Stories from Friday, May 7, 2021

If anyone in the East Prairie area does hemming sewing, please put your number in Speakout, please.

This is the 16th in a series of articles with Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation board chairman Frank Nickell, an emeritus faculty member of Southeast Missouri State University, commenting on Show Me State history on the 200th anniversary of Missouri being received as America’s 24th state in 1821...

At about 10 p.m. May 2, 2011, the night sky over a portion of Southeast Missouri lit up as explosions obliterated a levee holding back the bulging Mississippi River. The concussions rang through the region. A collective sigh of relief floated up from Cairo, Illinois. And those who lived and worked on the 130,000 acres making up Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in Mississippi County, Missouri, watched as the floodwaters came...

While the Sikeston Cinema Grill has been open since September, only a few new major movies have been released during the pandemic. But as summer approaches that is about to change. The Sikeston Cinema Grill reopened on Sept. 3, 2020, but the blockbuster releases that the public flocks to have been put on hold. Only a few major films like “Tenet,” “Godzilla v. King Kong” and the recently released “Mortal Kombat,” have been released...

SIKESTON — New mother Tate Warren of Sikeston will celebrate her first Mother’s Day on Sunday, but her journey to motherhood status wasn’t without its challenges. Warren and her husband, Phillip, tried to get pregnant for three years and suffered a miscarriage along the way before their daughter, Sawyer Raye Warren, was born at 2:02 p.m. March 1 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

The Sikeston Regional Chamber held a ribbon cutting on Friday, April 30 welcoming new member, T-Mobile, to the community. Cutting the ribbon is District Manager, Marcos Kinnison who said, “We are very proud to be a part of the City of Sikeston. We are looking forward to meeting the members of the community and doing business here.” Visit T-Mobile at 211 N. Main Street Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. or Sunday noon -5 p.m...

SIKESTON — Susie Butrum, 64, died May 6, 2021, at her home in Sikeston.