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Ready to ride at SEMO District Fair
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
A crew sets up a swing ride while another crew attaches passenger cars to the ferris wheel ride Thursday before the 2021 SEMO District Fair begins at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. The SEMO District Fair is returning Saturday after a year hiatus because of the pandemic. It will offer food, live entertainment, agricultural exhibits, amusement rides and more.
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Motorcyclist dies in Cape crash
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
A motorcyclist died Wednesday evening after colliding with a vehicle on South Kingshighway. According to a Cape Girardeau Police Department release, the 18-year-old male from Jackson died after the motorcycle he was riding in the 800 block of South Kingshighway collided with a pickup operated by a 65-year-old Cape Girardeau man as he turned north onto Kingshighway from Gerhardt Street...
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Local mural creator is Missouri Arts Council’s monthly featured artist
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
Visitors of downtown Cape Girardeau are likely familiar with the artwork of Malcolm "Airbrush Assassin" McCrae. McCrae, a local airbrush artist and mural creator, was selected as one of the Missouri Arts Council Featured Artists for the month of September...
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Jackson eighth-graders pack 101,000 meals for children in need
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
Nearly a fifth of the world's children don't have enough food to eat, according to the World Health Organization. Some Jackson students are doing what they can to help. Jackson eighth-graders filled Jackson Junior High's gym Thursday morning for a Feed My Starving Children community service event...
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Doug Gannon named parks director for City of Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
Doug Gannon, currently an assistant recreation division manager for Cape Girardeau's Parks and Recreation Department, was named Thursday as the department's director by city manager Kenneth Haskin. "Doug is humble, poised and he doesn't get rattled," Haskin said...
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Recognizing this year's Difference Makers
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
Jon K. Rust, publisher of the Southeast Missourian and co-president of Rust Communications, left, speaks about Shawn Kinder, right, as he is recognized Thursday during the B Magazine Difference Makers Reception at One City in Cape Girardeau. More photos of the 2021 B Magazine Difference Makers Reception can be seen in a gallery at semissourian.com.
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Cape County officials report no new virus deaths
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
Technical issues delayed Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center's COVID-19 update Wednesday, but the numbers released Thursday showed no new virus-related deaths. Throughout the pandemic, 143 county residents have died because of the virus. New virus cases since Sept. 3 increased 125, for a total of 11,542. Active virus cases in the county dropped 61 to 312...
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Virus case counts climb in local schools
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
COVID-19 cases among students have increased in local schools. Cape Girardeau School District reported 56 active positive cases among its 4,475 students Thursday. The district totaled 28 cases Sept. 1. Student cases at the Jackson School District rose by 18 cases since the Southeast Missourian's last update on Sept. 1. The district currently totals 35 active cases out of its 5,728 students...
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Cape County to follow state's lead on COVID emergency
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission voted unanimously to follow Gov. Mike Parson's lead Thursday in ending a formal state of emergency, which had been in effect in Missouri since March 13, 2020. The county's emergency management agency director, Mark Winkler, advised commissioners to follow Parson's new declaration of a "targeted state of emergency for the health care system."...
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Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans
(National News ~ 09/10/21)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans -- private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal contractors -- in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant...
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Labor of Love: Not-for-profits raise money at 165th SEMO District Fair
(B Magazine ~ 09/10/21)
The SEMO District Fair does much more than delight and entertain the area for eight days, it’s also a vital fundraiser for groups that make a difference in the area. Here are stories about three vendors whose products benefit those with cancer, provide support to local scouts, assist local schools, enhance amenities at local parks — and so much more.
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See You at the Shipyard, Year Three: Sept. 17 & 18, 2021
(09/10/21)
The Shipyard is back after a brief pandemic hiatus for its third year of food, fun and your favorite people in one place, raging to your old favorite bands and discovering new music to put on repeat. This year, we’re on The Grounds at Century Casino Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, with two stages, where we’ll have 10 nationally-touring bands and seven local musicians from our Scout Sessions playing...
