Stories from Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Stoddard County Commissioners received word an environmental review will need to be completed for the new Nestle Purina facility during Monday morning’s meeting. According to Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Executive Director Hannah Burnett, the Department of Economic Development requires the new facility to be included...

DEXTER — The last of Amanda Long’s three children graduated from Dexter R-XI in 2014. She attended a public meeting Monday on a proposed $15 million bond measure as a community member and business owner. Long wanted to understand the ballot measure that goes before voters April 2, and be able to explain it to others...

DEXTER — Residents in all three of the City of Dexter’s wards will decide Tuesday who will represent them on the Board of Aldermen for the next two years. The only contested race is for the Ward III alderman position, as both Ward I Alderman Terry Battles and Ward II Alderman Tim Aslin are running unopposed...

DEXTER — A board created to help developmentally disabled residents in Stoddard County faces turning into Washington, D.C., member Josh Hester said during a meeting Thursday night. It risks creating gridlock, with nothing being done. It already is, multiple members of the audience said, as arguments continued about legal services, property questions and which workshop to fund...

There are three candidates competing April 2 for two seats on the Dexter R-XI Board of Education. Incumbents Nancy Mayer and Herman Morse are being challenged by Ron Glaus II. The two candidates who receive the most votes will serve three-year terms...

Barbara Jo Walker, 64 of Malden died Monday, March 25, 2019 at her residence in Malden. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 28 at the Bradshaw Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Richard Blagg, Pastor David Wilson and Pastor Jerry Adams officiating. Interment will be in the Mount Gilead cemetery in Clarkton...

Joel G. Vinson, 77, of Sikeston, died Sunday, March 24, 2019 at Sikeston, Mo. He was born April 18, 1941 at Rock Island, Ill., the son of John B. Vinson and the grandson of Samuel R. and Pamie Lou Scott Vinson, who raised him. Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter in charge of all arrangements...