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Business
July 11, 2023
Growing Up on 'America’s Fringe' an interview with Thompson Rehder
After serving four terms in the Missouri House of Representatives, Holly Thompson Rehder was elected to the Missouri Senate in 2020. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, with her very early years in Texas, Thompson Rehder moved as a child to Southeast Missouri, where her pa...
Business
July 11, 2023
Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder’s memoir: powerful and important to read
Reading “Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America’s Fringe” by Holly Thompson Rehder, who represents a large swath of Southeast Missouri in the Missouri Senate, I couldn’t help but cry, regularly. In this raw, highly intimate and ultimately uplifting memoir, Thompson Reh...
News
June 30, 2023
Family wades into river near boat dock
Oscar Murillo and his children wade into the Mississippi River near Honker's Boat Dock in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, June 28. Low water has revealed sandbars not normally visible.
Business
November 4, 2022
The story behind Molly and Lucian Zielinski's Cape Precision Machine
Tucked behind a family residential development off Route W in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Precision Machine produces specialty parts for some of the area’s largest manufacturers: Procter & Gamble, Pavestone, Schaefer’s Electrical Enclosures, Major Custom Cable and ...
Opinion
September 17, 2022
An important announcement about newspaper delivery
One of my first jobs was carrying the local newspaper. In my case: The Bulletin Journal. It was a great experience, which taught the importance of perseverance, punctuality, customer service and the reward of good, honest effort. Times change, though, and child car...
Opinion
April 28, 2022
Terror, courage and dismay as my wife's aunt flees bombing in Ukraine
The terrifying morning after the bombs started to fall on her city in Ukraine, my wife's aunt fled from her high-rise apartment to a colleague's house farther from the city center. For more than two weeks, she and her friend's family scrambled to the ground anytime...
Opinion
January 8, 2022
Farewell to a brother
On the wall at home I have a picture of my brother Rex and me in a tennis tournament as kids. In my office, there are pictures of us together in front of the house we grew up in, as well as photos together at business events. When I play ping pong or tennis or watc...
Opinion
October 7, 2021
A rock, a man, a new generation
Family members and friends poured into Greater Dimension Ministries Saturday to mark the life of "the last man standing," Charles Dale Ayers, one of the nine children of Lee and Odell Ayers. In inspirational remarks the younger generation challenged each other to b...
Opinion
September 18, 2021
An update -- and invite -- about shaping Semissourian
We are in the midst of redesigning the digital platform for the Southeast Missourian, and feedback has been coming in about what people want to see. It's not too late for you to join us with your thoughts. Go to semissourian.com/thefuture to sign up...
Opinion
August 12, 2021
Semissourian.com will change; we want you to know well in advance
In December we lost a good friend and cherished colleague: James Baughn, webmaster for the Southeast Missourian and Rust Communications. James was a remarkable individual — history writer and hiking blogger, satirist and bridge chronicler — who for 20 years designe...
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