Stories from Sunday, May 27, 2012

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor All veterans and area residents are urged to participate in Memorial Day weekend events in Poplar Bluff to remember those who died while serving in the United States armed forces. The Memorial Day program will begin at 11 a.m. Monday at the Veterans Memorial Wall in front of the Black River Coliseum...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Chris Browning, who has been chairman of the Poplar Bluff Public School Foundation since its creation in 1999, was honored during his last board meeting Tuesday. Browning was recognized for his ""dedication" to the foundation and presented with a plaque by Chris Hon, superintendent of the Poplar Bluff School District...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Grammy Award winning country artist Travis Tritt is coming to the Black River Coliseum Friday, treating fans to more than 20 years of country hits. Cody Canada and the Departed and the Walker Bros. of Bernie, Mo., will open for Tritt...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Opening for Travis Tritt is just the next step in a period of explosive growth for a duo from Bernie, Mo. The Walker Bros., 24-year-old twins Coty and Clinton, have been making music their whole lives. Since their teens, the duo has been performing Christian rock and worship music with Sense the Fall. They also operate the Walker Bros. studio. Their foray into country began about a year ago as a way to promote the studio...

By SHAY ALDERMAN SEMO News Service Veterans organizations throughout the region are hosting observances on Memorial Day and invite the public to join them in honoring those who have served in all branches of the military. A memorial ceremony will be held at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau, hosted by the Joint Veterans Council, which is made up of the Marine Corps League, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838, American Legion Post 63, the SeaBees, the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 16 and the VFW Post 3838 Auxiliary.. ...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor All veterans and area residents are urged to participate in Memorial Day weekend events in Poplar Bluff to remember those who died while serving in the United States armed forces. The Memorial Day program will begin at 11 a.m. Monday at the Veterans Memorial Wall in front of the Black River Coliseum...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Chris Browning, who has been chairman of the Poplar Bluff Public School Foundation since its creation in 1999, was honored during his last board meeting Tuesday. Browning was recognized for his ""dedication" to the foundation and presented with a plaque by Chris Hon, superintendent of the Poplar Bluff School District...

By SHAY ALDERMAN SEMO News Service Veterans organizations throughout the region are hosting observances on Memorial Day and invite the public to join them in honoring those who have served in all branches of the military. A memorial ceremony will be held at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau, hosted by the Joint Veterans Council, which is made up of the Marine Corps League, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838, American Legion Post 63, the SeaBees, the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 16 and the VFW Post 3838 Auxiliary.. ...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Grammy Award winning country artist Travis Tritt is coming to the Black River Coliseum Friday, treating fans to more than 20 years of country hits. Cody Canada and the Departed and the Walker Bros. of Bernie, Mo., will open for Tritt...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Opening for Travis Tritt is just the next step in a period of explosive growth for a duo from Bernie, Mo. The Walker Bros., 24-year-old twins Coty and Clinton, have been making music their whole lives. Since their teens, the duo has been performing Christian rock and worship music with Sense the Fall. They also operate the Walker Bros. studio. Their foray into country began about a year ago as a way to promote the studio...

By TOM UHLENBROCK Missouri State Parks MIDDLEBROOK, Mo. - The early evening sky couldn't quite make up its mind. Patches of blue glowed to the south, while lightning flashed and thunder rumbled over Goggins Mountain to the north. In the foreground, spring peepers chirped sweetly from Beaver Pond...

To the Editor, I simply wanted to say Thank You to the community of Poplar Bluff for the tremendous support of the Walk Because UCAN. Not only was I amazed at the generosity of so many, but I was also inspired by our community's warmth and compassion. Sarah Jarboe White, among countless others, have had and continue to have a tremendous impact on this community and I have no doubt they are smiling down upon Poplar Bluff...

Stop shooting in Inman Acres Whoever that is shooting a shotgun in Inman Acres, it's time to stop! The lazy no good so & sos Dear Speak Out: I don't like how people in this country sit around on their lazy good-for-nothing hind ends spending our hard earned tax dollars on beer and cigarettes and lottery tickets. It just galls me to no end and disgusts me. I think they need to get a job and get er done and start makin' somethin' of themselves. Thank you, Speak Out...

By OLIVER NORTH WASHINGTON -- As a crowd of high-school students offloaded from the tour bus for a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial aka "The Wall," he yelled, "There are no good wars!" Hemmed in on the crowded sidewalk, I tried to ignore his rant and noted the bus had a Pennsylvania license. ...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." TR was as mistaken about Holmes' spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts'...

Greenville High School 4th Quarter Honor Roll Seniors: Trevor Bennett, Ceann Clubb, Krystal Crable, Austin Crane, Jessica Eads, Morgan Edwards, Scott Foster, Tim Hillis, Hannah Malone, Sarah Mann, Nathan Middleton, Ashley Payne, Alyssa Reed, Troy Roberson, William Massey-Rodgers, Katie Rose, Shyanne Sandman, Ashley Smith, Michael Starkey, Noah Stotts, Danielle Stovall, Chelci Turner, Amanda Walk, Akayla White, Summer Willard...

