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Study: Cape among best places to start a business
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
Cape Girardeau is one of the best small cities in the nation to start a business. So says a new report released last week in advance of National Small Business Week, observed during the first week in May. The report, based on a recent study by the personal financial website WalletHub, ranked more than 1,300 American cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 on a variety of metrics such as business climate, the availability of resources such as labor and financing, and the overall cost of doing business in each community.. ...
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Appliance delays plague residential projects
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
If you read this column regularly, you know that from time to time I've mentioned the ongoing renovation project at my house. Like thousands of others who were spending lots of time at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I decided last summer our home was due for a major face-lift, upgrading every square inch of our main living area...
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Cape County parents plan to grant money for IVF through their foundation
(Local News ~ 04/26/21)
After a few years of trying to conceive, many tests, almost 100 shots of hormones, one surgery, countless visits to doctors in St. Louis and Southeast Missouri and much more, Hayden Tidwell was born in October. Her parents, Katie and Nathan Tidwell, had to put in a lot of time, effort and money to have her through their first time doing an in vitro fertilization (IVF), but luckily, money was not an issue for them in the process...
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Cape Riverfront Market's 2021 season will begin Saturday
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
Cape Riverfront Market in Cape Girardeau will kick off its 10th season Saturday in the public parking area on Spanish Street just south of Independence Street in the city's downtown district. Weather permitting, the market will be open from 8 a.m. until noon each Saturday through October...
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Editorial: Welcome to Kenny Haskin — Cape Girardeau's next city manager
(Editorial ~ 04/26/21)
The ninth city manager in Cape Girardeau history was introduced to media Thursday at a news conference held in the council’s chambers. Kenneth Haskin, most recently of Texarkana, Arkansas, was selected after an extensive search to fill the position held by Scott Meyer, the longest city manager in Cape Girardeau history who will retire in June. ...
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Speakers announced for this week's Power of Women event
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
Retired NASA astronaut Linda Godwin and IBM global leader Ashley AuBuchon-Arcand will give presentations at the Southeast Missouri State University’s Power of Women Digital Summit on Wednesday. The half-day professional development event is an opportunity to bring together area entrepreneurs and philanthropists to raise scholarship funds while empowering, transforming and connecting with the next generation of colleagues and customers. ...
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Missouri bicentennial: Cape celebrated first presidential visit in 1909
(Local News ~ 04/26/21)
U.S. President William Howard Taft was the first Oval Office occupant ever to visit Cape Girardeau. The date was Tuesday, October 26, 1909. ...
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Jackson Chamber sells former post office to real estate firm
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce, which focuses on business activity in and around the City of Jackson, did a little business itself Friday when it sold its headquarters to an area real estate company. "We sold the building," chamber president Brian Gerau said Friday shortly after completing the transaction with Chris Cole of Realty Executives. According to Cole, "repairs, light remodeling and restoration" is underway at 125 E. Main St., once home of the Jackson post office...
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Prayer 4-26-21
(Prayer ~ 04/26/21)
Thank you, O Lord Jesus, that through you we are reconciled. Amen.
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The left's systemic exploitation of race
(Column ~ 04/26/21)
When I occasionally complain about the left politicizing race, fellow conservatives often say to me, “Don’t worry about this. They’ve lost all credibility on the issue, trivializing it by overuse. They’re getting no traction with it.” Oh? You’d have to be blind and deaf to deny this tactic is working for the left politically and it has caused great harm. ...
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Don Voorhes
(Obituary ~ 04/26/21)
Don Michael Voorhes, 75, of Jackson passed away Friday, April 23, 2021, at his home. He was born Sept. 25, 1945, in Cape Girardeau, son of Curtis and Elsie Brune Voorhes. Don was baptized into the faith Feb. 3, 1946, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. He was confirmed into that faith April 10, 1960, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, by Pastor Walter Keisker. He and Donna Hennecke were married Aug. 9, 1969, at St. Paul...
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Bob Stokes
(Obituary ~ 04/26/21)
Bob Stokes, son of the late Willie Stokes and Eleanor Bingley Stokes, was born Nov. 27, 1944, in Lilbourn, Missouri, and departed this life Saturday, April 24, 2021, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, at the age of 76 years. Mr. Stokes was a veteran of the U.S. ...
