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Out of the past: March 19A small tear in the rubber blade of a windshield wiper made the difference between excellent and perfect during Jackson School District's spring bus inspection yesterday; three hours and 54 buses later, the school district posted a near perfect inspection score of 98.1%, well above the state average of 85.3%; this achievement also earned the district the distinguished Fleet Excellence Award, given school districts that score 95% or higher on the annual spring inspection...
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Out of the past: March 18More than 20 years after the death of Leroy Mason, longtime director of Southeast Missouri State University's Golden Eagles Marching Band, a university scholarship named for Mason isn't fully endowed; Vicki Litzelfelner Abernathy, who was a majorette and drum major for the Golden Eagles from 1966 to 1971, has organized a benefit '60s dance aimed at raising some of the approximately $3,600 still needed to fully endow the scholarship at $10,000; the dance is set for April 16 at the Show Me Center...
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Out of the past: March 16Southeast Missouri State University wants to hike tuition and general fees, and add a student health fee; combined, the fees would total $107.50 a credit-hour for in-state undergraduates, a $4 hike from the current rate; the university also wants to increase fees for out-of-state undergraduate and in-state graduate students by $7 a credit-hour; the Board of Regents will consider approving the fees at its March 24 meeting...
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Out of the past: March 17Southeast Missouri State University expects to spend about $71 million to educate students next fiscal year; university officials are crafting a budget that calls for spending some $3 million more for general operations than was budgeted for the current fiscal year that ends June 30; the increase is based on getting added state funding of more than $2 million plus about $755,000 in added revenue from hikes in student fees; none of this is set in stone; the Missouri Legislature has yet to approve an estimated $46.4 million in state funding for Southeast for fiscal 2000, and the Board of Regents still has to vote on the administration's plan to raise student fees.. ...
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Out of the past: March 15With just a week of winter left on the calendar, Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois got hit by a storm that left more than a foot of snow in some areas; snow began falling early yesterday morning and ended shortly after noon; Cape Girardeau County was hard hit, receiving 14 inches of snow in some spots; Jackson reports drifts reaching 20 to 30 inches, while Cape Girardeau had 6 to 8 inches by noon Sunday. ...
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Out of the past: March 14The Perpetual Help Mission Club marked its 50th anniversary recently with a Mass celebrated by the Rev. Al Hoernig; the only charter member left in the club is Vera Lohmann, a parishioner at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church; the group began in 1949, when the Rev. Paul Tong began seeking help for mission work in Brazil; women from St. Vincent's and St. Mary's Cathedral started the club; over the years, the club has kept supporting the work of the Brazilian church...
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Out of the past: March 13Even though the new millennium doesn’t start until 2001, plans are being made to celebrate it on Dec. 31 with a massive New Year’s Eve party at the Show Me Center; making plans for the celebration are Cape Girardeau businesswoman Judy Wilferth and friends; the party, expected to cost more than $100,000, will feature dinner, dancing, musical entertainment from two bands — the Jerry Ford Orchestra, a local swing band, and Atlantic Express, a rock dance band from Kansas City — champaign, party favors, a millennium breakfast and indoor fireworks. ...
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Out of the past: March 12The committee redrawing Cape Girardeau’s elementary school boundaries changed the line dividing Franklin and Jefferson schools, but made no other changes; the group decided yesterday it shouldn’t negotiate with parent groups; instead, the committee recommended that parents take their suggestions to the school board; the change between Franklin and Jefferson schools was needed because children in the neighborhood between William and Independence streets were inaccurately counted. ...
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Out of the past: March 11Six Southeast Missouri Democratic lawmakers were among Democrats who defied the governor and their own party's leadership to help defeat the state's collective bargaining bill; the House defeated the controversial bill Tuesday by a vote of 73 for and 88 against...
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Out of the past: March 9The likelihood of losing your wheels to a car thief is decreasing, especially if you live in Cape Girardeau; the Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that 23,163 vehicles were stolen statewide in 1998, a decrease of 4%; Cape Girardeau police say local auto theft is down from 102 in 1997 to 46 in 1998, a decrease of 55%...
