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JACKSON LOSING CITY LEADER AND 'FRIEND'
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- The fastest growing city in Southeast Missouri is losing its top administrator. Steve Wilson, who 6 1/2 years ago became only the second city administrator in Jackson's history, is resigning to take an administrative position with the state Department of Conservation in Clinton, Mo...
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AIRCRAFT PLANT 'DONE DEAL,' SAYS COMPANY EXEC
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
Though some technicalities remain to be resolved between the city and state, Renaissance Aircraft expects to break ground in late summer or early fall on its new production plant at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. "It's a done deal right now," John Dearden, the company's president, said Tuesday at a meeting of the city's Airport Advisory Board...
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HOLDEN SIGNS 0.08 BAC BILL
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
Having both lost children to drunken drivers, Mildred Held and Lorretta Wilson embraced as Gov. Bob Holden Tuesday signed a bill into law lowering Missouri's blood-alcohol content limit for drunken driving to 0.08 percent. A decade after it was first introduced in Missouri, the General Assembly passed the legislation in the past session that will lower the BAC threshold from 0.10 percent when it takes effect Sept. 29...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: FINANCIALLY INEPT COUPLE TRYING NEW APPROACH
(Column ~ 06/13/01)
Most married couples have a thrifty half and a happy-go-lucky half. That works out well, because the first one keeps a roof over their heads, and the second one keeps them from being secretly mocked due to cheap Christmas gifts. The Other Half and I used to be that way. He wanted to stay at the Hilton when we traveled, I argued for Motel 6. He wanted to eat at TGI Fridays, I argued for Shoney's...
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HOLDEN: FREEING CAPE VO-TECH FUNDS POSSIBLE
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
There is still hope long-withheld state funding for the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center and other area projects could be released by the end of the month, Gov. Bob Holden said Tuesday. Last year, the General Assembly approved $18.25 million for various Southeast Missouri building projects, including $1 million for the career center. The money was part of $161 million capital improvements bill...
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ILLINOISAN KILLED IN TRUCK-CAR MISHAP
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
CAIRO, Ill. -- A 60-year-old woman died Tuesday morning when her car ran head-on into a tractor-trailer truck, the Illinois State Police reported. Myrtle Spraggs of Olive Branch, Ill., was driving just north of Cairo on Illinois 3 when her car drifted in front of a tractor-trailer truck driven by Kenneth Meyer, 62, of Ste. Genevieve, Mo...
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SAFETY OFFICIALS GATHER FOR TRAINING IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
Training to prevent terrorism in Southeast Missouri is the aim of a federal program that brought firefighters, police and others to Cape Girardeau on Tuesday. "This is teaching area leaders to assess and manage areas where we might be vulnerable," said Brad Golden, Jackson fire chief. "The idea is to look at the whole community."...
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EAST PRAIRIE TO MARKET INDUSTRIAL PARK
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- The new East Prairie Industrial Park Subdivision is ready to start its marketing phase. The 50-acre-plus facility on Highway BB, near East Prairie has water, sewer and power, thanks to a Department of Agriculture grant for rural development...
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HYDRANT TESTS SHOW A FEW PROBLEMS
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
A few fire hydrants in Cape Girardeau aren't ready for fires, the acting fire chief said. Although less than 1 percent of approximately 400 fire hydrants checked this year had problems, four of them are in the Randal Farms Subdivision where houses are worth more than $200,000...
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DOEHRING WILL NOT RETURN TO OTAHKIANS
(College Sports ~ 06/13/01)
The season is still almost nine months away, but Southeast Missouri State University's softball team has already suffered a severe blow for the 2002 campaign. Southeast coach Lana Richmond announced Tuesday that Jenny Doehring, the reigning Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore, is leaving the Otahkians for personal reasons...
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OFFICIALLY THE BEST: AL MCFERREN NAMED NATIONAL OFFICIAL OF THE YEAR
(High School Sports ~ 06/13/01)
Al McFerren might not be as well known as his older brother, Lennies, but he's made a mark of his own on the area sports scene as a high school basketball official for the past 27 years. McFerren recently was named the National High School Official of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations...
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SPORTS DIGEST: OVC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT TO REMAIN IN PADUCAH
(College Sports ~ 06/13/01)
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- The Ohio Valley Conference Board of Presidents voted unanimously to conduct the OVC Baseball Tournament in Paducah, Ky., for the next three years during the league's annual summer meetings last week in Morehead, Ky. This year's tournament was held at renovated Brooks Stadium in Paducah, which marked the first time in the OVC's 53-year history that the baseball championship was conducted at a neutral site...
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CAPE SR. BABE RUTH SWEEPS
(High School Sports ~ 06/13/01)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The Cape Girardeau Sr. Babe Ruth Yankees improved to 9-1 by sweeping a doubleheader from Chaffee, 5-3 and 9-0 Tuesday night. In the opener, James Powell pitched all seven innings, allowing two hits and no earned runs. He struck out eight and walked three...