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E. Lucille Coursey
(Obituary ~ 04/26/21)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. — E. Lucille Coursey, 106, of Olive Branch passed away Saturday morning, April 24, 2021, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Lucille was born April 4, 1915, in Benton, Illinois, daughter to the late Elic and Nellie Dillon Miller. On Aug. 6, 1933, at Rock Springs in Alexander County, she married Taylor Coursey...
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Mary Beel
(Obituary ~ 04/26/21)
LEOPOLD, Mo. — Mary Alice Beel, 68, of Leopold went to her heavenly rest Thursday, April 22, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 3, 1952, in Oak Hill, West Virginia, daughter of Earnest Leonard and Mamie Elizabeth Toney Prater. She and Jerome "Jerry" Henry Beel were united in marriage July 17, 1971, and he survives her of the home...
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Americans update their closets as they emerge from pandemic
(Community ~ 04/26/21)
NEW YORK -- After a year of being stuck in sweatpants, pajamas and fuzzy slippers, Americans are starting to dress up and go out again. Levi Strauss is seeing a resurgence in denim while demand for dresses at Macy's, Anthropologie and Nordstrom is going up as proms and weddings resume. And teen retailer American Eagle Outfitters said sales are rising because of "pent-up" demand for its fashions...
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Turkey summons U.S. ambassador over genocide announcement
(International News ~ 04/26/21)
ISTANBUL -- Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield late Saturday to express Ankara's strong condemnation...
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'Nomadland' wins best picture at a social distanced Oscars
(Entertainment ~ 04/26/21)
Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland," a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color...
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35 years since nuclear disaster, Chernobyl warns, inspires
(International News ~ 04/26/21)
KYIV, Ukraine -- The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor exploded, Ukrainians also look to it for inspiration, solace and income...
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From scarcity to abundance: U.S. faces calls to share vaccines
(International News ~ 04/26/21)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated. But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. ...
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Commercial building permit issued for Bi-State Oil convenience store
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
The City of Cape Girardeau's development services office reports issuing one commercial building permit last week. The permit was issued to: n Kiefner Brothers Inc. for the addition of coolers and an interior remodeling of the Bi-State Oil convenience store at 612 S. Sprigg St. at an estimated cost of $300,000...
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Chamber Notes — ribbon-cuttings & breakfast
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday at Saxony Lutheran High School, 2004 Saxony Drive in Cape Girardeau County, to mark the completion of the school's new track. The ceremony will be attended by representatives of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson chambers of commerce...
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People News — Ducharme joins board, Carver on Forbes list
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
Fred Ducharme, vice president of TG Missouri in Perryville, has been appointed to the board of directors at SoutheastHEALTH, effective immediately. Ducharme has more than 43 years of experience in various leadership roles in the automotive manufacturing sector and has broad experience in quality improvement, human resources, management and strategic alliance development...
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Pet products business to relocate soon
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
Busch Pet Products, currently at 1720 Kingsway Drive, Suite 105, in Cape Girardeau will move in a few days to retail space in a new commercial development at 2031 Cape LaCroix Road. ...
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Drive-through hiring event scheduled at Centenary Church
(Business ~ 04/26/21)
The Missouri Job Center office in Cape Girardeau will host a "drive-through" hiring event next month at Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 N. Ellis St. Job seekers are invited to come between 3 and 7 p.m. to pick up a packet of information about area employers who have open positions at their businesses...
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Out of the past: April 26
(Out of the Past ~ 04/26/21)
The Southeast Hospital Association honored volunteers and longtime trustees for outstanding service to the hospital last night; receiving the Special Service Award were volunteers Traci Taylor, a Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School student who established the Toy Train in the hospital's pediatrics department, and Wenona Harrison, a longtime member of the hospital auxiliary; Harrison donates flowers from her garden to make arrangements that are sold at the auxiliary's gift shop...
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Von Ridings
(Obituary ~ 04/26/21)
Von L. Ridings, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, April 25, 2021, at his home, with family by his side. He was born Dec. 19, 1930, in Bollinger County to the late Elzie Lee and Iona Elizabeth Rhodes Ridings. Von married Mary F. "Tootie" Cook on April 18, 1966, in Leslie, Missouri...
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