Stories from Monday, October 31, 2016

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. - Charges are pending against a driver accused of intentionally hitting a pedestrian. The East Prairie Police Department is reporting that Colby Durst is facing numerous charges in connection with an incident at 2:58 p.m. Sunday. According to police, officers were notified that a female was intentionally struck by a vehicle driven by Durst...

SIKESTON -- Area residents can offer opinions and receive information on topics ranging from economic development to forest management to rural housing during a StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity Initiative from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday at the Clinton Building in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Approximately two months away from the end of the campaign, the Sikeston/ Bootheel Area United Way is about 25 percent of the way toward its goal. According to local officials, the campaign has collected $15,800 in actual donations and has $4,600 in pledged donations as the campaign rolled into week 7. This is approximately 24 percent of the campaign's $85,000 goal...

SIKESTON -- Approximately two months away from the end of the campaign, the Sikeston/ Bootheel Area United Way is about 25 percent of the way toward its goal. According to local officials, the campaign has collected $15,800 in actual donations and has $4,600 in pledged donations as the campaign rolled into week 7. This is approximately 24 percent of the campaign's $85,000 goal...

DEXTER, Mo. -- The appearance of mug shots on a website that tracks arrests has created problems for two area school superintendents. Dexter Superintendent Mitchell Wood was placed on administrative leave Thursday, according to the Dexter School Board...

Clayton Anderson was joined by approximately 40 volunteers who worked to clear an old graveyard just east of the Three Rivers College-Sikeston campus as part of Anderson's Eagle Scout project. Anderson said he decided on the project as a way to show respect for the people buried there. "They should have a good gravesite," he added...

BENTON, Mo. -- Economic development has become a key issue in the race for Scott County District 1 associate commissioner. Former Sikeston, Missouri, city councilman John Graham has argued the county commission needs to do more to foster economic development. He is challenging two-term commissioner Dennis Ziegenhorn of Sikeston, who is seeking re-election Nov. 8 to a third four-year term...

Engagement 10/30/16

Engagement 10/30/16

NASHVILLE -- Frances Loraine Grubbs, 87, died Oct. 26, 2016, at Green Hills Nursing Center in Green Hills. Born Aug. 3, 1929, in East Prairie, Mo., to the late Doss Sterling and Ada Hardin Sterling, she was of the Baptist belief. She was a former office administrator for the division of cardiothoracic surgery at Washington University in St. Louis...

CHAFFEE, Mo. - Virginia Lee Shirrell, 93, died Oct. 29, 2016, at Chaffee Nursing Center. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Morgan Memorial Park Cemetery in Advance. The Rev. Ed Shirrell will officiate. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee is in charge of arrangements...

SIKESTON - Hullen Dale Driskill, 71, died Oct. 30, 2016, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born August 6, 1945 in Idalia, to the late Elmer Lee 'Buster' and Minnie Claramay (Tucker) Driskill. Hullen attended Trinity Gospel Church and was a self-employed farmer. He loved to scout crops every afternoon...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - Jane Ann Dawson, 59, died Oct. 26, 2016, at her home in New Madrid. Born Jan. 22, 1957, In Sikeston to the late Don Fields and Joy Akins Fields Sweet, she was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of New Madrid and the AYW...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Ettis Vera Taylor Ditto, 98, died Oct. 30, 2016, at East Prairie Nursing Center. Born June 16, 1918, in Jasper, Ala., daughter of the late Lydia Ann King and John Henry Taylor, she moved with her family from Lawrence County, Tenn., to Missouri when she was a child. She lived and farmed in the Dogwood community with her husband and was a member of the Dogwood Methodist Church...

Family Fall Festival was conducted recently at the Sikeston Kindergarten Center. Students and their families enjoyed food, crafts and games together. About 180 students took part in the event.

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- New Madrid Elementary has announced the students who achieved status on the first quarter honor roll and the students who had perfect attendance for the first quarter of the 2016-2017 school year. An after a student's name denotes honors with distinction...