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Sterling Bank ranks among top performers in nation
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 31, 2015 - Sterling Bank, owned solely by Sterling Bancshares, Inc. ("Sterling Bancshares"), has ranked #17 among the 100-best performing community banks in the U.S. with assets between $500 million and $5 billion, according to SNL Financial*. Sterling Bank, with total assets of $608 million as of 12/31/2014, rates #1 for Missouri community banks...
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Cheaper but unused system bought 3 months earlier Costly video phones for PB city workers
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Documents obtained by the Daily American Republic raise questions about how honest city leaders were in October 2014 when they led residents to believe the municipality did not have time to bid out a nearly $1.8 million technology project...
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Crocker, Lourwood vie for Ward 4 council seat
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Residents of Poplar Bluff Ward 4 will be asked Tuesday to decide the only contested race in this year's city council election. Phillip Crocker and David Lourwood are competing for the seat vacated by councilman Johnny Brannum in December...
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PB man lost wife, 2 grandsons Faith survives fire
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor If not for faith, it would have been easy for Daniel Pierce to slip into a depression after a fire took the lives of his wife and two young grandsons and left him hospitalized with burns. "(Faith is) something that's been in our family for a long time," said the 46-year-old Poplar Bluff man. "We actually have a ministry, Level Ground Ministries, and we'll be having a sunrise service Easter Sunday at a (family) farm between Dexter and Bernie."...
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Lourwood's views
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By DAR STAFF David Lourwood's goal if elected is to return to some of the constituents he has met while going door to door in recent weeks. He wants to share information about city issues and continue asking questions how the citizens view issues. "I feel too many politicians, and it's probably more at the state and national level, they vote what they want, as opposed to what the people want," he said. "I want to get a feel for what they (residents) want."...
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Comparing the 2 phone systems
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer City invoices obtained through an open records request show that on Aug. 27-28, Poplar Bluff paid to fly in two employees from a Michigan-based company, Information Systems Intelligence (ISI). The invoice, for $1,369, paid for flights from Grand Rapids, Mich., rental car, hotel, meals and fuel...
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Candidates discuss problems, offer solutions 5-way race for R-I board
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Five candidates, including incumbents Kent Elyer and Robert Rowland will vie in the April election for two seats on the Poplar Bluff R-I Board of Education. The winning candidates will be elected to three-year terms beginning in April. Challengers are Heather Tuggle, Kenneth Davis and Timothy Hollinger...
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Speak Out 4/6/15
(Opinion ~ 04/06/15)
Wake up PB When is Poplar Bluff going to wake up? City manager Kaplan and city council work for the people. Are you going to just sit back and let them drop $200,000 internet access charges, raise your utility bills by 20 percent over three years and by consensus pay for property? Come on, people. Make them answer to you. It seems that Absheer and DeGaris are the only ones thinking of the people. Thank you...
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Speak Out 4/6/15
(Opinion ~ 04/06/15)
A way to go bankrupt Hiring someone with a spending problem to run a city is like hiring a drunk to run a bar or hiring someone with a gambling problem to run a casino. If they have trouble finding money after six months, after another six months things will look twice as bad. ...
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PB couple still courting 67 years after saying vows
(Features ~ 04/06/15)
By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor George Edward Niswonger and wife, Mable, of Poplar Bluff will celebrate their 67th wedding anniversary Thursday, April 16. George is 85 and Mable is 86. The couple were married April 16, 1948 at Corning, Ark. and jokingly Niswonger said, the wedding cost him so much they had to stay married. The marriage license cost $2.50, but the judge at the courthouse charged them $5 to perform the ceremony...
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Dennis L. Dees
(Obituary ~ 04/06/15)
Dennis L. Dees PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Dennis L. Dees, 63, of Annapolis, formerly of St. Louis, died Thursday, April 2, 2015 at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis. A memorial visitation will be held from 5-6 p.m. Wednesday at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. Memorial may be given to the American Cancer Society...
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Pat Mann
(Obituary ~ 04/06/15)
Pat Mann PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Pat J. Mann, 75, of Piedmont, died Thursday, April 2, 2015, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. A memorial visitation will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. The memorial service will follow at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral chapel with Pastor Jeff Johnson officiating...
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Charles Forister
(Obituary ~ 04/06/15)
Charles Forister Charles Lee Forister, 69, of Poplar Bluff, died Friday, April 3, 2015 at his residence. He was born July 28, 1945 in Poplar Bluff to Syble (Casey) and LeRoy Forister. Charles graduated from Poplar Bluff High School in 1961, attended Arkansas State University and Gradwohl School of Laboratory Technique. He was employed as a medical technologist until his retirement in 2002...
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Willie Shaw
(Obituary ~ 04/06/15)
Willie Shaw Willie Shaw, 86, of Broseley, died Thursday, April 2, 2015, at this residence. Arrangements are pending with Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home and will be announce in Wednesday's Daily American Republic.
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Dorothy Barks
(Obituary ~ 04/06/15)
Dorothy Barks Dorothy Emma Barks, 81, of Poplar Bluff passed away Friday, April 03, 2015, at The Manor, after a courageous fight with lung cancer. Ms. Barks was born Feb. 23, 1934, in Dike, Iowa, to John C. and Clara Rathman Schmidt. She was baptized after birth and confirmed on Dec. 16, 1945, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Reinbeck, Iowa...
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Murphy gets taste of big leagues
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/15)
Tanner Murphy was just anticipating a normal offseason. A little bit of conditioning. Some lifting in the weight room. Improving on the skills vital to a professional baseball player. Even taking in a state football playoff game at his alma mater, Malden High School...
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Raiders split with Jefferson
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/15)
HILLSBORO -- The Raiders out-hit Jefferson in both games and would have swept the Vikings had they timed those hits just a little bit better. Dylan Slayton threw a complete-game shutout on 84 pitches to win the opener 5-0, then Three Rivers lost the nightcap 5-3 after stranding seven runners over the final three innings Saturday...
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Candidates discuss problems, offer solutions 5-way race for R-I board
(Local News ~ 04/06/15)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Five candidates, including incumbents Kent Elyer and Robert Rowland will vie in the April election for two seats on the Poplar Bluff R-I Board of Education. The winning candidates will be elected to three-year terms beginning in April. Challengers are Heather Tuggle, Kenneth Davis and Timothy Hollinger...
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SEMO Conference to add Kelly in football, align into 4 divisions starting in 2016 season
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/15)
With the addition of a new football team, the SEMO Conference divisions will have a different look in the future. Kelly High School was voted in as the newest member of the now 17-team SEMO Conference forcing conference officials to realign into four divisions...
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Lady Raiders extend streak to 10
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/15)
If hitting is contagious, the Lady Raiders have come down with the plague. Three Rivers extended its winning streak to 10 games with a 7-4, 16-1 sweep of North Central on Saturday at Rains Field. Three Rivers has also won 14 of its last 16 after a rough and mostly postponed start to the season...
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