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Sikeston fireworks issue may be decided by voters, if council passes ordinance
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Every year as the Fourth of July nears, Sikeston residents and officials begin the debate on whether the shooting of fireworks should be allowed in the city limits. This April, voters could make that decision once and for all. On Monday, the Sikeston City Council heard the first reading of a measure that would put the fireworks issue on the April 5 ballot. If passed Monday, voters will have the opportunity to put to a rest a debate that has been ongoing for years...
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Tanner Street Church of God to celebrate 80th anniversary with Sunday homecoming
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Tanner Street Church of God will be celebrating its 80th anniversary at a homecoming event on Sunday. Building began on the church in May 1941 and 80 years later the church is inviting members past and present to their celebration. "We have a lot planned," said Rev. Georg Karl, senior pastor of Tanner Street...
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Construction begins on Holcomb safe room
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
The safe room will be 6,720 square feet and is designed per Federal Emergency Management Agency guidelines to shelter 847 people in the event of severe weather/tornadic event. The school has approximately 430 students, so there will be room enough to also protect community members...
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Cape Co. reports three more virus deaths
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
New COVID-19 case numbers -- and associated deaths -- have slowed in Cape Girardeau County, though the virus continues to claim lives. Officials with the county's public health center reported three virus deaths this week, pushing the pandemic total to 167. The three deaths involved individuals in their 60s, 70s and 80s...
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Postal workers plan Monday informational picket in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
A representative of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) said an informational picket will be staged in front of the Cape Girardeau Post Office at 320 N. Frederick Street to raise awareness of what he says is the Postal Service's plan to cease mail sorting operations locally and shift the work to St. Louis...
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Sponsored: Shop Local: 1st Class Travel
(Shop Local ~ 12/04/21)
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
Today is Saturday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2021. There are 27 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Dec. 4, 1942, during World War II, U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time with a raid on Naples. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression...
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Out of the past: Dec. 4
(Out of the Past ~ 12/04/21)
Southeast Missouri State University wants a new mascot to root on its Indian and Otahkian athletic teams; after abandoning its traditional Indian chief and princess mascots 10 years ago, the school experimented with two other mascots -- SEMO Red and Thunderbird; both proved unpopular and were quickly dropped...
- McDonald's gives to Student Santas (Community ~ 12/04/21)
- Zonta makes donation to tiger Lilies (Community ~ 12/04/21)
- Adopt Salsita 12-5-21 (Community ~ 12/04/21)
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When you need to hide
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
A deer hunter will probably know what this is, but do you? It's called a ground blind. A ground blind can be made of nearly anything from a permanent small building with a stove to a camouflage plastic tent like the one here. Photographers, birdwatchers, deer hunters and nature lovers all can enjoy time in a ground blind...
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Senior Center Menus for Dec. 6-10
(Community ~ 12/04/21)
Monday: Tortellini with ham and peas or almond Dijon chicken, glazed carrots, steamed squash, whole-grain hot roll and pineapple tidbits or honeybun cake. Tuesday: Sloppy Joe on bun or pork chop with apple stuffing, baby baker potatoes, steam broccoli and Mandarin oranges or banana pudding with cookies...
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Jesus, the host
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
Psalm 23, titled "The Lord, Shepherd and Host," (NAB) is one of my favorites. For most of my life, I really latched on to the "shepherd" role in the title and somehow, until more recently, completely overlooked the "and host" part. It is delightful to me that God would be so kind to help us relate to him through this language and imagery, to think about our Lord as someone who welcomes us in and puts together a banquet for us, wanting to nourish not only our bodies with "a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines" as Isaiah 25:6 (NAB) says, but also nourish our minds, spirits, souls with good conversation, deep thought and love, in the same way we want to do these things for others when we invite them in to our homes.. ...
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Live by faith
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1. The Greek word for "Faith" means to believe or trust. In Hebrew we get the word "Amen." When a person says amen, it means that he or she agrees and believes it to be so. The important aspect of the Christian faith is not the person's positive or hopeful attitude, but God in whom the faith is placed...
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Squeezing out Christmas
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
I wrote a note on the December page of my analog calendar that read, "Warning! December fills up fast." My prophetic sticky note proved true. A plethora of activities now surrounds the few events I had on the calendar. The busyness of December has prompted the idea of rewriting the Andy Williams Christmas song to say, "It's the most busiest time of the year."...
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FYI 12-5-21
(Community ~ 12/04/21)
St, Ambrose Catholic Church will hold a breakfast from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 5 at the Parish Center. The menu includes whole-hog sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy. St. Augustine School will host Breakfast with Santa and a special guest from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. ...
