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Sponsored: Continue to Wear a Mask: Results from the latest Southeast Missouri COVID-19 Study
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
Results from the most recent Cape Girardeau County COVID-19 report issued September 20 show a continued uptick in the seven-day average positive cases in Cape Girardeau County, beginning the week of August 20 and jumping by multiple percentage points each week since the week of September 3, with a high of 13% and climbing...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 10/1/20
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
Approval of minutes n Minutes from Sept. 28 meetings 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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TGI'F' Top Picks 10/1/20
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
From 2 to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Hemmann Winery will hold a grape stomp and live music. Friday is JWR Band performing, Saturday is East End Blend. Only two teams allowed at a time, per COVID-19 safety measures. Come get your feet purple! Friday night starting at 6 p.m. at the Glenn House, 325 S. Spanish St. in Cape Girardeau, Christy Mershon will give short tarot card readings on the front porch. A $15 donation is suggested...
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Business Note: Scooter's ribbon-cutting Friday
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting to mark the opening of Scooter's Coffee, 601 E. Jackson Blvd., at 1 p.m. Friday. Those attending the event will be encouraged to maintain social distancing.
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It's Fall, y'all
(Community ~ 10/01/20)
The official start to fall has arrived and so has my desire to start cooking some recipes from our fall and winter recipe files and cookbooks. As soon as there is a chill in the air, I have a desire for a pot of soup and something from the oven that puts off the scent of apples and cinnamon. I have so many recipes that we enjoy in the fall that sometimes it is hard to decide what to make...
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Strawberry's: Good food, Grandpa and God moments
(Community ~ 10/01/20)
Last week I did something out of the ordinary — I used a vacation day in the middle of the week to visit Strawberry's at 107 Main St. in Holcomb, Missouri. I invited a friend to come along and did something else out of the ordinary — I left Big Red at home and accepted my friend's offer to drive. ...
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Bicentennial flag presented to Cape County officials
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
Missouri Secretary of State John R. "Jay" Ashcroft, left, presents a bicentennial banner and flag to Cape Girardeau County Assessor Bob Adams, Cape Girardeau County Collector Barbara Gholson, Cape Girardeau County Auditor Pete Frazier and Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers outside of the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse on Wednesday in Jackson. ...
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Three virus-related deaths, nearly 200 new cases reported
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
Three additional COVID-19-related deaths were reported in the region Wednesday, and counties are reporting dozens of new cases each day. Two of the deaths were in Cape Girardeau County, and one was in Scott County. Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center officials reported 45 new cases Tuesday and 36 Wednesday, pushing the county’s total number of virus cases to 1,988. ...
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Military might on a Friday night, First Friday and more
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
From 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Friday at the Kellerman Foundation's Flag House, 740 North St. in Cape Girardeau, an open house will feature not one, not two, but three speakers with local ties and military decorations. Max Lederer, publisher of the Stars & Stripes newspaper, which has roots in Bloomfield, Missouri, will attend and present, as will Cape Girardeau native and leading Hollywood director Dale Dye, and Jack Jackson, a highly decorated soldier in Vietnam and former test pilot for Boeing in St. ...
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What's the crazy thing in the river at Cape Girardeau?
(Column ~ 10/01/20)
If you haven't seen it yet, you need to visit the Cape riverfront to take in the salvage operation taking place just east of the center of the channel. It's like a rotating, free-form fountain -- connected to a crane on a barge in the Mississippi River. ...
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Education of a November absentee voter
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
I’m voting by absentee ballot in November, which is a brand-new experience for me. Ever since my first vote for president in 1976, my practice largely has been the same — show up at my designated polling place, exercise my constitutional duty and follow the dictates of conscience...
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State tracking coronavirus cases among school-aged people
(Local News ~ 10/01/20)
As COVID-19 cases have risen in the region, officials with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education are tracking cases among school-aged children and young adults. The department’s website (www.dese.mo.gov) includes a searchable database counting virus cases by school district geography...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/01/20)
Today is Thursday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2020. There are 91 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived...
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Prayer 10/1/20
(Prayer ~ 10/01/20)
O God, thank you that we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus. Amen.
