Stories from Saturday, July 6, 2019

I recently sat in a Sikeston City Council meeting and heard something I never thought I would hear a decade ago: city officials discussing medical marijuana dispensaries. In the November election, Missouri voters overwhelming approved Amendment 2, allowing the use and sale of medical marijuana. ...

I would like to speak out regarding AT&T. The other week, we had a tornado touch down in Miner, Missouri. Our phones was out, the power was out. There was a half-a-dozen or more come in here checking on my phone, which I really did appreciate it. But there wasn’t anything wrong with the phones. It was that AT&T company, as big as they are, they could get up with some way to let you know there is something wrong with your phone. And thank you for letting me speak out.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Dorothy King, 88, formerly of Charleston, died July, 2, 2019. Born May 22, 1931, in Charleston, daughter of the late Mable Turner, she graduated high school in 1949 and relocated to Florida, where she she obtained a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Miami Dade University. ...

PUXICO, Mo. — Roger Michael Payne of Puxico, 73, died July 6, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Sept. 25, 1945, in McGee, son of the late Herman and Dora Peters Payne, he had lived in Mississippi and Scott City lived in Aid the past 25 years. He was a retired truck driver...