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A celebration of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
One does not have to like everything about RBG -- though many people do – to recognize she was a brilliant lawyer and an inspiring individual. Throughout her life, because of her competence and determination, she regularly broke barriers that had been erected against her and other women.
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Gerau appointed to state agriculture, business panel
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
Gov. Mike Parson's office announced Friday Brian Gerau has been appointed to the state's Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority. Gerau of Cape Girardeau is chief executive officer of Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce, a post he has held a dozen years...
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Manhunt underway in Union County, Illinois
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
Authorities in Union County, Illinois, are looking for a man who is considered armed and dangerous on multiple charges related to child pornography and solicitation of a minor. Union County State's Attorney Daniel Klingemann announced Thursday afternoon an arrest warrant has been issued for Dmitriy Seregeyevic Seleznev...
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Teacher on front line of pandemic 'frontier'
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
When Tara Bova was planning for her classroom at Blanchard Elementary in Cape Girardeau, she knew this school year would be different. What she's discovered in the weeks since has been a need for collaboration and support -- and innovation. Bova, who is teaching third grade entirely online this year, said collaboration has been key so far this school year, not only between other teachers, other buildings and administrators, but also with students and their families...
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Learning remotely: Eight kids, two parents get the job done
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
When trying to decide if she should have all of her eight children learn remotely this school year, Stay-at-Home Mom Renata Kallmbah said she asked herself, "Could I handle this?" According to Kallmbah, she is able to get it done with lots of patience...
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Big Brothers Big Sisters marks 20th anniversary
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri is celebrating 20 years in Cape Girardeau this week, but the story is bigger than a celebratory ribbon cutting, bigger even than the thousands of people who have benefited from the one-to-one mentorship program the organization is best known for...
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Eight deaths in Cape County since Wednesday attributed to COVID-19
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
This week was a lethal one for COVID-19 in Cape Girardeau County. Officials with the county's Public Health Center said the disease associated with coronavirus claimed three more lives Friday -- two patients in the 80 to 89 age bracket and one older than 90 -- capping a week in which deaths of county residents from the virus grew to 26. Friday's trio of deaths came after five total deaths were attributed to the virus Wednesday and Thursday...
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Will you join me in the call for prayer?
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
Our nation needs prayer. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only cost thousands of lives, but it's left many in fear and kept others in isolation. The country has dealt with numerous examples of unrest in the streets with law enforcement facing dangerous situations...
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Power outage in downtown Cape
(Local News ~ 09/26/20)
A vehicle crash in downtown Cape Girardeau led to a power outage shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday evening.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
Today in History Today is Saturday, Sept. 26, the 270th day of 2020. There are 96 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 26, 1960, the first-ever debate between presidential nominees took place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off before a national TV audience from Chicago...
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Renner - 50 years
(Anniversary ~ 09/26/20)
Michael and Brenda Renner of Cape Girardeau celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 26 with a party with family at their home. Renner and the former Brenda Fornkohl were married Sept. 25, 1970, at St. Mary Cathedral in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Jim Seyer performed the ceremony...
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Lueder - Bock
(Wedding ~ 09/26/20)
Emily Michelle Lueder and Eric Paul Bock were married June 27 at Knollcrest in Jackson. The Rev. Jim Matthews performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Rick and Barbara Lueder of Egypt Mills. The groom is the son of Gary and Donna Bock of Jackson...
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A Southeast Missouri family's connection to Wild Bill Hickok
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
Martin Rodney and his sons were instrumental in the early settlement of Cape Girardeau and Mississippi counties in Missouri, and Lawrence County, Arkansas. The family remained prominent locally for nearly 200 years after arriving from Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1798. ...
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Adopt Tiglet 9-27-20
(Community ~ 09/26/20)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This pretty boy is Tiglet. He is a 7-year-old male Blue Russian and needs a loving home. If you are ready for a rewarding experience, come see us at Safe Harbor. Call (573) 243-9823.
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The frog wants to dance
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
This is a gray tree frog. It is a master of camouflage. I caught it as it sat on my front porch railing. It must have thought it was hidden like it usually is. I put this little tree frog inside a glass fishbowl in order to photograph it showing the beautiful yellow/orange colored undersides of its legs and feet. ...
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VFW Auxiliary Art Contest
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/26/20)
Cape Girardeau Post 3838 VFW auxiliary art contest for 2019 2020 recently awarded this past school year's awards. All three winners were from Oak Ridge High School -- (from left) third place, Maggie Oswald, 10th grade; second place, Brinna Coomer, 11th grade; first place, Jeremiah Hamilton, 10th Grade; and Donna Miller, scholarship chairperson...
