Stories from Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Golden Living Center of Dexter announced Tuesday that their resident, Betty Hubbard, won the Missouri Health Care Association (MHCA) District V 2015 Timeless Beauty Pageant at Cape Girardeau on June 26, 2015. She will go on to compete against other state contestants at the Missouri Health Care Association Convention in Branson, Mo., on Aug. 24, 2015...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO. -- Captain George E. Ridens, commanding officer of Troop E, Poplar Bluff, announces the Missouri State Highway Patrol will be conducting a Community Alliance Program at the Troop E Headquarters, beginning Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, and concluding with an awards banquet on Monday, Nov. ...

Dexter Police July 14, 2015 At 3:20 a.m., Monday, July 13, Dexter Police arrested Preston W. Simpson, 34, of Dexter, on the charge of criminal trespass. He was issued a summons. At 9:09 a.m., Monday, july 13, Dexter Police investigated an attempted passing of a counterfeit $20 bill. The case is still under investigation...

BERNIE, Mo. -- In a relatively brief meeting of the Bernie Board of Education Monday night, members unanimously passed a number of annual routine business items and approved the Annual Secretary of the Board report (ASBR) as presented by newly appointed board secretary Dena Mouton...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Bloomfield School Board worked through a routine agenda at their regular meeting Monday night that included eligibility requirements for free and reduced meals and a conflict of interest policy. The board met in special session in late June to amend the final 2014-15 budget. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The status of a road in Richland Township which has been gated and fenced was questioned at the regular meeting of the Stoddard County Commission Monday. Earl Wamble, a board member of the township, told the commission that someone from O'Fallon, Mo., had purchased land in the Birds Point/Clines Island area and wanted the township to maintain the road. ...

Bernie native Paul Wayne Pierce has been watching his star steadily rise above the small crowds of Nashville clubs to national tours. And, while he's experiencing continued success in the country music industry, he hasn't forgotten his home. In keeping with his fond memories of Stoddard County, Pierce will be performing an intimate acoustic show in Bloomfield on Saturday evening, July 18...

Do you believe in UFOs? A Dexter woman does after seeing what she believed to be saucer-like flying objects in the night sky over her home recently. The only problem with her theory is that it was the Fourth of July -- a time for all kinds of objects to be lighting up the skies overhead...

One never knows what will be flying in and out of the Dexter Municipal Airport. A flying enthusiast himself, Bernie's Norman Swafford captured a shot of this Cessna 120, built in 1947, as it took to skies from the local airport Monday morning.

The victim of the early Monday morning fire on N. Poplar Street has been tentatively identified as 52-year-old Lois Wells. Dexter Police Det. Cory Mills had requested on Monday that the name of the victim be withheld pending notification of next of kin and until she could be positively identified through an autopsy Tuesday morning. Mills reported on Tuesday that the department had obtained a DNA sample that has been sent to the Missouri Highway Patrol Crime Lab...

DEXTER, Mo. - The schedule has been released for the final Rib City Shootout of the summer. The two-day girls basketball event takes place Friday and Saturday at Dexter High School. Dexter's varsity will be divided into split squads at the event called Dexter White and Dexter Black. The Dexter middle school girls basketball team is also slated to compete at the event...