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Editorial: Newspapers provide authenticity for public notices
(Editorial ~ 05/01/24)
Transparency has become a buzzword for those who spend our tax dollars. Especially for those who are running for an elected position that controls how those tax dollars are spent. They promise to be a watchdog and cut out wasteful spending and be up front and public with their decisions. Some follow through; others push to the side those thoughts once they’re elected and in charge of the purse strings...
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Search continues for missing boater in New Madrid County
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
NEW MADRID, Mo. - Multiple agencies are continuing their search for a man whose empty boat was found floating in the Mississippi River. At approximately 3 p.m. Tuesday, the New Madrid Police Department received a call from the New Madrid Harbor Service about an empty fishing boat floating in the Mississippi River about two miles south of New Madrid. ...
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Search gets underway to find new superintendent to lead New Madrid County R-1
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
NEW MADRID, Mo. —Newly elected Board members were sworn in and the search began for a new superintendent during the April meeting of the New Madrid County R-1 School Board. Following the acceptance of the official results of the April municipal election, incumbent Mary Kay Davis and new board member Aaron Griffin were sworn into three-year terms. Kathy Daniels, who was appointed earlier to the Board and ran unopposed in April, was sworn into an unexpired term...
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Lilbourn VFW 7183 recognizes academic, artistic excellence
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
LILBOURN, Mo. — Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7183 and its Auxiliary presented $23,900 in scholarships and awards to students from throughout Southeast Missouri at its spring awards banquet on April 23. Honored during the event were students in kindergarten through 12th grade who took part in the post’s Young American Creative Patriotic Artist contest; an area student entering the military upon graduation and 20 graduating high school seniors. ...
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Fire destroys mobile home in New Madrid
(Column ~ 05/01/24)
NEW MADRID, Mo. — In the evening hours of April 13, the fire department was paged to a house fire on the corner of Church and Waters streets in New Madrid. A passerby called in that an unoccupied mobile home was on fire. When the fire department arrived on scene, there were already flames coming out of the windows and doors of the home. The fire was knocked down, and after several hours it was completely extinguished...
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DPS’ Smith earns award
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
SIKESTON — Sikeston City Council members presented an award to Capt. Ryan Smith of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety at the start of their regular meeting Monday, April 29 at City Hall. Angie Rodgers, executive director of the Scott County 911 Emergency Service Board, presented Smith with the 2024 Radio Technologist of the Year award. ...
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Foggy Tuesday morning
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
Motorists navigate the early morning fog Tuesday, April 30, 2024, as they traveled on South Main Street in Sikeston.
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Legion Post 114 completes pavilion in memory of a Sikeston veteran
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
SIKESTON — A new, memorial pavilion recently constructed near the Sikeston American Legion Post 114 Hall stands tall today, thanks to a generous donation by a late veteran and his family. Jim Walton, Post 114’s finance officer, said years ago, the Legion purchased the house on the lot next to its hall and cleared everything...
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Sikeston man arrested for child endangerment and an aggravated DWI
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Sikeston man was arrested Saturday, April 27, on charges of driving while his license was revoked, second-degree endangerment of a child and aggravated DWI. Marcus Williams, 47, has six prior charges and four convictions of DWI and also was charged with his driver’s license being revoked three times — July 7, 2022; Jan. 26, 2023; and May 31...
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Women helping women
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
Residents and employees of The Cottages of LaBonne Maison in Sikeston recently purchased women’s personal care items for the residents of a local women’s shelter.
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James ‘Rick’ Phillips
(Obituary ~ 05/01/24)
BENTON, Mo. — James “Rick” Phillips, son of Katherine “Granny” Bacchus Phillips of Chaffee, Missouri, and the late Sherman Vick Phillips, was born on Jan. 20, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois, and departed his life on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and the age of 74 years...
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Wanda Dill
(Obituary ~ 05/01/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Wanda Nicholas Dill, age 94, passed away on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born on Sept. 19, 1929, in Alicia, Arkansas, to the late William and Mary Hilliard Nicholas.
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Wing wars at the Legion cook-off
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
Gina Williams/Standard Democrat Wing wars at the Legion cook-off SIKESTON — Terry Couch, left, and Chris Shanle of Sikeston cook for the wing war during the annual American Legion Cook-off Friday, April 26 at Sikeston American Legion Post 114.
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South Scott Ambulance donates to SCTC
(Local News ~ 05/01/24)
Ken Dicus and the Board of the South Scott County Ambulance District recently donated a 2009 ambulance along with two stretchers to the Sikeston Career and Technology Center. The ambulance will be used as a training vehicle for SCTC’s new EMT Program, according to Natalie Bohannon, marketing and communications specialist for Sikeston Public Schools. ...
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