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Police Reports
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
Dexter Police July 19, 2013 Kenneth Thor Anderson, 45, of Dexter, was arrested for driving while license revoked or suspended, no insurance and display of another's license plates. Damage to property (a house) on N. Lewis was reported. A summons was issued for George Ray Birchfield, 60, of Qulin, for shoplifting...
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Miller celebrates 90th
(Anniversary ~ 07/21/13)
Purchase this photo at dailystatesman.com NOREEN HYSLOP photo-nhyslop@dailystatesman.com Jim Miller of Dexter celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday, July 18 with family at his Dexter home. ...
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BRPC to repair office building
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer The Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission (BRPC) Executive Committee approved an emergency capital improvement project to repair and repaint the building in Dexter at their meeting Thursday. The BRPC offices are located in the old Armory on East North Main...
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Stoddard County included for disaster aid
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Friday that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Missouri, including Stoddard County, to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding during the period of May 29 to June 10, 2013...
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911 Board to pay half of equipment cost
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer The Stoddard County 911 Services Board voted to pay half the cost of 10 wireless headsets, four base stations for the headsets and backup batteries at a cost of $1,477.70 at their regular meeting Thursday. County 911 Services Administrator Carol Moreland had proposed that 911 Services buy four wireless headsets to go with new digital equipment being installed in the Stoddard County Ambulance District (SCAD) dispatch center. ...
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Caboose finds new downtown home
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
NOREEN HYSLOP-nhyslop@dailystatesman.com It's not often one gets to witness the sight of a train caboose suspended in the air, but that's what spectators saw Friday morning as a crew from Brown Construction Co. worked to maneuver the old red caboose from its longtime home on S. Main St. near downtown to its new home. The caboose will still be on S. Main St., but now a block west as part of the city's Welcome Center at the site of the renovated railroad depot...
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Webbs Celebrate 70 Years
(Anniversary ~ 07/21/13)
SUBMITTED photos Sherman and Thelma Webb recently celebrated 70 years of marriage. The Poplar Bluff couple were wed in Poplar Bluff on July 13, 1943. Thelma Webb is the former Thelma Drew, a lifelong resident of Qulin. She is the daughter of the late Dell and Ruth Drew...
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Five generations
(Anniversary ~ 07/21/13)
SUBMITTED photo Five generations on each side of the Francis and Hare families gathered recently. At top are Keith Francis, his daughter Tina (Francis) Williamson, and Angela Malloy. In front are Louise Francis, Megan Gilbert holding Remington Gage Zherbourne, and at far right, James Hare...
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It's about duty, honor, & country
(Local News ~ 07/21/13)
By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor On the first Thursday night of each month they gather to conduct the business at hand. Before they do, they raise their right hand to their brow in salute fashion as they proudly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, with some referring to an aged laminated sheet at their table and others needing no cues, they recite the Preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion...
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