding everyone...

Many people are thinking and asking about the end times. The problem is when we try to decide about the end times without actually reading the verses that deal with the end time incorrect views results. What this leads to is an End Times understanding based on the news and events versus what is accurate in the Bible...

“Sikeston … Sikeston? Where’s that? Never heard of it?” “It’s in Missouri, down low.” “Why?” I was born and raised in California and fortunate to live out my childhood there, before it earned the reputation it has now. I was an Eagle Scout and spent a lot of time hiking in the Sierras and enjoying camping among the giant Redwoods, or in the sand dunes along the Pacific coast. It was a good time...

From COVID mandates to a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan the Democrats will stop at nothing to take attention off the stolen 2020 presidential election.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - At around noon Sept. 1, New Madrid County deputies responded to Howardville, Mo., where a shooting had just taken place. The 911 caller said a man in a blue Ford Mustang had fired several shots at someone in another car. The assailant then fled the scene...

Is there anyone with a burn barrel with an end cut off? If so, please leave your contact number in the paper please.

Editor’s note: For a project in his EAGLE class, Zachary Hunn, teacher of fifth through eighth grade gifted students in the Sikeston R-6 School District, asked students to write letters to the editor about their feelings on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and/or whether or not the subject should be taught in schools. The following are some of those letters.

I don’t know why people that don’t even need a housekeeper to come to their house, they’ve run around all over the country and do stuff, they can do their own housework. They get commodities and buy groceries all the time. It’s crazy. Anything is free nowadays. People are going to get whether they need it or not. People that really need it have to do without because of greedy people. I don’t...

Disclaimer: I am not a licensed counselor so this is my perspective as an ordained pastor. September is National Suicide Prevention Month. As a pastor I have seen a lot of stigma with these this and mental health. Although many don’t want to talk about suicide, it is the 10th leading cause of death with 47,511 deaths in 2019 (American Foundation for suicide Prevention)...

I’m just reading the Aug. 28 paper where it says the Republicans are killing people and I just find that incredibly ironic since the Democrats elected a president and vice president who have pulled out of Afghanistan and the number of people being killed there. It’s overwhelming to me and the number of people that were killed over the summer over the riots that every Democrat thinks was A-OK. I’m...

I don’t understand how parents forget their children and leave them in the car to die. I don’t think they forget. I think they just don’t want to mess with them. If they leave a child in the car and it dies, they should be put in prison for murder. If they don’t care anymore about their children than that they ought to be in jail. That is the most dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. How in the world...

Yes, I have a complaint. The flag at the Complex is very tattered and torn. I think we need a new one.

With everything going on in our world, many have been asking are we living in the end times. Many base their end times thinking by what they see on the news, a youtube program, or false preachers instead of the Word of God. Today, let’s take a moment and look at a very basic overview from the Bible about the end of the world...

Joe Biden is the first president in two decades who has had the guts to bring the corrupt and hopeless war in Afghanistan to an end. I’m glad he did it and so is the majority of the American people. We have wasted way to much in blood and treasure in a vast wasteland with people who live in a prehistoric age.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - On the morning of September 24, deputies with the New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department and an officer from the Police Department were serving a civil order in the 400 block of Vandenvender Street in New Madrid. While they were serving the order a man walked across from Femmer Drive and confronted the police, then began questioning them about why they were there. ...

Republicans around the country are keeping us from defeating the coronavirus by encouraging people to reject vaccinations and wearing masks. For a party that claims to be pro-life they certainly don’t care at all about the people that are dying.

Good morning. This is concerning the boys dying on the football field with heat strokes during practice. If they would get a hair cut and get that eight pounds of greasy hair off their head that holds heat in like a wool baseball cap, they’d probably be a lot cooler.

Recently I am hearing “Bible” teachers proclaiming the vaccine is the mark of the beast. My official statement as a pastor is not advising people to get or not get the vaccine. I am not a doctor or health professional so I don’t have the credentials to give health counsel...

Hello America. Hello southeast Missouri. Another hot day in the Heartland. My little post carrier was here, and I’ve said this before, but these vehicles they have are trash. They are terrible trash. The postal general should be taken out and have him drive these things. You can hardly start the things. It’s terrible. Our politicians sit on their hump and they need to do something. Come on gang....

NEW MADRID, Mo. - On the afternoon of Aug. 22, an officer responded to the area of Edwards Drive where a man was threatening several people. When the officer arrived, a man was standing in the parking lot screaming at several women. When he told the man to stop yelling and put his hands behind his back, the man initially refused. When told again to put his hands behind his back, the man complied...

Who are the six lawmakers that have asked Governor Parsons to take away a business’s right to require their employees to be vaccinated. Businesses are only trying to protect the safety and welfare of their employees, the community, and their customers. Businesses don’t want to have to lay off employees or close their doors because their employees are sick. I have looked at numerous newspapers...

 All over America, videos are surfacing of Americans almost rioting at school board meetings and in public squares because of mask mandates, CRT, and other issues.  Before you stop reading, assuming as a pastor I am going to say some line that sounds like it should be a 1980s love song lyric (get along) please continue.  In fact, I am primarily writing to those who are passionate and excited to...

Why haven’t you published my comments about the school board? I believe that people should ask the school board what they think about things such as critical race theory, white privilege and systemic racism. You need to ask the school board members where they stand on these issues.

What business is being built next to Taco Bell in Sikeston?

Great Speakout call. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard teachers say how hard it has been on them during COVID. No joke. It’s been hard on all of us. I don’t care that teachers are getting a raise. Good for them. But stop acting like you are the only ones to be impacted by the pandemic. It is insulting to the rest of us.