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Area shape-note singing group keeps traditional music form alive in Southeast MissouriOn a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in Christian worship for more than 200 years. Introduced in 1801, "shape-note" refers to a music notat...
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Area native Donna Patterson works to restore Old Commerce CemeteryDonna Patterson has known the Old Commerce Cemetery since childhood, but recently, she's taken it on as a personal mission to bring it back from near ruin to a place people can come to enjoy river views or visit ancestors' graves. Patterson says Commerce has lost a...
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Area ombudsmen work in various ways to investigate and handle concerns and complaintsOmbudsman. While the word may sound funny, the description of the job is very serious. An ombudsman is an official appointed to investigate people's complaints. It's a Swedish word, meaning representative or agent of the people. There are basically three categories...
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Robert and Kay Watkins and Melvin Enderle discuss passed-down tradition of canning fresh goodsSnagged, cleaned, sliced, diced, pressured and jarred. Buffalo fish need to be on the lookout for Robert Watkins and Melvin Enderle, brothers-in-law with a "can-do" mentality. While many fisherman may not consider the fish "good eating" due to their multitude of sm...
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Cape Girardeau OASIS volunteers tutor local students, help them growWhen Fred Schmidt's wife passed on, he didn't want to leave his house. After a prolonged period as her caregiver, he says he'd given up activities he once enjoyed, and was used to staying at home all the time. Then a social worker at Lutheran Family Services, where...Advertisement
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