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'Guns out' search warrant yields arrests in Cape County
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Locals driving near the housing community at Cedar Hills Lane were warned away by police Friday morning. The situation unfolded as law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions, including Cape Girardeau County and Alton, Illinois, served a search warrant north of Cape Girardeau city limits. The warrant was served to locate evidence of a recent Alton shooting...
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Schnucks lifts remaining mask restrictions
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Facemasks for customers, teammates and vendors are no longer required at any of Schnucks 111 locations, including 19 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. The St. Louis-based grocery retailer said Sunday it had lifted its remaining restrictions because the City of St. Louis's facemask mandate expired Saturday...
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Cape Council appoints Young as city attorney
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Cape Girardeau has a new attorney. With a unanimous vote, Cape Girardeau City Council appointed Greg Young to city attorney Monday night. Young's appointment follows the retirement of Eric Cunningham. The former city attorney retired in December after serving for 28 years...
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Change in website address in effort to boost Cape Girardeau County turnout
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Kara Clark Summers, Cape Girardeau County clerk and election authority since 2007, told the county's Republican Women's Club on Friday a subtle alteration has been made in the way residents can access election information. "We changed our website from capecountyelections.com to capecountyvotes.com. ...
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Sponsored: The Boys & Girls Club making a comeback after COVID
(B Magazine ~ 03/08/22)
For the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Missouri, COVID-19 was like a big wind that blew away much of what they had worked so hard to build. Rebuilding has been the goal for the last year. “It’s really like a start over,” said director Allen Treece. “Before we had to shut down in March of 2020, we had about 150 kids a day in our After-School Program.”...
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Jackson 13-year-old named co-chair of Homers for Health
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Jackson's Jimmy Williams, champion junior golfer and heart transplant recipient, has been named the 2022 Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital's Homers for Health co-chair. Jimmy has been an avid golfer since he first began playing with his dad at the age of 2. ...
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Recalling the deadly 1949 Cape tornado amid reminders to take precautions
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., the distinguished jurist who spent a quarter-century on the federal bench, said Monday he has a clear memory of the aftermath of a tornado that badly damaged the Cape Girardeau home of his parents nearly 73 years ago. "The whole second story (of the home) was gone," said Limbaugh, referring to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rush H. Limbaugh Sr., in the 814 N. Henderson Ave...
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Capaha Park pond to be dredged after yearslong delay
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
For the first time in decades, significant upgrades are on the way for the pond in Capaha Park. Cape Girardeau City Council approved an agreement with a Perryville, Missouri-based contractor Monday night to dredge the pond -- an action that's been years in the making...
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Perry County Memorial officials address concerns about potential partnership
(Local News ~ 03/08/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Familiar factions attended Monday night's community forum to discuss the future of Perry County Memorial Hospital, but a large contingent of hospital employees tilted the room to a more pro-hospital perspective than at other recent forums...
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Responding to Rep. Smith
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/08/22)
I just read the arguments that Congressman Jason Smith wrote in his latest newsletters. It continues the distortion of facts that have become a hallmark of his writings. Congressman Smith correctly condemns Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He then manages to justify blaming all adverse impacts on Biden. Take his argument about rising gas prices in the U.S...
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Prayer 3-8-22
(Prayer ~ 03/08/22)
O Lord God, may we take time to be still and hear from you. Amen.
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Dems make their priorities clear
(Column ~ 03/08/22)
Senate Democrats ended February insisting on a procedural fight over the Women's Health Protection Act, to get Republicans on record about the issue during a midterm election year. But if Americans realized just what the Women's Health Protection Act is about, it should not only backfire as a strategy for the Dems, but would prompt an awakening about just how radical a country we've become when it comes to abortion...
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The Biden inflation octopus
(Column ~ 03/08/22)
The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms. This disaster for their party will come about not just because of the Afghanistan debacle, an appeased Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of the southern border, the supply chain mess, or their support for critical race theory demagoguery...
