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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 9/21/23 meeting
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 21 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Monday, Sept. 18, meeting Communications/reports — other selected officials/department heads n Updates on new jail and 1908 courthouse project...
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Route W in Bollinger County closed for drainage work
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Route W in Bollinger County will be closed from County Road 608 to County Road 648 near Advance, Missouri, as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a culvert under the road. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26...
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Lots of recipes for apple season
(Community ~ 09/21/23)
Apple season is upon us, and unlike peach season, it appears there will be a plentiful crop. We missed so many good recipes for peaches, but I can already see we'll be making that up in apple recipes this fall. Whether you are using fresh apples, apple butter, apple cider or applesauce, the aroma that comes away from a fresh baked item seems to smell like fall has arrived...
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Road to Tower Rock closed because of construction
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Water levels at Tower Rock are low enough once again for visitors to walk to the popular landmark in the Mississippi River. However, the road to Tower Rock, County Road 460, is closed by Perry County, Missouri, because of pipeline construction. Perry County conservation agent Chris Doran said he does not know the construction timeline or when the road will reopen...
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Move over, Momma — Bon Bon's calls dibs on Wednesday
(Community ~ 09/21/23)
The "perfect storms" in life serve as great reminders to savor moments when the "stars" seem to effortlessly align in our favor. That's my melodramatic take on how things fell apart then quickly fell back in place for me last week, with the help of Bon Bon's Restaurant and Artisan Bakery...
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SEMO English professor's new novel tackles grief, loss
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Southeast Missouri State University English professor James Brubaker will launch his latest novel next week. "We Are Ghost Lit", Brubaker's second novel, centers around themes of loss and grief. The novel, although a work of fiction, takes its starting point from a real- life incident; the mysterious and unexpected death of Brubaker's best friend is where "We Are Ghost Lit" takes off and moves on to the world of fiction...
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Oktoberfest returning to Jackson
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Uptown Jackson Oktoberfest returns for a 10th year next month as the county seat municipality celebrates autumn and the season of harvest in German style Friday, Oct. 6, and Saturday, Oct. 7. Hours on Oct. 6 will be 6 to 10 p.m., with Oct. 7 activities slated from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m...
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Cape Girardeau teacher appointed to state advisory council
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
A Cape Central High School teacher has been appointed to the Missouri Advisory Council for the Certification of Educators. According to a news release from Cape Girardeau Public Schools (CGPS), Kimberly Newman was appointed to the Missouri Advisory Council for the Certification of Educators (MACCE) at the beginning of the 2023-24 school year. Newman has been a teacher with CGPS for 26 years and is a family and consumer science teacher at Cape Central High School, the release stated...
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Final paddlewheeler stop of season Friday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/21/23)
Despite low water levels on the Mississippi River, VisitCape spokesman Josh Thompson said American Queen paddle-wheeler is still tentatively scheduled to dock during the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 22, at Cape Girardeau's Riverfront Park. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, the observed river level at the Port of Cape Girardeau was 5.38 feet, according to water.weather.gov, a government website that has a list of low water records at Cape Girardeau dating to 1897...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
Today is Thursday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2023. There are 101 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Sept. 21, 1981, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court...
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Sponsored: The cause of your neck pain could be right in your pocket
(Insiders Advice ~ 09/21/23)
Take a quick scan of the crowd the next time you’re out. How many heads are bent over smartphones, how many shoulders hunched over laptops? We’re binge watching TV shows on the go, texting frequently with our friends, or scrolling endlessly over apps...
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Increasing health care access in rural Missouri
(Column ~ 09/21/23)
We all know that the world went through a lot of changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some changes were big, some were small. Many continue to debate whether those changes were good or bad. One thing I believe we can all agree on though, is that improved medical access is always a good change. That's why I wanted to make pharmacists temporary permissions to administer vaccines without all the red tape, granted in 2020 by the Trump administration, a permanent option under Missouri law...
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The American people deserve the truth
(Column ~ 09/21/23)
On Sept. 12, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) announced that after spending months of following the facts, the U.S. House of Representatives will formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This is the natural next step the House needs to take to continue an investigation into how Joe Biden abused public office for his family's financial gain...
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Christianity is alive and well in Iraq
(Column ~ 09/21/23)
ORLANDO There are recent American college graduates teaching in Iraq, due to an exchange program between the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil and the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. But just the other day, a Nigerian seminarian was burned alive as his rectory was attacked. This kind of thing is a common occurrence in Nigeria...
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Fire report 9-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 19 n Medical assists were made at 4:51 a.m. on William Street; 9:09 a.m. on Country Club Drive; 9:39 a.m. on Southern Expressway; 2:20 p.m. on Lexington Avenue; 6:16 p.m. on North Park Drive; 5:58 p.m. on North Frederick Street; and 6:36 p.m. on Linden Street. ...
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Police report 9-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported on Siemers Drive. Assault n Fourth-degree assault was reported on South Silver Springs Road. ...
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Lee Olson
(Obituary ~ 09/21/23)
Lee S. Olson, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, at his home, with family. Lee was born Nov. 26, 1929, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Lloyd S. and Lilly V. Lundberg Olson. He and Mary L. McLeod were married March 18, 1957, in LaPorte, Indiana, and celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary earlier this year. She preceded him in death May 1, 2023...
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Thomas Nations
(Obituary ~ 09/21/23)
Thomas Ray "Tom" Nations, 73, of Jackson passed away Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 21, 1950, in Cape Girardeau, son of Kermit G. and Ruth Smith Nations. He and Glenda Haertling were married March 1, 1975, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. She survives...
