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More folks flocked to the fair in 2023
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
This year's SEMO District Fair boasted the highest attendance in three years. Darrell Aufdenberg, president of the Board of Directors for the fair, said he didn't have exact numbers yet, but was confident in his estimation that attendance was up by 10%. Fair admissions totaled 82,887 in 2022 and 80,637 in 2021...
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Project Hope to return for 14th year
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri will host the 14th annual Project Hope event Friday, Oct. 6, in Cape Girardeau. Free services such as medical and dental assessments, haircuts and eye exams will be provided for low-income or homeless families...
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Public or not? Trustees challenging access status at Perry County Memorial
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Voters in Perry County, Missouri, pay about $350,000 in property taxes annually to go toward Perry County Memorial Hospital. The $350,000 is a fraction of the overall budget, but taxpayers have always had representation for this taxation, per Missouri law...
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Cape school board to host public discussion
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Cape Girardeau Public Schools Board of Education will host a community discussion Thursday, Oct. 5, at Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center. According to a CGPS news release, the board and other district leaders will be on hand to meet community members and share information regarding current and future opportunities for CGPS students...
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Highway 61 work in Jackson starts Monday
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Morning rush hour traffic in Jackson Monday, Oct. 2, is expected to be out of the ordinary, thanks to the 6 a.m. launch of Route 61 improvements overseen by Missouri Department of Transportation and authorized by the state Highways and Transportation Commission...
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Council to take up mall project agreement at Monday meeting
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council members will consider a comprehensive Redevelopment Agreement for West Park Mall at their meeting, Monday, Oct 2. The proposed Redevelopment Agreement from River City Centre LLC, a group of local investors who bought the mall more than two years ago, envisions redeveloping West Park Mall to accommodate new retail spaces. ...
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Treasurer resigns from Perry County trustees board; Hutchison demands access to closed meeting records
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- On the final countdown before Perry Memorial Health System was to be absorbed by the Mercy system, a meeting in the basement of Perry County Memorial Hospital demonstrated a divided community over the direction of the local institution...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/30/23)
Today is Saturday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2022. There are 92 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean was killed at age 24 in a two-car collision near Cholame, California. On this date: In 1777, the Continental Congress -- forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces -- moved to York, Pennsylvania...
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Learning about Iska
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
In processing small manuscripts at the Cape County Historical Society Research Annex, I come across many collections about people I wish I had time to explore. Thanks to Alice Ireland of the Research Annex for helping pull together this information about one of Cape Girardeau's own daughters, who appears to have been a very independent woman...
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So why do family historians appreciate taxes?
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
It is rare to find someone who likes taxes. However, genealogists at least have a deep appreciation for tax assessment lists and other tax-related records. Such records, if they survive, can tell us much about an ancestor. The collective name for this type of record is a "tax list", but these encompass several types of records. ...
- Adopt Roscoe 10-1-23 (Community ~ 09/30/23)
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Senior Center Menus for Oct. 2 through 6
(Community ~ 09/30/23)
Monday: Pasta with meat sauce or turkey tetrazzini, Italian-blend veggies, garden salad, whole-grain garlic bread and chilled peaches or cook's choice dessert. Tuesday: Salisbury steak or Polish sausage and kraut, mashed potatoes, green beans, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free apple crisp or chocolate cake...
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Club news 10-1-23
(Community News ~ 09/30/23)
The Cape Girardeau County FCE Council met Thursday, Sept. 7, at the University of Missouri Extension Center in Jackson. President Judy Strickland presided. The pledges to the American Flag and the Missouri Flag were recited. The devotion, "My Younger Days" was presented by JoAnn Hahs of Lamplighters Club...
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An odd looking flower
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
This is a pretty little flower that is fairly common in Southeast Missouri. It may be found growing at the edges of a garden or flowerbed. It can establish itself, reseed and come up year after year. This flower is called a dayflower because the individual flowers usually last only one day...
