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Wet, warm Christmas forecast this year
(Local News ~ 12/24/16)
SIKESTON -- Those who are dreaming of a warm and wet Christmas this year are in luck. According to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., it will be unseasonably warm for Christmas this year, with high temperatures likely breaching 60 degrees across the majority of the area. ...
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Signing up
(Local News ~ 12/24/16)
The Three Rivers College-Sikeston campus, located at the intersection of Highways 60 and 61, is getting a new sign during the holiday. Braving recent cold weather, Ivan Lesch checks to ensure the bricks are level as Bobby Burnett carefully places cement and another block...
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Santa will understand
(Local News ~ 12/24/16)
Caught with Santa's cookies, Mary Ellis and Davis Motter are sure Santa will understand that they were just too good to resist. On Christmas Eve they plan to set out a few more for old Saint Nick in hopes that he will leave them lots of presents under their tree. The twins are the children of Jaime and Will Motter...
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Standard Democrat will not publish paper Monday; offices will be closed
(Local News ~ 12/24/16)
SIKESTON -- The Standard Democrat will not publish a newspaper Monday in observance of the Christmas holiday and the offices will be closed. The office will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Publication will resume with Wednesday's edition. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday...
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'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!'
(Local News ~ 12/24/16)
Editor's note: For the past 35 years or so we have shared the following story with readers every Christmas. The words of Francis P. Church will ring true today as they did more than 100 years ago when first written. In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon became worried when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus. ...
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Preschool pups
(12/24/16)
The Sikeston Public School's Preschool pups of the month for November were announced recently. Honored were, front row: Ellie Calbert, Amare Montjoy, Addison Lancaster, Jaxon Booth and Marcelius Burke; and back row: Piper Buchanan, Connor Green, Beckah Boehmer, Mason Sexton and Tazia Rowe. They are pictured with Principal Jenny Hobeck...
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