Editorial

I read where Sikeston’s city council is moving forward with hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent on improvements to the old Bootheel golf course and recreation grounds. I read that they approved new lighting for the ball fields. Several months ago the council approved a long-term plan for these improvements and stated in the Standard Democrat that these improvements would be funded by...

The handful of SHS students who courageously protested last year’s pre-presidential election Trump parade should be recognized by the board of education for peacefully standing up for their beliefs.

I have a new niece and she is 10 years old. Her name is Halley and I want to share with you about her. She came to my brother and sister-in-law from a very difficult situation as a foster kid. They decided to move forward with adopting Halley. Last week our family went to the courtroom and there was a short hearing about the adoption. At the end, the judge declared that she was now Halley Linda...

Editor’s note: In an effort to not create further discord among the community, the following Letter to the Editor and Speakout comments published Oct. 20 are the last the Standard Democrat will run on this topic.

Editor’s note: In an effort to not create further discord among the community, the following Speakout comments and a Letter to the Editor published Oct. 20 are the last the Standard Democrat will run on this topic.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - In the early morning hours of Oct. 14, officers responded to the 400 block of Vandenvender for a burglary. The homeowner saw a truck leaving his house when he came home from work. When he got home, he found that the house had been broken into and several items had been taken...

I don’t know why in the world women and doctors want to kill innocent little babies. That is ridiculous. If they don’t want to get pregnant then they should have a hysterectomy. If I every find out I go to a doctor that has performed an abortion, I wouldn’t go to him anymore. Because if he’d kill an innocent baby, he don’t care anything about his patients. And him and the mother should go to...

Dear Editors: I read with interest and great appreciation your excellent story on the 25th anniversary of the creation of the YMCA in Sikeston. There have been few projects during the last quarter century — the building at SAHEC and the Three Rivers campuses, the purchase of the industrial park properties, and the recent passage of the school bond issue are others — which have been more important...

I want to thank the Standard Democrat that we at Pharris Ridge are getting our paper delivered again. You have no idea how much we appreciate this and our delivery person. God bless all of you.

Are you living in fear? I am concerned that in this day many people are living in fear instead of by faith. Here are four verses that command to not fear. •Exodus 14:13- And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever...

Here we go again. So Sikeston teachers get extra days off because the first month of school was so stressed? Really? You don’t hear that happening with nurses, or police or fire or even you guys at the newspaper. Only teachers can work three months and then go back to work for a month and be so stressed they need extra time off. They’re always saying people couldn’t handle their job. I think of...

Dear Editors: October is National Long-Term Care Residents’ Rights Month, a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term care (LTC) residents have made to better our community and to call attention to the rights of residents in long-term care facilities. ...

I am glad to see that many governors and their supporters, have called in the military and national guard to help and support the health workers with the COVID-19 explosion. At the same time, many of these same governors and supporters are rejecting mandated masks and vaccinations. Is this the definition of hypocrisy?

If you're stupid enough to have your election stolen you are stupid enough to have your freedoms and everything else stolen.

I just heard a story about a man in Turkey. After spending an evening with some friends, he ended up not coming home. After a while his family went to the authorities, and they started looking for him in the forest by where he was last seen. It was not long before a man noticed the people in the woods looking for the lost soul and he decided to join them...

I am reading the Friday, Sept. 24 paper in Speakout, “Trump is a loser and is gone.” Apparently this person who wrote this is the one who hasn’t moved on. Every else realizes that we have a moron as Biden as president. If we would have had Trump, we would be in a much better situation. Apparently this is just a welfare recipient who wants someone to give them more, more and doesn’t work and likes...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - On the morning of Sept. 28, a theft was reported at a local shop building where someone had stolen a refrigerator that was outside next to the building. The property owner had surveillance footage of the suspect stealing the refrigerator the night before. The suspect was driving a single cab Ford F-250...

I wrote a check to a friend for $45. He called me up and said my bank charged him $3 to cash my check that I have over $40,000 in. I know that ain’t a lot of money. The bank, I know I can’t say the name, is on Main Street. There’s a bunch of banks here on Main Street in Sikeston. I have an account there. Anytime anybody has an account and they write a check, they should not charge that person $3...

Glad to see the municipal court is staying in Sikeston. Glad the Sikeston city council finally listened to the public, the police, the courts and the judges. It’s time the city council started listening period.

I am from Mid-Missouri and our climate is too cold to produce cotton, but Sikeston has incredible soil and perfect climate for this crop. I love that you celebrate cotton by having the Cotton Carnival. “Cotton plants have a rather large growing period, about 200 days. ...

Here we go again. The Capitol Police and the National Guard have been alerted and fencing has been put up around the Capitol because Trump Republicans are getting ready to commit more acts of domestic terrorism. They can’t admit that Joe Biden won the presidency fair and square. Trump’s inability to lose graciously is bringing our country down.

Good afternoon Sikeston and southeast Missouri. The call the other day, when I called in about Miner, you were wanting to know the correlation between the two — Sikeston is the laughing stock of southeast Missouri instead of Miner. That was the correlation. It had nothing to do with the courts. Sikeston is making some dumb moves and it’s like all they want is to please a certain few in this town...

I’m calling about our wonderful cable service here in Sikeston. Spectrum or whatever. It seems like once a week it goes off completely for six hours or more than six hours today. This is Wednesday. I guess this is going to be a service we didn’t ask for but I guarantee our bill will not be going down. Does anybody else agree with this? Thank you.

Proverbs 4:20-27: “20My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh. 23Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life. ...

Why is your sports department not carrying any of the Kelly Lady Hawks softball games this year? We had three games last week and their was no mention. You’re only covering the Sikeston softball games. You used to have a photographer and a sports writer at the Kelly Lady Hawk games. We have four games this week, three games at home and one at Saxony Lutheran. If you don’t cover any of those, I’m...