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2023 SEMO District Fair winners
(Community ~ 09/30/23)
Champion junior heifer calf: Birk Beef Cattle, Gordonville Reserve champion junior heifer calf: Hat Creek Genetics, Jackson Champion heifer calf: Hat Creek Genetics, Jackson Reserve champion heifer calf: Versemann Angus, Jackson Intermediate champion heifer: Wyatt Pohlman, Oak Ridge...
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Who I hope to be when I grow up
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us -- at least in a figurative way. My late mother-in-law, for example. Found among her papers following her death a dozen years ago is a letter she wrote to God. Her children have deemed her undated missive her personal psalm of praise, thanksgiving and faith...
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Finding joy in the fall
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
Recently, I noticed something different in the air. It was a gradual slowing down of life. The restlessness of a forever summer had settled into reality, and I was looking for a change. It seemed that changes and daunting mystery was all around. I was looking for a new path now, one that would take me in a different direction. ...
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What would you have written?
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
Marge and I have for the past couple years been looking at funeral stones or grave markers to put in the cemetery. Some have asked us if we'd like to be buried in Nebraska to which we replied no. We've lived here in Missouri close to 40 years. We moved here in February 1986 to pastor the Wesleyan Church down by the interstate. The church extended to us the invitation to pastor the church, but we both felt called to the citizens of Scott City. So we'll stay...
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Out of the past: Sept. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 09/30/23)
Increased traffic at North Sprigg and Bertling streets has prompted the city to change the intersection from a two-way to a four-way stop; a traffic study, completed in early September, showed an average of 9,500 cars travel through that intersection daily, up from last year...
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UAW strikes spread as 7K more workers walk out
(National News ~ 09/30/23)
DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union expanded its strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan to put more pressure on the companies to improve their offers. It was the second time the union has widened the walkout, which started two weeks ago at three assembly plants before the most recent addition of a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing...
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Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan
(International News ~ 09/30/23)
QUETTA, Pakistan -- A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country's deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months...
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House GOP tanks measure to keep government open
(National News ~ 09/30/23)
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain. McCarthy's right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda for Oct. 2, 2023
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2 City Hall Presentations n Recognition of Randy Lueder for retirement from the Parks & Recreation Department Communications report n City Council Items for discussion n Appearances by Advisory Board Applicants...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 10/2/23 meeting
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Monday, Oct, 2 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Monday, Sept. 25, meeting Communications/reports -- other selected officials/department heads n Updates on new jail and 1908 courthouse project...
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Route C in Scott County closed for bridge work
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
Route C in Scott County closed for bridge work Route C in Scott County -- from County Road 402 to Route H near Morley -- will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda for Oct. 2, 2023
(Local News ~ 09/30/23)
City of Jackson mayor and Board of Aldermen Regular meeting 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18 Adoption of agenda n Motion adopting the regular meeting agenda. Approval of minutes n Motion approving the minutes of the regular meeting of Monday, Sept. 18. Financial affairs...
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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, an advocate for liberal priorities, dies at age 90
(National News ~ 09/30/23)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90...
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Police report 10-1-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/30/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Christine Street. n A warrant arrest and theft of a vehicle were reported on South Middle Street...
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Births 10/1/23
(Births ~ 09/30/23)
Son to Ryan David Brant and Julia Desiree Helton of Benton, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 2:33 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Name, Aspen Jude. Weight, 8 pounds. Second son. Helton is the daughter of Shirlee Riegger of Cape Coral, Florida. She works at Belladona Salon & Spa. Brant is the son of David and Robbie Brant of Chaffee, Missouri. He is employed by Ole Hickory Pits...
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Fire report 10-1-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/30/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 27 n Medical assists were made at 2:09 p.m. at Johnson and Roberts streets and 4:04 p.m. on South Benton Street. n At 5:44 a.m., fire alarm on Princeton Drive. Sept. 28...
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Adelyn Stuart
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
Adelyn L. Stuart, 101, died Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the funeral home, with her granddaughter, Elizabeth Bramstedt, officiating. Burial will follow at Dexter (Missouri) Cemetery...