The East Carter County students, parents and community members help their art program by collecting Box Tops for Education, Campbell's Labels for Education and the UPC codes from Dixon, Prang and Ticonderoga products, Tyson A+ labels and Home Team Reward logos. Each year, the elementary classes compete to see which class will collect the most...

Roger Woodard and Jan Cantrell Baldwin announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayli Woodard Baldwin, all of Poplar Bluff, Mo., to Christopher Loyd Hyten of Dexter, Mo. Hyten is the son of Lloyd Stanley and Tresia Griffin Hyten, also of Dexter. The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Poplar Bluff High School, a 2006 graduate of the University of Missouri--Columbia and a 2011 M. ...

Rhonda Bradley Rhonda Carol Bradley, 50, of Fisk, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at her residence. Funeral arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been making bold new policy proposals or displaying a free-wheeling personal style. So far, at least...

Clecy Hicks PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Clecy L. Hicks, 86, of Piedmont, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. Hicks was born on Jan. 17, 1926, in Patterson, Mo. He grew up on Little Lake in Patterson, where he attended a one-room school house. He attended high school in Patterson...

Doris Swartz Pastor Doris J. Swartz, 78, of Dayton, Ohio, who was born Nov. 27, 1933, entered into the gates of heaven at 4:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. She was preceded in death by her father, George Todd, Sr.; her mother, Gertrude Todd; sister, Delores June Pierson; and grandson, Jay Delaney...

Clarence Taylor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Clarence Taylor, 97, of Bloomfield, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield. Mr. Taylor was born on Nov. 17, 1914, in Bloomfield. He had lived Bloomfield all of his life and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bloomfield. He had been the area supervisor for the local St. Louis Post Dispatch delivery...

Reda Crowley PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Reda Mae Crowley, 81, of Patterson, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012 at The Cedargate nursing center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Mrs. Crowley was born May 6, 1931, to Emett Franklin Leach and Edith (Randall) Leach, in Greenville, Mo. She grew up in "Old Greenville". She was able to attend school into her junior high years when she had to leave school and take care of her father and many brothers due to the death of her mother...

Paul Riley NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Paul Riley, 49, of Neelyville, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Riley was born Aug. 27, 1962, in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He had previously lived in Columbia, Mo., for eight years before moving back to Butler County...

Leroy Armbruster Sr. BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Leroy Armbruster, Sr., 64, of Bonne Terre, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He was born on Aug. 5, 1947, in Highland, Ill. He was a former resident of the Bernie, Mo., area and had lived in the Festus, Mo., and Bonne Terre areas for many years. He was a self-employed automobile mechanic...

Mabel Prosise Mabel Francis Prosise, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Prosise was born Dec. 26, 1932, in Thomasville, Mo. She was of the Baptist faith, and had retired from AT&T as a telephone operator. Mrs. Prosise previously served as a RSVP volunteer. She enjoyed spending time with her family...

Nancy Lou Porterfield Nancy Lou Porterfield, 81, of Kansas City, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away peacefully into the arms of Christ on May 23, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. following a brief illness. Born on July 22, 1930, Mrs. ...

Doris Garrison On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Dorothy "Doris" Dean Moe Garrison, finished her God given assignment here on earth and was promoted to heaven. Mrs. Garrison, 75, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was born April 28, 1937 in Holcomb, Mo., to Walter and Alma Evans, who preceded her in death. Her first husband, Richard Moe and her second husband, Phillip Garrison, brother, William Vernal Evans, and sister, Verna Dean Davis also preceded her in death...

CAMBELL, Mo. -- Greg and Erin Collins of Campbell, Mo., announce the birth of their daughter, Ava Elizabeth Collins. Ava was born on March 6, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19 inches long. Ava is the granddaughter of David and Carolyn Blakemore of Campbell, Junior and Karol Hays of Doniphan, Mo., and A.J. ...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Austin Barousse needed just two attempts to finish second in the pole vault at the MSHSAA Class 4 track and field championships while Ali Frazier also earned all-state honors. Barousse shook off a muscle injury to clear 14-feet, 9-inches on his first try Saturday to earn all-state honors...

Stop shooting in Inman Acres Whoever that is shooting a shotgun in Inman Acres, it's time to stop! The lazy no good so & sos Dear Speak Out: I don't like how people in this country sit around on their lazy good-for-nothing hind ends spending our hard earned tax dollars on beer and cigarettes and lottery tickets. It just galls me to no end and disgusts me. I think they need to get a job and get er done and start makin' somethin' of themselves. Thank you, Speak Out...

By OLIVER NORTH WASHINGTON -- As a crowd of high-school students offloaded from the tour bus for a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial aka "The Wall," he yelled, "There are no good wars!" Hemmed in on the crowded sidewalk, I tried to ignore his rant and noted the bus had a Pennsylvania license. ...

