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More than 50 people participated in an all-day Standing Together Against National Discrimination (STAND) protest event co-hosted by Midwest Council for Civil Rights and Missouri Social Activism on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. The event featured multiple speakers and teaching sessions,...

Cape First Church hosted its annual Family Day on Friday at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. Free food was served and several service vendors were on hand for the free event.

"Bring It On! The Musical" premiered Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus in Cape Girardeau. The performance made adjustments to include face shields for cast and crews, audience sizes were reduced to allow appropriate room for social distancing and, for the...

Photos from the Poplar Bluff Park Department Little League Tournament championship on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2020, at McLane Park.

St. Louis native Nelly performs Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020 at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo.

Located about 30 minutes from Cape Girardeau, the Maintz Wildlife Preserve annually plants sunflowers to feed birds and other wildlife in the area. This year the Missouri Department of Conservation has planted eight fields of sunflowers in Maintz near the intersection of County Roads 471 and 472....

The Perryville High School football squad wrapped up its summer camp workouts Friday in Perryville.

For more than two hours, the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center board of trustees heard public dissent and support regarding the county's mandatory mask mandate during a meeting Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau.

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels 19-under squad beat the Jackson Tribe 8-3 Saturday in the Senior Babe Ruth State Tournament at Hillhouse Park in Charleston.

CHARLESTON — The Jackson Tribe 18-under baseball squad beat Festus 11-1 Wednesday in the opening round of the Senior Babe Ruth State Tournament at Hillhouse Park in Charleston.

Following the emergency face mask order issued by the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center which went into effect on Monday, almost all Cape Farmers Market customers and vendors abided by the local health guidelines and wore masks while shopping Thursday, July 16, 2020, at the open-air market...

A ceremony was held in front of the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Federal Courthouse in Cape Girardeau on Thursday, July 9, 2020, to honor seven officers involved in the July 2018 arrest of James O’Dell Johnson in Poplar Bluff. U.S. Attorney Jeffrey B. Jensen presented recognitions to SEMO Drug Task Force...

Notre Dame Regional High School hosted a tennis events Tuesday, July 7, 2020, featuring tournament-style, single-elimination brackets in both singles and doubles.

A handful of bystanders and pedestrians stopped to watch a crew of construction workers as they erected a wooden box around a Confederate States of America monument in Ivers Square on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. Members of Cape Girardeau City Council voted 6-1 in favor of a motion for...

The combined squad of Notre Dame and New Madrid battled a group of players from Jackson and Dexter during the SEMO Conference Baseball Showcase Monday at Capaha Field.

The combined squads of New Madrid and Notre Dame battled a squad of Sikeston and Cape Central players in the SEMO Conference Baseball Showcase at Capaha Field Monday.

The City of Jackson celebrates Independence Day on Saturday, July 4, 2020, with a Shades of Soul concert at the Jackson Municipal Band Shell followed by a fireworks show.

On July 4 weekend, 741 flags were displayed in Cape County Park North. Twenty-three flags were added to these during the Avenue of Flags annual ceremony, which dedicated the flags to local veterans of foreign wars.

After being denied a spring track and field season due to the coronavirus, Saxony Lutheran High School hosted an unofficial track and field meet for area athletes Monday, June 29, 2020, in Jackson.

Members of the Cape Girardeau police and fire departments responded to the 300 block of South Benton Street where a gunshot victim was located. The victim was transported by Cape County Private Ambulance service to a local hospital, and an investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

The Cape Girardeau Capahas defeated the Valmeyer Lakers (2-0) during a season-opening game Friday, June 26, 2020, at Jackson Indians Stadium.

Former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop and Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith visits Cape Girardeau on Friday, June 26, 2020, for a round of golf at the Cape Girardeau Country Club as part of a private event.

Members of the NBC Fire Protection District receive mutual aid from the Oran Fire Protection District, the Scott City Fire Department, the Scott County Rural Fire Protection District and the Scott County Sheriff's Office during a working fire Thursday, June 25, 2020, at a residence in the 300 block...

Members of the Cape Girardeau Police Department surrounded a residence in the 1300 block of Vantage Drive shortly after Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. Officers set up a perimeter around the residence after a subject with a misdemeanor warrant ran into the house during an attempted...

Jackson Tribe beat the Sikeston Silver Sox 6-1 Tuesday at VFW Memorial Stadium in Sikeston in summer baseball league action.

The Cape Girardeau Titans 19U baseball team faced off against a young team from Saxony Lutheran during a doubleheader Monday, June 22, 2020, at Capaha Field in Cape Girardeau.

For the fourth consecutive week, weekend demonstrations were held to raise local awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police. On Sunday, a group of a few dozen protestors gathered at Freedom Corner in Capaha Park to raise...

Jackson High School's graduation ceremony is held Friday, June 19, 2020, inside the school's football stadium. Despite the ongoing concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Jackson did not let that stop their students from having their moment on the stage.

Vania Johnson, Dori Hefner, Elysia King and Emily Sachs model fashions from various Southeast Missouri boutiques. The location of each photo shoot is a mystery. For hints and more information, check out the summer 2020 issue of flourish or visit flourishwomen.io.

Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation officials, City Council members, city board members and members of the public composed an audience of more than 50 people at a ceremony to mark the opening of the Capaha Park Splash Pad on Monday, June 15, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. Construction on the project...

Local children and young adults participate in a Children's March event organized by the St. James AME Church social justice ministry to raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement and to bring justice for Madison Robinson — a 15-year-old girl who was shot and killed in August. The event...