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Advice or opinion or fact
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
From the time I was little I've heard the phrase that goes, "Give you my two cents worth." Kind of a simple way of saying, "This is what I believe" or "this is my opinion." People today don't have a problem sharing their beliefs or opinions. However is their opinion actually an opinion or advice, and is it factual?...
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Because God first loved us
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
At a camp I went to one summer in high school, we memorized a verse of Scripture each day. First on the docket: 1 John 4:19. "We love because God first loved us." This, the leaders said, was the first verse to memorize because it is the foundation of everything. ...
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Help with anxiety
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
Many people are living with fear and anxiety because COVID-19 restrictions. Russell Falcon, NBC Austin, Texas, quoted the CDC report that shows 40.9% of adults say they've had at least one mental health effect, including symptoms of anxiety or depression (30.9%), symptoms of trauma or stressor-related disorder (26.3%) and starting or increasing substance use to cope (13.3%)...
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Choose today whom you will serve
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
I needed to replace a toilet seat in the bathroom. In case you were wondering, toilet seats do not make good stepstools. I went to my local big-box hardware store to pick one up -- a simple errand. I did not know and did not expect the big box hardware store to have more than 45 toilet seats. Forty-five!...
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Senior Center Menus for Sept. 28 through Oct. 2
(Community ~ 09/26/20)
Senior centers are open for carryout and delivery only. Monday: Bell pepper steak or Polish sausage, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, steamed broccoli, whole-grain bread and blushing pears or assorted cookies. Tuesday: Pork chop or Reuben casserole, sweet potatoes, seasoned cauliflower, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free peach or lemonade cake...
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Out of the past: Sept. 26
(Out of the Past ~ 09/26/20)
Money is tight and its building is too small, but Southeast Missouri State University officials and state lawmakers have no intention of letting the Regional Crime Lab close; school officials met with state Reps. Mary Kasten, Joe Heckemeyer and Pat Naeger recently to discuss creative ways to pay for a new crime lab building; the lab serves about 45 law enforcement agencies in Southeast Missouri, including local offices of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, from an old house on the edge of the university campus.. ...
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Prayer 9-27-20
(Prayer ~ 09/26/20)
O God, may parents heed your word and train their children in the way they should go. Amen.
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Pro-life and pro-mask
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/20)
I am writing in support of the outstanding letters to the editor by Steve Essner and Will Richardson, published 9/24/20. Both wonderfully address what truly is the meaning of pro-life. Both writers speak of love, compassion, caring, and challenge the too often unexamined acceptance of current leadership...
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Funding cancer prevention
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/20)
America's public health system is finally getting the attention it deserves; however, its importance stretches far beyond the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic. Good public health starts with prevention, including preventing one of America's deadliest diseases: cancer...
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Civilization requires collective common sense
(Column ~ 09/26/20)
Without common sense in government, civilization cannot continue. After the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and arson were often ignored...
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Family demands release of evidence in Breonna Taylor's case
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Breonna Taylor's family demanded Friday that Kentucky authorities release all body camera footage, police files and the transcripts of the grand jury hearings that led to no charges against police officers who killed the Black woman during a March drug raid at her apartment...
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Court weighs Missouri abortion restrictions
(State News ~ 09/26/20)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- A federal appeals court panel is weighing the fate of a sweeping Missouri abortion law, including a provision that prohibits a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis heard arguments Thursday in the legal battle over the 2019 measure that bans abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy. The appeals court ruling isn't expected for several weeks...
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Appeals court again hears fight over release of Trump tax returns
(State News ~ 09/26/20)
NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court tested the waters on a potential compromise, but didn't immediately rule Friday after arguments in President Donald Trump's long-running fight to prevent a top New York prosecutor from getting his tax returns -- a battle that seems destined to return to the Supreme Court...
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New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported Friday...
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Trump's virus remarks weigh on minds of senior voters
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- President Donald Trump's remarks at a campaign event in Ohio this week reverberated all the way to a sparkling waterfront in Florida, where senior citizens parsed his assessment of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump said that COVID-19 was seriously affecting "virtually nobody" under the age of 18 and sought to frame the pandemic as largely impacting older Americans, as he argued for school districts to resume in-person learning...
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Ginsburg makes history lying in state at Capitol
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman so honored in America, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life. The flag-draped casket of Ginsburg, who died last week at 87, in the Capitol's grand Statuary Hall drew members of Congress, military officials, friends and family, some with children in tow, paying respect to the liberal icon who changed American law, and perceptions of women's power. ...
