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Its book sale time at Cape Girardeau Public Library
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
Is your bookshelf looking empty or have you caught all the way up on your to-be-read pile? Well, you are in luck, the Cape Girardeau Public Library is having its Friends of the Cape Girardeau Public Library Spring Book Sale. Friends of the Library members will get early access to the sale from 6 to 8 p.m. ...
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Notre Dame Boosters hold Bulldog Madness fundraising event
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
The Notre Dame Regional High School Booster Club's Bulldog Madness is back next month. Attendees of the event, for anyone 21 or older, can watch the 2023 Men's NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 17, at Deerfield Lodge, 6275 County Road 313 in Cape Girardeau, from first tip until the last game is over. March Madness games will be shown on four screens...
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Three Cape school board candidates address voters
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
Three candidates for Cape Girardeau Public Schools Board of Education addressed voters Thursday night, Feb. 16, at a gathering of Cape Girardeau County Republicans. All seven candidates running for the three positions up for election were invited to speak at the event, but only three — Missy Phegley, Roy Diamond Jr. and Kim Swartz — accepted the invitation. ...
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Century 21 Ashland Realty grows, receives more agents
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Century 21 Ashland Realty has affiliated with eight real estate agents formerly associated with Abernathy Realty of Jackson. "The Abernathy family has been in this business for a number of years in Southeast Missouri and Aaron (Abernathy) and I saw this as a chance to put a couple of good teams together, including some well-established names in our area," said Tim Merideth, owner of Century 21 Ashland. "We saw some good opportunity here, particularly during a slow season in our industry."...
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The business of hunger: SEMO Food Bank now has Jackson location
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank — which had headquartered at 3920 Nash Road in Cape Girardeau from 2007 to 2013 before returning to its historic Sikeston, Missouri, roots — now has a permanent presence in Cape Girardeau County once again. The Food Bank, representing 16 counties, has opened an 18,500-square-foot satellite location at 4536 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson, former home of Sappington Pro Outdoor...
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Jackson to become a Purple Heart city
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
At the Tuesday, Feb. 21, regular meeting of the Jackson Board of Aldermen, the city is expected to join more than 900 U.S. municipalities already designated as Purple Heart cities. According to a proclamation prepared for Mayor Dwain Hahs' signature, "Many citizens of our community have earned the Purple Heart medal as a result of being wounded while engaged in combat with an enemy force."...
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Local safety plan effort receives federal grant
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
A total of $160,000 in federal money from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be used to help local officials in Southeast Missouri craft a "comprehensive" safety action plan. Members of the Southeast Missouri Metropolitan Planning Organization (SEMPO) were informed Wednesday, Feb. 15, about the award of the money during the transportation agency's monthly meeting in Cape Girardeau...
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Cape Girardeau school board sets interviews for superintendent
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
Cape Girardeau Board of Education members have announced they will interview two candidates for the position of superintendent Tuesday, Feb 28. "We are very excited to have two highly-qualified candidates to interview for this position," said board president Matthew Welker said in a news release...
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Hovis hopes third time's a charm for 'right to repair'
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. State GOP Rep, Barry Hovis of Whitewater's District 146 is making his third attempt since joining the legislature in 2019 to get a "right to repair" bill passed in the General Assembly. House Bill 698, introduced Jan. 9, gives farmers latitude to fix their tractors and other equipment without recourse to the expense of paying a dealer...
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Old Town Cape partners with SendAFriend for Youth Entrepreneurship Day this summer
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
Old Town Cape is once again partnering with SendAFriend to award several scholarships and host Youth Entrepreneurship Day on Saturday, July 8, in downtown Cape Girardeau. SendAFriend was created by Jackson native Tyler Macke in 2018. The business sends care packages with stuffed animals to loved ones...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2023. There are 313 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 21, 1975, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up (each ended up serving 1 1/2 years)...
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Speak Out 2-21-22
(Speak Out ~ 02/21/23)
Cape School Board is now talking about building a new sports complex and just bought Red Star Church. Yes, they did recently do some work in the elementary schools, but what they did was all for show and not the upgrades that are needed in the classrooms themselves. ...
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Prayer 2-21-23
(Prayer ~ 02/21/23)
Lord Jesus, thank you that you are faithful to forgive our transgressions. Amen.
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Why diversity matters
(Column ~ 02/21/23)
"I just don't get it." "Why is diversity such a big deal?" These are some of the comments shared with me in confidence from people willing to confess their true thoughts. Many people, especially in this community that is overwhelmingly white conservative Christian, truly cannot wrap their minds around why DEI -- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion -- is "a big deal."...
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FFA Week: Celebrating our current and future farmers
(Editorial ~ 02/21/23)
Show of hands: Who likes to eat? Who wears clothes? Who uses products ranging from fuel to power vehicles to materials to build our homes? (Checks hands.) Yes, in fact, all of us. Thank a farmer, a rancher, a logger. The men and women who work in our nation's agricultural industries are truly -- to use a phrase -- essential workers...
