Stories from Saturday, April 2, 2016

Annual cost-share TRIM grants can help communities fund tree care on public land.

Sikeston topped the 14-team invitational track meet with 122 points while Malden finished with 120.

The Bulldogs gave up a lead, but quickly bounced back to take down Bell City, the top-ranked team in Class 1, 8-5 Saturday at VFW Memorial Stadium in Sikeston, Mo.

Gideon's Kason Lawrence was named the Tri-County Conference Player of the Year after leading the Bulldogs to their first-ever Show-Me Showdown appearance in March. Lawrence, a 6-5 senior, averaged 20 points and eight rebounds for the Bulldogs. He was also named to the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Class 1 all-state team along with his teammate Allen Earnheart...

sports@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Shaking off a rough start, Sikeston hurler Trent Sidwell gave the Sikeston Bulldogs six dominant innings to close out Friday's game against previously unbeaten Greenville. Sikeston's offense backed Sidwell with a three-run rally in the sixth inning that proved to be the difference in a 5-2 win that gets Sikeston back over the .500 mark on the season...

SIKESTON -- Voters in the Sikeston R-6 School District will choose two Board of Education representatives during Tuesday's general municipal election. Vying for the two positions (in alphabetical order) are incumbent Scott Crumpecker, challenger John Graham and incumbent Rebecca Steward...

SIKESTON -- Three-year-old Jace Sanders climbed his way up the giant vinyl, foam steps until he reached the platform. "Ready? ... Go!" his occupational therapist Amanda Watkins said. Jace took off and barreled through a giant foam triangle before landing on a mat. He smiled and immediately got up to help his therapist reset the course for another crash landing...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- As people stroll along the riverfront in Cape Girardeau, they may notice a yellow buoy that arrived this week. It looks like a small boat floating near the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the buoy is part of the MDC's cooperative effort with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center's Great Rivers Ecological Observatory Network project to monitor water quality...

The Kenny Rogers Children's Center currently serves each month approximately 500 children with special needs from birth through 21 years of age. The nonprofit facility has provided children in Southeast Missouri with physical, occupational and speech therapy for over 40 years. In that time, the Center has never charged a family for the services they receive. It also doesn't receive any state or federal funds...

Mike, I was reading your article about illegal immigrants. I disagree with a lot of your articles, but this article here is 100 percent right. It's a shame. Here we go again, I had my aunt at the doctor's office and an illegal immigrant came in. They couldn't fill out the paperwork or nothing. ...

Like many of you, I'm getting sick and tired of whining college students bullying administrators when their sensitive feelings have been bruised. The latest absurdity falls on Emory University where a group of coddled babies felt threatened because someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on a school sidewalk...

SIKESTON - Everett Wayne Horton, infant son of Matthew Horton and Kayla Gerhardt, died at birth on March 31, 2016, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON - Barbara Ann Casey, 73, died April 2, 2016, at her home in Sikeston. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, -- James Franklin "J.F." Whiteside, 83, died April 1, 2016, at his home in Cape Girardeau. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


CHARLESTON, Mo. - Alan M. Whitaker, 68, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died April 1, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.