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Operation Christmas Child to offer curbside drop-off of gift shoeboxes
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
Operation Christmas Child, a Samaritan’s Purse project, is now offering a curbside drop-off option in Southeast Missouri during its national collection week, Nov. 16 through 23. For more than two decades, the project has been collecting and delivering gifts in shoeboxes to children worldwide, including include school supplies, hygiene items and toys...
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Salvation Army of Cape Girardeau County responds to pandemic
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
This year’s approach to holiday services will be different, said Lt. Matt DeGonia, corps officer of The Salvation Army of Cape Girardeau County, but the traditional holiday meals and toy and food drives will go on — with an eye toward safety and service...
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Miller honored for judicial service
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
A group composed of judges from across the state honored Judge Frank E. Miller of Cape Girardeau for his work in a program filling judicial needs around Missouri. Miller’s award stemmed from his participation in the state’s judicial transfer program, which assigns judges to preside over cases anywhere in the state for various reasons and came at the annual meeting of the Judicial Conference of Missouri. A typical reason for such a need involves judges who recuse from hearing a case...
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New online system maps Cape County properties
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
A new online property mapping system promises to be faster and more user friendly than the previous system provided by the Cape Girardeau County Assessor’s Office. The public can access the new system through the assessor’s web portal, capegirardeau.missouriassessors.com. From there, users can begin a property inquiry by clicking “Real Estate Search” or they can go directly to property maps by clicking the link labeled “GIS Maps.” Both links may be found on the portal’s home page...
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New contract lowers county's 911 expenses
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
Cape Girardeau County’s 911 system phone bill will be cut by about half starting next month. “Our bill is probably going to go from 11 grand a month down to five or six thousand a month,” said Cape Girardeau County Commissioner Charlie Herbst, who, along with other members of the County Commission, approved a new three-year 911 telephone service contract with AT&T during Thursday’s commission meeting...
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Jackson superintendent Link looks back on his career
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
Jackson School District superintendent John Link has worked for the past six years to build community within the school buildings and the district, and to reach out to the community to build trust and move forward as a partnership. “My leadership style has always been that of a servant leader,” Link said. He has preferred to be guiding from behind, rather than trying to drag people along, he said...
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Grotto at St. Mary's of the Barrens in Perryville celebrates 100 years
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
In 1920, a grotto in honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal was dedicated in Perryville, Missouri, after two years of construction amid a World War and worldwide illness. Next month, the 100th anniversary celebration will take place on the grounds...
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Cape City Council to gather information for possible future deer hunt
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
Count Bonnie Coy-Svenson among those residents who want to see an urban deer hunt conducted within the city limits of Cape Girardeau. Coy-Svenson, at the most recent meeting of the Cape Girardeau City Council, demonstrated her advocacy for the idea by sporting a COVID-19 mask featuring the imprint of a deer with a red slash through it...
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B Magazine Column: Teaching in the age of masks
(B Magazine ~ 10/30/20)
"Be sure to take your instrument home with you after school today. It might be awhile until we see each other again." That was the announcement I gave to all of my classes on Friday, March 13, 2020. It was indeed our last day, and even after hopeful goals of returning to school were announced, 163 days would pass before school would once again be in session...
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Fire heavily damages Cape home
(Local News ~ 10/30/20)
A Friday morning fire heavily damaged a Cape Girardeau home in the 400 block of North Frederick Street. Cape Girardeau and Jackson firefighters battled the blaze through noon. It was unclear if anyone was in the structure when the fire began, but firefighters did save at least one cat from the home...
- Prayer 10/30/20 (Prayer ~ 10/30/20)
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No more sign stealing
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/30/20)
To the person who trespassed on my property and stole the sign endorsing our choice for president, I have a few questions. Is petty theft more effective than voting? Is trampling on our First Amendment right the best way to express your freedom of speech?...
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Speak Out 10/30/20
(Speak Out ~ 10/30/20)
Joe Biden is a typical politician. He says one thing, and when the voters don't like it he denies it by saying he didn't mean what he said. President Donald Trump says what he means. Do we want someone who doesn't stand behind what he says or someone who stands behind what he says...
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Fool us once, shame on you; fool us forever, shame on us all
(Column ~ 10/30/20)
Why people continue to trust government officials is a mystery. Often disconnected from the problems at hand, their policies also often contradict their supporters' frequently expressed beliefs. While suffering from cost overruns and increasing budget deficits, these policies handsomely reward their cronies, too...