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Failing to fix what's broken would be the real nightmare
(Column ~ 02/21/23)
President Joe Biden tweeted last week that he will be a "nightmare" for Republicans who dream of cutting Social Security and Medicare. With this statement, Biden showed that he's either shockingly ignorant about these two programs and any Republican reform efforts -- or lack thereof -- or just another politician who washes his hands of what happens when he's out of office and the programs hit upcoming obstacles...
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Fire report 2-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Feb. 19 n Medical assists were made at 9:50 a.m. on Kiwanis Drive; 3:36 p.m. on South Kingshighway; 4:55 p.m. on Jim Drury Way; 10:10 p.m. on North Main Street; and 11:42 p.m. on Sheridan Drive...
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Police report 2-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Assaults n Third-degree domestic assault was reported on Sherwood Drive. n First-degree domestic assault, stabbing and armed criminal action were reported on Saint Francis Drive...
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Kathleen Weinrich
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Kathleen Ann Weinrich, 84, of Perryville died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Festus, Missouri. There will be a private service for the family at a later date. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Evan Varvell
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
Evan Arthur Varvell, 60, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 6, 1962, in Honolulu, to David and Mildred Carrel Varvell. Evan earned two associate in science degrees in computer and electronics technology from Bay Valley Tech in Santa Clara, California...
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Richard Ruch
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
KENT, Ohio — Dr. Richard "Dick" Julius Ruch, 90, of Kent died Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. He was born June 9, 1932, in Perryville, Missouri, to Julius and Zita Boxdorfer Ruch. He received his bachelor's degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a master's degree and doctorate from Iowa State University. ...
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Rex Riepe
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
Rex Riepe, 67, of Scott City had his journey on Earth end Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at his home. He was born Nov. 2, 1955, in Broseley, Missouri, to the late Carl and Pearl Cornell Riepe. On June 6, 2002, he married his one and only love, Ronnie Phillips...
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Wernold Kassel
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
Wernold L. Kassel, 88, of Jackson, formerly of Uniontown, Missouri, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at Independence Care Center in Perryville, Missouri. Following a private service, military rites will be rendered at Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...
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Jerry Hagan
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Jerry "Jagan" Hagan, 67, of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Rosary will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, at the funeral home...
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Mary Comstock
(Obituary ~ 02/21/23)
Mary A. Comstock, 74, passed away Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, surrounded by loved ones, at her home in Jackson. She was born May 22, 1948, in Cape Girardeau to Albert William and Iva Rosalee Masters Kuntze. She married Clifford Ray Comstock on April 9, 1972, in Santa Paula, California...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
There is only one boss — the customer. And the boss can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money elsewhere. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Development Department has received four business license applications: n Gary Rust II of Chesterfield, Missouri, for Scout Hall, 420 Broadway, for venue space rental and related services. Private and public events, event management, creative consulting and related merchandise sales...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson chamber news
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce invites Leadership Cape alumni to a welcome reception at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, for 2023 Leadership Cape class at Montgomery Bank Training Center, 526 W. Main St. in Jackson. n Two ribbon-cuttings are scheduled this week:...
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SEMO student gets HealthPoint Fitness role
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Maggie Boxdorfer has been named membership sales coordinator at HealthPoint Fitness facilities in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Boxdorfer, a SoutheastHEALTH employee since 2019, is scheduled to graduate in May from Southeast Missouri State University...
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Frank Bertrand joins bank board in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Frank C. "Trae" Bertrand, a Cape Girardeau lawyer in private practice, has joined MRV Banks' Board of Directors. Founded in 2007, MRV Banks has branches in Cape Girardeau, Ste. Genevieve, Festus and St. Charles, Missouri.
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Jane Wernsman reappointed to head Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Jane Wernsman, director of Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center, was reappointed Thursday, Feb. 16, for another year as county health officer by the three-member County Commission. Wernsman, who has been held the health officer role since October 2012, told commissioners her department is working on the 2023 Community Health Assessment and noted plans to renovate the health center's front lobby at 1121 Linden St. in Cape Girardeau...
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Tesla recall
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Tesla Inc. announced Thursday, Feb. 16, it is recalling more than 362,000 vehicles in the U.S. in order to update the electric vehicle company's full self-driving Beta software. Federal regulators said Tesla's driver assistance system did not adequately adhere to traffic safety laws and could cause crashes...
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Tax season underway
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Internal Revenue Service advises the last day to file 2022 federal taxes without an extension is Tuesday, April 18. Jan. 23 marked the beginning of tax season as IRS began accepting and processing last year's tax returns. Americans received an average refund of $3,253 for their 2021 tax returns, NBC News reported...
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Missouri middle-of-the-pack in education
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
WalletHub, the personal finance website, ranks Missouri No. 33 among the 50 states in terms of education quality and No. 31 in educational attainment. WalletHub compared all states across 18 metrics examining key factors of a well-educated population, including educational attainment, school quality and achievement gaps between genders and races...
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Gas prices stuck in neutral, AAA says
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Gas prices nationally were flat over the past week, dropping just a penny to $3.41 since one week ago. Slack demand for gas and waffling oil prices have the national average price, in words of auto club federation AAA, "stuck in neutral." In Missouri, the statewide average Monday for regular gasoline was $3.05, down 5 cents from a week ago and down 12 cents from this time last year...