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Make the most of your time
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
Marge and I usually heat with just our wood heat when the average temp is say freezing or above. But when the temp gets any colder than we're used to, we rely on our central heat system. But last spring our central heat system kind of went on the blink, so we don't have it to fall back on right now. ...
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Christmas spirit lights up downtown
(Community ~ 12/04/21)
The 29th Parade of Lights was held Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, through downtown Cape Girardeau. Part of Old Town Cape Inc.'s Christmas in Downtown, this year's theme was 'Ringing in the Holidays with Old Town Cape!' Winners of this year's Parade of Lights include: Best Theme - Cape Shrine Club; Best Appearance Business/Organization: Plants Plus; Best Appearance Nonprofit: The Bridge Church; Best Music: Steve and Eric Dueling Pianos; Best Lighting: The Dream Factory; Best Marching Band: Meadow Heights; Chairman's Award: In Memory of Eric Uhrhan and Memory of Dominik.. ...
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Thank God, mom didn't think like 'Dr. Sotomayor'
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
The world is still COVID crazy. With their vaccine mandates, passports and mistreatment of the unvaccinated, free countries like Australia and Canada are turning into dictatorships. Now we have omicron -- a new variant of still unknown infectiousness and lethality that overnight panicked the world's governments and stock markets...
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Third Worldizing America
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
In a recent online exchange, the YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a "3rd-world [expletive]-hole of a city." The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger...
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The trade-offs of federally mandated paid leave
(Column ~ 12/04/21)
The nonsensical coverage of the debate over paid leave continues. Apparently, opposing a federal paid-leave program is the equivalent of being anti-family or pro-suffering, or so we're told. We rarely get information about the full consequences of such a policy...
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The absence of justice
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/04/21)
In spite of the most recent decision in Kenosha, where I feel justice prevailed, within it was a display of how justice has failed. Consider the unrestrained destruction of property -- and life -- by the protesters and rioters that made it necessary for otherwise law-abiding citizens to consider the need to defend themselves. And what goes to trial?...
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Speak Out 12-5-21
(Speak Out ~ 12/04/21)
"Deer to Blame for crash." "Motorcycle hits deer." Why are these headlines seen on local media? Driver fails to watch out for known hazard doesn't fit? Motorcyclist hits deer is more accurate. The vehicle operator is supposed to realize that deer are very active right now and take that into account. ...
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Prayer 12-5-21
(Prayer ~ 12/04/21)
O Lord Jesus, may we guard our words and glorify you in all we say. Amen.
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Juveniles charged in shooting death of Missouri student
(State News ~ 12/04/21)
PACIFIC, Mo. -- Two 16-year-old boys have been charged in the shooting death of an 18-year-old student in eastern Missouri, authorities said Friday. The two boys were each charged with second-degree murder after the body of Kiley Kennedy was found Wednesday near Pacific. Their names are not being released because they are juveniles...
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Rich? Want to be a U.S. senator? Then, welcome to Pennsylvania!
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Rich, Republican and want to be a U.S. senator? Pennsylvania might as well hang a welcome sign. The presidential battleground state's high-stakes race for an open Senate seat is seeing candidates with big bank accounts and big-time connections exchanging their blue-state mansions for decidedly purple Pennsylvania, and pursuing an opportunity they might never have at home...
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Lebanese minister resigns to ease crisis
(International News ~ 12/04/21)
BEIRUT -- Lebanon's information minister resigned Friday, a move many hope could open the way for easing an unprecedented diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations that has compounded the small country's multiple crises. George Kordahi, the minister and a prominent former game show host, said he took the decision to step down ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday. ...
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'The fire that's here': U.S. is still battling delta variant
(State News ~ 12/04/21)
While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant that is popping up around the country, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., swamping hospitals with record numbers of patients in the Midwest and New England...
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Officials wrangle over health director
(State News ~ 12/04/21)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- A bipartisan majority of the St. Louis County Council has called for the ouster of acting Public Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan, but County Executive Sam Page says Khan isn't going anywhere. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the council on Tuesday voted 5-2 to adopt a nonbinding recommendation that Page, a Democrat, reject the formal appointment for Khan to lead the health department...
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Biden warns against Ukraine invasion
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to make it "very, very difficult" for Russia's Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine and said new initiatives coming from his administration are intended to deter Russian aggression...
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Parents of Michigan boy charged in school shooting
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
PONTIAC, Mich. -- The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school were charged with involuntary manslaughter Friday as a prosecutor described chilling moments that day when a teacher found a drawing of a gun, a person bleeding and the words "blood everywhere" at the boy's desk...