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Daylight saving time ends this weekend
(Editorial ~ 10/30/20)
Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour Saturday night. At 2 a.m. Sunday, daylight saving time ends and we revert back to standard time until the spring. The U.S. has observed daylight saving since March 1918. It has historically been about allowing for more sunlight later into the evening, a way to save on energy costs. Whether that still holds true is up for some debate. But it's certainly nice to have the additional hour of daylight at the end of the day...
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Old Town Cape's Revivify surpasses fundraising goal despite pandemic challenge
(Editorial ~ 10/30/20)
The coronavirus pandemic has made in-person events nearly impossible this year. This has been especially hard on organizations that use gatherings as a way to raise money for important philanthropic causes. Old Town Cape took the proverbial lemons they were dealt, however, and made lemonade...
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Bonnie Hulshof
(Obituary ~ 10/30/20)
BENTON, Mo. — Bonnie Theresa Hulshof, 54, of Benton died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 21, 1965, in Cape Girardeau to Louis Paul and Anna Mary Bucher Glastetter. She married Glenn Hulshof on Oct. 17, 1987...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 10/30/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/30/20)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Oct. 28 n Medical assists were made at 11:49 a.m. at North Ellis and North Pacific streets; 1:44 p.m. on South Benton Street; 1:45 p.m. on Boutin Drive; 3:33 p.m. on Independence Street; 4:56 p.m. on North Sprigg Street; 5:30 p.m. on Walden Boulevard; 9:02 p.m. on Grandview Drive; 9:50 p.m. on North Henderson Avenue; and 11:44 p.m. on Lochinvar Lane...
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Cape police report 10/30/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/30/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 500 block of North Fountain Street. n Assault was reported on North Kingshighway. Thefts n Theft was reported in the 1500 block of Independence Street...
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COVID-19 records: St. Louis hospitalizations, KC deaths
(State News ~ 10/30/20)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- The new surge of the coronavirus was evident in Missouri on Thursday, with record hospitalizations in St. Louis and Columbia, and the Kansas City metropolitan area experiencing its worst month ever for COVID-19 deaths. The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force late Wednesday reported 72 hospital admissions in one day, the most since tracking began in April. ...
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Trump fights headwinds as he and Biden battle over Florida
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
TAMPA, Fla. -- Pressing against stiff headwinds from the pandemic, President Donald Trump steered toward what he hoped was safer political ground with the U.S. economy Thursday, as Democratic rival Joe Biden kept up his assault on Trump's handling of the coronavirus...
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Zeta barrels across Southeast after battering weary coast
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- Zeta sped across the Southeast on Thursday, leaving a trail of damage and more than 2.6 million homes and businesses without power in Atlanta and beyond after pounding New Orleans with winds and water that splintered homes and were blamed for at least three deaths...
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Speaker Pelosi scolds White House over no response in virus talks
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a scolding assessment of COVID-19 relief talks Thursday, blaming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for failing to produce answers to her demands for Democratic priorities as part of an almost $2 trillion aid package...
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U.S. economy grew at 33% rate in Q3 but recovery is incomplete
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy grew at a record 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter but has not fully rebounded from its plunge in the first half of the year -- and the recovery is slowing as coronavirus cases surge and government aid dries up...
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Ahead of the election, a landslide of documentaries
(Entertainment ~ 10/30/20)
NEW YORK -- The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. Dozens of films, exploring issues from gerrymandering to white supremacists, have sought to illuminate the many issues and trends voters are confronting at the polls on Tuesday. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day, to try to inform, sway and entertain the electorate...
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Pope ends public audiences, eyes Christmas as virus surges
(International News ~ 10/30/20)
ROME -- Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican, officials said Thursday. Starting next week, Francis will resume livestreaming his weekly catechism lessons from his library in the Apostolic Palace, as he did during the Vatican's COVID-19 lockdown during the spring and summer, the Vatican said...
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FBI issues warning ransomware assault threatens the U.S. health care system
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
BOSTON -- Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. health care system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking...
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'Difficult winter': Europe divided on lockdowns; cases soar
(National News ~ 10/30/20)
BRUSSELS -- The World Health Organization's Europe director expressed deep concern Thursday after the region again recorded the highest-ever weekly incidence of cases, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of a "difficult winter" as residents in France braced for life under a new month-long lockdown and Spain's parliament voted to extend a state of emergency...
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Out of the past: Oct. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 10/30/20)
Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, of the 27th Senatorial District, is recipient of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce's Spirit of Enterprise Award; Kinder accepted the award recently during the chamber's 23rd annual Legislative Action Seminar at Lake of the Ozarks...
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