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A variety of recipes to try
(Community ~ 03/11/21)
Recently I have stumbled upon several recipes that sound interesting and I think I will save them for later and give them a try. Eventually I go back and revisit the saved items and pull a few out to try and to share with you. Today I have a wide variety of recipes from appetizers to desserts for you to take a look at and plan to put into your own recipe files. Have fun and be sure to go online to read all of the recipes shared with you today...
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Jackson to expand recycling center hours
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
Jackson Recycling Center’s Saturday hours will be expanded to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., from the current 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning April 3. The expanded Saturday hours at the recycling facility at 508 Sawyer Lane in Jackson will remain in effect through October. Weekday hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., will be unchanged...
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Man injured in reported stabbing in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
A man was stabbed Tuesday evening in Cape Girardeau. According to Sgt. Joey Hann, Cape Girardeau police responded to the stabbing at 8:08 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of South Frederick Street. Upon arrival, officers located a man who had an injury consistent with a stab wound in his upper torso...
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Bollinger County Sheriff's Office searching for suspect in attempted child abduction
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
A suspect in an alleged attempted child abduction remains at large in Bollinger County. According to a news release from Bollinger County Sheriff Casey Graham, at 4:47 p.m. Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies and members of the North Bollinger County Fire Protection District responded to a report of a missing 10-year-old girl at a residence near Missouri Route M. Upon arrival, officers collected information from the girl’s parents...
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14-year-old Cape dancer excels in Atlanta
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
A local dancer recently finished in the top eight spots of an urban dance contest in Atlanta. He’s 14. Yan “Insanity” Zhang said he won his way through to the final portion of the contest — so-called 7-to-Smoke, meaning seven contestants to beat — at The Smoke, Vol. 3...
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COVID-impacted SEMO commencement plan announced
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
For the first time in living memory, Southeast Missouri State University will hold five in-person graduation ceremonies honoring 2021 spring and summer graduates over a two-day period May 14 and 15 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. “Back as far as the eye can see, we’ve never done five,” Southeast registrar Sandy Hinkle said...
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The life of a chef at SEMO
(Community ~ 03/11/21)
Few people ever step into the kitchen of a restaurant and see the ins and outs of what goes into the food preparation process. Even fewer people take the opportunity to sit down and get to know the people who attentively prepare each meal for guests...
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2021 Regional Science Fair announces winners
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
The 65th annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair concluded Tuesday night with the announcement of the winners and award recipients. Because of the ongoing pandemic, the fair was entirely virtual. In years past, it has been held in the Show Me Center, with hundreds of students standing near their displays exhibiting their projects. This year, students presented their projects through a recorded video and submitted materials...
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State vaccination plan prepares to enter new segment
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
The State of Missouri’s COVID-19 vaccination plan will enter a new segment next week, and the first Phase 1B, Tier 3, vaccination clinics have been set. Tier 3 expands the eligibility pool to personnel working in “critical infrastructure.” ...
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Old Town Cape recognizes Riverside Pottery with historic rehabilitation award
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
Riverside Pottery was named Old Town Cape’s 2020 John Boardman Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation Award recipient Wednesday afternoon. According to the announcement from Old Town Cape, Rob Lorenz — Riverside’s owner — purchased the former B’Nai Israel Synagogue at 121 S. Main St. to house the new business in 2020...
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Sponsored: Prevent gum disease -- it affects more than your mouth
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports half of Americans over the age of 30 have periodontitis. That equates to almost 65 million Americans having advanced gum disease! Periodontal disease is caused by inflammation due to the presence of bacteria in the tissue supporting the teeth. ...
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Cape City Hall complex project on pace for fall completion
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
Anna Kangas, the City of Cape Girardeau’s transformation manager, is the municipality’s point person on the new, $12.5 million City Hall being built on North Lorimier Street. Wednesday, the Southeast Missourian caught up with Kangas, a licensed architect and 2003 Jackson High School graduate, about the progress of the project...
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Thanks for supporting MLK service events
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/11/21)
By Debra Mitchell-Braxton On behalf of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Citywide Celebration Committee, we would like to extend our sincere appreciation to all of those who donated items as part of the National Day of Service Humanitarian Food Drive. ...
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Meta Stroder
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
Meta Paula Stroder, 94, of Jackson died Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. Private graveside rites will be held on Friday at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson. Hutchings Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements.
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Dewaine Smith
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
Dewaine "Kayo" Smith, 80, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at his home. Dewaine was born Feb. 4, 1941, in Fredericktown, Missouri, to the late Herschel D. "Tom" and Madge Bailey Smith. He and Carol Ann Heise were married June 27, 1992, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau...
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R. Sondra Pobst
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
R. Sondra Pobst, 75, passed away Monday, March 1, 2021, after a hard battle fighting lung cancer. She was born to Clyde Mason and Rita Brotherton on Aug. 2, 1945, in Oran, Missouri. Sondra was a member of the St. Mary's Cathedral, a hairstylist in Cape Girardeau from 1975 to 2015, and belonged to many quilting guilds...
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Kenneth McNeely
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
Kenneth L. "Ears" McNeely, 73, of Cape Girardeau passed peacefully listening to oldies surrounded by family Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 11, 1947, in Cape Girardeau to Guy Lester and Aline Marie Bollinger McNeely...
