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Native or Non-native?
(03/10/21)
Department of Conservation sheds light on gardening for Missouri
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Sponsored: Faith, family and values: New generation continues Dreyer Electric legacy of service, excellence
(B Magazine ~ 03/10/21)
In 1970, Edgar Dreyer started Dreyer Electric with a $1,000 bank loan, an old Ford pick-up truck and a prayer. Having worked for his father-in-law in the electrical trade, Dreyer knew plenty about the business. He began connecting with local farmers and working long hours. During that time, start up business was slow, but people always paid their bills. Every day was different, but his faith in God kept him going. Dreyer Electric has been growing strong for 50 years...
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Is Blunt's exit an opening for ex-Gov. Greitens to return?
(State News ~ 03/10/21)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Eric Greitens' political future seemed doomed by scandal when he resigned as Missouri governor. Now, he appears primed to test whether U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt's retirement provides a path for redemption within a Republican Party searching for direction after former President Donald Trump's election loss...
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Missouri lawmakers consider bill to relax immunization rules
(State News ~ 03/10/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri lawmaker is proposing the state relax requirements for immunizations, which medical associations contend would make it more difficult to slow the spread of viruses such a COVID-19. A Missouri House committee debated a proposal Tuesday from Republican Rep. Suzie Pollock of Lebanon. It would make immunization requirements apply only to public school students...
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I-55 in Scott County reduced for bridge work
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
North- and southbound Interstate 55, between mile markers 73.4 and 77.4 in Scott County, will be reduced with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews make bridge repairs. A Missouri Department of Transportation news release said the work will begin March 29. Completion is anticipated by May 25...
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Businesses help organization aid nursing home residents
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
By the effort of Silent Night, a Missouri based not-for-profit, area businesses have continued to provide support to Cape Girardeau nursing home residents. According to a news release, the organization realized Christmas 2020 would be a difficult time for Cape Girardeau nursing home residents afflicted with the COVID-19 virus. To help alleviate this, Silent Night worked with area businesses providing gifts to brighten the residents' Christmas day...
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Old Town Cape names 2020 Business Excellence Award winner
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
Pastimes Antiques is Old Town Cape Inc.'s 2020 Business Excellence Award recipient. The award is given annually in recognition of a business that "demonstrates the concepts of community involvement and/or strong or long-term support of downtown." Old Town Cape is in the middle of a week of scheduled 2020 award presentations...
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Temporary insurance policy for fire department radios approved
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved the purchase of a temporary insurance policy Monday to cover the county's new radio equipment. Commissioners approved the $7,185 purchase, which will be refunded once the equipment is distributed to fire departments in the county...
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New developments enliven a short stretch of Broadway in downtown Cape Girardeau
(B Magazine ~ 03/10/21)
As you travel down Broadway in downtown Cape Girardeau, in the span of just over one block, you’ll likely notice a change in location for one boutique, storefronts that are ready-to-lease and construction progress peaking through scaffolding.
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Virus continues to dampen airline traffic at Cape Regional Airport
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
This story is updated. Passenger traffic at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport through SkyWest Airlines so far in 2021 is at 41% of what it was during the same pre-COVID period last year, manager Katrina Amos told the airport's advisory board Tuesday. There have been 551 enplanements, the industry term for passengers, in 2021 compared to 1,341 at the same time in 2020...
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After Roy Blunt: Local politicians react to senator's retirement
(Local News ~ 03/10/21)
This story is updated. Monday's announcement by Missouri's senior U.S. senator, Roy Blunt, not to seek reelection in 2022 did not catch the state's former lieutenant governor, Peter Kinder of Cape Girardeau, off guard. "I'm not surprised," said Kinder, who himself left statewide office in 2017...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/10/21)
Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2021. There are 296 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln assigned Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his commission as lieutenant-general, to the command of the Armies of the United States...
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Hitting the Road
(03/10/21)
Donald turned toward me, an inquiring look on his face. With a huge smile on my face, I gave him a thumbs up; he grinned, turned back to the helm of the speed boat he was piloting and moved the throttle so we were racing even faster across Charleston Harbor...