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Out of the past: March 10"Heroes and Legends: An Aerial Tribute to U.S. Veterans" is the theme for this year's three-day Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival; groups like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts across Southeast Missouri have expressed interest in helping promote the show, scheduled for July 10-12 at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport...
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Out of the past: March 8Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, the Good Hope Neighborhood Police Station is open for business at 629 Good Hope St.; Cape Girardeau police are hoping the opening of the substation in the Haarig area will take a bigger bite out of neighborhood crime; the newly-remodeled facility is in Dr. George Ringland's former office...
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Out of the past: March 7The Cape Girardeau school board will consider whether to continue a second class preparation period for secondary teachers, during a meeting March 15; board members requested the item be added to the next meeting’s agenda during a half-day study session yesterday; a decision must be made about the preparation periods before mid-April, because it could impact the number of secondary teachers rehired for next school year. ...
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Out of the past: March 6Cape Girardeau Board of Education's annual retreat is held at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce board room and is open to the public; members of the board discuss long-term budget projections and class scheduling; not scheduled for discussion is a proposal submitted by the Attendance Area Study Committee last month, which deals with boundary changes for the district's elementary schools...
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Out of the past: March 5Missouri Secretary of State Bekki Cook won’t seek re-election or run for any other public office next year; the 48-year-old Democrat from Cape Girardeau says she will leave public office when her term ends in January 2001; however, she also indicates she won’t rule out running for governor some day; less than an hour after Cook made here announcement yesterday, House Speaker Steve Gaw said he would run for the office Cook is vacating. ...
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Out of the past: March 4Southeast Missouri can claim its share of the 5,000 inductees in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame: Billy Swan of "I Can Help" fame, Narvel "Reconsider Me" Felts and Dennis "Lover Please" Turner; the newest inductee is Louis "Lou" Hobbs, the 57-year-old Cape Girardeau singer-guitarist who has been a fixture on the local music scene for a long time...
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Out of the past: March 3Aircraft manufacturer Zenair of Canada Ltd. and Independent Manufacturing and Development Co. might start assembling planes in Cape Girardeau within 60 days; Independent Manufacturing president Mathieu Heintz was in Cape Girardeau yesterday to announce his company has agreed to produce the FAA-type certified CH2000/CH2T aircraft at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport...
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Out of the past: March 2Jackson has been rated first among 62 cities seeking approval of projects under the State Revolving Loan Program; acceptance into the program should save the city about $3.1 million in interest over the life of sewer and water bonds authorized by voters in August...
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Out of the past: March 1NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Southeast Missouri State University’s bid for its first-ever NCAA Division I basketball tournament berth was thwarted yesterday by Murray State in a 62-61 loss in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship game; for the second time this season, Murray State’s Aubrey Reese hit a game-winning shot at the buzzer to beat the Indians; and also for the second time this year, Reese’s shot negated the heroics of Southeast’s Kahn Cotton, who swished a 27-foot 3-pointer with 5 seconds left that gave Southeast a temporary 61-60 lead. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 29Absent from today’s “Out of the Past” column are events from the years 1949, 1974 and 1999. Those were not leap years. Leap Day. At least eight Cape Girardeans are members of the 29’ers Club; today they celebrate a birthday anniversary delayed for four years; they are Joseph Baumgartner, Ernest Sawyer, Mrs. E.P. Vaeth, Mrs. Ollie Crump, Hilda Fisher, Mrs. C.B. Crabtree, Joe Sciortino and Norman J. Schwab. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 28The Rev. Allen Oakley is the guest speaker at First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau; he has served as moderator for the synod of Missouri and as presbytery associate executive in St. Louis; he also served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Kennett. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 27Sister Mary Ann Fischer, who has served 11 years as principal at Notre Dame Regional High School, says the time is right for her to leave the high school she helped bring into its prime; Fischer is leaving here to pursue another career that allows her to use her master’s degree in religious education; but first, she will participate in a summer program with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Japan, where she will work with the international order and perform some Third World outreach activities. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 26With a $350-million-plus expansion project at the Procter & Gamble Co. plant still being carried out, the company says it is considering yet another expansion. Repair work and inspections of the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau will continue next week; both lanes will be closed from 9 a.m. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 25Members of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education favor many of the redistricting changes proposed by its Attendance Area Study Committee, but oppose any changes that would separate neighborhoods; the board likely will decide new school boundaries in April after receiving public input...
