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Want to have some Easter fun, while Social Distancing? Here is a fun event for this Saturday, April 4th. Parents can print egg templates or children can create their own egg. Children color or decorate the eggs however they wish. Then, families hang the eggs in their front windows for everyone to see. ...

Bruce Lee is a Chihuahua about 8 yrs old, & has been missing since 3/26/20, there is a reward of $100 with no questions asked. Please help Bruce Lee find his way home.

For release immediately, with photo April 1, 2020 DARBY ADVISOR OF THE MONTH Kelly Darby of Jackson, a financial advisor with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Finanical, was Advisor of the Month in the Missouri East Region for the month of March. Darby joined Modern Woodmen in November 2010...

About 20 plus West Lane Teachers are getting together Sunday March 29 around 12:30 to drive thru several designated subdivisions to waves to their students and have their students wave to them. Samantha Trankler the principal has driven and mapped out the route for the cars to travel...

Lilly made this in hopes that it brightens someone's day when they drive by.

March 24, 2020 4-H Southeast Regional Energizer – Our Health to Better Living Armed with a bright yellow sign Sharpied with the number 86,400 in bold numbers, Richard Rickman, the opening speaker for the 2020 Southeast Regional Energizer held at Advance Elementary School in Advance, Missouri on Saturday, February 22, asked the crowd of 4-H youth, “Imagine there is a bank that credits your account every single day with $86,400. ...

Pi Day is March 14 (3.14), but since that was a Saturday, Guardian Angel changed their Pi Day celebration to March 13. However, OHS went to state with boys and girls basketball and school was dismissed on the 13th. Guardian Angel was finally able to celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, March 12...

My dog Phoebe has been missing since yesterday morning. At 401 Washington Avenue next to Washington Park in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She’s Black with White on her chest and her paws. She’s a Black Lab mix with Dashund. She’s built like the Dashund but has lab colors with Big floppy ears. ...

All local Social Security offices will be closed to the public for in-person service starting Tuesday, March 17, 2020. This decision protects the population we serve—older Americans and people with underlying medical conditions—and our employees during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, we are still able to provide critical services...

My 4th grade students at Jefferson Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, hosted a fundraiser last week, March 6th, 2020, to raise money to send to Australia to help aid the koala hospital. My students have been researching and learning information about the Australian wildfires. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Abi Jackson abi.jackson@ozarktrail.com (573) 436-0540 Ozark Trail Association Named Conservation Organization of the Year Potosi, Missouri, March 12, 2020 – The Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) honored leading citizen conservationists and natural resource professionals at the 84th Annual Conservation Federation of Missouri Awards Ceremony on Friday March 6th during their Annual Convention in Jefferson City. ...

ROLLA, Mo. – The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) awarded its 2020 Outstanding Educator Award to Dr. Eric Showalter, a professor of civil engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, at the AGC Annual Convention in Las Vegas. Each year, AGC recognizes an educator who makes a significant mark in the field of construction education...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Varonnica Kirn, Vice President of Client Success, Creative Edge Phone: 573.204.3555 Email: vkirn@creativeedge.tv CREATIVE EDGE - OUR FEBRUARY HIGHLIGHTS GIRARDEAU, MO, MARCH 2020 New hires, promotions, and exciting projects on the horizon, have all made February a busy month for the Creative Edge team!...

Both of the Chaffee Robotics teams qualified to compete at the World FIRST Tech Challenge competition in Houston, TX in April. The teams competed at Rolla, MO on Saturday March the 7th at the Missouri State Championship. Revolution Robotics were on the Event Winning Alliance. Girls With Attitude placed 3rd in the Inspire Award. 48 teams qualified for the State competition with only 10 advancing to Worlds...

The Jackson 8th-grade girl's volleyball team won the Scott City Tournament this past weekend.

-----Benton, MO and Advance, MO Recently, Benton Missouri resident and FCCLA member, Annie Duffield, created a project she named, Annie's Blessings. She decided that she had been blessed with way too many items to be able to keep. She didn't want them to go unwanted and stored away in a box somewhere. ...

This group of men having served in the Civil War, joined the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.). The ribbons that this group of men are wearing has printed on them, Appleton, Post No. 365, Dept. of Mo.. On this group picture, you can see that several of these men are wearing this G.A.R. ...

For release immediately, with photo March 2, 2020 DARBY RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD Kelly Darby of Jackson, a financial advisor with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, was Life Leader in the Missouri East Region for the month of February. Darby joined Modern Woodmen in November 2010...

Southeast Missouri Food Bank announced it has received a $50,000 grant form Tyson Foods to fund mobile food pantries in Stoddard, Scott and Dunklin counties. The grant will allow the food bank to provide 24 mobile food pantries in these counties from June 2020 through May 2021...

Submitted by Marcus Schaefer Family members endured the cold weather and enjoyed the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Missouri, on Feb. 5. Shown from left are Marcus Schaefer of Benton, Missouri; Nicholas Porting, Emma Porting and Jon Porting, all of Kansas City; and Quinton Schaefer and Collin Schaefer, both of Benton...

Breawna Austin, a senior at Central High School, headed up a drive for local foster children in conjunction with Black History Month. Suitcases, backpacks, toiletries, books and other need supplies were collected from the students. The items will be donated to Hope For One More in Cape Girardeau that serves foster families and foster children in our area...

Dexter, Missouri native, Paul Hessling, will be running the 2020 Boston Marathon and fundraising to support behavioral health services. This is Hessling’s first time running the 26.2 mile race and as a member of Team South Shore Health raising money to support the Grayken Center for Treatment at South Shore Health, located in Weymouth, Mass...

Smiles of Hope started in March 2010 as a volunteer dental mission at the Lighthouse Church in Dexter Mo. Smiles of Hope currently offers tooth extractions once monthly for $5 per tooth. Smiles of Hope has extracted almost 13,000 teeth in 10 years from around 6000 patients saving millions of dollars to the community and offering help to those in need who otherwise would not be able to afford a dentist. ...

Joyce Hill-Cooley and Molly Ford of Miracle-Ear Centers serving Southeast Missouri recently attended the 2020 Miracle-Ear National Convention in Los Cabos, Mexico. At the convention, Hill-Cooley donated $1200 to the Miracle-Ear Foundation. “Our staff works hard all year on fitting those in need with hearing aids, free of charge, through the Miracle-Ear foundation,” said Hill-Cooley. “They also do various fundraising efforts through the year to provide for an annual donation to the foundation...

Cape Girardeau, MO – February 24, 2020 – Dan Carver III CFP CRPC CLU ChFC, a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Cape Girardeau, has qualified for the company’s Circle of Success annual recognition program and will be honored for this achievement in 2020...

Vivek Malik who was appointed by the Missouri Governor Mike Parson to the Southeast Missouri Board of Regents in January was administered the oath of office by the Hon'ble Steven N Limbaugh, Jr., Federal District Judge for the Federal District Court of Eastern District of Missouri last Friday (02/21/2020)...

Nettleton’s Senior, Mychal Golden, has received and accepted an offer of appointment to the United States Naval Academy class of 2024. Acceptance of his appointment is Mychal’s first step in a journey to being commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy or Marine Corps. This summer he will report to Annapolis where he will begin his four years at the Naval Academy. An All-State Kicker and Special Teams Player of the Year, Mychal aspires to play football for the Naval Academy...

Over 400 volunteers with the Missouri chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America converged on the Capitol in Jefferson City on Tuesday, February 18th for their Advocacy Day. The day was spent talking with legislators about closing loopholes in our state domestic violence laws that make it far too easy for abusers to be armed...