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Health Insurance is topic at Bernie hearing
(Local News ~ 11/07/13)
BERNIE, Mo. -- Danny Young, owner of Young Insurance in Bernie, met with the Bernie Board of Aldermen during a public hearing prior to the regular meeting about health insurance renewal. The current provider for the city is United Health Care. Young said if the city renews the policy by Dec. 1, 2013, and United Health Care would increase premiums by 25.95 percent. If they chose to wait until Feb. 1, 2014, the rate would increase 54.6 percent...
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Mel Jones photo exhibit coming to Keller Library
(Local News ~ 11/07/13)
For the third consecutive year, a guest in Dexter from Great Britain will be sharing a collection of his unique photographs through an exhibit at Keller Public Library. Mel Jones is a native of Taunton, England, who in his work as a consultant engineer with Federal Mogul, began traveling to the U.S. ...
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Republic meets with city of Bernie over manganese levels
(Local News ~ 11/07/13)
BERNIE, Mo. -- An official with Republic Services addressed the Bernie Board of Aldermen about problems encountered by the city in the disposal of leachate from the landfill north of Dexter into the sewer treatment plant. The discussion took place at a public hearing held prior to the regular board meeting Monday. ...
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Short-lived colors of the season
(Local News ~ 11/07/13)
The colors of fall, especially brilliant this year, are beginning to fade with recent frosts, wind and rain. Some vibrant yellows and oranges, though, may still be found on Park Lane near downtown Dexter, where this photo was taken.
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Bear encounters are increasing in Missouri
(High School Sports ~ 11/07/13)
Time was when rumors of bears sighted in Missouri were regarded in the same light as claims made by people who said they had witnessed black panthers in the woods of the state. Sure, it's possible but... really? The fact is, unlike cougars, black bears have never been considered extirpated in Missouri. ...
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Outdoor Column: Youth deer season
(High School Sports ~ 11/07/13)
Youth season, man and child, father and son, veteran and rookie, wisdom and, well, you get the point. I spent what has become my favorite weekend of the year in the vast beauty that is Mark Twain National Forrest in the Ozarks of Missouri, with my favorite hunting partner, my eight-year-old son Jameson...
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Dexter's Lindsey, Jines and Spear make all-district volleyball team
(High School Sports ~ 11/07/13)
Three Dexter players were recently selected to the Class 3, District 1, all-district volleyball team. Dexter junior middle hitter Jessica Lindsey was selected first-team all-district. Dexter junior middle hitter Shyann Jines was selected second-team all-district...
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Michael Glenn Harrison
(Obituary ~ 11/07/13)
Michael Glenn Harrison, son of the late Horace and Glenda Little Harrison, was born in Earle, Ark., on Feb. 11, 1953, and died at the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County in Dexter, on Nov. 3, 2013, at the age of 60. He had lived in Bloomfield for the last 25 years. He had worked for the City of Memphis, Tenn., for many years and was a member of the Beech Grove Baptist Church near Bloomfiled. He enjoyed hunting for arrowheads, hunting, and reading...
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Norma Faye Leonard
(Obituary ~ 11/07/13)
Norma Faye Leonard, 67, of Dexter, died Nov. 5, 2013, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. She was born Feb. 20, 1946, in New Madrid, to the late Betty Jo Knight and Welton Carroll, In April 1967, she married David Pomeroy who preceded her in death in Feb. 1968, in Vietnam...
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