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Norma Koehler
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
Norma Jean Koehler, 76, of Millersville passed away Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 3, 1944, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Leon and Ruth Ates Deimund. She married Ronald Koehler Feb. 11, 1966...
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Dorothy Elfrink
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Dorothy Jean Elfrink, 91, of Advance died Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at her home. Visitation and funeral services will be on Saturday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill, Missouri. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time...
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Gary Davault
(Obituary ~ 03/11/21)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Gary Lee Davault, 84, of Advance passed away Monday, March 8, 2021, at his home in Advance. He was born Oct. 12, 1936, in Sank in Bollinger County, Missouri, the son of Willard Davault and Martha Cooper. Gary worked for over 20 years at the Inland Shoe factory in Advance. He was also a business manager at various other places in his life. He was also a member of the Church of Christ in Advance...
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Best-selling cookbook author Turshen concentrates on recipes' raw material
(Community ~ 03/11/21)
NEW YORK -- Best-selling cookbook author Julia Turshen concentrates on the raw material of each recipe -- ingredients, utensils and ounces. But behind the food is something else. "I've always been drawn to cookbooks because I think they're this remarkable way to share stories," she says. "I think food is just a vehicle for these stories."...
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Trends among America's healthiest communities
(Paid Letter ~ 03/11/21)
America's most economically vibrant communities are often the healthiest communities. That's because the health of a community's residents has a strong impact on its economy. In this unique time of a pandemic, a community's health has come to be front and center as a topic of conversation -- and sometimes controversy...
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Journalist acquitted in Iowa case seen as attack on press
(National News ~ 03/11/21)
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest, in a case critics have derided as an attack on press freedoms and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. After deliberating for less than two hours, the jury found Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri and her ex-boyfriend Spenser Robnett not guilty on misdemeanor charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts...
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Nursing home residents can get hugs again, feds say
(National News ~ 03/11/21)
WASHINGTON -- Nursing home residents vaccinated against COVID-19 can get hugs again from their loved ones, and all residents may enjoy more indoor visits, the government said Wednesday in a step toward pre-pandemic normalcy. The policy guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, comes as coronavirus cases and deaths among nursing home residents have plummeted in recent weeks at the same time vaccination accelerated. ...
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Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill
(National News ~ 03/11/21)
WASHINGTON -- A Congress riven along party lines approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on legislation marshaling the government's spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation...
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Missouri Senate backs compromise gas tax hike bill
(State News ~ 03/11/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri senators Wednesday gave initial approval to a gas tax hike, despite Republican division over tax increases. The bill would raise Missouri's gas tax of 17 cents per gallon for the first time in two decades. It stalled Tuesday after hours of Republican infighting, but a compromise lowering the amount of the increase from 15 cents to 12.5 cents per gallon by 2025 passed in a voice vote Wednesday. ...
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Missouri reform school owners charged with abusing residents
(State News ~ 03/11/21)
LIBERTY, Mo. -- The owners of a former Christian reform school for girls in southwest Missouri are charged with more than 100 counts alleging they sexually, emotionally and physically abused girls for years. Sixteen former residents of the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar County say Boyd and Stephanie Householder frequently restrained them with handcuffs, whipped them with belts, taped their mouths shut and struck or punched them for minor offenses such as drinking from a spring or singing...
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Jay Ashcroft will not run for Missouri U.S. Senate seat
(State News ~ 03/11/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Wednesday said he won't run for the U.S. Senate, despite being eyed early on as a top candidate for Republican Sen. Roy Blunt's seat. Ashcroft, who has considerable name recognition in Missouri courtesy of his father, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, said in a statement he and his wife are "deeply grateful for the overwhelming support" for a potential Senate run...
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COVID-19 variant found in only 1 Missouri wastewater system
(State News ~ 03/11/21)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- Weeks after the faster-spreading U.K. variant of the coronavirus was found in 15 Missouri wastewater systems, new testing has found it in only one. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has been testing wastewater across the state for clues about the spread of COVID-19. The latest results, released Tuesday, found testing could be done only at 10 wastewater systems in Missouri because of declining levels of COVID-19 particles...
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Prayer 3/11/21
(Prayer ~ 03/11/21)
O Lord Jesus, may we focus on what is pure and noble. Amen.
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Out of the past: March 11
(Out of the Past ~ 03/11/21)
A group of Cape Girardeau residents will petition the Cape Girardeau City Council to recommend the federal government build a new federal courthouse on the block of old Saint Francis Hospital; supporters of the plan expect to submit petitions bearing more than 1,000 signatures at a public hearing tomorrow night at City Hall; the Haarig Area Development Association wants the government to tear down the vacant, vandalized hospital building at 825 Good Hope and five houses on the edge of the block...
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The virus: A new normal for music students and their instructors
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
Students who study music live to play their instruments. However, their normal way of playing and their professors' teaching styles have had to be adjusted due to COVID-19. Music lessons provide a physical space for students to learn directly from their instructors. ...
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Artwork from visual window display provides look into the past
(Local News ~ 03/11/21)
On a tiny island in Scotland during the sixth century, monks copied the Gospel and created Celtic art. Nearly 1,500 years later, Robert Towner, a former world religions professor at Southeast, first found his artistic inspiration while living for a year on Iona, the same island the monks inhabited. Inspired by the history of his surroundings, it was there that Towner taught himself the art of calligraphy...
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