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Out of the past: Feb. 24Residents of Dutchtown may again participate in the federal flood insurance program; the designation marks another step toward protection from Mississippi River flooding for the small village, says Bud Obermann, who serves on the Dutchtown village board; the village was incorporated a year ago by the County Commissioners; organizers hope to develop a levee that would protect the community from river water; it would also help keep highways 25 and 74 open during floods...
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Out of the past: Feb. 23The Missouri Department of Transportation says the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau will be closed to traffic from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow to allow workers to make repairs to a floor beam; traffic on the span was reduced to one lane much of yesterday and again today; repairing a floor beam on the center line makes the closure necessary. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 22A proposal is received by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education that would shift elementary school boundaries to improve diversity and maximize use of building capacities after the district’s newest school is completed this summer; the proposal doesn’t eliminate the neighborhood school concept favored by many in Cape Girardeau, nor does it negatively impact the majority of students in the district, say members of the Attendance Area Study Committee. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 21Southeast Missouri State University’s power plant has generated plenty of electricity; university officials say the $7 million spent over the past few years on improvements to the campus power plant and electrical distribution system has been well worth it; since Jan. 13, the university has generated much of its electrical power, reducing the amount of electricity it must buy from AmerenUE; Southeast expects savings of about $300,000 annually. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 20Former Southeast Missouri State University basketball coach Ron Shumate has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $300,000 in damages from the university’s Board of Regents, stemming from his 1997 firing; the suit claims Shumate was wrongfully fired and that the defendants — the regents and the school’s executive vice president of financial affairs, Kenneth Dobbins — concocted false charges of NCAA regulations violations and encouraged others to make false statements before the NCAA. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 19Contractors on the new Cape Girardeau elementary school won't meet their June 30 deadline, says school superintendent Dr. Dan Tallent; he updated parents on construction progress within the district during a Parent Teacher Association meeting at Alma Schrader Elementary School last night; parents also met candidates for the upcoming school board elections during the meeting...
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Out of the past: Feb. 17The City of Jackson formally committed last night to an intergovernmental agreement that would accelerate improvements at the Highway 61-Interstate 55 interchange called Center Junction; the improvements would be financed and carried out by a not-for-profit corporation composed of the cities of Jackson and Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County and developer Jim Drury; Cape Girardeau also approved the agreement last night, and the County Commission is scheduled to consider it soon, leaving the next move to the Missouri Department of Transportation.. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 18A group of Cape Girardeau doctors and nurses is planning a week-long trip to Jamaica in April, but the visit will be no vacation; the group is participating in a medical mission trip to provide primary health care to rural communities in the township of Carron Hall; the group has been working since August to plan the trip...
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Out of the past: Feb. 16A committee is meeting to determine whether attendance boundaries adopted two years ago for Cape Girardeau elementary schools are still practical; the 12-member Attendance Area Study Committee convened in November 1996 to develop a plan to redraw boundary lines for the district’s six elementary schools; at the same time, the school board approved a master plan for the district; it reduces the number of elementary schools to five by closing Washington and May Greene schools and opening a new elementary school on North Sprigg Street by June 30. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 15Pat Patterson Photography Studio has moved to a new location, 2700 Bloomfield Road; the studio, owned by Pat and Edna Patterson, opened on Broadway in 1982 and has operated at 124 N. Main St., for the past 12 years. The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has released an updated report card on the quality of life in the community; the report, Qualities of Life, shows community progress as well as problems that need attention, says John Mehner, Chamber president...
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Out of the past: Feb. 14The Rev. Jim Lyons is the new pastor of Zion United Methodist Church in Gordonville; his wife, Louella, is pastor at Sedgewickville and Crossroads United Methodist churches; the Lyons were co-pastors of Methodist churches in Willow Springs, while attending seminary. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 13With all David Limbaugh's personas — lawyer, editor of his famous brother's books, Sunday school teacher — he has long aspired to be a writer; the Cape Girardeau resident is about to begin writing a nationally syndicated column for Los Angeles-based Creators Syndicate; the column will launch April 4, and the Southeast Missourian will carry it...