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LOCAL TALENT FARES WELL IN JUNIOR GOLF CLASSIC
(High School Sports ~ 06/13/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- In a tournament that features athletes from five states, Southeast Missouri is being represented quite nicely, thank you. Perryville's Wes Richardet and Nick Harter of Cape Girardeau are in first and second place, respectively, after the first round of the St. Francis Heartland Junior Golf Classic at Bent Creek...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/13/01)
Son to Bryan R. and Chrystie A. Singleton of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:35 a.m. Friday, June 8, 2001. Name, Gavin Richard. Weight, 8 pounds 1 1/2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Singleton is the daughter of Joyce Meredith of Swansea, S.C. Singleton is the son of Ronnie and Sharon Singleton of St. Clair, Mo. He is manager at Wal-Mart in Sikeston, Mo...
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HARRY WEIBRECHT
(Obituary ~ 06/13/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Harry Henry Weibrecht, 89, of Perryville died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born May 16, 1912, at Crosstown, Mo., son of Henry Phillip and Katherine Ermer Weibrecht. He and Lenora Lintner were married Nov. 17, 1943...
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ARA SCHROEDER
(Obituary ~ 06/13/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Ara C. Schroeder, 94, of Jackson died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at her home. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
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ELZIE BOARDMAN
(Obituary ~ 06/13/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Thomas Elzie Franklin Boardman, 94, died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Feb. 11, 1907, in Princeton, Ind., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis Boardman. He and Thelma Colley were married April 30, 1927, in Charleston. She died Nov. 15, 1981...
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KEVIN WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 06/13/01)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Kevin Roy Williams of Charleston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie, Mo. The Revs. Ed Carter and Tom Snavely will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Williams, 42, died Sunday, June 10, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...
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JIMMY STACY
(Obituary ~ 06/13/01)
ORAN, Mo. -- Jimmy Delmar Stacy, 67, of Oran died Sunday, June 10, 2001, at his home. He was born Dec. 30, 1933, in Scott County, Mo., son of Delmar and Mary Helen Hutchison Stacy. He and Bonnie Ropken were married Dec. 1, 1972, at Benton, Mo. Stacy was an antique dealer. He was a former member of Eagles in Sikeston, Mo., and Elks at Chaffee, Mo...
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MAN PINNED UNDER ATV FOR 10 HOURS
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
KENNETT, Mo. -- A Kennett man was pinned beneath his four-wheeler for 10 hours on Sunday, before being discovered and freed, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Matthew L. Smith, 23, was taken by ambulance to Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett with serious injuries, the patrol said...
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AGENTS ARREST MAN IN STING
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston man was jailed Monday after attempting to purchase items used to make methamphetamine from police. The arrest occurred when Larry Jason Neal, 26, attempted to buy ammonia from undercover police officers. Neal was arrested and charged with attempt to manufacture and possession of chemicals. His bond has been set at $5,000...
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POPLAR BLUFF SEWER RATES TO GO UP IN JANUARY
(Local News ~ 06/13/01)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Sewer rates will go up in January and again in January 2004 to pay for the city's latest sewer upgrade. At a pubic hearing this week, Arthur Hartle of Smith & Co. announced that the rate increases would take the average residential user from a monthly bill of $7.41 to $9.68 next year and to $11.96 in 2004...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/13/01)
LAST THURSDAY when I was ready to leave Food Giant with my groceries, it was raining hard. A lovely, smiling young woman entered, saw me waiting for the downpour to lessen some and insisted that I use her umbrella to go to my car. She did not want the umbrella returned. ...
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EVENTS PROVOKE BLAME-AMERICA-FIRST CROWD
(Column ~ 06/13/01)
Timothy McVeigh's execution. And President Bush's first major international trip. What do the two events have in common? They are both being used as fodder by the blame-America-first crowd. Despite the fact that McVeigh was clearly guilty and that 70 percent of Americans favored his execution, the media are exploiting his death to rail against capital punishment. ...
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STUDENT DOCS WHO BREAK WORD CHEAT SYSTEM
(Editorial ~ 06/13/01)
Seven University of Illinois students committed to working in rural areas to gain admission to medical school. Now they've backed out. They should be ashamed. Thousands apply to the prestigious medical school every year. Only 35 graduated this spring. Eleven of them did so through the Rural Illinois Medical Student Assistance Program...
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FANS SHOW UP FOR EVENTS THEY WANT TO SEE
(Editorial ~ 06/13/01)
The recent Gaither Vocal Band concert once again proved that people will throng to the Show Me Center as long as the entertainment offered is what they want to see and hear. The Gaither group did far better than any other Show Me Center event this year...
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LETTERS: STRONG TWO-PARTY SYSTEM FUELS PARTY SWITCHING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/13/01)
To the editor: Ben Franklin labeled America a republic with the enjoinder that its survival depended on a committed and informed electorate, a democratic republic to be sure. For more than the last century America has been governed by one or the other or two political parties in spite of zealous third-party efforts. With just those choices, it becomes a struggle for politicians to stay loyal to a party...
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RECIPE SWAP: FRESH RECIPES FOR FRESH VEGETABLES
(Column ~ 06/13/01)
As fresh produce begins to show up at the Farmer's Market, so do fresh produce recipes begin to show up in Recipe Swap. A Cape Girardeau reader would like to share a few of her favorites with you. As the produce season progresses, I expect more and more recipe from area readers...
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