Stories from Friday, April 17, 2015

The schedule has been released for the nine-team Malden baseball tournament The tournament takes place April 17-18 at Malden High School. Each team will play two games on Friday and two games on Saturday. Teams will be re-pooled after Friday's results and play pool play in a championship pool, runners-up pool and consolation pool. ...

Dexter Police April 15-16, 2015 At 12:21 p.m., Tuesday, April, 14, Dexter Police started investigation of a report of counterfeiting at 303 West Market Street. At 4:22 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, Dexter Police responded to a two-vehicle accident at 2025 West Business Highway 60. According to the report, the accident occurred when a vehicle driven by Lisa Bell, of Brosley, struck a vehicle that was being driven by Darrell Jones, of Dexter...

The Stoddard County Ambulance District (SCAD) Board of Directors approved making an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) a crew chief over other EMTs by a split vote at their regular meeting Tuesday night. The board voted unanimously to give SCAD management the authority to purchase a medical ambulance bus after traveling to High Point, NC to inspect the bus...

A new weather system? Paving/drainage work? The Dexter City Airport had a couple of things to consider going into Monday's meeting; but, it looks as though something else might be happening. Dexter City Administrator Mark Stidham previously explained that the airport board was considering the purchase of an AWOS system, which is designed to monitor and report on the weather. The board was also considering a project of hangar area drainage, and pavement rehab...

Gracy Neal's world is full of energy and enthusiasm, curiosity and spontaneity. Like most preschool children, the four-year-old loves puzzles and swings, climbing and balance beams. But Gracy does not yet feed herself with a fork as most children her age. ...

Dexter Fire Chief Don Seymore, at left, works to support the "fatality victim" (Shyann Jines) in a two-vehicle mock accident staged behind Dexter High School Thursday afternoon. Students from both T.S. Hill Middle School and DHS gathered along a stretch of Brown Pilot Lane to witness a staged scene in which three students were injured and one was killed in an accident that involved drinking and driving. ...

Note: A photo gallery of the Bernie-Bloomfield baseball game is available here: View Photos Here BERNIE, Mo. - The Bernie Mules hitters put the pedal to the metal early and never let off the gas as it cruised to a 12-0 five-inning baseball victory against the Bloomfield Wildcats Thursday afternoon...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Bloomfield won a three-team golf match against Doniphan and New Madrid County Thursday at Crowley Ridge Recreational Center in Bloomfield. Bloomfield finished first with a team score of 187, Doniphan second with a 198 and New Madrid was third with a 218...

DEXTER, Mo. - Sikeston's Gabe Wheeler finished with a field-best 37 during a four-team match at Hidden Trails Country Club in Dexter Wednesday. Wheeler beat Notre Dame's Jonathan Bell and Jon Renner by one stroke. Notre Dame's Trent Schumer, Dexter's Drake Mitchell and Cape Central's Kobe Franklin each finished with 39's...

Advance R-IV School Board members met on Monday, April 13, 2015, following an April 7 election which approved the newly-proposed FEMA Safe Room, returned Charlie Mayo to the board, and added new board member Jim Below. Board president David Kennedy expressed the board's thanks for the community's passing of the safe room bond issue...

On the Road Terry Bloodworth has spent 38 years of his life working with hot glass. In the demonstration method which he learned working twenty years at Silver Dollar City in the Ozarks, Bloodworth explains the process, as he and his son Gabe create a beautiful glass art object in their shop at 314 S. Campbell, Springfield, MO...

Bernice T. Dutton of Dexter died April 17, 2015, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 96. Arrangements are being handled by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter and are incomplete at this time.