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Out of the past: Feb. 12A microburst tore the roof off a house in Chaffee, and straight-line winds destroyed two large old buildings east of Marble Hill yesterday as a cold front brought turbulent weather and tornado warnings to the region; no one was injured in either incident...
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Out of the past: Feb. 10Players International Inc., a small casino company that first opened a riverboat operation at Metropolis, Illinois, Feb. 24, 1993, will be sold to Jackson Enterprises Inc., an even smaller company in Las Vegas, Nevada; Players, based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, now also has casinos at Riverport in Maryland Heights in the St. Louis area and at Lake Charles, Louisiana; Jackson agreed to purchase Players for about $424 million in cash, stocks and assumed debts...
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Out of the past: Feb. 11Demolition of old Saint Francis Hospital on Good Hope Street remains on track for this summer despite a developer's announced intention to renovate the property; Trent Condellone, a Springfield, Missouri, businessman who bought the building in March, says renovation is also on track for the summer; however, Cape Girardeau city officials say Condellone hasn't provided detailed plans for the structure...
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Out of the past: Feb. 9An effort is underway to form a not-for-profit corporation to finance and carry out improvements to the U.S. 61-Interstate 55 interchange between Cape Girardeau and Jackson; involved in the movement is James Drury, who plans to develop the commercial area around the interchange, and Cape Girardeau County and city and Jackson governments. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 8Cape Girardeau proposes to spend $75.5 million on capital improvements over the next five years, with $40.6 million being spent in the first year; city staff unveils a draft of the latest version of the capital improvement fund during a City Council study session; the program is updated annually and lists projects planned over a five-year period; a public hearing on the program likely will be scheduled for March 1...
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Out of the past: Feb. 7First Assembly of God Church holds a groundbreaking service in the afternoon at 1367 Platinum Court; the church is beginning construction of a house to be used by missionary families who return to the U.S. on furlough; construction of Harvest House will be paid for by contributions from church members. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 6The Missouri Transportation Department plans to spend $28,801 to plant 180 trees along two stretches of Highway 74 (Shawnee Parkway) in Cape Girardeau; the area extends just over half a mile; the commission this week awarded the tree-planting contract to Hillside Gardens Inc. of Foley; trees will be planted on the north side of the highway between Interstate 55 and Silver Springs Road and on both sides of the road between Silver Springs and Kingshighway...
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Out of the past: Feb. 5James Lee Witt, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, formally welcomes Cape Girardeau into FEMA's Project Impact during a morning ceremony at the Show Me Center; Project Impact, which Witt originated, is a nationwide FEMA initiative to encourage communities to become more disaster resistant; Cape Girardeau is the first city in Missouri to be recognized under the program...
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Out of the past: Feb. 4The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department is creating a plan for future development of the entire city park system; a seven-member team composed of department staff is charged with developing the plan; the goal is to create a plan outlining what improvements are needed and desired or what other changes are appropriate at each of the city's many parks...
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Out of the past: Feb. 3PERRYVILLE -- Dr. Rex Miller, Perryville schools superintendent for the past three years, has been named superintendent of Windsor School District; the Windsor school board selected Miller for the top position during a meeting last week; he was one of seven finalists and 24 applicants for the position; Miller announced his resignation from Perryville schools in October...
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Out of the past: Feb. 2Southeast Missouri State University officials announce David Copperfield, “the world’s greatest illusionist”, will perform two shows at the Show Me Center on April 7; Copperfield’s magic will be part of the featured entertainment during the university’s 125th anniversary celebration. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 1The Cape Girardeau community, looking for another way to promote emergency preparedness, is offering a way for teen-agers to get involved; the city, through Project Impact, has teamed with the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, Southeast Missouri State University and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse to form a new Emergency Management Explorer Scout Post...