The Avenue of Flags was raised for display Saturday evening in Cape Girardeau County Park North ahead of Flag Day, June 14, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. During a Sunday morning ceremony, a total of 14 new flags were dedicated in memory of deceased Cape Girardeau County veterans. The new additions now...

Moments from the drive-through graduation ceremony Saturday, June 13, 2020, at Cape Girardeau Central High School in Cape Girardeau. Graduates were able to exit their vehicles to walk across the outdoor stage and have pictures taken.

In March, life changed for Americans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same is true of those in and around Cape Girardeau County. These images of the pandemic were captured on Polaroid Originals instant film using vintage Polaroid 600 cameras between mid-March and the second week of June. See the...

Scenes from Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, at the waterpark in Cape Girardeau. Sarah Wichern, City of Cape Girardeau Aquatic Coordinator, said the facility opened up Monday. She said the center is open seven days a week with sessions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6...

As an effort to encourage local clergy members to confront racism and actively seek social justice within local communities, the social justice ministry at St. James A.M.E. Church called faith leaders to a "Monday Mourning" event June 8, 2020, at Peace Park in Cape Girardeau. The interfaith event...

Hundreds of protestors took posts around the Perry County Courthouse to express their emotions and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Sunday, June 7, 2020, in downtown Perryville, Missouri. More than a dozen counter-protestors sat on North Jackson Street across the street...

After postponing its commencement ceremonies due to COVID-19, Saxony Lutheran High School held a graduation event on Sunday, June 7, 2020, at the Gerhard Birk Gymnasium in Jackson. Attendance numbers at the event were restricted to five guests per graduate, and hand sanitizer was stationed beneath...

More than 500 people were registered to take part in free COVID-19 testing Friday, June 5, 2020, at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. The drive-up testing event was scheduled for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Schroeder family and Andrew Bard are just some of the people raising chickens in Cape Girardeau. Full story in this weekend's Good Times section.

Here's a look at the best images our photojournalists captured while covering the COVID-19 pandemic and other stories in May 2020.

Several Semoball-area schools gathered at Harmon Field Sunday in Chaffee for the Senior Showcase baseball games, which allowed players from the 2020 class to get one final opportunity to compete in front of family and friends after losing their senior season to the coronavirus pandemic.

Several Semoball-area schools gathered at Harmon Field Sunday in Chaffee for the Senior Showcase baseball games, which allowed players from the 2020 class to get one final opportunity to compete in front of family and friends after losing their senior season to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundreds of demonstrators stand in solidarity to demand justice for George Floyd and bring awareness to what the Black Lives Matter movement means by protesting on Freedom Corner, located near the intersection of Broadway and North West End Boulevard, and marching around Capaha Park in Cape...

A parade was held for Jackson High School seniors Friday, May 29, 2020, in Jackson. Event organizer Mendi McDowell of Jackson, mother of Jackson senior Autumn Gragg, said the event materialized after the number of people was limited at graduation. “We just wanted the safest way that we would be...

While already attempting to safely celebrate Ramadan amid the pandemic, community members at the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau were targeted by a hate crime on Friday, April 24, 2020, and their mosque was destroyed. Despite the obstacles, the local Muslim community overcame the trials and...

According to Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Joey Hann, a male subject was shot Wednesday night near S. West End Boulevard in Cape Girardeau. Members of the Cape Girardeau police and fire departments and Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers were seen investigating the area around Boulevard Apartments...

Various commemorations of Memorial Day are captured Monday, May 25, 2020, in Cape Girardeau and Perryville, Missouri. In Cape Girardeau, a crew of workers from Adult and Teen Challenge Mid-America assisted in assembling the Avenue of Flags at Cape Girardeau County Park North, and the flags will...

Scenes from the 100-Mile Yard Sale on Saturday, May 23, 2020, along Highway 25. The event takes place along Highway 25 from Jackson to Kennett, Missouri, and runs through Memorial Day.

Five Jackson High School 2020 seniors walked across the stage during an in-person military graduation ceremony Friday, May 22, 2020, at Jackson High School. Reasoning for the military graduation included scheduling conflicts with the graduates’ basic training and the full-class graduation which has...

Complete with skates and sticks, Booch family members played hockey Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at a parking lot near Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center in Cape Girardeau. Mother Maren Booch said hockey in the parking lot has become a regular activity for the family during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We...

Gardeners turned out for planting Saturday, May 16, 2020, at Washington Park and Fountain Street community gardens in Cape Girardeau. Melissa LaPlant, manager of Southeast Missouri State University's Charles Hutson Greenhouse, said peppers, red cabbage, kale, cucumber, basil and chives were some of...

On their 70th wedding anniversary, Kenneth and Martha Bender sat, surrounded by flowers and balloons, in their driveway for a parade held in their honor Friday, May 15, 2020, in Cape Girardeau. Neighbor Joe McLemore had the idea for the parade and said, on the phone before the event, the Benders...

Each week, the Southeast Missourian photography staff takes readers into the lives of locals in our weekly photo story. This story now materializes on a photo spread in the Good Times section, but has until recently been located on the section’s cover page. More often than not, the Weekend...

Shots were fired near the intersection of South West End Boulevard and William Street after multiple motor vehicle collisions occurred Thursday, May 14, 2020, according to statements from Cape Girardeau police and witnesses at the scene.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson made a visit Thursday, May 14, 2020, to Cape Girardeau. Following his visit, Gov. Parson returned to Jefferson City for a briefing to give updates on COVID-19 in the state.

Filming of a virtual tour of public areas of the new Cape Girardeau County Courthouse took place Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in Jackson. Charlie Herbst, District 2 associate commissioner of Cape Girardeau County, said the virtual tour would be shared on the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office...