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"This Run's for Vaughn" event set for Saturday
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
The third annual "This Run's 4 Vaughn" takes place this Saturday, Oct. 1 begining with registration at 9 a.m. at the First Christian Church parking lot at 224 E. Stoddard Street in Dexter. When the event first took place in 2009, it benefited the family of Vaughn Wright, the church's longtime pastor at the time, who was suffering from ALS. The disease claimed his life just a month following the second run in November 2010...
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Bloomfield Board of Aldermen update
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - At the Monday meeting of the Bloomfield Board of Aldermen, the board handled a number of issues. Following is a brief synopsis. The board approved a larger light at the city park in an effort to better light the area in the evenings...
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Challenges drive local Parents as Teachers into 2011-12
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
The goal of Dexter Schools' Parents as Teachers program, says its director, Melanie Stoelting, is to involve parents with their children's education and to be confident in their role as a parent. In doing so, the goal then is to help their children learn, grow and develop to realize their full potential...
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Ready to Walk...the Wheelers
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
ESSEX, Mo. - When the walk to support research to find a cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease takes place in downtown St. Louis in just a few days, the city of Essex and more significantly, the family of the late Betty Wheeler, will be well represented...
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FD called to Faurecia plant
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
Dexter firefighters responded to a fire at the local Faurecia plant on Arvin Road at mid-morning Tuesday after a forklift ignited a fire at the southwest corner of the main building. Over 400 employes at the plant evacuated for more than an hour while smoke was pulled from the building. No one was injured at the plant and work resumed as normal before the noon hour...
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Freshman matchup highlights Dexter's win over Leopold
(High School Sports ~ 09/28/11)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Dexter middle Jessica Lindsey and Leopold middle Caitlin Petty turned a close third game into as much of a one-on-one battle as possible in the game of volleyball Tuesday night. The two had a direct role in the outcome of nine of the game's final 11 points. Lindsey closed out the 25-23, 21-25, 25-23 Dexter win with an ace and another serve that was passed over the net for teammate Brittany Harris to kill for the final point...
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Lady Bearcats fall on the road to Cape Central
(High School Sports ~ 09/28/11)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Dexter's girls tennis team suffered it third-straight loss at the hands of the Cape Central Lady Tigers, 7-2, Tuesday on the road. "We had three varsity sets go 8-6 so the girls played Cape very close," Dexter coach Leanne Dooley commented. "We just need to get better at finishing. This is all great practice for districts next week...
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Commission appoints clerk for Castor Township
(Business ~ 09/28/11)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Board of Commissioners appointed Jackie Bradshaw to the position of clerk on the Castor Township Board at their regular meeting Monday at the Government Building. Kathy Mooney Skelton was elected to the position in the last election and resigned, according to Township Board Member Henry Kestner. Kestner recommended the hiring of Bradshaw...
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Advance approves budget, updates parks, hear annexation requests
(Business ~ 09/28/11)
ADVANCE, Mo. - The Advance Board of Aldermen met on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 with only three members present--Carol Blanton, Randy Schrader, and Wayne Page. Aldermen Shirrell was absent for a work emergency. Also present were city clerk Linda Weisenborn, Police Chief Donnie Bohnsack, Officer Doug Golden, JD Braswell, Melvin Propst, Doug Melton, and Jerry Hampton...
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S&S marker unveiled at Bloomfield
(Local News ~ 09/28/11)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - When Union soldiers with Col. Richard J. Oglesby's 8th Illinois Infantry regiment took possession of an abandoned printing office on Nov. 8, 1861 while marching southward under the direction of Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, they never could have imagined how far reaching their efforts would be to keep members of the military informed...
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Cynthia Jean Featherston
(Obituary ~ 09/28/11)
Cynthia Jean Featherston died Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Cynthia, 50, of Jacksonville, Ark. was born Dec. 24, 1961 in San Diego, Calif. Cynthia graduated in 1979 from Dexter High School in Dexter, Mo. and later attended Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Mo. where she received her Nursing degree. She worked at local hospitals as an RN and home health care for 20 years in Poplar Bluff. She is entering a new journey of life with Jesus and her loved ones that preceded her...
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Janice E. Jackson
(Obituary ~ 09/28/11)
Janice E. Jackson, daughter of the late Jolly Warren and Lola Rice Warren was born on April 7, 1943 in Bernie, Mo. and died on Sept. 27, 2011 at the Land-mark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. at the age of 68. Mrs. Jackson was a former teacher at the Dexter Head Start for 34 years, a member of the Bernie Church of Christ, and a resident of rural Dexter...
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Carl Smith
(Obituary ~ 09/28/11)
Carl Smith, son of the late Oliver Smith and Mary Frances Wilson Smith was born on Sept. 11, 1931 in Palmer, Ark. and died on Sept. 26, 2011 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. at the age of 80. Mr. Smith was a retired farmer and a resident of Dexter...
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Doyal Duffie
(Obituary ~ 09/28/11)
Doyal Duffie, 88, a resident of Dexter, Missouri passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 at the Golden Living Center in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.
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