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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 6/11/20
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Communications/reports -- other elected officials n COVID-19 Update: In an effort to keep Cape Girardeau County residents safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Mark Winkler will be issuing an update at County Commission meetings. ...
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River Travel Magazine recognizes Cape Girardeau eateries, bars
(Community ~ 06/11/20)
River Travel Magazine's 2020 Best of the River was announced this week, and several Cape Girardeau area establishments for food and fun were recognized. Check out the full list at rivertravelmagazine.com. n Port Cape #1 BBQ n Mary Jane Burgers & Brew #1 Burger...
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Light summer dishes for your June events
(Community ~ 06/11/20)
When I think of the month of June, I think of weddings and June brides and also birthdays. In our family, we have several June birthdays, a wedding anniversary and a brother who has retired, all of which call for a fun celebration. In looking for recipes to share with you today, I looked for recipes that I thought looked good and worth giving them a try. ...
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8 tons of e-waste collected in Jackson
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
More than eight tons of old electronics, broken appliances and other materials were discarded last weekend as part of Jackson’s 13th annual “e-cycling day.” “This was an opportunity for citizens and businesses to dispose of obsolete or unusable electronic items, small and large appliances and other metal objects,” said Rodney Bollinger, Jackson’s director of administrative services...
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SEMO District Fair lineup announced
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
The 2020 SEMO District Fair is set for Sept. 12 through 19, and the musical lineup was announced late Tuesday. According to a Facebook post, musical entertainment includes Zach Williams, a Christian rock artist, on Tuesday, Sept. 15; Blues Traveler, all types of rock including blues, folk, soul, and southern and others, known for their 1990s hit "Runaround," on Wednesday, Sept. 16; and Whiskey Myers, Southern rock and country, on Thursday, Sept. 17...
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Facebook fraud leads to attacks on local United Way, innocent women
(Column ~ 06/11/20)
Unfortunately, in the world of social media so many conspiracy theories abound that many people just end up believing what they want, perpetuating lies. It was common to find some commenters discounting the United Way's information as a "cover up," which is what makes so much on Facebook insidious. Verifiable, sourced information is discounted when it doesn't conform to prejudice.
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Lee named VP of Advancement, executive director of SEMO foundation
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Trudy Lee has been named vice president of University Advancement and executive director of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation, effective immediately, university president Carlos Vargas announced Wednesday. Lee began serving in this role as interim following the 2018 retirement of Bill Holland. Her appointment is for a two-year term ending June 30, 2022...
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Get moving, get playing, get reading
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Movement Mind + Body: In the midst of a pandemic, with businesses and organizations closed, we can still all be outside. That's the concept behind Movement Mind + Body, a weeklong event set for June 20 to 27, which invites participants to get out and get moving -- and take a selfie or two along the way to get entered for prizes from local businesses...
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Jackson Donuts: Tell me 'bout the good old days
(Community ~ 06/11/20)
"Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days / Sometimes it feels like this world's gone crazy / And Grandpa, take me back to yesterday / When the line between right and wrong / Didn't seem so hazy" The Judds sang that song for the masses back in 1986, and the lyrics seem especially relevant today. A song about nostalgia and simpler times yet maybe with a desire to see the past through rose-colored glasses. I guess we all want to do that from time to time. I know I sure do...
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Three deaths linked Wednesday to coronavirus
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Three deaths in the region were attributed to COVID-19 on Wednesday. Two of the deaths were in Union County, Illinois, bringing that county’s total deaths from the disease to 16. The fatalities involved a man in his 80s and a woman in her 90s. The county has 166 cases of the disease associated with coronavirus. Sixty-one county residents have recovered from the virus...
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Sewer water could help track coronavirus in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Are we flushing the COVID-19 virus down our toilets? And, if so, could our wastewater help predict coronavirus trends? That’s what researchers want to find out in a yearlong study that will test wastewater in a dozen Missouri communities, including Cape Girardeau...
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Sheriff, chief say police have a lot on their hands
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
In the wake of ongoing scrutiny over the May 25 choking death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, two prominent figures in local law enforcement condemned the brutality. Cape Girardeau County Sheriff Ruth Ann Dickerson and Cape Girardeau police chief Wes Blair suggest an even deeper problem exists...
