Stories from Tuesday, December 27, 2016

More than 10 million (1 in 6) seniors in the U.S. face the threat of hunger and more than 15 million (1 in 4) are living in isolation. Meals on Wheels America is a national network of local community organizations that deliver meals, friendly visits and safety checks to our nation's most vulnerable seniors. ...

PUXICO, Mo. -- Ray Willard, 64, of Harviell, Mo. died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, at his residence. Vistation will be at 6 p.m., Wednesday with a Masonic service following at 7 p.m., at the Morgan Sifford Funeral Chapel in Puxico. Funeral service at 11 a.m., Thursday, at the chapel...

PUXICO, Mo. -- David Hamlyn, Jr., 37, of McGee, died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, at his residence. Visitation will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday at the Stoddard County Cowboy Church. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. at the church with Scott Sifford officiating...

Pauline Agnes Rains, 94, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation was held Dec. 22, 2016 and funeral services were held Dec. 23, 2016 at Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff. Rev. Ralph Mayes officiated. Burial was held at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Poplar Bluff...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor DUDLEY, Mo. -- More than a decade and a half after brothers Davis Minton and Bradley Minton, owners of Minton Environmental Consultants, created the nation's first wetland mitigation bank on their Stoddard County farm, the pair plans to build another, thanks in large part to help from the Natural Resources Conservation Service...

I read a thought provoking story in a church paper a preacher friend sent me a few years ago that went something like this-"It had been a happy Christmas for a family of five. Even the three-year-old enjoyed playing with the nativity scene, handling and re-arranging it. ...