Stories from Sunday, September 11, 2022

Eastbound U.S. Highway 60 in Butler County will be reduced with a 12-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform erosion work. Weather permitting, work will take place Monday, Sept. 19 through Friday, Oct. 7 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The work zones will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area...

The largest car show between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee, returns to Cape Girardeau on Sept. 18. The 44th Manifolds on Main Street Car Show presented by River City Rodders and Old Town Cape regularly brings in hundreds of attendees to downtown Cape Girardeau...

Ground was officially broken Tuesday for Southeast Missouri State University's Houck Multiuse Complex. Held on the Redhawks's playing field, school representatives, community leaders and university supporters used shovels painted SEMO red to dig into the ground for the new complex...

Linda Puchbauer chartered The Rotary Club of Southeast Missouri Service on March 2, 2021, as a nontraditional cause-based club. Less than one-and-a-half years later, the club has completed more...

David Limbaugh is no stranger to writing best-sellers, but he said his latest book is better than his previous works, thanks to his co-author — his daughter, Christen Limbaugh Bloom. "The Resurrected Jesus," the new book by the Cape Girardeau lawyer, political commentator and author, was released Tuesday and is the fifth of his Christian studies books...

As the new season begins Oct. 1 for 4-H clubs, the greatest need in Ripley County will be the recruitment of leaders, according to Tony Merkel, the county’s youth program associate for the University of Missouri Extension. As he addressed a group recently at an organizational meeting, Merkel said, “We [at the extension] will do our best to help support the 4-H club, but we’ve found it’s always better when 4-H leaders are people who live within the local community. ...