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Amy Smith-Cook
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Amy Smith-Cook, 77, of Indianapolis and formerly of Jackson, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at Franciscan Hospice House in Indianapolis. She was born Oct. 6, 1945, in Oconee, Illinois, the daughter of Melvin and Lois Jean Diefenthaler McCaleb. She married Carl L. Smith on Dec. 26, 1971. Carl passed away Dec. 14, 1994. Amy and Odell Ruthford "Dick" Cook were married June 27, 1999, and he passed away Nov. 14, 2013...
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Gertrude Smith
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
TULSA, Okla. -- Gertrude Smith, 72, of Tulsa died Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, at True Faith Missionary Ministries, 1225 Merriwether St., in Cape Girardeau...
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Martin Ponder
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Martin Benjamin Ponder, 88, of House Springs, Missouri, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at Friendship Village in Sunset Hills, Missouri. Visitation will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 2, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Frances Horst
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
Frances Lucille Horst's kind and generous heart struck its last beat Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. She passed at 92 at home in Jackson. She was born April 6, 1931, in Goodland, Kansas, to William and Esther Taylor Rust. She and Roger Warren Horst were married July 16, 1950, at Goodland. He preceded her in death April 20, 2008...
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Oaklynn Clark
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
Oaklynn Rae Clark passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning of Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, due to complications from a genetic condition, Zellweger spectrum disorder. She was born Sept. 17, 2022, to Jackson and Amber James Clark of Columbus, Georgia...
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David Bolen
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
David Lee Bolen, 62, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri. He was born Oct. 4, 1960, in Cape Girardeau, son of William "Bill" and Juanita Black Bolen. David was a graduate of Jackson High School, where he participated in wrestling. He entered the U.S. Army March 13, 1981, and was honorably discharged March 3, 1984...
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Leon Blattel
(Obituary ~ 09/30/23)
Leon Joseph Blattel, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, at Lutheran Home. He was born June 27, 1928, in Ancell, Missouri, to William F. and Elizabeth M. Seyer Blattel. He and Anna C. Dyer were married Nov. 12, 1949, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fornfelt. She preceded him in death Aug. 23, 2015...
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Prayer 10-1-23
(Prayer ~ 09/30/23)
Lord God, may we be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. Amen.
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Speak Out 10-1-23
(Speak Out ~ 09/30/23)
I am so happy that the Kansas Chiefs are finally getting some recognition. I know they won the Super Bowl, and I've heard about the quarterback. But for Taylor to be seen with the tight end, that's really nice of her. I hope he's a good player. He certainly dresses strange. But if Taylor likes him. That's good enough for me...
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Thanks for feeding the hungry
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/30/23)
It was one year ago Oct. 3 when First Presbyterian Church of Cape Girardeau installed the "Neighborhood Lunch Box" at the SW corner of Broadway and Spanish Streets. This was not an original idea, but one that we felt we were called to duplicate, given our downtown location. ...
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Fox Business loses the GOP's second debate
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
From the first dumb question to the abrupt ending that caught everyone by surprise, the GOP presidential primary debate produced by the Fox Business channel was a total disaster. I know. I was there Wednesday night -- in Row 5 of the Air Force One pavilion in the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif...
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Skipping the debates has worked for Trump
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
Woody Allen said 90% of life is showing up. Donald Trump is proving that he overshot the mark considerably. The former president has paid no discernible price for skipping the Republican debates. Arguably, he's been winning them by diminishing the rest of the field through his absence, while his polling has held steady or gone up a little...
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Our new Black Republican leaders
(Column ~ 09/30/23)
Recently I wrote about Mesha Mainor, who represents a deep blue district in Atlanta in the Georgia state legislature, announcing that she is switching parties and becoming a Republican. Mainor specifically noted her frustration with the Democratic Party in its opposition to improving education through parental choice and ongoing Democratic weakness in building strong law enforcement...
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Out of the past: Oct. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 09/30/23)
Only a handful of people turn out in the evening for a town hall meeting at St. Vincent's College, called to discuss transforming the site into a visual arts campus; if voters approve funding for the River Campus project, Southeast Missouri State University will be able to expand its arts and academic programs, and the college buildings will be preserved...
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