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Cape Parks and Rec to host annual Great American Fourth of July
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Cape Girardeau will celebrate Independence Day with the annual Great American Fourth of July celebration held at Arena Park. Festivities will kick off with a performance by the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band at 7:30 p.m., followed by The Spirit of America Award presentation before the night ends with a fireworks display...
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TGIF top picks 6/11/20
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Tonight at 7 p.m. at the Jackson City Park bandshell, special guests Steel Blossoms will perform with the municipal band. Steel Blossoms' Sara Zebly and Hayley Prosser are artists and former elementary school teachers who met by chance at a festival when each was performing in separate groups, recognized as instant chemistry and a shared perspective, according to the Facebook event page. Bring lawn chairs and refreshments for this free evening of entertainment...
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Marble Hill man seriously injured in Bollinger County tractor accident
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
An 18-year-old man from Marble Hill, Missouri, was seriously injured and transported by air ambulance to a St. Louis hospital Saturday night after he was run over by a tractor in Bollinger County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the accident occurred at 10:30 p.m. on private property off County Road 834 north of Glen Allen, Missouri...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/11/20)
Today is Thursday, June 11, the 163rd day of 2020. There are 203 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain...
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The future we want
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/11/20)
If you can't seem to understand just how big this is, then I pray you will see how people of color in this country are hurting. But news outlets continue to twist the narrative of the suffering. People are using their First Amendment rights peacefully, and being arrested for it. We live in a corrupt world and people are tired of it...
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Stand up for what is right
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/11/20)
Adrienne Ross' commentary "My 4 unpopular perspectives amid George Floyd protests" expresses stunning ignorance and lack of empathy. Thankfully, her remarks are beautifully controverted by Dr. Loretta P. Prater's guest commentary of the same day "I know how George Floyd's family feels," regarding the death of her son at the hands of Chattanooga police officers...
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The bitter irony of revolutions
(Column ~ 06/11/20)
The ancient Greeks created new words like "paradox" and "irony" to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer. Remember the blind prophet Teiresias of ancient drama. In the carnage of Athenian tragedy he alone usually ends up foreseeing danger better than did those with keen eyesight...
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Law and order isn't fascist
(Column ~ 06/11/20)
Confronted by a clear and present fascist threat, the staff of The New York Times rose up last week to humiliate and punish quislings in its ranks. In a now famous op-ed, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton called for federal troops to quell riots and looting, an idea that the Times staff considered worthy of Oswald Mosley or Benito Mussolini...
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'We need help': Small cities face fiscal calamity from virus
(National News ~ 06/11/20)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Unfilled potholes, uncollected trash, unmown grass and, most significantly, fewer police on the street are some of what Allentown says it's contemplating unless Washington helps it plug a multimillion-dollar budget hole left by the coronavirus pandemic...
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'Stop the pain,' a brother of George Floyd tells Congress
(National News ~ 06/11/20)
WASHINGTON -- Philonise Floyd challenged Congress on Wednesday to "stop the pain" as lawmakers consider a sweeping law enforcement overhaul, so his brother George won't be just "another name" on a growing list of black Americans killed during interactions with police...
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Trump: No change at bases named for Confederate officers
(National News ~ 06/11/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will "not even consider" changing the name of any of the 10 Army bases that are named for Confederate Army officers. Two days earlier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated that he was open to a broad discussion of such changes...
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Brenda Wachter
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Brenda P. Wachter, 63, formerly of Jackson, passed away Monday, June 8, 2020, at her home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 23, 1956, in Cape Girardeau to Martin and Virginia Meyer Dubs. She and Gerald L. Wachter were married March 12, 1984. The had been married 32 years, when Gerald passed away Oct. 30, 2016...
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Greg Shivelbine
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Greg Shivelbine, 61, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 8, 2020, while vacationing in Hayward, Wisconsin. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Billy Rhodes
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Billy Ray Rhodes, 93, of Washington, Missouri, formerly of Scott City, passed away Monday, June 8, 2020. Billy, the son of the late Grover Lee Rhodes and Erma Lucille Rhodes, nee Jones, was born July 13, 1926, in Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Illmo, Missouri, High School...
