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The annual Community Outreach Event held Sept. 29 featured dozens of businesses and charities, connecting Poplar Bluff community members with resources. Organizers noted the unseasonable heat may have reduced attendance compared to previous years.

Tha annual Haven House Trail Ride fundraiser was held Saturday. It raised approximately $19,000.

The ninth annual SEMO Con brought fans of comics, pop culture, games, anime and art to the Black River Coliseum Sept. 15-16. The festivities included contests, vendors and an auction to benefit UCAN in Poplar Bluff.

Students from Sears Youth Center made flags for area first responders in honor of 9/11.

An Honor Tour bus got a grand send off Friday morning, as veterans left on an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. There they will tour memorials honoring their service. The bus was led out of town by Poplar Bluff fire and police personnel, with staff at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center lining Westwood in front of the medical center. Students at Poplar Bluff High School also helped honor the veterans during their send-off. The Honor Tour is a non-profit effort started locally to help ensure veterans are able to see the memorials in D.C. honoring their service.

Neelyville School District returned to classes Wednesday, Aug. 23.

The Twin Rivers School District buses began rolling up to the Qulin, Fisk and Broseley campuses Tuesday morning, letting out 854 students ranging from preschool to high school seniors. Superintendent Rob Brown called it "a great beginning day" and said enrollment was up from last year. The full story is available at https://www.darnews.com/story/3006986.html

The 2023-2024 school year has arrived. Students across Poplar Bluff boarded busses and walked into their classrooms for the first time on Monday, Aug. 21. Teachers at the Kindergarten Center and Oak Grove Elementary, with help from Century 21 Realty, made the day special with decorations, gifts and smiles.

Once again, Southeast Missourian photographers delivered with this year’s Pictures by the People show at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum. Winners in eight categories were chosen from 95 entrants based on what MHAM Director Steve Whitworth called a combination of “technical skill and a magic moment.” The photographs remain on display until the 4-H Art for Animals exhibit, which opens with an ice cream social 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30.

Difference Makers, their loved ones and banquet attendees posed in front of the Daily American Republic’s photo backdrop during the 2023 Difference Makers Banquet.

Over 450 people attended the 2023 Difference Makers banquet Thursday night, eager to applaud 10 outstanding local volunteers and raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of the Heartland.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, a multiple-vehicle accident on Ninth Street near Main Street stopped traffic.