NEW MANAGER NAMED

Joe Touchette has joined Plants Plus as manager.

Touchette, a Southeast Missouri State University graduate with a degree in horticulture, botany and agriculture, owned and operated his own chemical lawn-care and landscaping business in Cape Girardeau for 11 years.

"I have experience in all phases of landscape maintenance," said Touchette. "That includes lawn establishment and renovation, tree and shrub trimming, landscape pest and disease control, and landscape design."

Plant Plus, at 918 S. Kingshighway, opened more than a year and a-half ago. The firm offers landscape services.