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Dorothy Hahn
(Obituary ~ 09/21/23)
Dorothy Mae Hahn, 91, of Cape Girardeau died on her deceased husband's birthday, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born Aug. 21, 1932, in Grand Tower, Illinois, to Fred and Eugenia Stone Easterly. She and Robert James Hahn were married Jan. 5, 1952, at Chester, Illinois. He preceded her in death Feb. 13, 2014...
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Merna Grigsby
(Obituary ~ 09/21/23)
Merna Slee Grigsby, 94, of Cape Girardeau passed away peacefully Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, at Saxony Village. She was born Oct. 14, 1928, to William and Maggie Tyner of Sugartree Ridge, Missouri. She was the eldest of three daughters. Her father passed away when she was 6 years old, and she worked very hard to help her mother with her younger sisters. ...
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Vernor Gowen Jr.
(Obituary ~ 09/21/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Vernor Elwyn Gowen Jr., 60, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Inurnment, with military honors provided by the U.S. Air Force Honors Team, will be at a later date at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. The Rev. Dr. Bruce Owens will officiate...
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Births 9-21-23
(Births ~ 09/21/23)
Son to Kirsten Paige Pemberton of Marble Hill, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 5:42 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. Name, Jacob Allen. Weight, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. First child. Pemberton is the former Kirsten Maloney, daughter of Patricia Pengiel and David Pengiel of Marble Hill...
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Ukraine's president, at Security Council, lashes out at Russia but avoids face-to-face encounter
(International News ~ 09/21/23)
UNITED NATIONS -- Ukraine's president accused Russia of waging "a criminal and unprovoked aggression" that undermines all norms of war and the U.N. charter Wednesday at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Volodomyr Zelenskyy also urged world leaders to strip Russia of its veto power...
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Azerbaijan claims full control over Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenian forces agree to disarm
(International News ~ 09/21/23)
YEREVAN, Armenia -- Azerbaijan claimed full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region Wednesday after local Armenian forces there agreed to lay down their weapons following the latest outbreak of fighting in the decades-long separatist conflict...
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Alabama school band director says he was 'just doing my job' before police arrested him
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Alabama high school band director said Wednesday that he was just "doing my job" when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game...
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This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
NEW YORK -- Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood. The construction is basic: a pair of overlapping logs, fitted together with a notch. It's nearly half a million years old and provides a rare look at how ancient human relatives were working with wood and changing their environments, authors wrote in a study published Wednesday in Nature...
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NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery -- the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest...
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Fed keeps rates unchanged and signals optimism about a potential 'soft landing'
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday for the second time in its past three meetings, a sign that it's moderating its fight against inflation as price pressures have eased. The Fed's policymakers also signaled that they expect to raise rates once more this year and envision their key rate staying higher in 2024 than most analysts had expected...
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Panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic; judge will rule whether he can stand trial
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. The findings heighten uncertainty over whether Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who has long complained he was under attack by invisible rays at Guantanamo, will stand trial. ...
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Revolving door redux: The DEA's recently departed No. 2 returns to a Big Pharma consulting firm
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- Washington's revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration's recently departed second-in-command returned for a new stint with the high-powered consulting firm where he previously advised Purdue Pharma and a drug distributor fighting sanctions over a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments...
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Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. -- In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation's nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a nuclear explosion...
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Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests, will reopen website to order them
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household -- aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months...
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Senate confirms chairman of joint chiefs as GOP senator still blocking hundreds of military nominees
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month. Brown's confirmation on a 83-11 vote, months after President Joe Biden nominated him for the post, comes as Democrats try to maneuver around holds placed on hundreds of nominations by Alabama Sen. ...
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McCarthy struggles to pass temporary spending bill to avoid shutdown as others look at options
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- With no clear strategy, no sure support and not much time left, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy nevertheless vowed Wednesday he would not give up trying to persuade his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill to prevent a federal government shutdown...
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House Republicans clash with Attorney General Garland, accusing him of favoring Hunter Biden
(National News ~ 09/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans clashed with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, accusing him and the Justice Department of the "weaponization" of the department's work in favor of President Joe Biden 's son Hunter. Garland's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee was his first in two years and came at an unprecedented moment in the department's history: He's overseeing two cases against Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, and another against the sitting president's son.. ...
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Out of the past: Sept. 21
(Out of the Past ~ 09/21/23)
The flashing lights of the amusement rides were gone, as were the excited laughter, squeals and screams from those who braved the rides; the smells and the taste of the corn dogs and funnel cakes had already faded, and the songs of Willie Nelson were but faint echoes as workers braved the heat and humidity yesterday afternoon to complete as much as they could of the arduous task of tearing down and cleaning up after the end of the 143rd annual SEMO District Fair; the final attendance for the weekly exposition was 95,174, about 2,000 less than last year.. ...
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Prayer 9-21-23
(Prayer ~ 09/21/23)
O Lord Jesus, with songs of praise we worship you, the King of kings. Amen.
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Gilster-Mary Lee Announces 2nd Create A Crunch Contest to Celebrate Manufacturing Month
(Submitted Story ~ 09/21/23)
Gilster-Mary Lee announces 2nd Create A Crunch contest for local high schools as part of October National Manufacturing Month. October is National Manufacturing Month, when manufacturers across the country showcase the importance of manufacturing through a series of events. Manufacturing jobs are an extremely important part of the economy and impact everyone, every day in numerous ways...
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