Stories from Saturday, May 6, 2017

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has postponed an open house meeting scheduled to discuss data on crappie from Wappapello Lake and collect comments from Wappapello anglers. "We are eager to interact with anglers so we can show them our data and hear their comments, but first we must allow the community to respond to local flooding," said Dave Knuth, a MDC fisheries management biologist. ...

The 90th Psalm is a prayer of Moses during the wilderness wandering of he and the Israelites. In it, he recognizes the eternal nature and greatness of God and that their predicament was a result of the sins of the people. He notes most of the people are dying by the time they are 70 years old. ...

Darrell W. Welsh, 79, of Fisk died Monday April 24, 2017 at his residence. Services were held April 27, 2017 at the White Sanders Funeral Home chapel in Fisk. Rev. Ralph Mayes and Rev. James Capps officiated. Burial followed in the Shain Memorial Cemetery in Fisk with military honors. Online condolences: www.whitesandersfuneralhome.com...

Kevin Cyril Compton, 60, of Poplar Bluff passed away May 1, 2017 in rural Butler County. The family will hold private services at a later date. Online condolences: www.moorefuneralservice.com. Kevin Cyril Compton

From Staff Reports Saturday, May 13, the Woolard Family will host a "Pay-by-Donation" yard sale from 8 a.m. until close in the parking lot of Somewhere in Time Antiques in Poplar Bluff. Although the Woolard Family lives in Poplar Bluff, Ashley is a graduate of Puxico High School and she attends Puxico First Baptist Church along with her husband, Brandon, and their three children: Maddison, Jacquelyn and Charlotte...

Caleb Swallows, a Puxico High School senior, was one of 10 Missouri high school media staff members named to the 2017 All-State Journalism Team, sponsored by the Missouri Journalism Education Association. Winners were selected by a team of three out-of-state MJEA members with more than 75 years of combined experience between them as publications advisers of newspaper, yearbook and broadcast programs. Student journalists had to be nominated by their adviser, who must be a member of the MJEA...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Puxico, Mo., father and son were ordered to stand trial Thursday in connection with an apparent high-speed crash that left a pedestrian dead. Accompanied by his attorney, Rance Butler, Wesley G. Faries was to appear before Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield for a preliminary hearing on the Class C felony of first-degree involuntary manslaughter...

From Staff Reports The nearly 2,000 people attending the 39th Annual Old Greenville Rendezvous Saturday, April 22, didn't let the usual rain dampen the weekend event held by the Crowley's Ridge Black Powder Club, but rain did force some of the events to be moved to Sunday, April 23...

DEXTER, Mo. - James "Jim" Dill of Puxico, Missouri, son of the late Herbert and Lena Bond Dill, was born Jan. 9, 1939 in Weiner, Ark. and passed away at his home in Puxico on April 29, 2017 at the age of 78 years, 3 months and 20 days. James grew up in Dexter and moved to St. ...

PUXICO, Mo. -- Randall L. Martin of Zalma, Mo., died Thursday, May, 4, 2017, at his home. A memorial service, with full military honors, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield with the Rev. Elijah Allen officiating...

FISK, Mo. -- Dorothy "Dottie" Pickens, age 61, of Fisk, Mo., died Friday, May 5, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. There will be a Celebration of Life on Thursda, May 11, at 6 p.m. at the Thousand Hills Cowboy Church in Fisk...