Stories from Monday, April 15, 2019

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — William V. Kirkman, 95, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff. The family wishes for a private burial. Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff is in charge of arrangements...

By JASON SMITH The U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee has one job — to produce a budget. It’s the primary responsibility of governing, and a budget is the only document Congress produces that looks at total federal revenues, spending, and deficits and charts a course for the future. ...

Recently my grandaughters Beta and Lani were visiting me, and we were talking about schools. They wanted to know about when I first went to school. I told them I walked 2 1/2 miles. Which made it five miles every day. Now children think they cannot walk two blocks...

FISK, Mo. — Joanna Davis, 80, of Fisk, died Saturday, April 13, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 20 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Dale Epstein officiating. Burial will be in Shain Memorial Cemetery at Fisk. Condolences: www.whitesandersfuneralhome.com

DEXTER, Mo. — Larry ‘Buck’ Lewis, 72, died April 12, 2019 at his residence. Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, April 16 from noon to 1 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel on Tuesday, April 16 at 1 p.m. with Rev. Ben Higgins officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield.

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Kathryn Kay Dilbeck, 73, of Doniphan, died April 13, 2019 at her residence. visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Monday, April 15 with funeral services to be held on Tuesday, April 16 beginning at 10 a.m. all at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan with the Dr. Bruce Johnston officiating. Burial will be at the Doniphan City Cemetery.

Wayne County officials say a man has died from injuries received early Sunday in a workplace accident. Michael Johnson, 54, of the Greenville area died Sunday in a Cape Girardeau hospital, said Wayne County Coroner Gary Umfleet. Umfleet said next of kin had been notified, but other details about the incident could not be released until hospital records and other information was reviewed...

It takes a big heart to shape little minds and lucky for the students at Oak Grove Elementary, one of their own teachers has a pretty large heart. Oak Grove special education teacher Becky Ingle was selected to represent the building as its 2019-20 Teacher of the Year...

The Bears at 203 S. Broadway was condemned Monday after city officials executed a search warrant and found six people unlawfully living in unsafe and unsanitary conditions inside the closed bar. This is the second building owned by Dianna Denton Buhler that city officials have condemned this year...

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Ariana Ruby Schumer, 14, of Naylor, Mo., died Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. A graveside service will be held Thursday, April 18 at 2 p.m. at the Center Hill Cemetery with Brother Matthew Tanner officiating...

City firefighters responded at 4:46 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, to a motor-vehicle crash at 3525 S. Westwood Blvd. According to the report, firefighters provided aid to one of the occupants and requested ambulance personnel respond to the scene. Firefighters subsequently assisted in loading the injured person into an ambulance and used an absorbent to remove spilled fluids from the road...

City firefighters responded at 6:45 a.m. Thursday, April 11, to a report of smoke in the area of Park Avenue and South Eighth Street. According to the report, firefighters found an unauthorized burn behind 703 S. Eighth St. and used 15 gallons of water to put out the fire...

City firefighters responded at 2:26 p.m. Friday, April 12, to 641 Lindsay St. According to the report, emergency-medical-services personnel already had the man back in his home prior to the arrival of the fire department. ———— City firefighters responded at 6:28 p.m. Friday, April 12, to a motor-vehicle crash at the intersection of Ninth Street and Kendall...

No action was taken Monday on either a new city clerk or bids for $18.2 million in wastewater treatment plant upgrades after both items failed to garner enough Poplar Bluff City Council votes to move forward. The current city clerk is set to retire as of July 1...

It was a night of firsts for Poplar Bluff on Monday, as the first African American mayor was named and the first union contract was granted to members of the city’s police department. Ward 5 representative Robert Smith was unanimously selected by council members as mayor for the next year. Poplar Bluff’s mayor is elected from the council, by a vote of its members...

NEELYVILLE — The Neelyville R-IV Board of Education took steps during Monday evening’s meeting to securing a new building on the Neelyville campus. Torgerson Design Partners (TDP) of Springfield, Mo., and People’s Community Bank were selected as the architect and loaner to fund a lease/purchase agreement for a new building...