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Barnes & Noble has resurgence
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Barnes & Noble, the New York City-based bookseller founded in 1886, and with an outlet in Cape Girardeau's West Park Mall, is experiencing a post-COVID rebound. The chain plans to open 30 new locations this year after shuttering 150 of its stores since 2008...
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Scott City commercial property for sale
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Front Porch Rental Hall, 1408 Main St. in Scott City, is for sale with an asking price of $399,000, owners Sally and Tim Porch said. The 8,100-square-foot facility, renovated from a former VFW Hall in 2018, has a commercial kitchen and seats 250 in its main hall and up to 80 in its bar area...
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Sports bar in site of former comedy club in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 02/21/23)
Plaza Billiards & Sports Bar, 2106 William St., Suite 400, in Cape Girardeau has been open since New Year's Eve in the location formerly occupied by Laughing Gas Comedy Club. According to the establishment's Facebook page, the business is open from 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays. On Sundays, the hours are 11 a.m. to midnight...
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New this week: Hanks, Lambert, 'Bruiser', 'Snowfall'
(Entertainment ~ 02/21/23)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. n Adult dramas have generally been having a hard time in theaters in recent months, but one notable exception has been "A Man Called Otto". ...
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Fond remembrances for Jimmy Carter after entering hospice
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
ATLANTA -- Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter's legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered hospice care...
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Trump absent as Iowa 2024 GOP caucus train begins to roll
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
URBANDALE, Iowa -- Nikki Haley is swinging through Iowa this week fresh off announcing her presidential campaign. Her fellow South Carolinian Republican, Sen. Tim Scott, will also be here as he decides his political future. And former Vice President Mike Pence was just in the state courting influential evangelical Christian activists...
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Man arrested in Catholic bishop's killing had worked for him
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
LOS ANGELES -- A man arrested Monday in the weekend killing of a Catholic bishop that shocked Los Angeles religious and immigrant communities is the husband of the victim's housekeeper and had done work at his home, authorities said. Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell, 69, was fatally shot Saturday in the bedroom of his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said...
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Seattle considers historic law barring caste discrimination
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
One of Kshama Sawant's earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather -- a man she "otherwise loved very much" -- utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl's name. He responded that his granddaughter "talked too much."...
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Biden declares 'Kyiv stands' in surprise visit to Ukraine
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- President Joe Biden swept unannounced into Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called "a brutal and unjust war" days before the first anniversary of Russia's invasion...
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Record 6,542 guns intercepted at US airport security in 2022
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
ATLANTA -- The woman flying out of Philadelphia's airport last year remembered to pack snacks, prescription medicine and a cellphone in her handbag. But what was more important was what she forgot to unpack: a loaded .380-caliber handgun in a black holster...
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Brazil deluge kills 36; search continues for dozens missing
(International News ~ 02/21/23)
SAO SEBASTIAO, Brazil -- Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil's southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour. Worst hit was the city of Sao Sebastiao, where at least 35 were dead. ...
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TikTok 'de-influencers' want Gen Z to buy less -- and more
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
NEW YORK ---- At a time when consumers are inundated with so-called social media influencers peddling the latest products online, a slew of TikTok users are leveraging their platforms to tell people what not to buy instead. The trend, called "de-influencing", is a stark contrast to prior ones such as #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt, when consumers were showing off products they purchased after seeing them on the social media app...
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Biden's test: Sustaining unity as Ukraine war enters Year 2
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- One year ago, President Joe Biden was bracing for the worst as Russia massed troops in preparation to invade Ukraine. As many in the West and even in Ukraine doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions, the White House was adamant: War was coming and Kyiv was woefully outgunned...
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For poor schools, building repairs zap COVID relief money
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
JACKSON, Miss. -- The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Mississippi, forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn't working...
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FDA's own reputation could be restraining its misinformation fight
(National News ~ 02/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. It's an unlikely role for the Food and Drug Administration, a sprawling, century-old bureaucracy that for decades directed most its communications toward doctors and corporations...
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Out of the past: Feb. 21
(Out of the Past ~ 02/21/23)
Nine of Southeast Missouri's 10 state representatives and a state senator plan to seek re-election this fall; state representatives who will seek re-election are Mary Kasten of Cape Girardeau, David Schwab of Jackson, Mark Richardson and Bill Foster of Poplar Bluff, Patrick Naeger of Perryville, Marilyn Williams of Dudley, Joe Heckemeyer of Sikeston, Denny Merideth III of Caruthersville and Larry Thomason of Kennett; State Sen. ...
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Cape PD arrests suspect accused of stabbing family member in face
(Local News ~ 02/21/23)
Cape Girardeau police apprehended a suspect accused of stabbing a family member in the face with a utility knife several times. ...
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Senior Center Hosting a Compassion Workshop in March
(Submitted Story ~ 02/21/23)
Compassion: The Golden Rule in Action. A 4-week inter-faith workshop to develop compassion. The Golden Rule is central to many world faith traditions. It promotes understanding, caring, and compassion for others. Using modern research and quotes from the scriptures of various faith traditions, we will learn how to increase the compassion we feel toward family, friends, and the world around us...
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