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New principal hired for 2013-2014 school year at Southwest Elem.
(Local News ~ 01/23/13)
The Dexter School Board Tuesday night hired Bethany Deal, currently a principal at Valley R-VI Jr. High and High School in Caledonia, to fill the position of principal at Southwest Elementary School for the 2013-14 school year. The position becomes available upon the June retirement of Sherry Matthews, who has served as principal at Southwest for the past 15 years...
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Bloomfield, Puxico lock up in triple-OT thriller
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/13)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- What was expected to be the best game in the first round of the 88th Annual Stoddard County Activities Association Tournament didn't disappoint. Fourth-seeded Bloomfield battled from behind all night, but in the end it was the Wildcats that finished in front of No. 5 Puxico, 72-66, in a triple overtime thriller Tuesday night...
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Dexter native David Lee signs on as quarterbacks coach for Jets
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/13)
Dexter native David Lee has signed a two-year contract to coach quarterbacks for the New York Jets. Lee served as quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills last season and is veteran in college and in the NFL. Lee lived in Dexter until 1966 when he left as an eighth grader to move to Florida. ...
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County to put use tax on ballot
(Local News ~ 01/23/13)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission voted unanimously Monday morning to put a use tax on the April election ballot equivalent to the sales tax of one percent levied in the county. Commissioners said the use tax was needed to make up for revenues lost when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that local sales taxes could not be collected on new vehicles, boats, trailers or motors bought out of state or on the sale of used vehicles between individuals...
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This house is truly homemade
(Local News ~ 01/23/13)
There isn't a sight much sweeter than the view from Paul Morgan's front porch. The cabin he completed in November was built almost entirely from trees grown and milled on the Stoddard County land his family homesteaded nearly 80 years ago. It sits in the middle of soybean, wheat and corn fields cared for today by his son, the third generation of Morgans to farm that ground...
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