To the Editor, I simply wanted to say Thank You to the community of Poplar Bluff for the tremendous support of the Walk Because UCAN. Not only was I amazed at the generosity of so many, but I was also inspired by our community's warmth and compassion. Sarah Jarboe White, among countless others, have had and continue to have a tremendous impact on this community and I have no doubt they are smiling down upon Poplar Bluff...

The East Carter County students, parents and community members help their art program by collecting Box Tops for Education, Campbell's Labels for Education and the UPC codes from Dixon, Prang and Ticonderoga products, Tyson A+ labels and Home Team Reward logos. Each year, the elementary classes compete to see which class will collect the most...

Greenville High School 4th Quarter Honor Roll Seniors: Trevor Bennett, Ceann Clubb, Krystal Crable, Austin Crane, Jessica Eads, Morgan Edwards, Scott Foster, Tim Hillis, Hannah Malone, Sarah Mann, Nathan Middleton, Ashley Payne, Alyssa Reed, Troy Roberson, William Massey-Rodgers, Katie Rose, Shyanne Sandman, Ashley Smith, Michael Starkey, Noah Stotts, Danielle Stovall, Chelci Turner, Amanda Walk, Akayla White, Summer Willard...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." TR was as mistaken about Holmes' spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts'...

Roger Woodard and Jan Cantrell Baldwin announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayli Woodard Baldwin, all of Poplar Bluff, Mo., to Christopher Loyd Hyten of Dexter, Mo. Hyten is the son of Lloyd Stanley and Tresia Griffin Hyten, also of Dexter. The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Poplar Bluff High School, a 2006 graduate of the University of Missouri--Columbia and a 2011 M. ...

Clecy Hicks PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Clecy L. Hicks, 86, of Piedmont, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. Hicks was born on Jan. 17, 1926, in Patterson, Mo. He grew up on Little Lake in Patterson, where he attended a one-room school house. He attended high school in Patterson...

Rhonda Bradley Rhonda Carol Bradley, 50, of Fisk, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at her residence. Funeral arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Doris Swartz Pastor Doris J. Swartz, 78, of Dayton, Ohio, who was born Nov. 27, 1933, entered into the gates of heaven at 4:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. She was preceded in death by her father, George Todd, Sr.; her mother, Gertrude Todd; sister, Delores June Pierson; and grandson, Jay Delaney...

Clarence Taylor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Clarence Taylor, 97, of Bloomfield, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield. Mr. Taylor was born on Nov. 17, 1914, in Bloomfield. He had lived Bloomfield all of his life and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bloomfield. He had been the area supervisor for the local St. Louis Post Dispatch delivery...

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe. For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been making bold new policy proposals or displaying a free-wheeling personal style. So far, at least...

Leroy Armbruster Sr. BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Leroy Armbruster, Sr., 64, of Bonne Terre, Mo., died Friday, May 25, 2012, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He was born on Aug. 5, 1947, in Highland, Ill. He was a former resident of the Bernie, Mo., area and had lived in the Festus, Mo., and Bonne Terre areas for many years. He was a self-employed automobile mechanic...

Mabel Prosise Mabel Francis Prosise, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Prosise was born Dec. 26, 1932, in Thomasville, Mo. She was of the Baptist faith, and had retired from AT&T as a telephone operator. Mrs. Prosise previously served as a RSVP volunteer. She enjoyed spending time with her family...

Doris Garrison On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Dorothy "Doris" Dean Moe Garrison, finished her God given assignment here on earth and was promoted to heaven. Mrs. Garrison, 75, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was born April 28, 1937 in Holcomb, Mo., to Walter and Alma Evans, who preceded her in death. Her first husband, Richard Moe and her second husband, Phillip Garrison, brother, William Vernal Evans, and sister, Verna Dean Davis also preceded her in death...

Reda Crowley PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Reda Mae Crowley, 81, of Patterson, Mo., died Thursday, May 24, 2012 at The Cedargate nursing center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Mrs. Crowley was born May 6, 1931, to Emett Franklin Leach and Edith (Randall) Leach, in Greenville, Mo. She grew up in "Old Greenville". She was able to attend school into her junior high years when she had to leave school and take care of her father and many brothers due to the death of her mother...

CAMBELL, Mo. -- Greg and Erin Collins of Campbell, Mo., announce the birth of their daughter, Ava Elizabeth Collins. Ava was born on March 6, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19 inches long. Ava is the granddaughter of David and Carolyn Blakemore of Campbell, Junior and Karol Hays of Doniphan, Mo., and A.J. ...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Austin Barousse needed just two attempts to finish second in the pole vault at the MSHSAA Class 4 track and field championships while Ali Frazier also earned all-state honors. Barousse shook off a muscle injury to clear 14-feet, 9-inches on his first try Saturday to earn all-state honors...