Stories from Friday, June 6, 2014

Get hooked on fishing with our Free Fishing Days June 7 and 8 when anyone can fish in the Show-Me State without having to buy a fishing permit, trout stamp, or trout park daily tag. Normal regulations remain in effect, such as limits on size and numbers of fish anglers can keep. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Summertime is hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking time. It also is tick time, and the Missouri Department of Conservation reminds those visiting conservation areas to take time to prevent tick bites. Ticks can transmit diseases, including ehrlichiosis, tularemia, anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI). ...

(Cape Girardeau) KFVS12 proudly honored nearly 100 of the Heartland's Best Saturday May 31st at a banquet ceremony and recording of area high school valedictorians. Among those honored were Daniel Manley, Audra Lane Porter, and Mary Clara Hayes representing New Madrid County Central High School. The ceremony was held in the University Center Ballroom on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau...

A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question intended as a follow up on the previous day's lesson: "My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I am strong and attractive. I pick up things. What am I?" When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50 percent of the students answered the question with the word "Mother."...

That's right! Portageville needs more noise. A detailed discussion dealing with the needs of Portageville would be long and drawn out, but to state that "Portageville needs more noise" would cover the subject generally, but adequately. The type of noise Portageville needs is quite obvious. ...

sports@standard-democrat.com ST. LOUIS -- After a strong showing at the Class 2 state track meet last month, recent Charleston graduate Devonte' Ware put the finishing touches on his high school career Thursday when he compted in the Nike Festival of Miles in St. Louis...

sports@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Mixed with old and new, the Sikeston American Senior Legion Post 114 baseball team had no trouble labeling their group of summer baseball players. "We're a bunch of misfits," Post 114 head coach Craig Templeton said. "We're really old in some areas and really young in other areas. Our younger kids are getting a lot of exposure with the older kids and we're mixing well together."...

I am so tired of hearing this big lie about how American troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries are protecting our freedoms. These countries are not a threat to American freedoms. They don't even have an Army, a Navy or Air Force. They live in caves and out in the wilderness. ...

BURFORDVILLE -- Joe Dan Schoolfield, 67, of Burfordville, passed away June 5, 2014, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Jackson. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


CHAFFEE -- The Rev. Watis R. Harrell, 95, died June 4, 2014, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


INDIANAPOLIS -- Bobby L. Conner, 67, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died June 1, 2014, in Indianapolis. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


SIKESTON - James Greene died June 6, 2014, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


CHARLESTON -- Mississippi County still doesn't know what the tire fire this spring will ultimately cost -- or when it will be completely out even. County Clerk Junior DeLay said during the Mississippi County Commission's regular meeting Thursday that the county still hasn't received a bill from MidWest Environmental Resources for extinguishing the fire burning in the pile of tires collected by county workers from ditches and and roadsides over a period of years...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Alumna Crystal Lewis of Sikeston is the founder and director of the Conversion Dance Project in Phoenix, Ariz. On June 21, she will present a solo work at the BETA Dance Festival in Phoenix, Ariz. "I consider most of my choreographies, especially in the early stages, to be projects," Lewis said. ...

NEW MADRID -- For singer Sydney Crider, it is the atmosphere that makes Music on the Lawn special. Children dancing. Residents seated in lawn chairs, feet tapping in time to the music. Stars peeking through the leaves of the trees as dusk turns to night...