Stories from Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Joseph Masters, 16, enjoys some time skateboarding Monday at the Cape Noon Optimist Wheel Park at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau.

Jackson's Board of Aldermen were told in study session Monday no fewer than six bids were received for the Hubble Ford Bridge Replacement Project with a Millersville firm the lowest received at $549,538.50. Putz Construction's bid was $38,504.50 less than the second lowest project offer of $588,043 from Keith Simpson Contracting of Benton...

Meakeia Maloney, left, and Anthoine Collier of Cape Girardeau welcomed their daughter, Reign Nicole-Lavern Collier, at 1:19 p.m. Jan. 1. ...

A new development in Scott City will soon boost water pressure to close to a third of the city's residents. Work has begun to install a water booster pump station to bring residents higher water pressure in the eastern side of Scott City, an area commonly referred to as Old Illmo...

A total of six scheduled SkyWest flights to and from Cape Girardeau Regional Airport did not fly Sunday and Monday, according to Flight Radar 24. The Sunday flights were impacted by weather and mechanical issues while the Monday cancellations were because of crew shortages caused by COVID-19, airport manager Katrina Amos said...

Those looking for rapid or at-home coronavirus tests may have a long search. In the last few weeks, local and nationally-owned pharmacies and coronavirus test providers have reported shortages of the COVID-19 tests. Derek Palisch, director of operations for John's Pharmacy in Cape Girardeau, said finding a supplier for COVID-19 tests has been difficult in the past two weeks. Rapid antigen tests have been especially hard to come by...

There are many labels pinned to the age group of today’s 25- to 40-year-olds — the infamous generation known as “millennials.” Broke, indebted and living off their parents, this “lost generation” gets a bad rap for being financially unstable. But for those in this age group who are planning for the future, investing may look a bit different from previous generations...

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2022. There are 361 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress. On this date:...

A new year brings new opportunities, but often, those opportunities come with challenges, as well. It seems inflation is taking its toll on many when it comes to purchasing everyday items, but not to the point of needing to make major sacrifices. The inflation of everyday goods may be attributed to an increase in wages, in addition to other factors. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 2 n Medical assists were made at 11:47 a.m. on South Frederick Street; 4:10 p.m. on Cape Meadows Circle; 4:33 p.m., on Themis Street; 8:11 p.m. on South Sprigg Street...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Stanley Herman Thiele, 94, of Marble Hill died peacefully early Sunday morning, Jan. 2, 2022, at Advance Nursing Home after a two-and-a-half-year battle with lymphoma. He was born at Leopold, Missouri, July 18, 1927, to Fred and Lena Elfrink Thiele. He was a lifelong member of St. John's Catholic Church...

Betty Tanner, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, at the home of her son. Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 3 p.m. at the funeral home, with a time of remembrance at the Church of Christ, 328 S. West End Blvd., immediately following the service. Burial will be at the Sikeston (Missouri) City Cemetery on Monday...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark. -- Tammy Diane Urhahn Stamp, 61, of Mountain View died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, at St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas. Tammy was born to George Urhahn and Darlene Duff Oct. 16, 1960, in Cape Girardeau. Tammy married Mark Stamp on Nov. 18, 1978, in Scott City...

ORAN, Mo. -- Susie Ann Cecilia Seyer, 88, of Oran died Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Susie Ann Bucher was born Dec. 13, 1933, the daughter of Philip and Leocadia Dirnberger Bucher in New Hamburg, Missouri. She married Elmer Joseph Seyer on April 16, 1955. Elmer and Susie were married 64 years, for which she will be crowned a saint...

Kenneth Ray Scaggs, 61, of Jackson died Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Jan. 4, 1960, in Doniphan, Missouri, to Charles Robert and Esther Hampton Scaggs. He and Jennifer A. Emmons were married in 1993 at Cape Girardeau. She passed away Sept. 23, 2014...

Robbie Robertson, 60, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Orlando, Florida, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. The family entrusted McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson with Robbie's final arrangements. There will be no services at this time...

ST. LOUIS -- Phyllis Sue Oswald, 79, of St. Louis died Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. Visitation and funeral service will be private. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville, Missouri. Ford & Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Lisa Gaye Mitchem, 62, of Jonesboro died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 24, 1959, in East Prairie, Missouri, to the late Dana and Deloma Jean Jones McCourt. She married Rodney Mitchem, and he preceded her in death May 31, 2015...

Mary E. Martin, 58, of Cape Girardeau went home to be with the Lord Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022 at Southeast Hospital. She was born Sept. 7, 1963, in Harrisburg, Illinois to Jean Paul and Delia Alice Holmes Hollerson She and James (Lenny) Martin were married Nov. 5, 1982 at Stonefort, Illinois...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- On Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, William Kinnison "Bill" Lakenan Jr. of Knoxville departed for his heavenly home surrounded by his devoted family after an extended illness. He was born Aug. 2, 1941, in Perryville, Missouri, to Ruby Nelson and William Kinnison Lakenan Sr. He graduated from Perryville High School and Georgia Institute of Technology in 1963, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity...

Samuel L. "Sam" Green, 83, of Jackson passed away at the home of his daughter Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. He was born April 10, 1938, in St. Louis, son of William and Josephine Freeman Green. He and Melba "Jolene" Thorne were married Sept. 28, 1957. She passed away Sept. 18, 2006...

Ida Marie Dunger, daughter of the late William Henry and Manda Julia Peetz Dunger, was born May 23, 1927, in Fornfelt and departed this life Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 94 years. Ida was baptized June 19, 1927, in Illmo, by the Rev. George Hilpert and then was confirmed by interim Rev. Walter Keisker on June 23, 1940...

Rodney Owen Blumenberg, 67, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. He was born Feb.22, 1954, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to the late Norman and Sue McDougal Blumenberg. Rodney worked as a machinist at Rubbermaid. He loved to go to gun shows and was an avid collector. He also enjoyed hunting and fishing...

O Father God, may we be strong and courageous, for you are with us. Amen.

"Be my Mommy!" the banner in the CVS window read, part of a display of surplus Baby Emma dolls. It was the fifth day of Christmas, and I noticed during Mass — shortly before I went to the drugstore to pick up prescriptions — one of the petitions during the service was for those struggling to have a happy, peaceful Christmas. ...

The fullness of time, and now the omicron wave, have made it obvious how preposterous the chief lines of criticism against Donald Trump were during the pandemic. It has been said, over and over, that Trump almost single-handedly killed Americans. Chris Hayes a couple of months ago called for a truth-and-reconciliation-commission-type inquiry into how Trump "willfully got hundreds of thousands of people killed." Willfully!...

GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- Junior Long, 77, of Glen Allen died Jan. 2, 2022 at his home. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with the Rev. Darold Mills and Rev. Harold Mills officiating. Burial will follow in the Grassy Friendship Cemetery in Grassy, Missouri...

Old Man Winter has been locked up in Canada for the majority of the past three weeks, but he is expected to get out today; meteorologists say the unseasonably warm weather the region has enjoyed this week will end with the arrival of more seasonal temperatures as early as this afternoon; record high temperatures have been set this week all across the Plains and parts of the Midwest and South...

For release immediately, with photo January 4, 2022 CRUMP FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH Austin Crump of Eureka, a financial reprenstative with Modern Woodmen of America, was financial representative of the month in the Missouri East Region for the month of December...