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Births 3/8/22
(Births ~ 03/08/22)
Daughter to Todd and Chelsea Williams of Halls, Tennessee, Covington Memorial Hospital in Covington, Tennessee, 9:54 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. Name, Henrietta Elayna-Claire. Weight, 8 pounds, 2 ounces. Ninth child, third daughter. Mrs. Williams is the daughter of Susan Anglin of Cape Girardeau and Joe White of Bertrand, Missouri....
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Donald Telle
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
UNIONTOWN, Mo. -- Donald O. Telle, 90, of Uniontown passed away Sunday, March 6, 2022, at The Villas of Jackson Memory Care. He was born March 17, 1931, in Uniontown to Edwin A. and Agnes C. Franke Telle. Donald was a life member of Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown. He was baptized March 22, 1931, at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown and was confirmed there April 3, 1944. He was a 1949 graduate of Perryville (Missouri) High School...
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Terry Penny
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Terry W. Penny, 55, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 4, 2022, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with Sam H. Penny officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Phyllis Maevers
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Phyllis Ann Maevers, 80, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, March, 7, 2022, at her home, surrounded by her family. Phyllis was born July, 1, 1941, in Cape Girardeau to Edward and Erna Sander Spalding. Phyllis and Dale Gene Maevers were married on Feb. 6, 1960, at Trinity Lutheran Church...
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Linda Little
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Linda Little, daughter of the late Louis and Marietta Mantel Gilmer, was born Nov. 8, 1950, in Cape Girardeau and departed her life Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 71 years. She graduated from Chaffee (Missouri) High School in 1968 and went on to attend Southeast Missouri University, receiving a bachelor of science and a master's degree. ...
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Carolyn Hughes
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Carolyn Ann Hughes, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 4, 2022, at Heartland Care and Rehab. She was born June 24, 1941, in Cairo, Illinois, to Norman D. and Rose Lucille Walden Hughes. She was a registered nurse at Southeast Hospital for 17 years...
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Viola Guemmer
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Viola M. Guemmer, 92, of Perryville died Monday, March 7, 2022, at Independence Square in Perryville. Visitation will be from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the church, with the Rev. Joseph Schlie officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery...
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Otto Goehman
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Otto R. Goehman, 78, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, March 5, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Otto was born Dec. 20, 1943, to Oscar "Pete" and Verna Duncan Goehman in Cape Girardeau. He and Rebecca Rubel were married in 1961 in Corinth, Mississippi. She survives...
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Donna Frazier
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Donna Frazier, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 4, 2022, at Lutheran Home, surrounded by family. Donna was born Oct. 18, 1946, in Cape Girardeau to Don and Evelyn Strauser. She and James Russell Frazier were united in marriage on Jan. 23, 1970. He preceded her in death Aug. 30, 1975...
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Lydia Baremore
(Obituary ~ 03/08/22)
Lydia Karen Baremore, 77, of Patton, Missouri, died Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at Advent Health in Seabring, Florida. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday nad from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Liley Funeral Home in Patton. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with Brother Jim Collins officiating. Interment will follow in Old Seabaugh cemetery in Sedgewickville, Missouri...
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Speak Out 3/8/22
(Speak Out ~ 03/08/22)
What is taking place in Ukraine is a horror to humanity. Putin has proven himself to be Hitler but with nuclear weapons. He is on his way to committing genocide on the Ukrainian people. The West ignored his brutality too long, and we are all paying the price now...
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Out of the past: March 8
(Out of the Past ~ 03/08/22)
Speaking to about 100 people at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee at the Show Me Center, three Republicans -- state Sen. Peter Kinder and state Rep. Mary Kasten, both of Cape Girardeau, and state Rep. Patrick Naeger of Perryville, Missouri -- said the Cape Girardeau School District still stands a good chance of securing $3.15 million to fund half the cost of a new vocational-technical school; a House subcommittee has proposed to allocate two-thirds of the $3.15 million for the school in fiscal 1998, which begins July 1; the remaining $1 million could be allocated in fiscal 1999, the lawmakers say.. ...
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