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Dexter's Stevens competes at MSHSAA golf tournament
(High School Sports ~ 05/16/12)
Dexter's lone representative at the MSHSAA Class 1 state golf tournament finished tied for 53rd after two days of competition at Rivercut Golf Club in Springfield Monday and Tuesday. Stevens, a senior, carded rounds of 80-83 to finish at 163. Rivercut plays to a par 72...
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Central completes upset run with district title
(High School Sports ~ 05/16/12)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Central pitcher Chase Hagerty saved his best inning for his last inning in Tuesday's Class 4 District 1 championship. The freshman retired in order the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 hitters in top-seeded Farmington's lineup in the bottom of the seventh inning to finish the Tigers' 10-3 win and secure their second consecutive district crown...
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Bernie to face Oran in district title game
(High School Sports ~ 05/16/12)
The Oran baseball team advanced to the Class 1 Distrcit 2 championship with a 10-0 win over Advance in five innings Tuesday in Leopold. Dalton Elfrink pitched all five innings for the win and also had a big day at the plate. Elfrink was 2 for 3 with a double and five RBIs. He struck out 11 and walked one batter on the mound...
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Ward, Miller advance to state tourney
(High School Sports ~ 05/16/12)
After finishing one-two in the Class 1, District 1 tennis tournament in Potosi, Dexter's Samuel Ward and Tyler Miller kept their hopes of a MSHSAA state title alive as both players picked up singles wins at sectionals. Ward enter sectional play as a No. 1 seed and beat Festus' Austin Sides, 7-5, 7-5, to punch his ticket to the state tournament...
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One step away
(High School Sports ~ 05/16/12)
Dexter High School will be represented in four events at the sectional round of the MSHSAA track playoffs Saturday at Ste. Genvieve. Pictured above are the five Lady Bearcats that will be competing in the four events. They are (from left) Brooke Baker, junior; Samantha Midgett, junior; Taylor Martin, senior; Lindsey Hindman, senior; and Courtney Potts, freshman. ...
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Walker Cemetery meeting set
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
Walker Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at the Mt. Zion Church on County Road 510. A carry-in meal will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the business meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend, especially any family members who have loved ones at the Walker Cemetery...
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Chicken and Dumplin' benefit set
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
A Benefit Chicken and Dumplin' Dinner is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 19 at the Harvest Assembly Church in Essex. The dinner will be held from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. The cost of the meal will be $6. The dinner is being held to offset expenses that the family of Elijah Freeman have incurred since Elijah's diagnosis of lymphoma...
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PAT Program receives WalMart grant
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
Dexter Schools' Parents as Teachers Program received a $1,000 grant this week from the local WalMart Super Store, to be utilized for screenings and home visits to children from birth to three years old during the coming school year. WalMart Store Manager Debbie Juden, second from left, presented the check to, from left, Parent Educator Cheryl Boggess, PAT Director Melanie Stoelting, and Parent Educator Debbie Blunt...
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Sarah Marie Mossman
(Obituary ~ 05/16/12)
Sarah Marie Mossman, daughter of the late Douglas Estes and Nancy Cowan Estes, was born on Jan. 2, 1925, in Bernie and died in the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter on May 15, 2012, at the age of 86. She was united in marriage to Cleo Mossman on March 5, 1943, in Dexter. Mr. Mossman preceded her in death on November 15, 2001...
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Safe room plans to go to SEMA for approval
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Bloomfield School Board approved sending redesigned specifications for a FEMA safe room to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for approval at its regular meeting Monday night and authorized Dr. Nicholas Thiele, district superintendent, to put the project out for bids. ...
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Mo. Senate votes to add cellphones to No Call List
(State News ~ 05/16/12)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Legislation allowing Missourians to add their cellphone numbers to the state's No Call List for telemarketers is on its way to Gov. Jay Nixon. The measure would prohibit most solicitations by phone call or text message to cellphones placed on the list, which Nixon helped develop when he served as Missouri attorney general...
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Bernie examines policy changes
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
Bernie School Board members accepted the resignation of their Parents as Teachers Instructor, approved two program evaluations, approved revisions to the district's elementary handbook, and unanimously voted to accept the district's 2013 school budget during their regular monthly meeting Monday night...
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Farmland already parched in May
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
April showers failed to materialize and May is so far going down as one of the dryest on record for the Missouri Bootheel, which is of great concern to local farmers. Already the irrigation wells are working overtime. In addition, because of the earlier planting season, many pre-emergent herbicides were applied that needed a rain to activate...
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Postal Service deadline for action by Congress passes
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Bess Johnson, a clerk at the Richard G. Wilson Mail Processing and Distribution Facility, is pessimistic about her future. "It's just scary," she said. The Cape Girardeau center, with about 100 employees, was one of 220 set to close until the U.S. Postal Service agreed to a moratorium on facility closures through Tuesday to allow Congress time to act on an alternative...
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First prelim hearing put on hold in Qulin murder case
(Local News ~ 05/16/12)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Testimony began Monday afternoon in the case of a Qulin, Mo., woman accused of conspiring with other family members to kill her stepmother, whose remains were found scattered in a secluded area near Qulin more than 12 years ago. Accompanied by her attorney, Danny Moore, Melissa Jo "Missy" Austin Baggett, 38, appeared before Associate Circuit Judge John Bloodworth for a preliminary hearing in her case...
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