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Biden's push for unity faces test with Supreme Court fight
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
From the opening of his third presidential bid, Joe Biden has argued that he is in a unique position to mend a fractured nation and work -- even with Republicans -- to "unify the country" into some semblance of consensus. That central thesis of the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign is being severely tested by the battle over the future of the Supreme Court...
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Virus cases on the rise in the U.S. heartland
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
MISSION, Kan. -- It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus is striking cities with much smaller populations in the heartland, often in conservative corners of America where anti-mask sentiment runs high...
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Judge says 2020 census must continue for another month
(National News ~ 09/26/20)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at month's end and suspended a year-end deadline for delivering the numbers needed to decide how many seats each state gets in Congress. The preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in California late Thursday allows the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue through the end of October...
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Births 9-27-20
(Births ~ 09/26/20)
Daughter to Nathanael "Nate" Wayman and Laura Ann James of Marble Hill, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 7:10 p.m. Thursday, 27, 2020. Name, Grace Ann Jeanette. Weight, 3 pounds, 5 ounces. Fourth child, second daughter. Mrs. James is the former Laura Radford, daughter of Charles and Leslie Skaggs of Marble Hill and Verna and Joe Skaggs of Marble Hill. She works for Hope @ Home. James is the son of Harold and Jeanette James of Marble Hill. He is employed by Capital Sand Proppants, LLC...
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Lillian Westrich
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
Lillian Caroline Westrich, daughter of the late Phillip Schwartz and Bertha Grojean Schwartz was born Nov. 16, 1936, in New Hamburg, Missouri, and passed away at her home in New Hamburg. She entered into her heavenly place Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, surrounded by her loving husband, daughters and grandchildren at the age of 83 years...
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Ray Spies
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
Burley "Ray" Spies, son of the late Rulen "Sam" Rufus and Reva M. Pruitt Spies, was born Dec. 18, 1933, and departed this life Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau at the age of 86 years. Ray was first united in marriage to Rosetta Blattel on June 28, 1958, and she passed away Aug. 13, 1981. He then was united in marriage to Nancy K. Eldredge in April 1984. She preceded him in death Jan. 6, 2019...
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Lillian Sample
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
Lillian Lee Sample, 94, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 8, 1925, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Loa and Lillian Marie Huskey. On Oct. 25, 1942, she married Johnie T. Whitaker of Chaffee, Missouri, and they had four children. On Aug. 29, 1962, she married Eugene Busch, who died Aug. 11, 1978. Then, on Oct. 29, 1988, she married Jerry Bernard Sample, who died June 15, 2004...
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Sherri Pourney
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
Sherri Lynn Spooler Pourney, 65, of Jackson passed away Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at her home. Born March 31, 1955, in Cape Girardeau to Lester "Bud" and Anna Beussink Spooler, she was the second of five children. She married Terry Pourney, and twin sons were born to their union, Jason and Jarad...
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Junior Petzoldt
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
Junior Lee Petzoldt, 87, of Pocahontas passed away Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at Lutheran Home after battling a long-term infection from an amputation. Junior was born, June 16, 1933, in New Wells to Anton and Edna Koenig Petzoldt. Junior and Jean Kieninger were married on July 2, 1962, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pocahontas...
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Marie Page
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
GREENBRIER, Mo. -- Maud "Marie" Page, 89, of Greenbrier passed away Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville, Arkansas. She was born June 9, 1931, in Greenbrier, the daughter of William and Clara Harris Newell. Marie and Audy Page were united in marriage Feb. 14, 1987, at Marble Hill, Missouri, and he preceded her in death Sept. 17, 2017...
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Paul Collins
(Obituary ~ 09/26/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Paul Harold Collins, 96, of Perryville died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at his home. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Out of the past: Sept. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 09/26/20)
The Jackson Board of Education voted Tuesday night to unload its three-classroom school building in Burfordville, hopefully before the district has to pay winterizing expenses; the first classes met there in 1956, when three teachers instructed students in six grades; the class sizes slowly shrank and hit an all-time low last year, when one fifth-grade and one sixth-grade class met in Burfordville; this year, the rural building and its two acres are dormant...
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FYI 9-27-20
(Community ~ 09/26/20)
The Scott Couty -- Families and Histories book Bicentennial edition has extended the deadline for acceptance of family histories and photos until Nov. 30. Family history and pictures will be gladly accepted Saturday and Tuesday at 2570 St. Andrews Drive in Jackson...
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