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Out of the past: Jan. 31R Mission, an all-female quintet from Hannibal LaGrange Baptist College, gives concerts at two area church; the group performs at 8 a. m. at Cape Bible Chapel and at 10 a.m. at Faith Evangelical Free Church. Calvin Taylor, a pianist and recording artist, performs in the morning at Centenary United Methodist Church; Taylor presents a sermon of song called “Holy Scripture: Alive with Sounds of Music.” ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 30CAIRO, Ill. -- The U.S. Coast Guard late yesterday morning reopened a section of the Ohio River north of Cairo to one-way traffic following a barge crash into a pier of the Illinois-Kentucky highway bridge; the motor vessel Megan Beesecker, owned by Northstar Navigation Inc. of Paducah, Kentucky, struck the pier about 5:10 a.m. Friday; one of its 12 barges sank; the barges were loaded with non-hazardous dry bulk cargo...
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Out of the past: Jan. 29The Kelly school board has decided to seek a $4.5 million bond issue to build a new high school at Benton and furnish it; school patrons will vote on the bond issue April 6; a building committee made up of faculty, parents and students developed the bond issue proposal; bonds would be repaid over 20 years...
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Out of the past: Jan. 28Plans to reclaim the former beauty of the Jackson High School auditorium could be put into action as early as this summer; the oak paneling and golden-veined Ste. Genevieve marble in the lobby of the 563-seat auditorium will be restored, as will a seldom-used ticket booth that contains marble and oak accents; ornate bas-relief designs and decorative vent coverings found throughout the auditorium will also be preserved...
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Out of the past: Jan. 27More than 100,000 people attend the standing-room-only Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis in the morning; it is the largest indoor Mass ever celebrated; the pope's words reiterate the message he has delivered throughout his visit here of preserving human dignity and life, strengthening the family and the "priceless value of Catholic education."...
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Out of the past: Jan. 26A Canadian aircraft manufacturer -- Zenair -- is expected to announce soon it will open a manufacturing plant at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport; Zenair, headquartered in Toronto, is considering the airport for a plant to manufacture a two-seat training aircraft...
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Out of the past: Jan. 25More than 60 people gathered beneath a funeral tent Sunday afternoon in Cape Girardeau to pray together and sing hymns of faith; behind them stood rows and rows of white crosses representing the abortions that have taken place in the United States since the historic 1973 Roe v. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 24The Jackson Ministerial Alliance sponsors a worship service in the afternoon at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity; the Rev. Grant Gillard, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, is the speaker; an ecumenical handbell choir performs...
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Out of the past: Jan. 23A bridge was washed out and at least two roads remain impassible in Scott County in the wake of Thursday night's thunderstorms that spawned as many as eight tornadoes, caused power outages and deluged some Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois communities with as much as 6 inches of rain; Scott County took the brunt of the power from the line of storms that moved into the region from Northern Arkansas; heavy rains washed out a bridge on County Road 217 off Route A halfway between New Hamburg and Chaffee; also closed due to flooding is a 3.5-mile section of Route W two miles west of Oran and a two-mile section of Route Z between Crowder and Tanner; a vacant mobile home between Benton and Kelly High School was lifted from its foundation.. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 22A series of thunderstorms swept across Southeast Missouri and Southwest Illinois last night, bringing heavy rain, hail and a number of unconfirmed tornado sightings; the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky, received numerous reports of tornadoes from Stoddard, New Madrid and Scott counties in Missouri and Union County in Illinois; there were no confirmed reports of tornado damage; hail ranging in size from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter was reported throughout the region stretching from Cape Girardeau south to the Bootheel.. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 21Local lawmakers say they will push for state funding for Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus even though Gov. Mel Carnahan's proposed budget for fiscal 2000 doesn't include any money for the project; Carnahan's budget, unveiled yesterday, includes $66.3 million for capital improvement projects on the state's college campuses; the governor wants to spend $49 million on four projects already under construction at Truman State University in Kirkwood and another $17 million on four projects at Southwest Missouri State University; Rep. ...
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Out of the past: Jan. 20Attorney Scott Lipke will challenge Jackson Mayor Paul Sander in the general election in April, providing Sander with his first opposition since he was first elected in 1993; Lipke, a former assistant prosecuting attorney for Cape Girardeau County, filed for the mayor's seat yesterday, the last day of filing for the election...