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Despite analysis, Parson adamant mask mandates don't work
(State News ~ 12/04/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A health department analysis shows Missouri cities that require masks to combat the coronavirus pandemic this year saw fewer infections, but Republican Gov. Mike Parson insisted Thursday that mandates don't work. The analysis was first reported Wednesday by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project at The Brown Institute for Media Innovation following an open-records request...
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Iran nuclear talks pause, will reconvene in Vienna next week
(International News ~ 12/04/21)
BERLIN -- Diplomats negotiating in Vienna to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers have paused after five days of talks to consult with their governments and will reconvene next week, officials said Friday. The European Union official chairing the meeting said there had been some progress, but further "convergence" was necessary...
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Biden signs stopgap funding bill to keep government running
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb. 18, after congressional leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The White House released a statement noting the bill signing and thanking congressional leaders for their work. ...
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Jobless rate sinks to 4.2% as many more people find jobs
(National News ~ 12/04/21)
WASHINGTON -- America's unemployment rate tumbled last month to its lowest point since the pandemic struck, even as employers appeared to slow their hiring -- a mixed picture that pointed to a resilient economy that's putting more people to work. The government reported Friday that businesses and other employers added just 210,000 jobs in November, the weakest monthly gain in nearly a year and less than half of October's increase of 546,000...
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Police report 12-5-21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/04/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office released the following items. Arrests to not imply guilt. Arrests n Travis D. Sturm, 41, of Scott City was arrested on an Alexander County, Illinois, warrant for failure to appear for driving while suspended...
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Fire report 12-5-21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/04/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 1 n Medical assists were made at 6:28 a.m. on Stoddard Street; 7:23 a.m. on Linden Street; 12:41 p.m. on South Lorimier Street; 3:36 p.m. on Bloomfield Road; and 5:08 p.m. on Park Place Drive...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda for 12-6-21
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
City of Jackson mayor and Board of Aldermen Regular meeting 6 p.m. Monday Adoption of agenda n Motion adopting the Regular Meeting Agenda Approval of minutes n Minutes of Regular Meeting of Nov. 15, 2021 Financial affairs n Motion approving the payment of monthly bills...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda for 12-6-21
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
Cape Girardeau City Council 5 p.m. Tuesday City Hall 401 Independence St. Study session n No action will be taken during the study session Presentations n Presentation by finance director Communications/reports n City Council staff Items for discussion...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 12/6/21 meeting
(Local News ~ 12/04/21)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Minutes of stated meeting of Dec. 2, 2021 Communications/reports -- other elected officials n COVID-19 Update: In an effort to keep Cape Girardeau County residents safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Mark Winkler will be issuing an update at County Commission meetings. ...
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Ermalee Smith
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
Vernitta "Ermalee" Smith, 78, of Cape Girardeau walked into the loving arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer, surrounded by her family at home. She was born in Perkins, Missouri, to Raymond and Lillie Marie Mouser Eaker. She married Sam Smith on June 24, 1961, at Bethany Baptist Church. They were blessed with 60 1/2 years together...
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Erma Quade
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
Erma Dee Quade, 90, of Cape Girardeau, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at her home. She was born May 20, 1931, in Burfordville to the late Charles F. and Dena Graden Froemsdorf. Erma and Paul Quade were married Sept. 1, 1951. She was a graduate of College High School and retired from U.S. Bank as a teller after more than 30 years. Erma was a member of the United Church of God...
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Jimmy Lincoln
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
Jimmy Wayne Lincoln, 78, of Scopus, Missouri, died Nov. 30, 2021. Scheduled funeral services have been rescheduled until Dec. 13, 2021, due to family covid illness. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Hutchings Funeral Chapel on Dec. 13. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. on Dec. 13 with burial in Cook Cemetery...
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Ivan LaGrand
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
Ivan Daniel LaGrand, 54 of Marquand, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 8, 1967, in Cape Girardeau to the late Floyd and Virginia Hobbs LaGrand. Ivan was a 1985 graduate of University High and a 1993 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree...
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Penny Ford
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
Penny Jo Ford, 58, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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John Finch
(Obituary ~ 12/04/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- John David Finch, 74, passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, at St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City, after a long and brave battle against Lymphoma. He was born Jan. 16, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Judge James A. Finch Jr. and Helen Carroll Finch...
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Out of the past: Dec. 5
(Out of the Past ~ 12/04/21)
Gasoline prices in the Cape Girardeau area have climbed to nearly $1.25 a gallon for regular unleaded fuel at most stations, the highest price since January 1991; Mike Right of the AAA Auto Club of Missouri says gasoline inventories are at the lowest level nationally since the 1960s; he says low supply is the main reason for high fuel prices...
- Evening Optimists makes donation to Project Charlie (Community ~ 12/04/21)
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