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By CHARLES FRANCIS ~ Southeast Missourian
While Discovery Playhouse won't be open to its target audience until the end of March, the interactive children's museum welcomed the young at heart Saturday evening to a "funraiser" that gave the public its first look at...
By Melissa Miller ~ Southeast Missourian
Thousands of area residents browsed the latest products from countertops to rooftops Saturday at the Show Me Center during the 30th annual Southeast Missouri Home Builders Association Home and Garden Show, which continues...
By Melissa Miller ~ Southeast Missourian
They kept on running through the muscle cramps, through the cold, through the night and into the next day. Participants in the Howard L. Aslinger Foundation's 24-Hour Endurance Run at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau came from...
By Alaina Busch ~ Southeast Missourian
It was well past 3 p.m., but Cathy Kapfer's classroom at Central Middle School was full of activity. At the front of the room, Kapfer helped fifth-grade students find common denominators. In the back, clusters of students...
By Rudi Keller ~ Southeast Missourian
After months of waiting, the deal for a Canadian investor to take over Commander Premier Aircraft Corp. in Cape Girardeau seems poised for completion. Ronald Strauss, founder of Aero-Base Inc., said that almost all remaining...
St. Patrick's Day 2010
Cape Girardeau's downtown attracted those celebrating St. Patrick's Day during the Annual Pub Crawl on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Jackson officials plan to apply for recreational trail grant
(03/21/10)
The City of Jackson plans to apply for a grant that would provide most of the funding for the construction of a recreational trail that would connect a city park with a major thoroughfare. At a cost of about $170,000, the first phase of the proposed Hubble Creek Recreational Trail would begin at West Mary Street in City Park and end at West Jackson Boulevard. ...
Musicians perform Friday in MSHSAA music festival hosted by Central High School
(03/21/10)
LAURA SIMON ~ lsimon@semissourian.com Pat Palisch accompanies Jackson High School student Austin Koenig as they perform Lawson Lunde's Sonata for Alto Saxaphone and Piano during the MSHSAA music festival Friday at Central High School in Cape Girardeau....
River Campus exhibits 'Arts by the River' by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
(03/21/10)
LAURA SIMON~lsimon@semissourian.com Handmade teapots by Jimmy Liu of St. Louis are on display during the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's first "Arts by the River" in the atrium and convocation center of Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. ...
Jackson man charged with assault after 12-hour standoff with police
(03/21/10)
An overnight standoff with police has led to the arrest of a Jackson man. Around 7 p.m. Thursday Cape Girardeau sheriff's deputies received a call that a man was threatening suicide at his home off Route Y in Jackson, a news release from sheriff's department spokesman Lt. ...
Broken sewer line at Jackson subdivision repaired
(03/21/10)
A broken sewer line released untreated wastewater into a section of Ramsey Branch in Jackson on Thursday morning but caused no threat to drinking water, city leaders said.
The leak occurred near the intersection of Clear Creek Drive and Greenwood Circle in Klaus Park subdivision.
Education Solutions group: Community support needed to boost graduation rate
(03/21/10)
Increasing community involvement in public schools will be the key to the success of a group planning to increase the graduation rate in the Cape Girardeau School District. At Friday's Community Caring Conference at Southeast Missouri State University, community members gathered to hear about a model for change in schools. The Education Solutions Team, a group sponsored by the United Way of Southeast Missouri, has been working to create the model for about a year...
Home and Garden Show brings good crowd to Show Me Center on Saturday
(03/21/10)
Thousands of area residents browsed the latest products from countertops to rooftops Saturday at the Show Me Center during the 30th annual Southeast Missouri Home Builders Association Home and Garden Show, which continues today...
Endurance run raises funds for scholarships
(03/21/10)
They kept on running through the muscle cramps, through the cold, through the night and into the next day. Participants in the Howard L. Aslinger Foundation's 24-Hour Endurance Run at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau came from as far away as Texas, running to raise money to provide scholarships to students with disabilities...
I-55 roadwork continues this week in Perry and Cape counties
(03/21/10)
Interstate 55 in Perry and Cape Girardeau counties will continue to be reduced to one lane with a 16-foot width restriction while Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform concrete repairs. The section of roadway is in the southbound lanes from the Biehle exit in Perry County to the Fruitland exit in Cape Girardeau County...
After four years of not making targets, Central Middle School preparing for latest round of MAP tests
(03/21/10)
It was well past 3 p.m., but Cathy Kapfer's classroom at Central Middle School was full of activity. At the front of the room, Kapfer helped fifth-grade students find common denominators. In the back, clusters of students worked on spelling words. Some students bounced between activities...
Deal to buy Commander Premier at Cape airport close to completion, investor says
(03/21/10)
After months of waiting, the deal for a Canadian investor to take over Commander Premier Aircraft Corp. in Cape Girardeau seems poised for completion. Ronald Strauss, founder of Aero-Base Inc., said that almost all remaining obstacles to securing the financing necessary to purchase the company have been cleared and he expects to obtain the money he has been seeking by the end of the week...
Tour of Missouri supporters seek private donations
(03/21/10)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Organizers for the Tour of Missouri bicycling race launched a campaign to solicit private donations for the event while Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and his office lessen their involvement.
Mayoral candidates discuss tax holiday, pay raises at forum
(03/19/10)
Cape Girardeau should not participate in the back-to-school sales tax holiday if it means the city will have money to provide at least nominal raises during the coming year, mayoral candidate Harry Rediger said Thursday night. Speaking before about two dozen people at a candidate forum sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County Pachyderm Club, Rediger said he is still undecided about whether the city should take part in the annual weekend of tax-free purchases of school clothes, supplies and computers. ...
Sikeston man's murder trial set to start this summer
(03/19/10)
A Sikeston, Mo., man will go to trial this summer for first-degree murder, KZIM KSIM radio reported. New Madrid County Circuit Judge Fred Copeland was to preside over the jury trial for 47-year-old Robert Eldridge in Caruthersville this week. But that has now been pushed back to begin July 22...
Charges filed in deadly Poplar Bluff shooting
(03/19/10)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff man was charged Thursday afternoon with murdering his sister-in-law's boyfriend during an verbal dispute at his rural Butler County home, the Daily American Republic newspaper reported. Randy Paul Johnson, 54, of the 1500 block of County Road 428 was charged with the Class A felony of second-degree murder and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action by Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Barbour. Johnson's bond was set at $500,000 cash...
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