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After 90 years, Williams plans to just keep on going
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
By JONATHON DAWE Statesman Staff Writer Katherine Williams, of Dexter, celebrated her 90th birthday on Friday, Nov. 27. And, while she is fully aware that she has put another year behind her, she has no plans on slowing down her current pace. Williams was born in Brownsville, Tn., and moved to Missouri at the age of eight. She first moved to Oran, then to Bell City, and then to Bloomfield. It wasn't until 1946, when she married her husband Richard, that she moved to Dexter...
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Deck retires from Twin Rivers hospital after 46 years
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
By LAURA FORD SEMO News Service KENNETT, Mo. -- The Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center classroom was filled with balloons and people on Friday, Nov. 13, as friends, family and co-workers celebrated with Sharon Deck, who after 46 decided that it was time to retire...
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Dexter girls basketball team surrenders 45-29 lead in 68-62 overtime loss to Kirkwood
(High School Sports ~ 11/28/15)
The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls basketball team built a 45-29 second-half lead but ultimately came up short in its bid to secure its first victory of the 2015-16 season Saturday in St. Louis. The Kirkwood Pioneers scored the final seven points of regulation and the first eight points of overtime on its way to a come-from-behind 68-62 overtime win against Dexter...
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2015 Boys Basketball Preview: Bloomfield Wildcats
(High School Sports ~ 11/28/15)
The numbers are on the Bloomfield Wildcats' side in a big way entering the 2015-16 high school basketball season. Bloomfield has the luxury of having the largest high school basketball roster of any boys basketball program in Stoddard County with an unprecedented 31 students going out for boys basketball...
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PSREA donates to Gospel Rescue Mission
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
Donations of canned and non-perishable goods were collected at the Nov. 23 meeting of the Public School Retired Employees Assocation held at Dexter's Hickory Log Restaurant. Along with the canned goods, members made a monetary donation of $125 as well. ...
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Thankful: Puxico couple recovers together after hiking accident
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
PUXICO, Mo. -- Thanksgiving Day marked one week since retired Puxico elementary school teacher Margaret Binford was able to stop wearing the brace that supported the four cracked vertebrae in her lower back. She and her husband, Ray, also a retired elementary school teacher, suffered a fall while hiking together in Washington state. They consider their survival nothing short of miraculous...
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Firearms deer harvest up significantly
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
More hunting pressure than usual -- plus generally favorable conditions -- equalled a significant increase in Missouri's firearms deer season harvest this year. Over the duration of the 11-day season, which ended Wednesday, hunters in Missouri managed to kill 189,938 deer. The number is preliminary and could vary slightly, but it's up around 13 percent from last year's season total of 167,205 and is the best harvest since 2012...
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Gargas named Colonel, to serve as Commander of 70th Troop Command
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Col. Ed Gargas of Dexter was welcomed recently as the new commander of the 70th Troop Command during the change of command ceremony held recently at Jefferson Barracks. Gargas was promoted to the rank of Colonel just prior to the change of command...
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2015 Boys Basketball Preview: Bernie Mules
(High School Sports ~ 11/28/15)
The Bernie Mules enter the 2015-16 season with a new group of players in search of repeat success. The Mules do not return a starter off of last season's squad that finished 22-6 and became the only team in school history to win the SCAA Tournament and Bloomfield Christmas Tournament in the same season...
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Very few remain on SOS Christmas list
(Local News ~ 11/28/15)
A pair of families still remain on the list in need of help through The Daily Statesman's Operation Santa Program. A third household has been adopted, but could still use additional help. Anyone who would like to adopt a family is asked to contact The Daily Statesman by calling 624-4545 or by coming into the paper's offices at 133 S. Walnut St. in downtown Dexter. Those making family adoptions will receive the family's application, and at that time, the task of supplying gifts is out of the paper's hands. It will be the responsibility of the person, business, civic club, church or organization to contact the family in need and deliver the items to the family.
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Bertie L. Morgan
(Obituary ~ 11/28/15)
Bertie L. Morgan Bertie L. Morgan, the daughter of the late Joseph Samuel & Mary LaVena Watson Nash, was born in Bunker, Missouri on December 20, 1926, and died at her home in Dudley, Missouri on November 27, 2015 at the age of 88. Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, Mo. is in charge of arrangements...
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