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Sponsored: Where do you want to go? The world is your oyster
(09/10/21)
After staring at their living room walls for a year and a half, Americans are taking to the nation’s roadways and skies to enjoy beach and mountain views and even ocean vistas from cruise ship decks. With the widespread distribution of vaccines, a growing number of travelers have been carefully venturing out. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/10/21)
Today is Friday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2021. There are 112 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 10, 1963, 20 Black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace...
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Prayer 9/10/21
(Prayer ~ 09/10/21)
We trust in your unfailing love, O God. Our hearts rejoice in your salvation. Amen.
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When a Western society goes insane
(Column ~ 09/10/21)
The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a prison designed to allow all the prisoners to be observed by one guard. What even Bentham couldn't conceive of, despite his creative musings about schemes of perpetual surveillance, was a society like contemporary Australia...
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Remembering 9/11
(Editorial ~ 09/10/21)
Many of us alive on Sept. 11, 2001, remember where we were and what we were doing when terror struck America's homeland. Much like the death of JFK or the attack on Pearl Harbor for earlier generations, 9/11 is a defining moment in America's history and our personal lives...
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Nature meets nostalgia: Treehouses return in style
(Community ~ 09/10/21)
Anthropologists believe our ancient human ancestors spent their time in trees, so it should be no surprise we love treehouses today. Treehouses of all kinds are experiencing a renaissance. When an acre-size slice of land in Gold Hill, Colorado, came on the market earlier this year, local resident Jessica Brookhart, 41, snapped it up for $80,000. The draw for her: The house was a treehouse. ...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 9/10/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/10/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 8 n Medical assists were made at 9:17 a.m. on Jefferson Avenue; 9:22 a.m. at Good Hope and Morgan Oak streets; 10:58 a.m. on Themis Street; 11:44 a.m. on West Cape Rock Road; 1:33 p.m. on Ranchito Drive; 4:59 p.m. on North Sprigg Street; 8:43 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 10:38 p.m. on William Street...
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Lester Sladek Sr.
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
Lester Thomas Sladek Sr. of Oak Ridge passed away Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. He was born in St. Louis Sept. 29, 1928, to Lester and Marie Dulin Sladek, the second of two sons. He married Joan Marion Truska in East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 17, 1954, and despite her passing in 1997, she remained the love of his life until his final breath...
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Melvin Schlegel
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
COSHOCTON, Ohio -- Melvin Eugene Schlegel, 85, of Coshocton passed away Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. He was born Dec. 1, 1935, in Cape Girardeau to the late Henry and Meyhulda Geiser Schlegel. On May 4, 1957, he married the love of his life, Virginia Walters Schlegel, who preceded him in death Oct. 21, 2010...
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Wanda Petrus
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Wanda Louise Petrus, 94, of Marble Hill died Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home in Jackson. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Burial will be private at Cook Cemetery in Scopus, Missouri...
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Victoria Neumann
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
Victoria Eugenia Neumann, 72, of Scott City died Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the time of service today at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. today at the chapel with the Rev. Joel McCullough officiating. Burial will be in Lightner Cemetery in Scott City...
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Sikeston is at center of COVID surge
(State News ~ 09/10/21)
ST. LOUIS -- The epicenter of Missouri's COVID-19 outbreak has shifted to the state's southeast, and no place is getting hit harder than Sikeston. The town of 16,000 residents about 145 miles south of St. Louis sits in Scott and New Madrid counties. State tracking Thursday showed those counties had the worst rates of new COVID-19 cases over the past seven days. Eight of the nine hardest-hit counties over the past week are in the southeastern corner of the state...
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Out of the past: Sept. 10
(Out of the Past ~ 09/10/21)
Street corners in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City are flooded with activity in the morning as more than 100 YELL volunteers, dressed in aprons and waving flags, hawk newspapers to passers-by; special editions of the Southeast Missourian are sold as part of the Youth Education Literacy and Learning project, in its sixth year...
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