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Teresa Hefner Lake Road Teacher of the Year Early school struggles helps teacher relate
(Local News ~ 04/20/17)
Lake Road Elementary teacher of the year Teresa Hefner is one of the most giving and dedicated educators in the district, according to her peers. Hefner spent 11 years teaching in the Clarkton, Mo., C-4 school district before taking a job as a third-grade teacher at Lake Road in 2012. Since then, she has gained the respect of her fellow educators, parents and students with her compassion and work ethic...
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Schalk is TRC board president
(Local News ~ 04/20/17)
Three Rivers College Board of Trustees held its first meeting with new officers on Thursday. Members approved a new insurance plan, minor policy changes and received some welcome news on the status of a new safe room. Prior to the Wednesday meeting the board reorganized. Board officer positions rotate on a yearly basis. Former vice chairman Eric Schalk moves up to chairman, a position held in 2016-17 by Chris Williams...
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Welcome to The Source: A Newscomer's Guide to the Area
(Local News ~ 04/20/17)
Southeast Missouri is an area rich in nature and history and quickly growing economically. The Source provides information about six area counties: Butler, Carter, Reynolds, Ripley, Stoddard and Wayne. Flowing rivers and reaching bluffs provide natural wonders throughout the featured regions. ...
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Poplar Bluff Junior High Annual Science Fair winners
(Community News ~ 04/20/17)
More than 300 seventh graders competed in the Poplar Bluff Junior High School annual Science Fair recently at the Junior High Gym. The students completed an independent science experiment over a six week time span. Project categories included product testing, engineering, biology, earth science, computer science, physics, chemistry, and behavioral/social science...
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April is peak time for Missouri's grand slam
(Outdoors ~ 04/20/17)
If paradise has a season, it must be perpetual April. Heaven knows, Missouri's outdoors are never more paradisiacal than when there are turkeys strutting in the woods, crappie biting in the lakes and fungus underfoot. Fungus underfoot? That's right, April is the month when you can pursue Missouri's grand slam - turkey, crappie and morels. ...
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Turkey harvest edging up after wet opener
(Outdoors ~ 04/20/17)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Unlike last year's spring turkey season opening day, which had perfect weather conditions early on, this year saw pretty much the polar opposite. A 4 a.m. check of the weather radar showed hunters across Southern Missouri were going to have a tough go of it, and I think quite a few simply went back to bed...
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Performance is April 24 Russian ballet ends Patron of Arts season
(Community News ~ 04/20/17)
The Patrons of the Arts Society will round out its 2016-2017 season with a performance by the Russian National Ballet Theatre performing Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" at the Tinnin Fine Arts Center at 7 p.m. Monday, April 24. "We've been fortunate to be able to host some of the best Russian ballet companies in the world over the past few seasons, and it's always a breathtaking performance," said Tim Thompson, director of the Tinnin Fine Arts Center. ...
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Gary Anthony Montgomery
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
Gary Anthony Montgomery, 55, of Peoria, Ariz., died Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at his home. Mr. Montgomery attended Poplar Bluff schools. He was a retired truck driver. He enjoyed rebuilding speedboats. Survivors include his wife, Donna; a son, Michael Anthony Montgomery; his mother, Lillie Juanita Montgomery of Poplar Bluff; seven brothers and sisters, Joan Lewis of Wappapello, Sue Redmon of Whitman, Ariz., Michael Edward Montgomery of Moorseville, Ind., and Christine Rucker of Jonesboro, Ark., and Sharon Ellis, Douglas Paul Montgomery and William (Bill) Montgomery, all of Poplar Bluff.. ...
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MDC reports feral hog numbers for early 2017
(Outdoors ~ 04/20/17)
By CANDICE DAVIS Mo. Dept. of Conservation JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) wildlife biologists on the feral hog strike team have tallied up feral hog numbers for the first three months of 2017. The first quarter yielded a total of 2,332 feral hogs removed by MDC, partner agencies, and private landowners, which is nearly half of the total number of feral hogs removed in all of 2016...
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Two April concerts by TRC music department
(Community News ~ 04/20/17)
Three Rivers College's Music Department will present two concerts in April, "Life, Love, Loss, and Renewal," and "Charlie and Company." Admission to both concerts is free. Life, Love, Loss, and Renewal; 7 p.m. April 22. The combined choirs of First United Methodist Church and Three Rivers College present Dan Forrest's Requiem for the Living, a prayer for rest for the living, as much as for the deceased, employing ancient texts in a modern setting supported by a chamber orchestra. ...
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Charles Dale Glenn
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
Charles Dale Glenn, 73, died April 16, 2017, at the New Madrid Nursing Center in New Madrid. Born July 5, 1943, in Dexter to the late Charley and Ruby Walker Glenn, he was employed at Noranda Aluminum until his retirement. A veteran of the Air Force Reserves, he was a member of the American Legion and a past member of the New Madrid Eagles Club. ...
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Norman Caringer
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Mr. Norman Eugene Caringer, 88, passed away Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Norman was born Oct. 15, 1928, in Libertyville, Mo., and was the son of Lemuel Addison Caringer and Mary Elizabeth 'DeClue' Caringer. Also preceding in death was his wife, Connie Lee 'Dugal' Caringer, 2009, and six siblings. Norman and Connie were united in marriage, Dec. 24, 1952, in Farmington...
