Stories from Wednesday, December 8, 2021

SIKESTON — A shooting that injured one Sunday is under investigation in Sikeston. At 12:04 p.m. Sunday, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety in the area heard gunfire coming from the 200 block of Ruth Street, according to Lt. Jon Broom with DPS. Calls began to come in to DPS headquarters reporting a subject had been shot, Broom said. Upon officers’ arrival, they discovered the crime scene in which several spent shell casings and witnesses were located, he said...

Members of the Kelly High School in Benton’s FFA Chapter recently attended the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. According to Kelly FFA Adviser Jeff Scherer, members reported for duty as Courtesy Corps volunteers, assisting in the FFA Shopping Mall with some serving as security assistants and others helping shoppers with their purchases...

Oran School receives donation from Manac Trailers. Manac employees collected over a $1,000 and the company matched the amount to donate a total of $2,050. We would like to thank all of our employees for donating the money. According to Oran School, all donations help purchase toys, clothes and food for families in the community...

Sikeston Middle School has named its fifth grade character education students of the month for November. The word of the month was grit.

Sikeston Middle School has named its sixth grade character education students of the month for November. The word of the month was grit.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Peggy Chapman, 79, formerly of Morley, Missouri, died Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, at her daughter’s home in Cape Girardeau.  Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time at noon Friday, Dec. 10 at the McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Ronnie “R.B.” Brown, 65, died Dec. 7, 2021, at his home in Charleston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

I’d like to let everybody know I’m not crazy about football. There are so many football stations and sports stations. I don’t know why you don’t have football on certain stations so it won’t have to interrupt our regular shows we like to watch. And also, whenever you call a business they want you to go online and look everything up. Not everybody has a computer. Don’t they realize that. Not everyone wants a computer and not everybody wants to put their money online and stuff. They are too many darn hackers out there. It’s like you just want to control people and tell people what they’re going to watch, what they’re going to do, what we’re going to do with our money and everything. You all want it this way you’re going to let the devil in to rule the world.

Dear editors, Once again, we executed the Community Thanksgiving Dinner with no walk rounds, no phone calls, no deliveries all over town, due to the coronavirus and safety issues. We served 672 meals with a lot of snafus and a shortage of volunteers, but as always, we got the job done. ...