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Mary Moyers
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Mary Eliza Moyers, 83, of Jackson died Friday, June 5, 2020, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. Memorial visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. June 20 at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. June 20 at the funeral home, with the Rev. Mickey Bellis officiating. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Myrna Little
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Myrna Gayle Little, 75, of Jackson, formerly of Scott City, died Sunday, June 7, 2020, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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Jami Hays
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
STURDIVANT, Mo. -- Jami Lyn Gray Hays of Sturdivant passed away Friday, June 5, 2020, at home. She was born Sept. 20, 1968, in Cairo, Illinois, to Albert J. and Marian "Betty" Gray. She and Robert Hays were united in marriage in July 1996. Jami is survived by her husband, Robert Hays of Sturdivant; children, Emilie (Nathan) Eaton of Wickliffe, Kentucky, and Christopher Latham of McGee, Missouri; grandchildren, Kenslee Latham, Hadley Latham and Ben Latham of McGee and Shane Eaton of Wickliffe; sister, Cindy (Rick) Holmes; niece, Lindsay Owens of Bandana, Kentucky; and nephew, Kyle Holmes of Murray, Kentucky.. ...
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Jean Burt
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Jean C. Burt, 100, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, died Monday, June 8, 2020, at Saxony Village. A private memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. Laughlin Cremation and Funeral Tributes in Mount Lebanon is in charge of arrangements...
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Linda Beard
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Linda Sue Beard, 59, of Scott City passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at her home. She was born April 1, 1961, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Larry Dean and Wilma Lorene Ervin Burford. She worked as the bakery manager at Walmart. She is survived by her mother, Lorene Burford of Scott City; son, Billy Beard of Climax Springs, Missouri; and grandchildren, Cody Beard and Allison Beard, both of Climax Springs...
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Joann Arnzen
(Obituary ~ 06/11/20)
Joann Arnzen, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Pope names St. Louis archbishop to replace retiring Carlson
(State News ~ 06/11/20)
ST. LOUIS -- The newly-appointed head of the Archdiocese of St. Louis vowed Wednesday to be an agent of healing, as the region and the nation continue to react to the death of George Floyd and the threat of the coronavirus. The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis had appointed Springfield, Massachusetts Bishop Mitchell Rozanski to lead the St. Louis diocese, replacing Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, who is retiring...
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Prayer 6/11/20
(Prayer ~ 06/11/20)
When we sin, O God, hear our prayers for your mercy and compassion. Amen.
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Out of the past: June 11
(Out of the Past ~ 06/11/20)
The Rev. Jim Caughlan, pastor of Evangelical United Church of Christ, and his family recently visited Carron Hall United Church in rural Jamaica as part of a church-wide partnership program; in this program, churches of the world are "twinned" with churches in other countries...
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Area police reports 6/11/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/11/20)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 2500 block of Masters Drive. n Assault was reported on Village Drive. Thefts n Larceny was reported on North Pind Wood Lane. n Theft was reported in the 300 block of Fountain Street...
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Highway 51 in Perry County reduced for bridge inspections
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Highway 51 in Perry County will be reduced with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews inspect the Chester Bridge over the Mississippi River to Illinois. The inspections are scheduled for June 15 through 30, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. ...
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Jackson Municipal Band’s summer concert series returns to Jackson City Park
(Local News ~ 06/11/20)
Each week, the Jackson Municipal Band will be joined by a different guest performer to provide local community members with a free source of musical entertainment.
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Ramblewood Garden Club June Yard of the month
(Submitted Story ~ 06/11/20)
Submitted by Nancy Bahn Ramblewood Garden Club’s June Yard of the Month has been presented to Lisa Foster who has styled a beautifully landscaped front and back yards on Louisiana Street in south Cape Girardeau. Homeowner Ms. Foster has used bar harbor junipers, perennial phlox, monkey grass and ajuga on the front hillside to assist in low maintenance, and decorative rocks down the side of the driveway to alleviate erosion. ...
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MISSOURI PUBLIC TRANSIT ASSOCIATION TO HOST FREE VIRTUAL EVENT ON ADA GUIDELINES FOR PROVIDING EQUAL TRANSIT SERVICE TO ALL PASSENGERS
(Submitted Story ~ 06/11/20)
The Missouri Public Transit Association (MPTA), in partnership with the National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP), is hosting a free virtual event to educate transit industry leaders about their responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as it relates to equal service for all passengers. ...
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Social Security Column: Applying For Medicare Online
(Submitted Story ~ 06/11/20)
You can apply for Medicare online even if you are not ready to start your retirement benefits. Applying online can take less than 10 minutes. There are no forms to sign and we usually require no documentation. We’ll process your application and contact you if we need more information...
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