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Dexter student experiences world religions in Chicago
(Community News ~ 04/20/17)
Kendra Stevenson of Dexter traveled to Chicago on April 6-9 as part of requirements for a world religions class. Stevenson, a public relations major at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., was among 90 students to participate in the trip designed to enlighten students about people and practices of major living religious traditions...
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A China deal to remember?
(Local News ~ 04/20/17)
It's tricky and scary, this business of trying to get North Korea's tyrannical regime to give up its nuclear ambitions. Scarier still would be an inane go-ahead signal, the kind of thing, for instance, we got under the Clinton administration. Say about him what you will, but President Donald Trump is doing more than any predecessor to get China to do what's needed, and China is the key in all of this...
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The battle against sex trafficking of minors
(Column ~ 04/20/17)
By GEORGE F. WILL PHOENIX -- Three months ago, State Trooper Jonathan Otto, 33, of the Arizona Department of Public Safety pulled over a car that had caught his attention by traveling 104 miles per hour long after midnight, just south of Kingman. He smelled marijuana in the car. It was driven by a man with an adult female wearing only lingerie. Their passenger was a female juvenile whose fake document showed her to be 18. She was, Otto says, "not wearing a whole lot of clothing."...
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Amy Elizabeth Edwards
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
Amy Elizabeth Edwards, 33, of Poplar Bluff, died Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, in Poplar Bluff. Miss Edwards was born Nov. 25, 1983 in Poplar Bluff. She is survived by her father, Gordon Edwards; her mother, Barbara Stepp; and brother Doug Edwards all of Poplar Bluff...
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Marolyn L. Rommel
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
Marolyn L. Rommel, 72, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service of Poplar Bluff.
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Govt. makes the poor poorer
(Column ~ 04/20/17)
By STEPHEN MOORE For all the obsessing in Washington over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that increase poverty in America. Last week, at the Heritage Foundation forum on this very topic, my colleagues exposed many of these programs...
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Russel Ray Fears
(Obituary ~ 04/20/17)
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. -- Russel Jay Fears, 44 of Greenville, Mo., formerly of Ellington, Mo., died at his home on Monday, April 17, 2017. Visitation will be from 10 - 11 a.m., Saturday, April 22, at Wilson Funeral Home in Fredericktown followed by the funeral service at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 22, at Wilson Funeral Home with Pastor Ron Fears officiating. ...
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Redbirds squeeze past Twin Rivers
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
DONIPHAN -- After knocking on the door for four consecutive innings in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament quarterfinals, the East Carter softball team finally broke through. In a tie game, Andrea Kearbey got a squeeze bunt down as Brooklyn Loftis raced home in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the second-seeded Lady Redbirds a thrilling 7-6 walk-off victory Wednesday over No. 7 Twin Rivers at Quick Creek Park...
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Mules get comeback win with 3-run 7th
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
Trailing by two runs in the bottom of the seventh, Poplar Bluff got consecutive two-out hits by Tyson Tibbs and Austin McIntosh to rally Wednesday. Tibbs tied it with a line-drive single to right field then scored all the way from first base when McIntosh plugged the left-field gap for a 5-4 walk-off win over Dexter in SEMO Conference play...
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Hicks, Cubs keep Bernie from celebrating SCAA sweep
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
BERNIE --Bell City took advantage of the few mistakes the Bernie Mules made Wednesday in the Stoddard County Activities Association Conference Tournament final. Austin Hicks and the Cubs didn't make any, defending their title with a 2-0 win behind the senior's two-hitter...
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Mules run away with 3rd straight title
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
BERNIE --Bernie broke open a tight game with a seven-run sixth inning to win the Stoddard County Activities Association Conference Tournament softball title 11-2 Wednesday. The Mules won their third straight title by breaking a 1-all tie in the third, squeezing in the go-ahead run, and were ahead 4-2 entering the sixth...
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Tigers trade runs in 7th
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
DONIPHAN -- Clearwater freshman Destiny Hutchison spent the first six innings of the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament quarterfinals sticking strictly to her defense. But by the bottom of the seventh inning in a tie game, Clearwater coach Shannon England opted for speed and inserted his fastest player on the basepaths...
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Donettes thwart Greenville's comeback
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
DONIPHAN -- For a team that's battled consistency problems for most of the season, the Doniphan softball team shook off a particularly slow start and wild finish to open the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament with a victory. The fifth-seeded Donettes rallied in the final inning and held off one last charge with a heads-up play to upset No. 4 Greenville 7-6 Wednesday at Quick Creek Park...
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Raiders 'fortunate' for sweep
(High School Sports ~ 04/20/17)
The Lady Raiders got just enough breaks and big pitches to pick up a sweep. Wiley Lowry picked up a win and her second save of the season as Three Rivers College swept St. Charles, winning 9-1 in the opener and 4-3 in the nightcap. With the sweep, Three Rivers also swept the season series against St. Charles...
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Poplar Bluff continues to expand
(Local News ~ 04/20/17)
Poplar Bluff and Butler County will see more than $50 million invested by businesses and government in new buildings, renovations and infrastructure improvement projects expected to be completed or started in 2016-2017. It includes the opening of about a dozen new retailers and restaurants operated by national chains, and dozens of independent businesses from local residents...
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