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New SRO named at middle school
(Local News ~ 11/27/16)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor As the Poplar Bluff Police Department's newest school-resource officer, Kenny Carpenter hopes to have a positive influence on the lives of the middle school students he interacts with each day. A 22-year veteran of the police department, Carpenter applied four times before he recently was selected as the SRO for Poplar Bluff's new Middle School, which, with a student population of approximately 1,200 students, ranks as the third largest in the state...
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MoDOT to update sidewalks on Pine, Westwood
(Local News ~ 11/27/16)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer An approximately 1-mile section of a busy Poplar Bluff street will receive the bulk of $1.3 million in money designated to replace and repair sidewalks in three Southeast Missouri cities in 2017. The Missouri Department of Transportation will take bids this winter on a project on Pine Street, from 10th Street to the Black River, said area engineer David Wyman. The work is expected to be done during the summer of 2017, he said...
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TRC hosts mass casualty event
(Local News ~ 11/27/16)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Three Rivers College future first responders and healthcare providers took their training to another level on Tuesday, participating in a mock mass casualty event at the south campus of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center that mimicked as closely as possible a real disaster...
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FOP/Cops, Kids program spreads Christmas spirit
(Local News ~ 11/27/16)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Making sure some less-fortunate Butler County children have a special Christmas each year is a long-standing tradition for the Poplar Bluff Fraternal Order of Police No. 48, and this year is no exception. With Christmas less than a month away, FOP members are raising funds for its annual "FOP/Cops and Kids" program...
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Downtown PB meets Monday
(Local News ~ 11/27/16)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Downtown Poplar Bluff, Inc. will hold a special closed meeting Monday to discuss personnel matters. Director Penny McGath has announced she is leaving at the end of this month. McGath was hired by the Downtown Poplar Bluff board in 2012...
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Fidel Castro and dead utopianism
(Column ~ 11/27/16)
WASHINGTON -- With the end of Fidel Castro's nasty life Friday night, we can hope, if not reasonably expect, to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies. Experience suggests there will always be tyranny tourists in flight from what they consider the boring banality of bourgeois society and eager for the excitement of sojourns in "progressive" despotisms that they are free to admire and then leave...
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For Democrats, the road back
(Column ~ 11/27/16)
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Having counted on the allegiance of African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women and the young -- and winning the popular vote all but once since 1992 -- they were seduced into believing that they could ride this "coalition of the ascendant" into permanent command of the presidency...
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Doyle Wayne
(Obituary ~ 11/27/16)
Doyle Wayne Switzer Doyle Wayne Switzer, 79, of Poplar Bluff passed away Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 at Westwood Hills Healthcare in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Switzer was born Sept. 2, 1937 in Doniphan, to the late Delbert Switzer and Nettie Switzer. He married Veda Switzer Nov. 2, 1963. She preceded him in death in 2008...
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Cane Creek Club elects officers
(Community News ~ 11/27/16)
Glenda Phelps was hostess for the November meeting of the Cane Creek Community Club which was attended by six members and one guest on Wednesday, Nov. 9. After opening ceremonies, the program presented by Nancy Wujick, who read the history of the club -- how it began and its purpose...
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Timmie Burchard
(Obituary ~ 11/27/16)
Timmie Burchard PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Timmie Burchard, 53, of Silva, Mo., died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, at his residence. Funeral arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Homes of Piedmont. Condolences: www.rueggfuneralhomes.com
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Lillie Mae
(Obituary ~ 11/27/16)
Lillie Mae Snodgrass Lillie Mae Snodgrass, 88, of Poplar Bluff died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, at Mark Twain Caring Center. A private family burial will take place Monday at Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton. Paid
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Linda Logan
(Obituary ~ 11/27/16)
Linda Logan Linda Logan, 69, of Doniphan, Mo. formerly of Cottonwood Point, Mo. died at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, at her home. She was born Aug. 5, 1947. Visitation will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, at the H.S. Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Caruthersville, Mo. The funeral will be at noon in the chapel. Burial will follow in Maple Cemetery. Memorials be given to Relay to Life...
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Mules look to rebound in SEMO tournament
(High School Sports ~ 11/27/16)
ST. LOUIS --Down just five points heading into the second quarter, the Poplar Bluff girls basketball team didn't get another field goal until the second half Saturday. Incarnate Word, ranked No. 3 in Class 4 of the state coaches preseason poll, pulled away with a 22-6 second-quarter run to beat the Mules 65-33 at Ursuline Academy's Shootout to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation...
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Defensive Raiders stymie Eagles
(High School Sports ~ 11/27/16)
A night after giving up a season-best 24 first-half points, the Raiders were better on the defensive end. Three Rivers College allowed just 18 points in the first 20 minutes Friday night in beating Dyersburg State (Tenn.) 84-47 at the Peoples Community Bank Thanksgiving Tournament at the Bess Activity Center...
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Bears edge Van Buren
(High School Sports ~ 11/27/16)
VAN BUREN --Taylor Allen sank 3 of 4 fourth-quarter free throws and scored a game-high 18 points as Greenville held off Van Buren 52-46 Saturday night at the Current River Challenge. The Bears were 6 of 11 at the foul line in the final frame after taking a 37-34 lead into the fourth...
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Three Rivers suffers 1st loss as late comeback falls short
(High School Sports ~ 11/27/16)
For the second time in three years, the Raiders entered the final night of the Peoples Community Bank Thanksgiving Classic undefeated, and lost. Three Rivers College missed the final two of its 28 3-point attempts and fell to Midland College (Texas) 65-63 at the Bess Activity Center...
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