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In normal times, food trends often started in restaurants, with top chefs
(Community ~ 10/01/20)
In normal times, food trends often started in restaurants, with top chefs. Maybe they got written up in food magazines or blogs. After some time, you could find the trending ingredients on grocery store shelves. These days, the pandemic is determining how and what we eat, from quick shortcuts to slow cookers. There's lots more home cooking, and many more family meals...
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Pelosi and Mnuchin engage in 'extensive' talks on COVID relief
(National News ~ 10/01/20)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held an "extensive conversation" Wednesday on a huge COVID-19 rescue package, meeting face to face for the first time in more than a month in a last-ditch effort to seal a tentative accord on an additional round of coronavirus relief...
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U.S. colleges struggle to salvage semester amid virus outbreaks
(National News ~ 10/01/20)
MADISON, Wis. -- Colleges across the country are struggling to salvage the fall semester amid skyrocketing coronavirus cases, entire dorm complexes and frat houses under quarantine, and flaring tensions with local community leaders over the spread of the disease...
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GOP lawmakers grill Comey on leadership of Russia probe
(National News ~ 10/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers on Wednesday confronted former FBI Director James Comey about his oversight of the Trump-Russia investigation during a politically charged hearing that focused attention on problems with the probe that have become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump's supporters...
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Trump tells far-right extremists to 'stand back and stand by' at debate
(National News ~ 10/01/20)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn't condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a "left-wing" problem and telling one far-right extremist group to "stand back and stand by."...
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Alyssa Stephens
(Obituary ~ 10/01/20)
Alyssa Jade Stephens of Scott City, the 4-year-old daughter of Stacy Stephens, died Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City...
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Richard Lewis
(Obituary ~ 10/01/20)
PEARL RIVER, N.Y. — Richard "Dick" Cyrus Lewis, 86, of Pearl River peacefully entered eternal rest Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. Dick was born Jan. 16, 1934, in Jackson. He began painting as a child and continued to draw and paint throughout his young life. During his senior year at Jackson High School, Dick won a scholarship to attend Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida...
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Out of the past: Oct. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 10/01/20)
The congregation of Christ Episcopal Church has purchased a five-acre tract northwest of Route W and Boutin Drive and plans to build a new facility; services were held at the site Sept. 17, followed by a picnic. The congregation of Third Street United Methodist Church celebrates Worldwide Communion Day with an outdoor service at Cape County Park South; a potluck dinner follows...
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Stephanie Zimmerman
(Obituary ~ 10/01/20)
O'FALLON, Ill. — Stephanie Anne Stone Zimmerman, 52, of O'Fallon, born Sept. 18, 1968, in Cape Girardeau to Jerry L. and Nancy K. Hartle Stone, passed on to Heaven on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, at her home with her family close by her side. Stephanie grew up in Cape Girardeau, where as a member of First Baptist Church, she made her profession of faith in Jesus Christ as her Savior at the age of 8. ...
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VOLKERDING FINANCIAL REPRESENTAIVE OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 10/01/20)
For release immediately, with photo October 1, 2020 VOLKERDING FINANCIAL REPRESENTAIVE OF THE MONTH Ken Volkerding of Jackson, a financial reprenstative with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Finanical, was financial reprenstative of the Month in the Missouri East Region for the month of September...
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VOLKERDING RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD
(Submitted Story ~ 10/01/20)
For release immediately, with photo October 1, 2020 VOLKERDING RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD Ken Volkerding of Jackson, a financial reprenstative with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, was Life Leader in the Missouri East Region for the month of September...
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I Would Love to Put Some Names on these Photos
(Submitted Story ~ 10/01/20)
Recently I have been working on my Family Tree in Ancestry. I came across some identified photos from the 1920s in a collection of photos from the Weiss, Masters, and Heuer families. In 2000, my late mother Mildred (Weiss) Miksicek (originally from Cape) was visited by James W Brown (then living in St Louis) who is descended from the Goodchilds and James families of the Cape Girardeau area. We both had relatives that served at Vicksburg in the Civil War, his lost a leg, ours’ died...
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