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Miami janitor quietly feeds thousands, and love's the reason
(National News ~ 03/10/21)
MIAMI -- Doramise Moreau toils long past midnight in her tiny kitchen every Friday -- boiling lemon peels, crushing fragrant garlic and onion into a spice blend she rubs onto chicken and turkey, cooking the dried beans accompanying the yellow rice she'll deliver to a Miami church...
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Four oaks, one sacred destiny: Recreating Notre Dame's spire
(International News ~ 03/10/21)
JUPILLES, France -- Four French oaks that have been standing for hundreds of years in a once-royal forest now have a sacred destiny. Felled Tuesday in the Loire region's Forest of Berce, they have been selected to reconstruct Notre Dame Cathedral's fallen spire...
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Biden administration won't defend Trump public charge rule
(National News ~ 03/10/21)
CHICAGO -- A Trump-era immigration rule denying green cards to immigrants who use public benefits such as food stamps was dealt likely fatal blows Tuesday after the Biden administration dropped legal challenges, including before the Supreme Court. Continuing to defend the rule "is neither in the public interest nor an efficient use of limited government resources," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement...
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Arkansas governor signs near-total abortion ban into law
(State News ~ 03/10/21)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state, a sweeping measure supporters hope will force the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its landmark Roe v. Wade decision but opponents vow to block before it takes effect later this year...
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Volunteers key at vaccine sites — It pays off with a shot
(National News ~ 03/10/21)
SEATTLE -- When Seattle's largest health care system got a mandate from Washington state to create a mass COVID-19 vaccination site, organizers knew gathering enough volunteers would be almost as crucial as the vaccine itself. "We could not do this without volunteers," said Renee Rassilyer-Bomers, chief quality officer for Swedish Health Services and head of its vaccination site at Seattle University. ...
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Missouri hellbenders population granted federal protection
(State News ~ 03/10/21)
ST. LOUIS -- A salamander species living in Missouri waterways has been granted protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Missouri's eastern hellbenders are the largest salamander in North America, growing to more than 2 feet in length. The amphibians may be found in the Meramec River and its tributaries, as well as watersheds in south-central parts of the state, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...
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Douglas Welter Jr.
(Obituary ~ 03/10/21)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Douglas "Michael" Welter Jr., 26, of Chaffee passed away peacefully Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at Evelyn's House in Creve Coeur, Missouri, following his second battle with cancer. At Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Siteman Cancer Center and Evelyn's House, he was compassionately cared for by everyone -- his oncologists, nurses, aides, PT/OT staff and his hospice staff. A special thank you to Dr. Hirbe and Dr. Chaudrhi, oncologists, and Amanda Allen, registered nurse...
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Fran King-Buchanan
(Obituary ~ 03/10/21)
Bonnie Frances "Fran" King-Buchanan, 71, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, March 8, 2021, at Southeast Hospital. She was born Aug. 18, 1949, in Cape Girardeau to the late Rev. Therman Lee and Norma Jean Cooper King. She was united in marriage to Dwight Buchanan in January 1967...
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Emery Dodson
(Obituary ~ 03/10/21)
Emery Allen Dodson, 71, of Scott City died Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Lightner Cemetery in Scott City, with the Rev. Jack Owens officiating...
- Line break leads to boil water advisory (Local News ~ 03/10/21)
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Out of the past: March 10
(Out of the Past ~ 03/10/21)
The congregation of North Cape Church of Christ celebrates the fifth anniversary of the church; guest speaker in the morning is Robert Brown of Macon Road Church of Christ in Memphis, Tennessee; Shelton Peeler and his family, who worked for the church in 1993, also present and speak briefly; a luncheon follows the service; the Macon Road church sent the Randy Short family to Cape Girardeau in June 1990 to start the new church...
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Monsignor Edward Martin Eftink
(Obituary ~ 03/10/21)
Monsignor Edward Martin Eftink was born near Portageville, Missouri, on Oct. 26, 1938, and departed this life Monday, March 8, 2021, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 82. He died of congestive heart failure. Monsignor Ed's education began at the Vanduser School, in Vanduser, Missouri. ...
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