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Arbor Day Proclamation
(Local News ~ 04/08/12)
NOREEN HYSLOP photo Arbor Day Proclamation Mayor Joe Weber is shown signing a proclamation that declared April 1 as Arbor Day in Dexter. Witnessing the signing is Wayne Jean, representing the Dexter Tree Board. The year 2012 marks the 140th anniversary of Arbor Day which is now observed throughout the nation and the world as a day set aside to heighten awareness regarding trees as renewable resources...
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$100K lottery hit for Wappapello woman
(Local News ~ 04/08/12)
By SARABETH WALLER SEMO News Service WAPPEPELLO, Mo. - A trip to Calhoun's Food Rite for fried chicken on March 25 led to a $100,000 lottery windfall for one local woman. Donna Caldwell, 54, of Wappapello, told the Missouri Lottery the win capped off a lucky lottery day...
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Carrying the Cross
(Local News ~ 04/08/12)
By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor In the cool winds of Good Friday morning, alongside a stretch of Highway 60 east of Dexter, stood Nathan and Linda Null, holding a 10-foot high cross, one of several seen along Highway 60 Friday morning. The "Carrying the Cross" movement that dotted highways from Cairo, Ill. ...
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Grown-up gators a challenge for SEMO town
(Local News ~ 04/08/12)
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The 50 baby alligators were cute little critters, each roughly the size of a pencil, when a Colorado man sold them out of a trailer in the parking lot of the Kennett Eagles Club in southeast Missouri...
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Living with the special needs of Asperger's
(Local News ~ 04/08/12)
April is Autism Awareness Month By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Lauren Neuhaus recognized a couple of years ago that there was something "special" about her son, Owen. Although at the age of five, he can put together a 100-piece puzzle with ease and recite the dialogue on a cartoon or movie after just a couple of viewings, he cannot count to 10 and cannot seem to remember the alphabet in sequence...
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